560Ti Dark flickering

[Masterdeadly]

Hello guys, i recently bought an ASUS 560Ti TOP Direct II 1Gb and i was extremely happy when i put it in, i was playing League of Legends and realized that if i looked into dark areas (Fog of war) the dark shades are flickering which is really strange. Tried it on Battlefield 3 which, if in a dark map does it all over the screen. It's hard to describe and probably impossible to display from a screenshot but imagine the dark areas on screen having like waves of lighter shades running through. I have a feeling the card is faulty which is a massive shame, unless one of you guys can suggest otherwise :L

Any thoughts ? cheers.

 

[Gregster]

Strange this 1. I have a 560ti with no probs at all (after bios flash on card) what cable are you using and is the monitor set up correctly?

 

[Masterdeadly]

Strange this 1. I have a 560ti with no probs at all (after bios flash on card) what cable are you using and is the monitor set up correctly?

I'm using a VGA cable and i believe it's all setup correctly as well. I've seen people say elsewhere that they turned down the clock speed to reduce it but i'm not gonna attempt that, i've had it for 2 days now and i'd feel cheated if i had to lower the clock speed.

 

[Gregster]

Deffo no need to lower the clocks. You would be getting "the display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" error if it was the card. In my experiences I used a VGA cable on a card previous (gtx 260) and the quality seemed poor in games so I changed to dvi and problem solved. If you have a dvi/hdmi and your monitor accepts these connectors then deffo try that and preferably hdmi as this gives the best picture.

If no joy or no cables you could try reinstalling the drivers and make sure you are using the latest drivers of course.

Hope this helps

 

[Masterdeadly]

Deffo no need to lower the clocks. You would be getting "the display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" error if it was the card. In my experiences I used a VGA cable on a card previous (gtx 260) and the quality seemed poor in games so I changed to dvi and problem solved. If you have a dvi/hdmi and your monitor accepts these connectors then deffo try that and preferably hdmi as this gives the best picture.

If no joy or no cables you could try reinstalling the drivers and make sure you are using the latest drivers of course.

Hope this helps

Ok thanks for the tips, i've installed the latest drivers from Nvidia so i can't see it being that. I'll see if i can get hold of a different cable, just seems odd that this didn't occur with my ATI 5750.

 

[Gregster]

It just reminded me of my old 260 problem and looked awful compared to my other comps 8800gt on the same make of monitor. Soon as I changed to dvi the picture was superb.

 

[Masterdeadly]

It just reminded me of my old 260 problem and looked awful compared to my other comps 8800gt on the same make of monitor. Soon as I changed to dvi the picture was superb.

Another problem i have is the Graphics card is making a tapping sound that sounds like a cricket lol, i've tried moving any obstructions like cables out the way but it still persists, got a feeling it could be the fan bearing :L

 

[Gregster]

Ohhh that must be frustrating. That would drive me nuts but sorry I have no answer for that.

 

[Masterdeadly]

Ohhh that must be frustrating. That would drive me nuts but sorry I have no answer for that.

Managed to fix the tapping noise, the fans on the card were knocking so i adjusted them a tad now that's gone. So this problem with the feint flickering/waves across the screen persists in BF3, League of Legends and Skyrim :L I'm gonna test it with Heaven benchmarking, older drivers and then lower the clock speed to stock, if none of these work then I'm stumped.

 

[Gregster]

do you know anybody with a comp and maybe a dvi cable? and as an even better picture does your monitor accept hdmi? try a lead off one of your tv components and see if that helps.

Glad ya got the crickets out of the comp.

 

[LtMatt]

Hello guys, i recently bought an ASUS 560Ti TOP Direct II 1Gb and i was extremely happy when i put it in, i was playing League of Legends and realized that if i looked into dark areas (Fog of war) the dark shades are flickering which is really strange. Tried it on Battlefield 3 which, if in a dark map does it all over the screen. It's hard to describe and probably impossible to display from a screenshot but imagine the dark areas on screen having like waves of lighter shades running through. I have a feeling the card is faulty which is a massive shame, unless one of you guys can suggest otherwise :L

Any thoughts ? cheers.

God damn dude. You go through more faulty graphics cards than ocuk rma department.

 

[Gregster]

Please let me know if a different cable sorts this as it may help others.