Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti OC artifacts 2

GTX 560 Ti Factory Overclock Rendering Artifacts
These problems are not apparent at first.
There are "sweet spots" where they happen in a row, like here.

Card is running at a factory overclock of 900MHz@0.987V,
passes all tests and seems to work just fine -
except for these kinds of artifacts at some places at some levels in some games (Bad Company 2, Portal 2, ...)

Settings are 1920x1080, MSAAx4, AFx8, V-Sync On, pretty much everything else set at high & turned on.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• geforce
• nvidia
• gigabyte
• gtx560
• gameplay
• computer

[gwintex]

change voltage

[yourdiscretion]

@gwintex if only there was a way to create a BIOS with either lower freq or higher voltage as a default, that would be lovely.

[N7Space]

Call Gigabyte and get your money back. I was very interested in this card before this.. I'm not sure if to wait for the OC2 version or get something else. Any advice? :)

[yourdiscretion]

@N7Space I would rather choose a card that by default runs on stock frequency and voltage at factory settings in the future. This one works well after lowering the frequency. As for returning the card - I will, definitely. I just do not like the idea of having a computer without a video card for two weeks. :-(

[MrEvol94]

@yourdiscretion

I'm in your situation too, I have the same problem and I will return the card but being without a video card for 2 weeks sucks :(

Do u get squares on the first level too? (operation aurora) that's where I get most of mine :(

[yourdiscretion]

@MrEvol94 Smoke, fog, mist and particle effects are great ways to get some artifacts.

Artifacts usually appeared whenever MSI Afterburner showed that the GPU is 99% busy.

BFBC2 is particularly good at this.

I have not tested the first level - but as soon as I wipe off the dust of BFBC2, I will. ;-)

[MrEvol94]

How to solve this shit:

1. take out your 560 ti

2. destroy it with whatever u want

3. Buy a Radeon 6950, or better! A fucking turd is more reliable than this shit, the first 360 model is more reliable than this piece of fucking shit. Don't buy anything from gigabyte!

[survivorevil]

@yourdiscretion yeah it sucks!! no gaming for 2 weeks but i sent back mine after being unable to play battlefield 3. I notice that lowering the clock i could longer but it ended up freezing anyways

[RFXCasey]

Having issue as well, flickering textures and shadows sometimes, as well as micro stutter. In Heaven demo I get dark artifacts in the same places evertime I run it unless I kick the voltage up then it goes away. I also get micro stutters in certain areas unless I kick of the voltage. Seems like the shader is not getting enough power even at default settings. Thought it was drives but now not sure. Any advice? I'm thinking about RMAing it. Need to contact MSI or is it drivers or bios?

[MrEvol94]

@yourdiscretion

yup. I'll actually send my TI OC back tomorrow, but I at least have a laptop that can play some L4D during those 10-14 days xD.

My card is 99% when I have VSYNC off (since there's no fps limit probably) I play with these settings:

1080p, 4xaa, 16af, Vsync On, HBAO On, everything else on high.

I tried to underclock the card to stock settings and it worked fine for like a week, but then I got artifacts again + flickering textures on the heavy metal mp map :(

[MrEvol94]

thank god I'm not the only one!

[Plausiblesarge]

I started having this exact problem, then green specks, and now all the way to models going to the horizon, textures flashing, and text displaying wrong, youtube videos crashing my video driver frequently, and other major problems. You may be totally fucked

sorry for the bad news

[TacoPenguin4347]

I've had this problem before don't worry. What you need to do is take out the video card, put it in the toliet and let it sit for a couple of days. After that you must then fish the video card out with you mouth and begin to naw on it with your teeth. This lets the video card know who the alpha male is in this particular situation.Finally after that has been done it's now fixed and ready to reinstalled to your pc.

Your Welcome.