Artifacts?

[Willber123]

hi, wen i run 3dmark03 on the pixel shader 2.0 part, on the sort of outlines of the rhino and elephant there are little white dots. i tried to take a screen shot using fraps but for some reason it did not work so do these sound like artifacts to anyone?

 

[AzzMan]

ummm excuse my ignorance but what are artifacts?

 

[Brian Damage]

Artifacts are screen errors, usually caused by a malfunctioning graphics card (or overclocking one too far).

I don't think that the white dots are artifacts.

 

[Shuzer]

The white dots are there for everyone.

 

[Brian Damage]

Buggy graphics in 3Dmark, then?

 

[Shuzer]

Buggy graphics in 3Dmark, then?

Who knows, 3DMark in general is evil but yeah, the first time I saw them I thought they were artifacts.. but, I've since had two different graphics cards, and I know better

 

[ComradeBadger]

Never seen these white dots. Crystel clear

Anyway, artifacts are black boxes etc, and lines flashing/staying on the screen.

 

[Willber123]

ok thanks for the help

 

[The PC Nerd]

I get artifacts everywhere. I am on a radeon 7000 ve that i had to modify because they built it the wrong size for normal cases. I get red speckles on black on websites when scrolling and in games its unbeleivable how many dots and shit there are lol.

I'm stuck with my radeon 9600xt on a shelf because my motherboard still hasnt made it(paretns fault) (2 mos after i got my radeon 9600xt)


P.S. For those who know/care 7000 is the first radeon! I've been with them since the start

Another P.S. It's really cool because i can tell which programs use BitBLT to copy and move images on teh screen. Most of the screensavers do and so does IE.

 

[Brian Damage]

How did you modify this Radeon 7000...?

 

[The PC Nerd]

I removed the front metal bar thing that plugs into the case, put another on. And i also replaced a memory chip they had on it(it was in a removable thingy)

 

[Brian Damage]

Replaced as in fixed, or replaced as in changed?

 

[The PC Nerd]

changed, upgraded

 

[Brian Damage]

Did you research it first? The upgrade could be the reason for at least some of the artifacts, if the card wasn't designed to handle the chip you put in...

 

[Shuzer]

Anyway, artifacts are black boxes etc, and lines flashing/staying on the screen.

Not true, artifacts can be from white dots, black dots, corrupted textures, random colors, extruding lines from polygons, etc.

 

[The PC Nerd]

I know why I have artifacts. While modifiying the case connector thing my rotozip slipped and cut into a little but of wiring but only 1 wire. Now i'm getting static on the wire from an unknown source but i deal with it instead of fixing it.

btw I almost never need help unless working with macs, dells, gateways, sometimes linux, or unix.

It's not corrupted text.
It is boxes showing up instead of the pixel requested. It's a safety geature that prevetns your card from crashing. You may want to thank artifacts

 

[ComradeBadger]

Corrupted textures is something else iirc.. anyway, yeah, ODD stuff

 

[Meteor_of_War]

Not true, artifacts can be from white dots, black dots, corrupted textures, random colors, extruding lines from polygons, etc.

I always just called those white dots "pixel errors".

And i thought artifacts were those big ass weird looking shapes corrupting the graphic feed.

 

[Maxi]

Both of those are artifacts, as Shuzer said.

 

[The PC Nerd]

Things that are not artifacts.....
1. Full screen "artifacts"
2. Full Screen Pixel Shaders wo/ a card that supports them.
3. 8 bios beeps on startup
4. Crack in screen of monitor. btw duck.
5. Screen lag
6. Those strange items you can pick up in that one gay game.

 

[Brian Damage]

Things that are not artifacts.....
4. Crack in screen of monitor. btw duck.

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

I tried to overclock my Powercolour card, and at one point I got this weird big aquamarine mesh shape right over the overclocking panel. So I clicked "Previous settings". Weird.

My card is strange. It doesn't seem to want to overclock too much... even up to normal speeds (it's underclocked). Could this be a driver problem, a heat problem, or is Rage3D tweak screwing up?