• Help needed, my Battlefield 3 is freaking out.
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I hope this is the right place to post this, I don't make threads that often. If it's not, please don't ban me. If you could just move it to the correct section, thanks. When I play Battlefield 3 I get all these black triangles stretched way across the screen. I made a video and will post it below. It started happening when Armored Kill was released, it doesn't happen in any other game, only this one. It leads me to believe that it's not a dying graphics card. I read that it was a driver problem, but I'm using 12.8 CCC! It's extremely frustrating, I've sat here for hours and have read everything and tried everything. I don't know what to do anymore. I guess it's time to show/tell you my specs. i7 920 at 3.2 Ghz HD Radeon 5970 2Gb VRam (Dual GPU's on one card so it's crossfire'd) DDR3 RAM 12Gb Windows 7 SP1 I'n pretty sure that's all you need. If not feel free to ask, I really do need help fixing this. It can get so bad it's unplayable at times. Thanks! Video time, sorry there's no sound, but that's not what we're looking at so not needed. [video=youtube;fkl0tnptvrI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkl0tnptvrI&feature=youtu.be[/video]
I've been having a VERY similar problem like yours. It was a lot less in terms of amount, but also annoying.
Seeing how it started happening after the dlc, it [i]might[/i] mean that your bf3 resources got corrupted or something. Try re-downloading bf3 and see if that helps.
Thanks for the advice, I'll try that right now and get back to you in a little while. (It'll take a few hours to download it all back.)
Well, I didn't see the black lines for the little bit I played, but I crashed after trying to respawn. I got a BSOD. Something about timeout? Dealing with driver, I can't really remember. Helpful huh? Haha. I'll get back to this if I see the black triangles again. This is the only game that's so messed up for me.
Make sure the GPU isn't overheating
Not really sure what overheating would be. It's usually at 80c when I play games. 60idle. Oh also, the game was played for 6 hours today without any problems. Except for the last 30 minutes. There was heavy artifacting on the screen. Flashy white/gray small squares on the bottom of screen and black triangles everywhere. I exited the game ASAP and the desktop looked normal so I don't know what the fuck was happening. The the computer crashed. No BSoD though. I've stress tested my card and it's gone up to 90c and stopped going up from there, I never had artifacts from stress testing either. No flashy square pixels or anything. I've tested everything on the computer. The Ram is still good, the card works for every other game perfectly, processor is good. Everything shows as working without issues, besides why I play Battlefield 3. I even under clocked my card to see if that would help and it seemed it just made Battlefield 3 worse so I put if back to stock speeds. This is really starting to get to me. . .
60c at idle? I don't think that's good. Mine is about 36c when idle. Could be overheating. Also if you play a game 6 hours straight without any breaks the computer won't be able to take it. The entire computer accumulates heat and then problems come in. But if you think 60 celcius is okay then I won't argue with you.
I checked out a review of the card and it's a power house, they said it idled around 60c? I'll link the review, it's a single card with 2 GPUS, so you have to account for that. It's basically two cards in one. 60c idle seems normal. I'm pretty sure the temperatures are spot on for the card. Also, the processor is water cooled so I don't have to worry about too much. I've still been reading about the issues and it seems there's hundreds of people having the same issue. Some people have fixed it by upping the amount of voltage the card receives to stabilize the card, so I used MSI Afterburner to do that. I haven't had any issues yet so far. The reason I play for so long is because I'm trying to see how long it takes for this problem to occur and it seems to take place at random times during huge battles taking place on the screen screen. I haven't had any issues since I've upped the voltage. I'll come back if it happens to occur again. If it doesn't after a few days. I'll come back and share my findings. Here's that review [URL]http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1141/11/[/URL]
That's really hot, do you even have a cooling system on that? Is it broken?
[QUOTE=Lakrids;37968674]That's really hot, do you even have a cooling system on that? Is it broken?[/QUOTE] If you read my above post, you'd know it's normal for the graphics card I have. Also, update on the game, I haven't seen any lines for the past day since I upped the voltage to the card, which is great! It did crash once, after I died and tried to respawn, but no lines thus far.
Even if it's normal for your GPU, it doesn't change the fact it's very hot, for any GPU.
[QUOTE=Lakrids;37969817]Even if it's normal for your GPU, it doesn't change the fact it's very hot, for any GPU.[/QUOTE] You can't do anything about it, it's 2 GPUS stuck in one card. There's not a lot I can do. It's normal for the card. These are the temperatures it's normally running. Normal temperatures are normal temperatures. It's built to take it. If I can lower it more then yeah, that's great but if not, that's okay too. Either way, since I've upped the voltage to the card, everything has been much more stable. No black stretched triangles, no crashes. I think everything is good now, but just in-case I'll still be coming back to this thread.
[QUOTE=Lakrids;37969817]Even if it's normal for your GPU, it doesn't change the fact it's very hot, for any GPU.[/QUOTE] Its a 5970, those are average temps for it. Thats not hot for that specific GPU at all. You clearly haven't seen the 480's, those fuckers IDLED around 65C and got up to 90C without issue. Anyway, OP has fixed his problem.
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