Getting artifacts in a game

[huntsman]

well i was playing counter strike for around 40min and i got artifacts and had to restart my pc, now im sure my temps are low and good so why do i get them, Could my video card be screwed up? but i wouldnt think so as i can run left 4 dead, team fortress 2 for couple of hours and everything is fine ????? im confused and its annoying me and im getting mad

any help would be appreciated i will play left 4 dead or team fortress again to check and make sure it does not do it in those games,

 

[hunter315]

Full specs please.

Get hw monitor, prime 95 and furmark. Use hw monitor to monitor the temps while you run furmark and prime 95 to stress out your system and pump out a ton of heat, if your temps stay reasonable and you still get artifacts it may be a power issue, but my bet is on over heating.

 

[apache_lives]

atitool is also a usefull utility to test a video card and report errors etc - take a look at that

 

[huntsman]

alright i got hwmontior and how long should i run furmark and could it be because of the vsync, that i get to many frames and they screw up but that wouldnt make sense as it would of done it before 40 min, and i have my graphic card fan running at 80% when gaming but ill run that furmark and tell u how it goes

specs

amd phenom 2 x2 550 at 3.1ghz with titan nk85tz heatsink
4gb of ram
gigabyte ma ga790x ud4p motherboard
xfx hd4850 1gb graphic card
anyting else ?

 

[hunter315]

Just start it up and leave it running for 20 minutes or so, it has a temperature graph in the bottom so you can watch the temperatures. My XFX 4850 stays rather cool so now my bet goes to either a bad card or bad power.

 

[huntsman]

it got up to 74 after running 324 sec i ran the stability test,at 1440x900 full screen no AA. card fan at 95%

 

[huntsman]

oh yea i have a 550w corsair psu

 

[huntsman]

and i got driver version 8.65 and catalyst 9.9 maybe that was the problem but i dont think so

 

[hunter315]

WOW, i cant get mine to break 65 with it set to 1280x1024, 8x AA, and the super burn in setting. You may be having a heat issue in that case, try improving their airflow in your case, make sure you have enough cool air coming in.

 

[hsetir]

Possible reasons of artifacts : Overheating, corrupt memory (bad video memory, bad ram or bad pagefile), bad psu, driver issues. Try to find out the culprit, using different ram sticks, different hdd or psu.

 

[huntsman]

airflow is to the max man everything is good im guessing its the graphic card, but that wouldnt matter as while gaming the max it got was 56 so thats all good. and counter strike source graphics are basically suck i mean crysis ran all good. i doubt its the ram as if it was im pretty sure the pc wouldnt boot up correctly.

i got a antec 300 case got 2 fans in front intake and 1 on the side intake and 1 on the back exhaust and one on the top exhaust

all are 120mm except the one on the top which is a 140 mm

its either the game or graphic card in my opinion or could of been the drivers as i played it again with the updated drivers and didnt get a problem so idk

but ill run my test with the same settins as u did and ill tell u wat my temps reach and was the fan on full or what % was it set on ??

 

[hunter315]

Fan was set to auto, but never got very loud so i would guess it never broke 80%, but set yours to 100% and let it run, see how hot it gets.

 

[huntsman]

im starting to think it was the drivers as it worked for me now for half an hour but tomorrow ill play it longer and see how it goes

 

[huntsman]

hey ran that test with your set up and had fan at 80% and temps was the same as yours 65 -66c so seems like its all good.

 

[hunter315]

Alright good, then it seems its not an overheating problem atleast, hopefully it was a driver issue. Any reason you have your fan on manual control instead of auto under CCC?

 

[huntsman]

i have it on auto when im just searching the web listing to music and things like that when i game i have it at 80% so that it does not get to hot and 80% its still quiet so thats the max im willing to go so yeah. ill try it on auto and compare the temps but i think they should be baout the same

 

[JofaMang]

Wow, if 80% is quiet to you, there must be a tornado din emanating from your case, lol. If I turn up the fan on my 4870 512 past 45%, it gets louder than my case fans. But I game on headphones, and only use the 2.1 to play music while cleaning or futzing around the house. With that sort of case ventilation, I can't imagine you needing it that high, but of course, if it doesn't get loud until after 80, why not, right?

 

[huntsman]

yeah 80% is really quiet i mean like when i turn it to 80 u here it but its very soft basicaly it is quiet at 80 and my whole case is really quiet but wen i game i turn up everything so it has good airflow and cooling. the reason i have it at 80 is cuz my temps dont go past 60 in games, sometimes depends wat game it is it will get to 62 for the max or so and then drop it usually is in the 50 s. ima try today on auto and see what i get for my temps.

 

[huntsman]

oh and on auto its about the same temps while playing the game, its around 56-58c compared to at 80% which was 56c pretty much same thing.

 

[huntsman]

well thats bullshyt cuz now counterstrike gives me a dont send error and kicks me out everytime i try to play wtf. Im really getting mad.

 

[hunter315]

Thats usually just caused by steam doing stupid stuff. You may need to delete the blob file and let it redownload it, i know i had to do that a couple of times on my old machine. Your graphics card wont cause crazy error messages from steam games, thats just steams fault unfortunately.

 

[huntsman]

i figured it out its was my commodo firewall lol ahh i feel so much better now. At least i hope thats what it was cuz i exit it out and the game worked fine.