Far Cry 3 glitching / tearing

GingeUK

GingeUK

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Hey,

I was just wondering if anyone could help me sort this annoying issue out.

I have been putting up with this for a while now and its really starting to bug me. It has been doing the black dot / tearing thing from the moment you start the game. it does it in this game and Black ops 2 but only when you play multilayer.

Recorded this as well to try and show you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLWaAQ5SpQI&feature=youtu.be

I have done some research and i don't know if this is relevant but the north bridge is getting to about 54 - 59 degrees. I know that's not hot for it but it might be relevant.

Any suggestions?


PC: -

Mobo - Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
GFX - Nvidia 680 gtx
Intel i7 950 Overclocked to 4ghz

I have got water cooling on the i7 with the intention of spreading it around at a later date (Soon i hope)

Thanks in advance :)
 
The video looks like it's your GPU memory artifacting. Do you have sufficient cooling for the GDDR?

Check the temps using Afterburner or something like that, see what your GPU temps are when under load.
 
The temps under load never go above 40 max! I literally just closed it and it was 28, just dropped to 32.

The game is starting to glitch like crazy now. Everything is stretching :S

I have just done a clean install of windows and like i said just got the drivers.
 
Are any of your cables heavily bent near connectors?

I have seen similar in bf3 before when I pushed my case back quite hard and bent the dvi cable to what must have been near damaging levels.

Try different cables too.
 
Speed said:
What version of drivers? The latest WHQLs? If so try the Betas, 310.70s.
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Yes there the latest ones as i recall, i did it this morning.

Not nothing on the card, it was overclocked to begin with. Oh that reminds me...

Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 DirectCU II Top Graphics Card is the card i got
 
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eyetrip said:
Are any of your cables heavily bent near connectors?

I have seen similar in bf3 before when I pushed my case back quite hard and bent the dvi cable to what must have been near damaging levels.

Try different cables too.
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The cables are no where even close to the wall, ill try switching them around to see if it makes a difference :)
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
Forget water cooling. Upgrade your CPU/mobo. You're running a couple of generations back on PCIe 2.0. Sorry to be blunt

Post the temps so we can see
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Heh. Nothing wrong with PCI-E 2.0, 3.0 is a marketing gimmick, by the time we get cards that have a noticeable difference between 2.0 and 3.0 we will be a couple of generations down the line. X58 is still a capable platform.
 
borley said:
Also your colours look way off! Why are your hands blue?
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haha yeah, it wasn't like that when i recorded it. It changed after i used handbrake to convert it haha

Temps:

Temperature 0 36°C (96°F) [0x24] (Mainboard)
Temperature 1 28°C (82°F) [0x1C] (CPU)
Temperature 2 52°C (125°F) [0x34] (Northbridge)
Temperature 0 31°C (87°F) [0x1F] (Graphics card)


All the hard drives are Below 25
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
Forget water cooling. Upgrade your CPU/mobo. You're running a couple of generations back on PCIe 2.0. Sorry to be blunt

Post the temps so we can see
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Speed said:
Heh. Nothing wrong with PCI-E 2.0, 3.0 is a marketing gimmick, by the time we get cards that have a noticeable difference between 2.0 and 3.0 we will be a couple of generations down the line. X58 is still a capable platform.
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I cant afford to buy it if i wanted to, only got this about a year ago i think.
 
I assume those are idle temps? What do temps get to under load? Maybe run something like HWMonitor or MSI Afterburner that gives you max temps.

If you have access to another system that can take the GTX680, a friends etc. Try that and see if the issue appears. If not then generally to rule everything out I'd do the following, one at a time with a test inbetween to see if the issue remains:

1. Reseat the graphics card making sure all the gold contacts are clean, check that the power connectors are properly sealed and that the monitor cable is connected firmly both ends.

2. Change the monitor cable for a known working one.

3. Try different driver versions with clean installs (click advanced on the driver install options and tick the clean install box).

4. Remove the CPU overclock and Memtest86+ the system memory.
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
Forget water cooling. Upgrade your CPU/mobo. You're running a couple of generations back on PCIe 2.0. Sorry to be blunt
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What? How on earth would his (completely capable) CPU and Mobo combo be causing GPU artifacts intermittently? What a redonkulous post.


OP, I have difficulties in some games running my factory OC'd card - I now run it at a mid-point between stock cards and the factory OC to keep it stable. Try turning down the factory OC (use stock cards as a reference for clocks) to see if that resolves the issue.

If it does, then send it back if it's still under warranty, or keep it and remember after each Windows reinstall to turn down the clocks slightly. Unfortunately mine's way out of warranty, but it's stable with a mild overclock (or rather, a mild underclock when compared to the factory OC), so I'm happy with it!
 
So apart from the usual take it out and put it back in. There are no obvious issues?

There was a reason i bought overclocked stuff, that's so i didn't have to do it myself. Time to learn me thinks...
 
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