• Common, and rare graphical glitches after PC build
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Just completed an enormous overhaul, of which my GTX 570 survived. Now, so far things have been peachy. Great performance, not even a hiccup. But I've noticed a few odd things. Most common, harmless-looking, but still a little troubling, in dark shading or dark green colors, pixels tend to randomly flash bright green for a single frame. It's not the monitor, as the pixel is dynamic according to what's occurring on-screen. Dead pixels would always be in the same spots. Then there's this... [IMG]http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo350/JJMDude/2014-07-27_00001_zpseb12a934.jpg[/IMG] I... have no idea what this is. Admittedly I've only played Borderlands 2 since upgrading, but this is the second time I've seen a glitch that looks like this since booting up for the first time. I tried testing my machine with a 3DMark benchmark, and two tests had half the screen looking this weird set of fluorescent colors. At the time, I thought perhaps it was part of the test, because it only happened in those two instances. In the instance I screencaptured here, this crate is the one and only object in the level that has this weird overlay. Note the severe stepladder effect around the edges. No other boxes like this had this happening. This has never happened in the game before this. It doesn't obviously affect performance. Everything is smooth as it ever was, otherwise. I post this, wondering if this is a sign of damage, failure or other horrors to come. I'm truly not in a position after this upgrade to invest in a new card. If nothing else, I'm hoping this is a benign quirk and not a lump on its breast.
Your drivers are up to date?
[QUOTE=proch;45513995]Your drivers are up to date?[/QUOTE] I have Geforce experience... I just finished BUILDING a computer... I know there's a process to troubleshooting... but could a little inference abide me SOME benefit of the doubt?
If you used the drivers on the disc that came with the GPU, they're out of date.
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;45518103]If you used the drivers on the disc that came with the GPU, they're out of date.[/QUOTE] Right, which is why I downloaded Geforce Experience, which downloaded the most current driver. Not my first ro-day-oh.
Try turning off Ambient Occlusion in the nvidia control panel? Are you playing at your monitor's native resolution? Can you try a different monitor? Is your GPU pushing out the same frame rate as your monitor? Try turning on V-Sync in game. When you make screenshots, it may help to show us (on-screen): gpu temperature, frame rate, gpu usage, gpu clock, vram clock, vram usage, gpu voltage, ... MSI Afterburner can show all those stats on-screen. Update - It could also be Multi-Sampleing, try turning it up or down in-game depending on what its set to.
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