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RX480 Artifacting

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So just installed it put on Killing Floor 2, whacked everything up to ultra and max hitting over 80fps all the time and then I notice it looks like this.

Ignore the right side couldn't be bothered to crop =)

http://imgur.com/a/HMJmX

It seems to happen on the reflections is this common on the RX480 or do I have a faulty card?
 
It's rather odd that it follows the shadow of the lights, it may not be GPU based artifacting. Is it present anywhere else? Also, what temps do you reach?
 
It's ok if I disable realtime reflections.

But I don't see why this would happen in the first place the card is more than enough to run this game on max.
 
When I turn Realtime Reflectins on I get a notification "Some of the settings selected may adversely affect performance. Do you with to continue?"

Even then the game is fluctuating between 80-160fps so there's no real reason I can think of that this happens

Here's a screen with GPU-Z sensor view

http://imgur.com/YxfKJB7

Looks like a driver issue.

Make sure it's not a refresh rate issue if you've got 144hz try 60hz.

Tried with Vsync on and off, same result.

I also done an IOBit uninstall of the old drivers before installing the new ones so shouldn't be a problem should it?

Just launched Fallout 4 to see if i can replicate it in other games.

When it tried to auto-detect it flagged up saying unidentified video card.
 
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Sometimes driver optimisations for games are just bad. This can impact performance or even corrupt textures on certain post processing effects.

Have you tested any other games or benchmarks like Firestrike or Unigine Valley?
 
Sometimes driver optimisations for games are just bad. This can impact performance or even corrupt textures on certain post processing effects.

Have you tested any other games or benchmarks like Firestrike or Unigine Valley?

Just tried fallout 4, says unrecognised card.

At MAX settings i'm getting 19-40 fps, where all the benchmarks say I should be getting upwards of 60-70fps.

At LOW with EVERYTHING set to low and off, i'm getting 34-50fps.

This is pathetic, my 7790 was just as pathetic on Fallout 4.

I downloaded the lastest drivers from AMD how can this card be this bad.
 
Just tried fallout 4, says unrecognised card.

At MAX settings i'm getting 19-40 fps, where all the benchmarks say I should be getting upwards of 60-70fps.

At LOW with EVERYTHING set to low and off, i'm getting 34-50fps.

This is pathetic, my 7790 was just as pathetic on Fallout 4.

I downloaded the lastest drivers from AMD how can this card be this bad.

Use DDU to remove drivers completely and try a reinstall.
 
Just tried fallout 4, says unrecognised card.

At MAX settings i'm getting 19-40 fps, where all the benchmarks say I should be getting upwards of 60-70fps.

At LOW with EVERYTHING set to low and off, i'm getting 34-50fps.

This is pathetic, my 7790 was just as pathetic on Fallout 4.

I downloaded the lastest drivers from AMD how can this card be this bad.

Fallout 4 is not a good example to use for anything performance related.
 
Use DDU to remove drivers completely and try a reinstall.

Disable driver updates if you're on Windows 10 too (although I think DDU might do that as default now). It's lightning quick to install **** out of date drivers and then you end up installing new drivers over them without realising.
 
Fallout 4 is not a good example to use for anything performance related.

Then how about this beauty

http://imgur.com/52k9eq6

Borderlands 2 can't even hit 50fps, in fact my 7790 performs better on the same settings.

Ignore the gaps in GPU-Z for some reason it doesn't update in real time when i'm in a game and i need to alt-tab and hover over it to get it to refresh.

Trying this DDU thing atm.

However it's annoying BT messed up my internet today so using a neighbours so having to transfer files between my laptop and PC
 
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Performance is now worse than before after doing this DDU thing.

Borderlands can't even hit 35fps now. High 20s to low 30s is the best it can do.

http://imgur.com/a/ioXsj

Screeny of GPU-Z running in 3 different games, with wildy different results if this helps narrow it down.
 
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Which 480 do you have?

That's got to be a driver issue as those numbers are way off what they should be.

EDIT: Was just going to suggest disconnecting all but one monitor for testing but someone beaten me to it. :)
 
And what happens when you play same games fullscreen mode on one monitor and unplug the other?

All 3 modes are basically the same, windowed, fullscreen windowed and windows, tried switch no difference. MONITOR STAYS!!! XD

Which 480 do you have?

That's got to be a driver issue as those numbers are way off what they should be.

RX480

EDIT: Was just going to suggest disconnecting all but one monitor for testing but someone beaten me to it. :)

What are the rest of your specs?

Rest of the system is old, but still good enough that it causes me no slowdowns, gonna be annoyed if that is the problem ill have to return the 480 and cope for another 2 years on min fps, i'm not upgrading anything else yet.

What makes it worse is that the 480 was supposed to be the card for people who don't upgrade and now i may have to upgrade just to use it =(.

Intel Core2Duo Q9950 @2.83 Ghz
Asus Maximus 2 Formula
6gb RAM
Win 10 64bit.
EVGA Supernova 650 P2
RX480 (Previously 7790)
Samsung 1tb 840 EVO(Main Drive) + Samsung 1tb Spinpoint F1
 
Ok, don't reach behind your case and pull out one video cable without having to restart anything.

I have a 480, I also happen to have dual screens and on unplugging the second monitor my FPS in Fallout 4 became significantly better.

This doesn't apply to all games but like I said, don't use Fallout 4 as a performance benchmark.

I do not have Borderlands.
 
Intel Core2Duo Q9950 @2.83 Ghz

Do you mean core2quad q9550? (same chip I used to have)

Yes Core2Quad my bad =)

Ok, don't reach behind your case and pull out one video cable without having to restart anything.

I have a 480, I also happen to have dual screens and on unplugging the second monitor my FPS in Fallout 4 became significantly better.

This doesn't apply to all games but like I said, don't use Fallout 4 as a performance benchmark.

EDIT: I used a 6+2pin power would it make a difference if I switched it to a 8pin?

I do not have Borderlands.

Tried that with both BL2 and F4, made no difference at all, no gains no losses.
 
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