Graphic Glitches (Artifacts?) on GTX 970

[RyougaLolakie]

I know this seems to be copy-pasted, but I'd figure it'll be easy to just copy rather than just right everything from start.

Hi, I have EVGA GTX 970 SC for about two weeks and since then I get some graphic glitches. It firstly happen when the game starts to freeze and blackscreens but it fixed it with a clean install of drivers. After that, things go smoothly until I discovered some glitches. It seems like artifacts at first, but I made a topic on EVGA forums and they told me it was game glitches. Regardless, I ran Valley and Heaven Benchmark without any graphic glitches and artifacts. World of Warcraft and Dota didn't seem to have any glitches and artifacts. Only Team Fortress 2 seem to have these glitches. These glitches aren't consisitant and it happens like once and it disapears which makes it hard to reproduce, otherwise the gameplay wasn't affected. In case you didn't know, it ran on stock settings. I underclocked the gpu and I didn't see any glitches until I saw that red flash on the other screenshot where I use paint tool to make a circle out of it. Otherwise, EVGA forums told me that if you didn't see artifacts in heaven nor valley, your card is fine. That doesn't make any sense..of course I ran some memory error test and it shows no errors too. :/ Oh yeah, I almost forgot that my gpu temps are in the 40s-50s. I dunno if the card's faulty or what but I really need your guys your input on this.

Recently I also did a benchmark on 3DMark (not 11, just the demo from Steam) and didn't noticed any artifacts nor glitches.

Here are my specs:

Cpu: i7 960 @ 3.20ghz
Gpu:evga gtx 970 ACX 2.0 sc
Ram: Corsair Dominator 12GB
MB: Gigabyte g1. Guerilla x58
Harddrive: Seagate 1TB 7200rpm Hard Drive
Optical Drive: LG Blu-Ray / DVD Burner Combo
Monitor: Sceptre 27inch 60mhz (1920 x 1080)
Mouse: Logitech g700s
Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance k70 Black (Red LED) Keyboard with Cherry MX Red Switches)
PSU: Corsair TX750

And here are some screenshots to proof:

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p9/RyougaLolakie/Clipboard05artifact2.jpg

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p9/RyougaLolakie/Clipboard05artifact.jpg

I also made a thread on both Tom's Hardware and Nvidia forums but no response as of yet.

 

[RyougaLolakie]

Bump! Surprisingly no replies here.

Anyway, I've been through dozens of stress test including OCCT, MemtestG80, VMT, and EVGA OC Scanner and so far, no errors nor artifacts. I even used the furmark gpu core and memory burner with artifact scanner and didn't see any artifacts.

I honestly don't know why Team Fortress 2 has these small and non reproduced glitches. Was the game was old but was updated more recently, bad engine, drivers or what? It baffles me right out the bat. I hope the new drivers will solve it. Although I don't see anyone with a GTX 970 of any brand have this issue. ><

Is there any possible way about this?

 

[RoasterMen]

It does look like it's from the game itself, I have that too.

 

[RyougaLolakie]

It does look like it's from the game itself, I have that too.

Ah..which game did you experience that sort of glitch? I tried out Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag. Didn't play that much though, the game runs smoothly too except it has some glitches too but no artifacts.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p9/RyougaLolakie/Clipboard05artifactglitch.jpg

There's like a missing texture on the far right.

Otherwise if its really game issue then I guess my card is fine despite of all the tests I did. I mean, I never seen those glitches when I have my GTX 560. Didn't remember which version of drivers but last time I updated the drivers was from three months ago when I used that card.

Also, I researched alot about gpu artifacts which mostly artifacts that are known are spiked polygons and pixelated squares all in the screen. Now the question is, does artifacts come out slowly before it progresses or the artifacts spiked up faster first?

 

[RoasterMen]

I experienced it on GTA IV, tiny artifacts shows first then disappears after 10 seconds. I think artifacts does come out slowly before it progresses because sometimes artifacts means that the textures are still loading or may have failed to load. I think the cause of the problem is incompatibility because of the newer card.

 

[RyougaLolakie]

I experienced it on GTA IV, tiny artifacts shows first then disappears after 10 seconds. I think artifacts does come out slowly before it progresses because sometimes artifacts means that the textures are still loading or may have failed to load. I think the cause of the problem is incompatibility because of the newer card.

Ouch...What type of artifacts are you getting? I heard that these artifacts can cause by the core or the vram but these tests I get were fine whatsoever. Mostly were caused by overheating, even though my card wasn't overheating. My GPU was in the 40s while playing WoW.

Team Fortress 2 was an old game. How on earth did GTX 970 wasn't compatible? Maybe it was the factory oc didn't play very nice with that game even though I played WoW and benchmarks run fine as well.

