So recently I've come into a problem where large white or grey pixel artifacts (usually about 2x2 or 4x4 pixels in size each) cover certain parts of webpages that are displayed in Firefox... The problem only started sometime yesterday, and my graphics card is nothing of age: an XFX HD 7870 I've had since November '12 (part of a new PC I built).
I did recently update my graphics drivers, from Catalyst 12.11 beta to the stable Catalyst 13.1. But I also updated Firefox from version 17 to 18. I also use Google Chrome too, and haven't seen the artifact issue there. Played some Battlefield 3 and I didn't notice any artifacts (I had the game running at the Ultra preset with 50-70 FPS, and GPU temperatures were hovering at around 65*C). The card is factory overclocked, with the core clock at 1.05GHz and the VRAM clocked at 1.25GHz. I'm just hoping the card isn't showing slight fault signs. If somebody could shed some light on this, it would be great.
I did recently update my graphics drivers, from Catalyst 12.11 beta to the stable Catalyst 13.1. But I also updated Firefox from version 17 to 18. I also use Google Chrome too, and haven't seen the artifact issue there. Played some Battlefield 3 and I didn't notice any artifacts (I had the game running at the Ultra preset with 50-70 FPS, and GPU temperatures were hovering at around 65*C). The card is factory overclocked, with the core clock at 1.05GHz and the VRAM clocked at 1.25GHz. I'm just hoping the card isn't showing slight fault signs. If somebody could shed some light on this, it would be great.