EDIT: Now my topic has been shifted to instead please help me confirm if these are, indeed, game bugs that can be experienced by most/everyone or if it's just me.
Please read my further explanation on this post within this thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/371044-33-please-confirm-face-texture-bugs-battlefield-crysis-warhead#t2810971
Original post below:
Hello,
I've been having these weird face/skin texture issues (in addition to other kinds) on highly-detailed games since day 1 with my XFX Core HD 7870 1GHz Edition graphics card--using the latest AMD driver, v8.982.0.0 / Catalyst 12.8 (Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit). This happens whether I overclocked the card or not, again, since day one. (I got a stable overclock of 1.2 GHz GPU and 1.45 GHz Memory with stock voltage and +20% power, btw, but my temps can go as high as ~95C with LOUD ~90+% Fan speed; at stock clocks of 1GHz/1.2GHz, it goes as high as ~85C with a bit loud ~60+% Fan speed.)
My full system specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/frNY
Intel Core i7-3770K; XFX Core HD 7870 2GB GHz @1200/1450; G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB DDR3-1600; ASRock Z77 Extreme4; SeaSonic X750 Gold; Samsung 830 128GB SSD; 1x WD RE4 1TB; ASUS VS239H-P; CM Storm Enforcer; Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit.
I also feel my games are really grainy because of these issues (which I believe is made worse by my matte screen, ASUS VS239H-P.
Most of the weird face textures seem as if the faces of characters become mirrors and that they're mirroring some frozen water texture in front of them or something, since the weird texture never seem to move with the character's faces when the character moves their heads too.
At first, I thought it may only affect a few games, but I was wrong, and it seems to affect so much more: All Crysis games (worst in Crysis Warhead with also tree vines rendered as white dots/lines), Battlefield 3 (more obvious when all settings set to lowest), some in Metro 2033, and I believe on many other graphically-detailed games I haven't played. (I also had VirtuMVP in the beginning, and its Hyperformance/Virtual Vsync made Saints Row 3's main character have oil-black face, since that problem is gone when I uninstalled VirtuMVP.)
I'm now so sick and tired of this. It felt like I just threw almost $300 down the drain for a crappy graphics card (or maybe my monitor).
I keep believing it has nothing to do with the physical card being defective, though. I believe the AMD drivers are just messed up and is signified by my card. (I also had already reinstalled the drivers at least twice and got the same things.) I also suspect my matte monitor as contributing a bit to this.
[strike]*Also, I think ever since I installed MSI Afterburner, it seems that I can't get FRAPS or MSI Afterburner to display any overlay information like FPS, etc. This issue persists even after I reinstalled the graphics driver, FRAPS, and MSI Afterburner several times. I'm now stuck at using each game's own built-in FPS info through their in-game consoles.[/strike]
UPDATE: I have solved the FPS overlay problem. It was because FRAPS/MSI Afterburner's overlay programs did not run as Administrator. They work fine when they're running as administrator. These games, however, still have these exact problems when running as Administrator.
Please help me pinpoint the culprit of most of these problems or tell whether these weird stuff are even normal for my card. So is this a hardware or software issue? Defective card or just crappy AMD drivers or some corrupt configs?
These problems are most obvious when you see the characters in game move their heads instead of in screenshots, but since I got the overlay problems with FRAPS and MSI Afterburner and couldn't get them to record videos, I only got screenshots.
Here are the screenshots:
Link to full album: http://www.photobucket.com/xfx-radeon-hd-7870-face-texture-problems
BATTLEFIELD 3
Messed Up Battlefield 3 Face Textures - Even more Obvious on Low Settings - Close-up
Messed Up Battlefield 3 Face Textures - Less Obvious on Ultra Settings - Close-up
More Messed Up Battlefield 3 Face Textures - Even more Obvious on Low Settings
Crysis Warhead
Weird Crysis Warhead Face Texture as if Reflecting Static Frozen Water Texture
Texture "stays" even if face moves. This guy is found at the very beginning of the campaign.
Crysis Warhead White Dots and Vines on some Big Trees
I think this one is kind of common among AMD Graphics Card, based on forum results by Google Searching.
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 - Weird Reflecting Face Texture (May not be obvious) (Similar as seen on Crysis Warhead picture, but not as bad.)