 

[RoasterMen]

I experienced it on GTA IV, tiny artifacts shows first then disappears after 10 seconds. I think artifacts does come out slowly before it progresses because sometimes artifacts means that the textures are still loading or may have failed to load. I think the cause of the problem is incompatibility because of the newer card.

Ouch...What type of artifacts are you getting? I heard that these artifacts can cause by the core or the vram but these tests I get were fine whatsoever. Mostly were caused by overheating, even though my card wasn't overheating. My GPU was in the 40s while playing WoW.

Team Fortress 2 was an old game. How on earth did GTX 970 wasn't compatible? Maybe it was the factory oc didn't play very nice with that game even though I played WoW and benchmarks run fine as well.

I think so but it's really strange because you shouldn't get artifacts at all. The OC should play nicely because it was tested to run at that clock speed. Try to downclock a bit.

 

[RyougaLolakie]

I experienced it on GTA IV, tiny artifacts shows first then disappears after 10 seconds. I think artifacts does come out slowly before it progresses because sometimes artifacts means that the textures are still loading or may have failed to load. I think the cause of the problem is incompatibility because of the newer card.

Ouch...What type of artifacts are you getting? I heard that these artifacts can cause by the core or the vram but these tests I get were fine whatsoever. Mostly were caused by overheating, even though my card wasn't overheating. My GPU was in the 40s while playing WoW.

Team Fortress 2 was an old game. How on earth did GTX 970 wasn't compatible? Maybe it was the factory oc didn't play very nice with that game even though I played WoW and benchmarks run fine as well.

I think so but it's really strange because you shouldn't get artifacts at all. The OC should play nicely because it was tested to run at that clock speed. Try to downclock a bit.

I can try downclock it since I have msi afterburner. One of the members from evga forums told me to downclock around -105 on both memory and core clocks. I played TF2 with those downclock setting. Haven't really tested out yet, but I'll try it again. Although what are your suggestions about downclocking? How further do I reduce it?

 

[RoasterMen]

Keep downclocking and check if the artifacts are gone

 

[RyougaLolakie]

Alright, I downclocked it to -105 on both clocks and I didn't see any artifacts while playing TF2 for an hour. Ironically, someone has the similiar issue only world of warcraft though.

Unstable GPU OC, only in wow.

Its really strange how that game is picky on factory oc's, even if they're stable on all games and benchmarks.

EDIT: Nevermind the glitches are still there but its not that frequent (same for stock) so I guess it has to be the game issue or a driver issue? Since I've put all the stress testing I could get and no problems.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p9/RyougaLolakie/Clipboard01glitch.jpg

 

[RoasterMen]

Now that's driver Issue. I hope NVIDIA gives a fix soon.

 

[RyougaLolakie]

I hope so too, on stock I get these glitches just like the first screenshot and downclocking it doesn't seem to fix the issue though. Note on stock and downclocked, these glitches appear rarely from time to time. Thankfully for heaven, valley, and 3D Mark (Steam Demo version) didn't have this. Dota, WoW and ACIV Black Flag didn't have that either (except for that missing texture model that flashes when I turn my boat to the right).

Also I found these through my shadowplay replays which of these glitches are in the game. Plus, I don't think it's Shadowplay's fault. In fact, I get these without using shadowplay and uninstalled gforce experience. Quite frankly, it kinda appears in version 344.65 and this version I have didn't seem to have an effect since that driver released on the week after 344.65 was released for game optimization on new games. I have to tell Nvidia about this.

 

[RoasterMen]

Yeah man they need to fix it asap. Please mark the thread as solved

 

[RyougaLolakie]

Yeah man they need to fix it asap. Please mark the thread as solved

Oh sure! I'll mark this as solved for now. If anything else happens, I'll come back to this thread. Thanks for your help, though.

 

[RyougaLolakie]

And btw, here's the video of these glitches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZ5k3ErwKw

Btw, you have to set the video quality up to 1080P 60 FPS in order to see those glitches

 

[SBones]

IM having the same artifacts,evga gtx 970 superclocked
in video playback(i rarely if ever saw in games yet but ive only just bought it.green artifacts appearing in movies.not too frequent but a number of times per movie,an they disappear in a second or two.also weird was in the movie silent hill the tv in backround of the scene where the father is on the phone at home showed a weird ghosted artifact effect on his tv screen

this has to be that they overclocked it too much an we dont have the best cards onn the bunch.u had gtx 770 overclock from pny right before this an they have the same driver so its not drivers.

but anyways this artifacting happens when things are too hot or too overcloked.
although ive seen it more shown as white ones in other peoples examples
i ran into the green awith power dvd 13 ultra.which is the best media player picture wise,an ive tired alotta players.it also happens in vlc player but less so

im at 24c on idle so i doubt its getting to hot during movies,as games would run much hotter

this really annoys me,if i see it more in games ima think to ask for replacement,i hope you registered your card.i may try to keep an leave underclocked until running games.i paid like $40 more for a supercloked version an if it cant perform at that level(or is struggling) then it would have a shorter lifespan as well(tho maybe only slightly,an only possibly)

hope this helps.

