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In a nutshell i believe either one or both of my cards are broken... However as it is with PC's (probably why we love em) it isnt that straight forward!!
All this beef started when i bought Fallout 3 off steam (a FEW years late i know, but i wanted to play all the awesome old games my system wasnt able to in the past...) but it i was having issues with flashing textures - almost like fireworks behind the screen! - posted on the steam forums - tried all the fixes the guys suggested to no avail and finally bit the bullet and basically gave up, dissapointed... Last night in a quest to continue my old skool (singleplayer) game oddessy i installed FEAR 1 i bought in 2005 that wouldnt run on my old lappy and had the same issues - flashing textures and random slowdowns.... Generally annoying and unplayable!
Now, on my system i can play hours of BF3 on ultra with 70+ fps, without a peep...! According to HWmonitor the CPU peaks around 49 and GPU's 60/70ish.
I downloaded that GPU memort tester - ran against both cards, no errors!!! Excellent i thought - ran the game again, same issues - flashing/flickering textures, generally crap and unplayable...
This got me wondering so i read OCCT had a GPU error checking facility, i downloaded that and basically after about 100secs there was literally 150 errors so i stopped it - panicking.
Im now starting to believe the problem isnt with the games at all but the GPU(s)...
So i guess my question is (after that wall of text) how accurate is OCCT error check? SHOULD i be concerned as i am? Is there any other programs i can use to check if i am actually artifacting?
Its really confused me because as i said i can play BF3 quite happily but these older games seem to give me issues - surely it should be the other way around??
Can anyone help suggest a course of action? it was kinda late last night (and in work today) so not had time to mess swapping cards about but if anyone has experianced something simular your input would be greatly appricated.
All this beef started when i bought Fallout 3 off steam (a FEW years late i know, but i wanted to play all the awesome old games my system wasnt able to in the past...) but it i was having issues with flashing textures - almost like fireworks behind the screen! - posted on the steam forums - tried all the fixes the guys suggested to no avail and finally bit the bullet and basically gave up, dissapointed... Last night in a quest to continue my old skool (singleplayer) game oddessy i installed FEAR 1 i bought in 2005 that wouldnt run on my old lappy and had the same issues - flashing textures and random slowdowns.... Generally annoying and unplayable!
Now, on my system i can play hours of BF3 on ultra with 70+ fps, without a peep...! According to HWmonitor the CPU peaks around 49 and GPU's 60/70ish.
I downloaded that GPU memort tester - ran against both cards, no errors!!! Excellent i thought - ran the game again, same issues - flashing/flickering textures, generally crap and unplayable...
This got me wondering so i read OCCT had a GPU error checking facility, i downloaded that and basically after about 100secs there was literally 150 errors so i stopped it - panicking.
Im now starting to believe the problem isnt with the games at all but the GPU(s)...
So i guess my question is (after that wall of text) how accurate is OCCT error check? SHOULD i be concerned as i am? Is there any other programs i can use to check if i am actually artifacting?
Its really confused me because as i said i can play BF3 quite happily but these older games seem to give me issues - surely it should be the other way around??
Can anyone help suggest a course of action? it was kinda late last night (and in work today) so not had time to mess swapping cards about but if anyone has experianced something simular your input would be greatly appricated.
