AMD RHD7800 Artifacts

[lsaw2]

AMD RHD7800 Artifacts (slow gpu process?)

Hi Seven Forums.

I bought a new computer and experienced BSODs instantly, as per the great advice from arc in the BSOD section here (http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-hel...win7-install-bsod-issues-ntoskrnl-win32k.html) I diagnosed a faulty RAM stick and a motherboard error. Two and a half months later and the board has finally been RMA'ed and returned.

I am now experiencing visual artifacts on both monitors, more severely on the primary monitor. When I drag a window across the corresponding section of the secondary monitor it draws a trail of the window but then disappears, on the primary monitor it just stays there.


I include a screenshot of what I mean, which includes my speccy graphics overview tab. Temps seem fine, previously as part of troubleshooting the BSODs before I RMA'ed the board I ran furmark and found no problems. My CCC is the newest version 13.12


What tests other than furmark can I run? Could this be anything other than a fault with the graphics card?

 

[ShamrockRig]

Try doing a clean install of the latest drivers from amd AMD Catalyst 14.2 Beta Driver for Windows

 

[lsaw2]

I have just done that and will see if problems persist.

 

[Solarstarshines]

what is your monitor refresh rate ?

Also that isn't really an artifact that is just a slow GPU process

Artifacts happen when you are actually watching video or doing games with it

Artifacts could be green dots dead looking Pixels and flashes of weird shapes like rectangles triangles that glitch and appear randomly while trying to watch or play a game i think you have a graphics acceleration problem or even a Aero issue ,I doubt it's the gpu honestly

Also i was reading info on this could be the wrong GPU driver in use as well

 

[lsaw2]

what is your monitor refresh rate ?

Also that isn't really an artifact that is just a slow GPU process

Artifacts happen when you are actually watching video or doing games with it

Artifacts could be green dots dead looking Pixels and flashes of weird shapes like rectangles triangles that glitch and appear randomly while trying to watch or play a game i think you have a graphics acceleration problem or even a Aero issue ,I doubt it's the gpu honestly

Also i was reading info on this could be the wrong GPU driver in use as well

ah ok I am a newb so just used the word I thought was right.


I think they are both running at 60hz, but they could both run at 75 I think...

I use win 7 classic view so I think aero is off?

I'm running 13.350.1005.0 driver version.

I have very little experience with gpus so i'm kind of sitting here a bit lost. I don't seem to get issues when playing BF4 but just when moving stuff across the desktop it glitches like the screenshot provided, similarly right click context menus disappear whilst I hover my mouse over the options and sometimes stay there after clicking.

Thanks for the responses guys.

 

[Solarstarshines]

what is your monitor refresh rate ?

Also that isn't really an artifact that is just a slow GPU process

Artifacts happen when you are actually watching video or doing games with it

Artifacts could be green dots dead looking Pixels and flashes of weird shapes like rectangles triangles that glitch and appear randomly while trying to watch or play a game i think you have a graphics acceleration problem or even a Aero issue ,I doubt it's the gpu honestly

Also i was reading info on this could be the wrong GPU driver in use as well

ah ok I am a newb so just used the word I thought was right.


I think they are both running at 60hz, but they could both run at 75 I think...

I use win 7 classic view so I think aero is off?

I'm running 13.350.1005.0 driver version.

I have very little experience with gpus so i'm kind of sitting here a bit lost. I don't seem to get issues when playing BF4 but just when moving stuff across the desktop it glitches like the screenshot provided, similarly right click context menus disappear whilst I hover my mouse over the options and sometimes stay there after clicking.

Thanks for the responses guys.

It sounds like the GPU 2d rendering is muffed meaning it is having acceleration problems have you monitored the GPU when just using the desk top or browsing web pages

Also have you tried to connect the monitor to another port /That port could be giving off a bad signal too
and double check the refresh rate it should be at 60 75,hz will default to 60 unless a 120 mhz monitor

 

[lsaw2]

what's best to use to monitor the GPU? what should I be looking at?


the refresh rates are both down as 60hz.

i've seen in similar threads stuff about turning up or down the 2d stuff, but I don't know exactly what that entails.

