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Normal for graphics to artifact while multiboxing d3?

john88

john88

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I am currently running 4x D3 4x DB. The 3rd and 4th D3 have some minor artifacting. Seems like quick flashes and I can see some artifacting going on. Performance wise, its fine. I have a 3 week old evga 660ti SC as my GPU. My brother says his 560ti does the same when multiboxing, so I wanted to know if anybody experiences this too and if its normal.

I am going to upgrade to a gtx670 FTW, and already have a buyer for my 660ti SC. If my 660ti is defective, I don't want to sell a broken card, and will RMA it instead.
 
it could be a cooling issue, but your putting a lot of stress on the chip so i wouldnt surprise me if you found a defect in it.
make sure your drivers are up to date to see if that might be the problem
 
john88 said:
I am currently running 4x D3 4x DB. The 3rd and 4th D3 have some minor artifacting. Seems like quick flashes and I can see some artifacting going on. Performance wise, its fine. I have a 3 week old evga 660ti SC as my GPU. My brother says his 560ti does the same when multiboxing, so I wanted to know if anybody experiences this too and if its normal.

I am going to upgrade to a gtx670 FTW, and already have a buyer for my 660ti SC. If my 660ti is defective, I don't want to sell a broken card, and will RMA it instead.
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460ti, 560ti, 660ti all have these artifact problems which will eventually degrade (due to wear and tear) to other worse problems like shaders being switched off. It's somewhere on tomshardware.com or anand, can't remember the exact complaints.

CodenameG said:
it could be a cooling issue, but your putting a lot of stress on the chip so i wouldnt surprise me if you found a defect in it.
make sure your drivers are up to date to see if that might be the problem
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If you're using Win7, go here and download Windows Desktop Gadgets - GPU Meter Gadgets which should be able to show your utilization/clock speeds/temp of your GPU.

If the numbers shown aren't according to your box specifications => you probably have a defective card.
 
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Just ran a GPU stress test with EVGA OC Scanner X. The stress test seems to make my gpu run twice as hard compared to running 4xd3/4xdb, it reports 0 artifacts. Took the SS at 7 minutes, will continue to run it. Again the artifacting seems to be isolated to multiple windows of D3 only. I don't notice any artifacting on CS:GO at max settings. Btw, when I run 4x D3 they are all running at lowest graphics settings. You guys think the card itself is alright?

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john88 said:
Just ran a GPU stress test with EVGA OC Scanner X. The stress test seems to make my gpu run twice as hard compared to running 4xd3/4xdb, it reports 0 artifacts. Took the SS at 7 minutes, will continue to run it. Again the artifacting seems to be isolated to multiple windows of D3 only. I don't notice any artifacting on CS:GO at max settings. Btw, when I run 4x D3 they are all running at lowest graphics settings. You guys think the card itself is alright?

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Isn't 60 degrees to 78 degrees celsius too hot?
 
Cards should run at 70 degrees, it's normal. You should always set up your fan speed curve to keep cards at 70 and below.

You should not see any artifacts unless you are running overclocked at 100% load and you overclocked too much. If you are running at 40% there should definitely be no artifacts. What driver settings are you using (NVIDIA control panel ---> Manage 3D settings)?

Try run with these, and if you are getting artifacts, you may have a faulty card:

Ambient Occ - off
AF - off / app control
FXAA - off
Gamma corr - off
AA - off / app control
AA setting - greyed out (none)
AA trans - greyed out (off)
GPUs - all
Max pre render - use app settings
Multi display - however many monitors you have
Power management - max perf
SLI render - recommend
TF Anisotropic sample - on (try with both on and off and see if it stops your artefacts if you turn it off, good chance this setting is causing your issues)
TF Negative LOD - allow
TF Quality - high perf
TF trilinear - on (try off as well if everything else did not work)
Threaded opt - auto
Triple buffering - off
Vsync - off

You might have some additional settings, and you might be missing some of the above (SLI for example). Also, when you're testing, make sure you exit the game before you change settings and then re-launch.
 
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I have this too with a 560ti. I think I killed the card with botting, I had the fan fixed at 44% and while afk something went wrong with one of the D3 instances. While usually at 56? load temp I had it running at 83? for the day. Glad to have a dedicated rig with a hd7850 now (47? with 30% fan).
 
Don't ever set your fan on a fixed speed lol. Tick auto and use the fan curve to ensure it stays at 70 degrees or less.
 
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