Games Look Terrible on 980Ti

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Cannot figure out why, but edges of almost every surface look very rough, and trees look especially horrible on my 980Ti as almost all branches look like dotted lines and tree trunks are riddled with white dots. Graphics are on very high and fps is very stable. http://imgur.com/eaEzCuE is a screen shot of what I'm talking about. Is there a setting or something I'm missing???
 
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It's called Anti-Aliasing or AA or FXAA, in the case of Nvidia cards. Check your game options to adjust it. It can also be adjusted using the Nvidia control panel. The more AA used the more likely the reduction of FPS. Some games do a good job with it and some games not so good at 'jaggies'
 
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Even with the highest Anti-Aliasing settings (SSAA 4?) all games look terrible. Is it possible I damaged the card by trying to overclock it? The screenshot I posted was the the Anti-Aliasing settings at SSAA 4.
 
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Doesn't seem like anyone cares, but here's a screen shot of bad artifacting on my 290x as well http://imgur.com/jBCD9QX. So maybe my 980Ti isn't the problem? Really not sure what to do at this point. I'll try reinstalling my os but I doubt that'll help.
 
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Surprised you'd say that. Are you clicking on the imgur links and zooming in? The screenshots don't look that bad until you look at them at their actual size. Games look better on my $500 pc than they do on my 2k pc. There's something wrong graphically for sure. Look at the trees on the 1st one and I circled random white dots and a random white line that should not be rendered on the 2nd one.
 
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The trees look like they're just made that way on that specific game, and those tiny edges on the Tomb Raider screenshot just confirm that you're crying over nothing. Every game has graphic production flaws, you're not playing at real life.
 
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It's not graphic production flaws, it's straight up artifacts in every game I own. That were not always there. Maybe the screen shots aren't doing it justice when I get a chance I'll make a video or something to show I'm not "crying over nothing" . I thought I damaged my 980ti via overclocking, but I'm getting artifacts on a different card as well. I'm thinking maybe it's my monitor. I have no idea.
 
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The thing here is that you said that your old card looks the same, are you sure you just did not notice what was going on before you swapped cards and are just seeing what is happening more closely? I don't see any issues in the Tomb Raider screenshot, looks pretty good to me.
 
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Yeah, the screenshots really don't do it justice. It honestly looks bad. I just built this rig and everything was fine for like 2 days, my games looked great. Then, I started to overclock my 980ti by ramping up the clock and memory speeds and running 3dmark until I got the highest stable clock speeds I could. Once I get the highest stable clock speeds I turn off my computer and went to bed. The next day, my games look terrible (random white dots everything looking extremely jagged no matter what graphics setting I'm at) so I go back down to stock speeds and I'm still getting bad results. So I just assumed I damaged my 980ti and requested an RMA and threw in my old 290x which never has had any issues. But I'm still getting artifacts, and very odd looking foliage, water, and hair. I tried a different monitor, reinstalling my os, and installing different drivers to no avil. I'm thinking maybe it's a power supply issue? I don't have the latest bios, I can trying updating that, but I really doubt that's the problem.
 
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Overclocked the GPU did you? Well, DUH! If anything in your system, GPU, CPU, RAM is seeing voltage droops or if your PSU has poor regulation/ripple, things like that happen. White/black spot artifacts are the first sign that a GPU overclock went too far.
 
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Overclocked the GPU did you? Well, DUH! If anything in your system, GPU, CPU, RAM is seeing voltage droops or if your PSU has poor regulation/ripple, things like that happen. White/black spot artifacts are the first sign that a GPU overclock went too far.
A pox on you for not telling us the full story about the overclock. And why did you think it necessary to o/c a GTX980Ti for a game like Tomb Raider?
 
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Hi - You've probably already done this, but try uninstalling & then reinstalling the video card drivers.
 
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I have uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them, I was just trying to see how high of a score in 3dmark I could get. As soon as I saw anything unusual like artifacts in tomb raider after I thought I reached a stable oc I went back to stock settings. Isn't that standard practice with OCing? I was just following some guides and they said if your card became unstable just lower the clock speeds until it is stable and that's exactly what I did and. But, when I went back to stock speeds I was still experiencing artifacts. So I switched cards to an unoverclocked 290x and I STILL get artifacts. So how could OCing a card for a short amount of time without overheating or ingoring artifacts ruin my whole pc? And as far as voltages, I'm not in front of my pc right now, but I think they're a little high. I think my nonoverclocked cpu was at like 1.35.
 
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Its possible your overclock was too aggressive, maybe 3DMark didnt show artifacts but stresstesting your GPU in a game can be entirely different depending on the game. When I overclock my GPU I generally run Unigine Heaven for a good hour+, then I go try out a few of my games for a couple hours. If I dont see artifacts or driver crashes, i deem it stable. Im on my phone at the moment so your images dont look too bad to me at the moment. Im assuming you removed the overclock from your card and tried it again? Which 980Ti do you have? When you have a factory OC'd card, theres usually not so much headroom left for the user to overclock. My old 980TI FTW only overclocked another 30Mhz until it experienced hard lockups etc. the reference cards start at lower core clocks and that is when there is room for more overclocking. Unless you loaded custom bios or tweaked with the internal bios and upped the voltage to a high voltage, neither afterburner or precision will allow you enough to completely mess up your card, theyre safe applications.
 
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I was only using afterburner for my msi gaming 6gb 980ti, so I don't know how I could've damaged my card, but then again I'm new to OCing. I didn't run a custom bios or anything, but the ONLY thing that change between the time my games looked good and when they looked bad was me OCing my card (my power also went out but I don't think that matters) but like I said, even different cards at stock speeds look bad. So I guess that tells me it's not the card, I'm at a complete loss at what else it could be. Another screenshot showing what I'm talking about. http://imgur.com/OUUBhVQ short gif as well https://gfycat.com/ScalyKeyChevrotain
 
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