Games Look Terrible on 980Ti

[koopatroopatm]

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???

 

[DelroyMonjo]

Those white flecks are SNOW! WTF man. You are certainly obsessed with this non problem.

 

[junkeymonkey]

maybe as simple s a new or better quality cable from the card to the display ?? cheap/crap/low quality cables can be a issue like that ??

 

[Havenost]

I don't know how anyone in thread can say hes complain over nothing. I can't say anything on the trees since I don't play the game he does and can't comment on how they are suppose to look.

But when you see white artifacts as is clearly visible in his screen shots. You know something is up.

In this case I don't think its your GPUs, possibly the monitor or your display cables is having issues. Otherwise test GPU on a different PCI socket, or possibly a different PSU.

 

[junkeymonkey]

put the cards in your buddies build to se how well they display ?? 2 card with the same issue ? seems like something else is up ??

 

[koopatroopatm]

I've tried a different monitor, display cable, and pci slot. I'm going to throw my card into a different build tomorrow and I'll post results. But even if I get better results I still won't know what's wrong but I guess that'll confirm that it isn't the card(s) that's the issue.

 

[SinxarKnights]

Are you using that GeForce Experience thing to optimize games? That is what it looks like to me. But you said it is doing it with with your AMD card as well though so I have no idea. If it was me I would reinstall windows and see if it still does it, but I have it down to a science and will reinstall at the first sign of any issue that could be windows related (since it happens with both cards).

 

[Mike_144]

I've tried a different monitor, display cable, and pci slot. I'm going to throw my card into a different build tomorrow and I'll post results. But even if I get better results I still won't know what's wrong but I guess that'll confirm that it isn't the card(s) that's the issue.

White spots can normally be seen if you overclock the vram to much.

It could be your playing on a low resolution, if you dont feel the eye candy?

 

[Guest]

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.

Probably a stupid thought, but could your computer have defaulted to the built-in graphics of the cpu after you overclocked your GTX 980 Ti, shut down and went to bed and then on a restart got bad in game graphics with both your GTX 980 and your old AMD card?? Just a thought... Don't really know how it would revert to onboard graphics, but sure sounds like it with two cards having the same problem.

 

[Sundriedtomato]

Tbh it's probable the monitor

 

[rcald2000]

@koopatroopatm, No big surprise, but I'm also thinking that the issue is caused by your power supply. It's not something that I've personally seen before, but there are a few threads on Tom's Hardware related to this. Perhaps pushing that overclock was the straw that broke the mid-quality PSU's back?

While reading all the responses, I saw you say that you uninstalled / reinstalled the drivers. Just for good measure, I'd try it again with DDU, if you haven't already ( http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller/ ). But if that doesn't work then your instincts to try both cards in another build are spot-on.

 

[Kaitlin Kaschak]

nvidia geforce experience has an optimization for the tomb raider game download it and see if it fixes the artifacts if it doesnt then i suspect psu is going bad

 

[Rexer]

I sort of got addicted to pushing up the clocks in a home brew OC. Graphics became so jacked from crashing, I couldn't figure what was wrong. Unistalled & reinstalled games, and gpu drivers. Was a menace to hardware and ugly. Had weird artifacting and later, double images. Game servers began kicking me off. My last ' shot in the dark remedy' was repairing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (starting with 2010) in programs and features. You might try it.
I'm not going to say it's 'the fix' but it somehow worked for me. I guess I could've run chkdsk or 'scan now' to do it but I wasn't thinking of fixing the whole of Windows. If you do try it, make sure you do 'repair' (listed as change), don't uninstall any of the Microsoft Visual C++. There in a certain order and removing and reinstalling one may goof them all.

 

[Rexer]

Are you using that GeForce Experience thing to optimize games? That is what it looks like to me. But you said it is doing it with with your AMD card as well though so I have no idea. If it was me I would reinstall windows and see if it still does it, but I have it down to a science and will reinstall at the first sign of any issue that could be windows related (since it happens with both cards).

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing but first doing 'scan now' or 'chkdsk' to see if the Windows OS can be repaired.