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Artfacts on 290x

Techen

Techen

Techen

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Well, Someone told me to post a photo so here goes. Both cards do this, Am saying its the drivers and nothing else. REMEMBER, None of these cards are overclocked.

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First off your photo is way too big.

Secondly do you want help or do you want to just post as little information as possible so that people just skim over your thread and it gets buried in a few hours?
 
Normally if I keep to one thread it gets hijacked and my posts dissappear in people having fanboy fights with AMD and Nvidia.

Secondly I'd like to know why it appears and if theres a solution for it. Thank you.
 
I had something that looked similar with one of the 14.3 beta drivers (I forget which one). Sometimes I would get random blocks around the title bar of a window, generally an inactive one on a screen that didn't have focus. I fed it back using the beta bug submission and simply went back to the 13.12 WHQL drivers as these were solid on my system. Haven't had the issue once on the 14.4 drivers, so no need to drop back for me.

I did have a lot of weird little issues around January time, games would crash to desktop when I tried to launch them, other times games would randomly close mid-game and crash, and so on. I had been running that Windows install for quite a long time, and had messed with the drivers constantly - I'd gone 7970, to 7970 with 460 as PhysX card (with Hybridized Nvidia drivers), to 7970 Crossfire, to 290 Crossfire. I took the opportunity to upgrade my SSD and treated myself to a fresh Windows install and all the issues I'd been having disappeared and have never resurfaced. I know it's been suggested to you before, but I really would advise trying a fresh Windows install and see if that helps. Even if you just install it on any random spare HDD you have kicking around to troubleshoot the issues without affecting your current install. It really is worth spending an evening trying in my experience.
 
Techen said:
Normally if I keep to one thread it gets hijacked and my posts dissappear in people having fanboy fights with AMD and Nvidia.

Secondly I'd like to know why it appears and if theres a solution for it. Thank you.
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Your last thread hasn't been hijacked. You don't reply to anyone to let them know if you tried anything. You are been giving advice but refuse to take it.

Did you even run memtest like requested?

I suggest you post this in your other thread and keep things there.
 
humbug said:
Agreed, looks like a problem with the GPU's memory, which could also cause Memory leaks, which causes stuttering, which would explain the problems the OP has been having....

I would RMA it, its broken. :)
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Yeah I get similar things when I set my voltage too low.

Though I remember OP saying the store didn't find a fault with the card.
 
@Techen,

GefGz said:
Secondly do you want help or do you want to just post as little information as possible so that people just skim over your thread and it gets buried in a few hours?
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This, when you ask for help, then ignore that question and still not supply the data, chances are your problems aren't going to be sorted if there is nowt wrong with your gpu's.

You have been given lots of advice in other threads, but due to attitudes, I couldn't be ***** getting involved and offer any suggestions.

It isn't necessarily dodgy vram btw, guessing your on a beta, youtube is open on a tab, hardware acceleration bug with idle clocks may be the problem manifesting in the artifacts in your pic, java windows/apps can throw up artifacts too.

If you can replicate like the tabs in your screenie above with a youtube tab running,(make sure you set chrome/firefox to open last tabs) close the youtube tab, restart PC, open chrome/youtube and see if you still get artifacts.

DON'T rma it until you have exhausted all possibilities as you will just incur further cost/hassle to yourself resulting in further frustration.

It may be the card but it could be 1 of many, many culprits and not the gpus.
 
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I know I'm repeating, but those blocks around an inactive Window are exactly an issue I had with one of the 14.3 beta drivers. Reminded me of colour clash on the Spectrum back in the day. OP - which drivers were you using when you experienced those?
 
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