Graphic issue: wood surfaces covered in colorful dots : V

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:55 pm

Hello,

As the title says, surfaces in the game (wood only, and not all of it, the one in the dungeons for example is intact) are acting very weird.
My spec is AMD Phenom II x4 965BE, HD 6970 2GB, 8gigs ddr3

Ive included a pic so you can see what I'm talking about, hope i can fix this and enjoy the game

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3678/2011111200002.jpg

» Wed May 16, 2012 1:37 am

Could look like overheating GPU memory.

Try to monitor the GPU temperature when playing.

» Wed May 16, 2012 8:34 am

Did you already have a look at http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1257882-patch-1-unofficial-bugfix/?

Edit: corrected the link

» Wed May 16, 2012 1:33 am

My GPU is 48-56 in idle, and ingame it is 60 to 70 tops.

And yes, i have the latest drivers.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:49 pm

That looks a lot like the GPU is overheating. Time for a break.

» Wed May 16, 2012 9:36 am

Whoa..that definitely looks like heat issue...but noting the temps you posted..shouldn't be.

Is your GPU overclocked? I know if I get heat..or an unstable OC I get artifacts like that.

» Wed May 16, 2012 8:49 am

No, not overheating. 60 to 70 is fine.

As I mentioned it looks like it is the memory that is overheating. Are these also the temps for the GPU memory?

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:41 pm

dispIO is at 60
Memory is at 64
Shader is at 68

hmm, it is not the issue that the dots are appearing, they are there as soon as i enter the game, fresh from windows, thats like 30 secs from starting. If the GPU is overheating shouldnt they be spawning when it overheats?
these dots are on all wood, as they were put there even before starting the game...

» Wed May 16, 2012 1:44 am

Did you already have a look at http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1257882-patch-1-unofficial-bugfix/?

Edit: corrected the link

thank you, but it doesnt help

» Wed May 16, 2012 2:04 am

You might not like to hear this, but it could be that your graphic card is damaged.

I had a similar problem with a brand new card that I hard overclocked too much and thereby damaged the memory. Have you ever OC'ed your graphic card?

» Wed May 16, 2012 2:22 am

nope, didnt touch a thing, bought it 2 weeks ago

» Wed May 16, 2012 4:23 am

Try to run some very intense benchmark programs and see how it looks when the card gets stressed really much (3D mark or similar)

» Wed May 16, 2012 7:11 am

thats what bothers me, ran the 3dmark11 on Xtreme the other day, and it went thru it all without a problem..

» Wed May 16, 2012 12:32 am

And you looked at the graphics and they looked fine?

Try to run it again just to make sure that it can still run it without any artifacts.

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:09 pm

At the risk of sounding really patronising - have you tried rebooting? You may just need to clear the video memory.

» Wed May 16, 2012 8:00 am

Hehe, every help is appreciated, but i restarted my rig a dozen of times, plus some more when i was uninstalling and installing drivers..

and Cralle, just did the whole 3dmark11 on xtreme without seeing one colored dot

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:19 pm

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, removing all Skyrim related files?

» Wed May 16, 2012 2:17 am

That looks just like confetti.