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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited February 2010 in Graphical and Sound Issues
I keep having really strange graphics issues that I've only ever had with CoH/CoV and now STO. I sighed when I saw them occurring again considering this is years apart on completely different hardware. The only thing that has stayed in common is they are both Cryptic games and both Nvidia cards. The most common problem I keep having is where a section of my character and bridge officers will stretch off the screen indefinitely. I've attached an example of that and some other strange ones, this first one is the most common problem, happens every night.

My current setup is
8gb DDR2 Memory
Intel Core2 Quad Q9300
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT
Windows Vista 64 bit edition

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/frogjelly/screenshot_2010-02-07-14-06-16.jpg

These next two have only occurred once or twice:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/frogjelly/screenshot_2010-02-09-19-57-30.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/frogjelly/screenshot_2010-02-07-23-40-18.jpg


Any suggestions?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Your card is overheating. Thats the main cause of artifacts, which is what you are seeing. If you temsp are cool and you still see this, then you have a problem with your GPU or something on your system
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I had the same issue in PotBS beta. It has a lot of similarities to STO from what I've read on the boards so far. Anyway, I had indefinite texture stretching like that as well, nvidia card. I downloaded nTune monitoring software for nVidia cards and discovered my GPU( 5900XT) was peaking at 61 c! See if you can find some monitoring software and bring it up in the back ground and alt+tab to it when you first see the stretching or any other glitches and look at that gpu temp. nTune had fan speed control options in it for me, so it's possible you'll be able to speed up your fan all the way on the GPU to help keep it cool. However you may need to figure out another solution to keeping it cool(lowering graphics settings or purchasing a PCI fan-based cooling card, or re-think the layout of the fans in your case to get better airflow around the card.

    I have an intake fan in the side panel but the gfx card faces down just below it, so the gfx card was circulating it's own air at the bottom of the case, essentially. Think about how the air flows in the case and adjust if possible.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Yep thats GPU overheat.

    Try lowing some of your graphics settings. turn down texture resolution and anti aliasing completely off.

    Also get a compressed air can and blast the dust out of your GPU heatsink.

    Also does your case have dust filters. are they properly fitted?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I had the same issue in PotBS beta. It has a lot of similarities to STO from what I've read on the boards so far.

    POTBS has a very different engine! The only things that are similar is the space combat and zoning system.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Ezmarii wrote: »
    I had the same issue in PotBS beta. It has a lot of similarities to STO from what I've read on the boards so far. Anyway, I had indefinite texture stretching like that as well, nvidia card. I downloaded nTune monitoring software for nVidia cards and discovered my GPU( 5900XT) was peaking at 61 c! See if you can find some monitoring software and bring it up in the back ground and alt+tab to it when you first see the stretching or any other glitches and look at that gpu temp. nTune had fan speed control options in it for me, so it's possible you'll be able to speed up your fan all the way on the GPU to help keep it cool. However you may need to figure out another solution to keeping it cool(lowering graphics settings or purchasing a PCI fan-based cooling card, or re-think the layout of the fans in your case to get better airflow around the card.

    I have an intake fan in the side panel but the gfx card faces down just below it, so the gfx card was circulating it's own air at the bottom of the case, essentially. Think about how the air flows in the case and adjust if possible.

    61'C is a very good operating temp under load. Even for a very old card such as that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    tedgp123 wrote: »
    Your card is overheating. Thats the main cause of artifacts, which is what you are seeing. If you temsp are cool and you still see this, then you have a problem with your GPU or something on your system


    What is so strange about it to me is it doesn't cause any issues on other high end settings for other games. It really only seems to happen when I alt-tab to another screen and come back. The 2nd and 3rd screenshots have not happened except for that one time. But the stretching in the first screen does, even after lowering some settings, turning anti-aliasing off. This is a brand new rig that shouldn't have any airflow problems, dust build-up or wear.

    I'll get some software to check the running temps on my equipment but not sure I agree it being an issue. Thought maybe it was a driver problem. I do have an ATI card I can test out and another 9800 GTX if it comes down to it. Thanks for the tip.
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