Artifacts in certain parts of Witcher

[z0mbi3]

I'm only having the problem in this one game and only in certain parts. Basically whenever I'm outside and there's grass to be rendered I get crazy artifacting and the polygons / textures are stretched all over the place. It seems to only effect the grass and I can't work out why.

This is without any overclocks as well.

I'll try and take a pic shortly to give you an idea of what I'm on about , but in the interim just picture some artifacting grass.

I've tried reinstalling Direct X 9 off of the Witcher DVD but it didn't make a difference

Any thoughts?

 

[z0mbi3]

*subtle bump*

I'm thinking about reinstalling Vista tonight over this. Any thoughts before then would be great.

 

[mart981]

What gfx card? Driver?

Does turning grass graphic setting ingame down effect the problem?

 

[Mikoyan]

I had this! I had to do a system restore and all was fine, I think i messed up something in Atitool, but cant be sure.

Try system restore to when it was working?

 

[z0mbi3]

It's never been working

I suppose I could try reinstalling the video card drivers before I do anything drastic.

I'm using an x1900 xt with the latest drivers btw.

 

[Sir Random]

My Sapphire X1900XT seemed fine in games, but I got stretched polys and artefacts in 3DMk06 (Tests 3 & 4). There were a few other people with the exact same problem, which was faulty vram.

Try running 3DMk06, and watch out for stretched polys in test 3 (when the creature jumps over the boat) and artefacts in test 4 (small black flickering triangles). Hopefully it's something else, but no harm in checking.

Here's the old thread about it:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17616462

EDIT\
If you don't have 3DMk06, you could try lowering the vram clock by ~50Mhz and see if the problem in Witcher goes away.

 

[z0mbi3]

I tried the test(s) in 3dmark 06 and had no sign of the problem so I reinstalled. Haven't had a chance to try Witcher again but I'm hopeful that it's fixed.

If it has fixed it then it'll be worth the install, don't want anything distracting from the immersion

 

[joedeath332]

I tried the test(s) in 3dmark 06 and had no sign of the problem so I reinstalled. Haven't had a chance to try Witcher again but I'm hopeful that it's fixed.

If it has fixed it then it'll be worth the install, don't want anything distracting from the immersion

Glad you got it sorted,,worth the efford then of a re install

 

[z0mbi3]

Confirmed as 100% working, no graphical anomalies now that I've reinstalled.

Glad you got it sorted,,worth the efford then of a re install

Definitley. I'd like to know what caused the problem originally though. I have my suspicions that it was some left over dlls from a DX9 distribution but I can't confirm that. Still, just glad to be back up and trucking.