Nvidia 1070 Ti weird artifacts in some textures while moving.

Oscarmk

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I bought a Zotac 1070 Ti mini about 5 weeks ago, It runs Unigine Heaven 4.0 without any issues/artifacts and performs well, 2560 Score all maxed in the benchmark. I also have a i5 2500K OC to 4.1 ghz. I only play Diablo 3 and guild wars 2, I have never noticed any issues in Diablo 3 which I play with Anti aliasing 8x, except once the textures got loaded incorrectly but I was changing the graphics settings at that time.

However in Guild wars 2, only in one specific area and in some specific textures I see this issue, in particular there are 2 rocks where I can reproduce it 100% even after restarting my PC. I uploaded a video to youtube with the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTef6mrwtPY , see the 2 rocks as I rotate black artifacts come and go on top of the rock texture, I have only seen this behavior in this map and nowhere else in Guild wars 2. I also posted in the Guild Wars 2 official forums but haven't received any answers to what's happening.

I have the latest Nvidia drivers. Anyone know what this kind of glitch could be?, should I RMA the card?.

Thank you.
 
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If there was something wrong with your card you'll have more problems then just a couple of fluke texture pops. No doubt it's the game since everything else is running fine.

If you wish to dig further maybe try an older driver (before 397) and see if drivers are the cause. Drivers can improve things but they can also break stuff too. Before updating drivers always check Geforce.com in the driver feedback forums on reported issues and what may to expect. Issues that others have reported doesn't necessarily mean it'll happen to you but always good to be in the know.

If there was something wrong with your card you'll have more problems then just a couple of fluke texture pops. No doubt it's the game since everything else is running fine.

If you wish to dig further maybe try an older driver (before 397) and see if drivers are the cause. Drivers can improve things but they can also break stuff too. Before updating drivers always check Geforce.com in the driver feedback forums on reported issues and what may to expect. Issues that others have reported doesn't necessarily mean it'll happen to you but always good to be in the know.

 
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