Guild Wars 2

I cannot really describe the issue properly, but here we go.

The GPU is brand new, AMD HD 7950 VAPOR-X 3GB/384Bit.

I noticed that when I play for a while, I get some random flicking, but it’s very little in terms or size, small and fast. It’s not like whole blocks of artifacts flickering around the screen constantly. It’s a random occurrence. Like once in an hour or a little bit less.

It’s like a line, appearing on the screen for a split second. And it’s super thin and short. Sometimes it’s white, sometimes it’s some other unknown color.

It’s super fast, I can’t even capture it.

I just want to say that I ran Furmark for 30 minutes on 1680×1050 8xMSAA, and I didn’t see a single flick. Temps are superb – 63 Celsius at MAX. 99% GPU usage. 53%

I cannot understand what’s causing it. I updated my drivers to the latest ones from January the 17th and it’s there.

Is there any other way to test if my GPU is bricked or something, so I can RMA. I don’t know if it’s the game or the GPU.

Thanks in advance, I hope someone read it..

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=368290&page=17 Welcome to the 7xxx series flickering club:). Just be happy you only get small fast ones with 7950. Some of us that own 7850 (its much slower) have more of thoes flicerking artifacts and they are easier to notice cuz they are slower ( the faster your memmory the fsater they get). 7xxx series is flawed with some kind of either software failure or is just their new memmory architecture that is broken on hardware level. I rmd my card 2 times and got 2 diff ones + i tested it on 7970 from my friend they all had the same problem ( harder to notice on 7970). Im pretty sure all 7xxx series have that problem its just some ppl dont notice rly fast texture flashes from time to time.

Btw could you check if you have black lines on the floor in ascalonian catacombs ? Some of us have that problem as well and it would be nice to see if higher series with new drivers have it as well. It seems textures are broken in few places with low terain like ac, dredge fractal and few others.

Oh man. Now I gotta ask – should I go replace my 7950 with 660Ti? Or should I wait for new drivers, if this is driver related at all? I just bought this GPU 3 days ago and I think I can make a deal with the retailer.

Should I do this or not?

Well if you can do it. There is a small possiblity that thoes 7xxx cards are just fauly (or big ammount of them ) and it wont ever be fixed. They didnt fix it for like a year now so ye change it if you can. Im pretty confident im going to rma then sell my 7850 as soon as 7xx series of nvidia goes live.

Make sure it isnt screen tearing ur describing. Turn ON Vsync – Should cap ur FPS to ur screen refresh rate ..usualy 60.

If he gets lines in colors thoes are not tearing for sure. Flicering is a common issue with 7xxx series its just some ppl wont even notice fast flashing objects like my firend for example.

It’s not tearing. It’s plain artifacts. I think I’m just gonna try and replace it tomorrow with an 660Ti, or if they won’t do it, my hopes go to the new 7950 replacement lol

What a disaster. I will literally throw myself from somewhere if the nVidia has the same stuff happening lol

Nvidia have overall smother experience in gw2 but now they have some problems with crashes with newest drivers. You wont probly fix the problem with other 7950. I had 3 diff 7850 and all of them had the same problem (its probly bad architecture coding). I even switched to my onboard hd4000 and it dosent have thoes flickers or black lines problem like my hd 7850 so im pretty sure nvidia wont have it as well. They might fix it soon but as it took them around a year to admit that there is a problem on their side i would not count on that.