Guild Wars 2

Hi there. I got this problem: http://i57.tinypic.com/2qtyce1.jpg. I get this all the time, but when i tPvP it drives me crazy. Makes it unplayable sometimes. What I’ve tried to do to fix it is RMA the graphiccard. They said theres nothing wrong with my card.

They told me to check my RAMmemories, which i did with memtest86+. Theres nothing wrong with them either. Ive tried repairing Gw2. Ive tried diffrent drivers for my card. Im currently running the latest stable drivers.

My specs are:
Gigabyte GA-Z87P-D3 ATX
Samsung 22" S22C350H LED
Samsung SSD EVO Basic 840-Series 120GB
A-Data 8GB (2×4GB) CL9 1600MHz XPG INET EDITION
Intel Core i7 4770K 3.5 GHz (Haswell)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
TP-Link TL-WDN4800 Dualband N900
Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X 3GB (Tahiti XTL)
Corsair Carbide 200R Svart
Corsair CX 600M 80+ Bronze Modulär
Windows 8.1Home 64-bitar

I have not clocked anything. Though i did test to Clock down the GFX but that didnt help either. I have checked my temps with CPU-Z and GPU-Z its all good. Why do i get these artifacts!? :C Theres no pattern either. It can start as soon as I get ingame or I can play for an hour then it flips out.

Oh and i did not build the computer myself. I chose the parts and www.inet.se built it for me. So that excludes human error from my part. Ofcourse inet could have done something wrong, but they said they test every computer before even sending them. Should have shown up then that something is wrong. I dunno Im just sad…

Hope theres someone out there that can help me fix this problem.

// Tobias

Is this a new error or something you have been experiencing since first starting to play the game?

I have encountered this error before, but in another game and in another time. The culprit is usually the graphics card. If you have an extra one lying around, try replacing your current one and see if the artifacts still appear.

Silverstarre.5247:

Is this a new error or something you have been experiencing since first starting to play the game?

Ive had it since I bought this computer. Did not have it on the computer before this one, been playing gw2 on both of em.

proofen.7281:

Silverstarre.5247:

Is this a new error or something you have been experiencing since first starting to play the game?

Ive had it since I bought this computer. Did not have it on the computer before this one, been playing gw2 on both of em.

Then your GPU was delivered defective. Demand a replacement.

Ettanin.8271:

proofen.7281:

Silverstarre.5247:

Is this a new error or something you have been experiencing since first starting to play the game?

Ive had it since I bought this computer. Did not have it on the computer before this one, been playing gw2 on both of em.

Then your GPU was delivered defective. Demand a replacement.

I did that, sent the card back, they stresstested the card and could not get it to show any artifacts. They believed that it could be my RAM but i did memtest and that showed that they work just fine to.

One thing you can try, but might not work:

Go into your windows device manager, roll back the driver for your graphics card, and then update the driver for your graphics card to the latest version again. See if that helps.

Also, is anything on your machine overclocked? Guild Wars 2 can get buggy with overclocked hardware. Doesn’t always like it.

You could also run a -repair on the client to make sure it’s not an issue with a corrupt data file(s).

Otherwise, not sure what else you could do. It’s hard to determine what the error might be without some sort of error log/report.

Silverstarre.5247:

One thing you can try, but might not work:

Go into your windows device manager, roll back the driver for your graphics card, and then update the driver for your graphics card to the latest version again. See if that helps.

Also, is anything on your machine overclocked? Guild Wars 2 can get buggy with overclocked hardware. Doesn’t always like it.

You could also run a -repair on the client to make sure it’s not an issue with a corrupt data file(s).

Otherwise, not sure what else you could do. It’s hard to determine what the error might be without some sort of error log/report.

I’ve already done all that. In my first post I describe all the things I’ve done. My GFX is clocked from the fabric but I did Clock down the card didnt help. How do I go about to get a log/report?

You have a 280x, that’s your problem.
Alt tabbing out and back in removes the artifacts.
Also underclocking the ram a bit usually works as well.

What you really want to do is rma the card.

The HYNIX ram used on the 1st batch of r9 280x’s was replaced with new ELPIDA ram, the new ram can handle the overclocks, the old can’t.
If you rma it you’ll get a new one with the new ram.

Swampy.1359:

You have a 280x, that’s your problem.
Alt tabbing out and back in removes the artifacts.
Also underclocking the ram a bit usually works as well.

What you really want to do is rma the card.

The HYNIX ram used on the 1st batch of r9 280x’s was replaced with new ELPIDA ram, the new ram can handle the overclocks, the old can’t.
If you rma it you’ll get a new one with the new ram.

Yeah that is how I have been dealing with it, alt tabbing out and back removes it. Thing is I did RMA the card but I got the card back with them saying there is nothing wrong with my card.

The guy in this thread:https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Strange-Graphical-Artifacts/first#post4282735 has the same problem as me, check alexdpsg:s video: http://youtu.be/yxlW0XMkHjk?t=4m35s
That is exactly how it looks on my screen.
Maybe it’s some software isssue. Or some setting I have to turn of/on ingame or in AMD catalyst control center. I dunno. Would be nice when buying a new computer if Everything just worked =/ but that’s maybe a bit to much to ask ^^

Swampy.1359:

You have a 280x, that’s your problem.
Alt tabbing out and back in removes the artifacts.
Also underclocking the ram a bit usually works as well.

What you really want to do is rma the card.

The HYNIX ram used on the 1st batch of r9 280x’s was replaced with new ELPIDA ram, the new ram can handle the overclocks, the old can’t.
If you rma it you’ll get a new one with the new ram.

Isn’t Hynix better than Elpida and companies were just cutting costs?

I got a 280x with Hynix memory on 1550 MHz/6200 effective without any artifacts at all for 9 months now.