Please read my further explanation on this post within this thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/371044-33-please-confirm-face-texture-bugs-battlefield-crysis-warhead#t2810971
Original post below:
Hello,
I've been having these weird face/skin texture issues (in addition to other kinds) on highly-detailed games since day 1 with my XFX Core HD 7870 1GHz Edition graphics card--using the latest AMD driver, v8.982.0.0 / Catalyst 12.8 (Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit). This happens whether I overclocked the card or not, again, since day one. (I got a stable overclock of 1.2 GHz GPU and 1.45 GHz Memory with stock voltage and +20% power, btw, but my temps can go as high as ~95C with LOUD ~90+% Fan speed; at stock clocks of 1GHz/1.2GHz, it goes as high as ~85C with a bit loud ~60+% Fan speed.)
My full system specs: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/frNY
Intel Core i7-3770K; XFX Core HD 7870 2GB GHz @1200/1450; G.Skill Ripjaws 8GB DDR3-1600; ASRock Z77 Extreme4; SeaSonic X750 Gold; Samsung 830 128GB SSD; 1x WD RE4 1TB; ASUS VS239H-P; CM Storm Enforcer; Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit.
I also feel my games are really grainy because of these issues (which I believe is made worse by my matte screen, ASUS VS239H-P.
Most of the weird face textures seem as if the faces of characters become mirrors and that they're mirroring some frozen water texture in front of them or something, since the weird texture never seem to move with the character's faces when the character moves their heads too.
At first, I thought it may only affect a few games, but I was wrong, and it seems to affect so much more: All Crysis games (worst in Crysis Warhead with also tree vines rendered as white dots/lines), Battlefield 3 (more obvious when all settings set to lowest), some in Metro 2033, and I believe on many other graphically-detailed games I haven't played. (I also had VirtuMVP in the beginning, and its Hyperformance/Virtual Vsync made Saints Row 3's main character have oil-black face, since that problem is gone when I uninstalled VirtuMVP.)
I'm now so sick and tired of this. It felt like I just threw almost $300 down the drain for a crappy graphics card (or maybe my monitor).
I keep believing it has nothing to do with the physical card being defective, though. I believe the AMD drivers are just messed up and is signified by my card. (I also had already reinstalled the drivers at least twice and got the same things.) I also suspect my matte monitor as contributing a bit to this.
[strike]*Also, I think ever since I installed MSI Afterburner, it seems that I can't get FRAPS or MSI Afterburner to display any overlay information like FPS, etc. This issue persists even after I reinstalled the graphics driver, FRAPS, and MSI Afterburner several times. I'm now stuck at using each game's own built-in FPS info through their in-game consoles.[/strike]
UPDATE: I have solved the FPS overlay problem. It was because FRAPS/MSI Afterburner's overlay programs did not run as Administrator. They work fine when they're running as administrator. These games, however, still have these exact problems when running as Administrator.
Please help me pinpoint the culprit of most of these problems or tell whether these weird stuff are even normal for my card. So is this a hardware or software issue? Defective card or just crappy AMD drivers or some corrupt configs?
These problems are most obvious when you see the characters in game move their heads instead of in screenshots, but since I got the overlay problems with FRAPS and MSI Afterburner and couldn't get them to record videos, I only got screenshots.
Here are the screenshots:
Link to full album: http://www.photobucket.com/xfx-radeon-hd-7870-face-texture-problems
BATTLEFIELD 3
Messed Up Battlefield 3 Face Textures - Even more Obvious on Low Settings - Close-up
Messed Up Battlefield 3 Face Textures - Less Obvious on Ultra Settings - Close-up
More Messed Up Battlefield 3 Face Textures - Even more Obvious on Low Settings
Crysis Warhead
Weird Crysis Warhead Face Texture as if Reflecting Static Frozen Water Texture
Texture "stays" even if face moves. This guy is found at the very beginning of the campaign.
Crysis Warhead White Dots and Vines on some Big Trees
I think this one is kind of common among AMD Graphics Card, based on forum results by Google Searching.
Metro 2033
Metro 2033 - Weird Reflecting Face Texture (May not be obvious) (Similar as seen on Crysis Warhead picture, but not as bad.)
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