Thanks again for your replies.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Open your CCC The AMD Catalyst Control Center on the Bottom right hand side by the clock

You want to hit the tab Overdrive after that you should see Temps and Fan speeds and also GPU clock speed

There is also a box you can check to activate Overclocking if you wish

You can use that program to monitor the clock speed after opening this up you can open up a browser like Firefox that uses flash to see if you GPU moves above 300mhz standard activity when rendering flash is 300-500mhz like 2% to 5% activity if you don't see any activity then you need to see if upclocking the core a little will help it out

 

[Solarstarshines]

This should help you adjust 2d clocks this is a tool for AMD Gpu's i have never used to to be honest with you but others have when they had this issue Download AMD GPU Clock Tool v0.9.8 | techPowerUp

 

[lsaw2]

ah marvelous thank you, I hadn't realised there was anything in that tab as you have to accept the terms before it shows you it because of the OC'ing.


watching a video on youtube in firefox, is giving between 2 and 26% activity, gpu clock 450mhz.


I'll download the gpu clock tool but will have no idea what the settings should be let alone what to change them to!

 

[Solarstarshines]

That seems to be with in range

You said you turned off Aero that could have something to do with it i might need to research that

 

[Solarstarshines]

BINGO ! that's the problem turn AERO back on Does disabling Aero really improve performance in Windows 7?

According to this your CPU is doing the work making it lag

 

[lsaw2]

oh noes does that mean it's no more windows classic theme for me?

how will I cope ha.

I will change that now and see how that affects things, thanks so much for your quick responses and helpfulness.

 

[Solarstarshines]

oh noes does that mean it's no more windows classic theme for me?

how will I cope ha.

I will change that now and see how that affects things, thanks so much for your quick responses and helpfulness.

No problem the article states that UI is graphics intensive and turning off AERO will make your CPU work harder while you see no difference in video or gaming but the UI is being worked

 

[lsaw2]

Thanks again I'll mark this as solved and come back if I have any more issues.

 

[Solarstarshines]

No problem and good luck

 

[lsaw2]

More similar issues

Hi Seven forums.

Further to my last incorrectly titled post, i'm still having weird issues on my monitors.

Essentially similar to my previous ones just with slightly different symptoms.


Constantly whilst using the computer I get squares all over the screen. In general any kind of interaction away from the window i'm using or just clicking anywhere causes them to go. Once they appear like they are doing whilst i type they flicker alot and jump about the screen. if I were to print screen then you'd see none of them just the normal output, hence I have taken a picture with my phone which i've attached. it seems like it's morphing sections that should be on monitor 1 and pebble dashing monitor 2 with them. It seems to be mostly when i'm moving between two applications windows.

As per earlier in the thread everything is up to date and i'm using nividias 14.2 beta drivers or w/e the most up to date beta is.

I'm at a loss as to what to do, one part of me thinks well meh it clears up pretty quickly unlike the large areas of problems I was having before. However it's really annoying and it'd be nice to get a handle on why it's happening.


edit it seems like the more you move the mouse about and between the two monitors the worse it gets then when you take focus in a new window by clicking it resolves the graphical glitch.

 

[lsaw2]

more problems, marv

Furthermore now the secondary monitor just went batshit. The whole picture starting shifting and flickering and overlaying itself multiple times but only on the secondary monitor, the main one seemed fine. Nothing I could do seemed to effect the problem, just as suddenly as it started it stopped and was fine then a few minutes later just back to the small squares of monitor 1 flickering and being overlayed on monitor 2. I just had a few programs open and was watching a video on youtube.

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[Solarstarshines]

How do you have it set up again ?
Also have you tried monitor calibration

When the Picture shows like that it could also be the cables you are using have you tried to reposition the cables while this is going on

Sometimes that will cause distortion

 

[lsaw2]

hi good morning

yes as you can see by the headtorch the first thing I do is check the cables etc, that had no effect. The problem just stopped of it's own accord.

The main monitor is dvi out via a vga adapter, and the secondary (the one with the major issues) is dvi to dvi.

I will try a combo with no adapter today as I am clutching at straws as to what the problem could be.