White dots appear in Half life 2

[ryanheppell203]

Hi, ive been playing half life 2 now for about a week and have recently encountered what seems like a graphics rendering problem in the game. The problem has only just started in the past few days...after playing the game for around 15-30 mins, white dots appear all over the game on the walls etc. It first appeared to me as if it was a driver problem or perhaps a patch (my G/C is an FX5900 XT). When I checked, I have the latest drivers installed...i tried rolling back the driver to check and the same problem occurred with this driver too.....anyone know of any problems with my gpu and the game or the drivers etc? Thanks

 

[[Matt]]

try underclocking your GFX card and see what that does?

 

[sinkoman]

Hi, ive been playing half life 2 now for about a week and have recently encountered what seems like a graphics rendering problem in the game. The problem has only just started in the past few days...after playing the game for around 15-30 mins, white dots appear all over the game on the walls etc. It first appeared to me as if it was a driver problem or perhaps a patch (my G/C is an FX5900 XT). When I checked, I have the latest drivers installed...i tried rolling back the driver to check and the same problem occurred with this driver too.....anyone know of any problems with my gpu and the game or the drivers etc? Thanks

Sounds to me like a bad case of artifacting, which most likely means your card is overheating, which means you may end up with a 250 usd bookmark. Underclocking wont help, I tried that once, just for fun and I started to artifact worse than if I was overclocking.

Check the airflow on your case and if need be, buy a stock cooler for your card.

 

[ryanheppell203]

can you recomend any coolers to fit my gpu then?

 

[ryanheppell203]

Serious fan time

hi, jus realised i don't actually have any airflow into the case from the front..i have space for a 160 mil fan at the front, or 4 80 mil's. I have the case side off for now though and the cpu temp has dropped about 7-10 degrees idle lol. Thanks again :thumbs:

 

[PistolOnly]

Sound's like artifacting. You could prolly fix it by remounting the stock cooler using proper thermal paste such as Artic Silver 5. The factory mounted coolers on most graphics cards isn't the best - my FX5200 didn't even HAVE thermal paste (XFX branded - good job folks!). If it continues with the stock cooler on stock settings - you'd probably be best getting it RMA'd and returned to where you got it for a new card (prolly a botched batch).

 

[Asus]

Get one front case fan (80mm) and that will help a lot. Should blow air right towards the graphics card.

Also leaving the case open is bad as dust can easily get in and some warmer parts of the motherboard might not like the no-directional-case-airflow part.