 

[SBones]

im hoping that evga precision x will underclock it as it appears to do so?ill do some more testing an write back what i find,what underclocks work an if its happening in games,etc

ill try out teamfortress2 as well as others

do the same ok?

also my cpu temps are real low,like 3c idle with a after market fan so thats no problem there

 

[SBones]

oh an lastly i know that our evga gtx's are the highest or 2nd highst clocked of any brand for the 970,so theyre pushin it.still it should be able to work at the norm speeds,this sucks

 

[RyougaLolakie]

IM having the same artifacts,evga gtx 970 superclocked
in video playback(i rarely if ever saw in games yet but ive only just bought it.green artifacts appearing in movies.not too frequent but a number of times per movie,an they disappear in a second or two.also weird was in the movie silent hill the tv in backround of the scene where the father is on the phone at home showed a weird ghosted artifact effect on his tv screen

this has to be that they overclocked it too much an we dont have the best cards onn the bunch.u had gtx 770 overclock from pny right before this an they have the same driver so its not drivers.

but anyways this artifacting happens when things are too hot or too overcloked.
although ive seen it more shown as white ones in other peoples examples
i ran into the green awith power dvd 13 ultra.which is the best media player picture wise,an ive tired alotta players.it also happens in vlc player but less so

im at 24c on idle so i doubt its getting to hot during movies,as games would run much hotter

this really annoys me,if i see it more in games ima think to ask for replacement,i hope you registered your card.i may try to keep an leave underclocked until running games.i paid like $40 more for a supercloked version an if it cant perform at that level(or is struggling) then it would have a shorter lifespan as well(tho maybe only slightly,an only possibly)

hope this helps.

Have you tried evga oc scanner? Use it on furry e on both memory and core and select artifact scanner. Run it for about 30 mins to an hour, if you don't see artifacts then you good to go. If not, you have to start rma from the looks of it.

I ran that and I don't see any artifacts, which is good but man, this is strange. I upload the video of these glitches on YouTube.

Here's the link: Glitches or Artifacts on GTX 970 - YouTube

Make sure you select 720p 60fps

 

[RyougaLolakie]

Bump! Well, things are not very good after I update the drivers into 347.09 beta drivers and it seems the glitches (artifacts) in Team Fortress 2 are still there. I underclocked to -105 in both Memory and Core and the artifacts are more noticeable. So, I tried testing on 2Fort map on an empty offline server, miminalized the game and ran gpu z. All of the sudden, it black screens for a sec and I got a TDR error saying nvidia driver kernel crashed and recovered sucessfully bla bla bla. Thus making Team Fortress 2 frozed (which I have to use task manager to exit it out) Then, I tried Heaven with GPU-Z too and it black screens but no TDR, so I closed it.

Somehow I think I came to the conclusion that my card is unstable due to the factory overclock because of that one game. Funny thing is that I didn't get any artifacts in all the tests I've done and benchmarks too. These freezes made me indicate that its a possible sign of unstable gpu and it kinda needs an rma. You know, I also read one of the threads where some users have a similiar problem with black screens in one game and stuff and it seems that RMA fixed the issue with them.

Right now, I'm using my old Zotac GTX 560 2GB and so far, no artifacts in Team Fortress 2. So with that matter, its the card. :/

Its really sad because I really love the performance that EVGA has to offer. Its ACX 2.0 cooling solution and
maxwell architecture is really well designed, especially the performance in Far Cry 4 on high settings. Sigh...guess I gotta wait until I got the gtx 970 card back in working order. I doubt that the gtx 560 could barely run on that game, making it a bottleneck.

And btw, in 344.75, I realized the game frozed for about 7 seconds on World of Warcraft and Heaven while using geforce experience then it goes back to normal when I used my gtx 970 on my rig.

It was my first time RMA'ing a product so I'm a bit nervous about shipping it to EVGA RMA department, despite the fact that the customer service was amazing. I hope it goes well for the most part.

Since the RMA was approved during the holidays so that'll take me like an extra 2 weeks before they even start doing the rma process. So, should I wait after January 5th or send it now? I got like 45 days to send it to EVGA.

So far, I would like to thank RoosterMan for helping me out on the situation. Sorry that things didn't work out on my gtx 970 card.