COD2 Artifacting

[biff420]

Alright so I have recently been encountering a problem with COD2. I get massive artifacting on certain maps. Basically it looks like huge triangles and graphical error all over the screen. They come and go but they mostly happen when I look around too fast.

I thought for sure this was another symptom of the 7900GT memory problem so I was going to start an RMA (eVGA btw) until I decided to try one of my old eVGA 6800GT cards. I never had a problem like this with those before. When I put that card in and loaded up COD2 I get the same artifacting at about the same spots. Now I am thinking that there is nothing wrong with the 7900GTs at all and maybe this is a driver/settings issue.

So, since I needed to do it anyways, I reformatted and reinstalled windows and COD2 fresh. This would eliminate any problems of old drivers not being uninstalled properly and causing conflicts/erros. I stilll amd seeing the same problem though. I have been trying to mess with the control panel settings but I don't seem to be getting anywhere.

Anybody have any ideas? I wish I could post some screenshots but it is really hard to capture what I am seeing cause I either happens so fast or does not show up on the screenshot.

 

[josh6079]

FRAPS recording?

Did you try a set of different drivers or just reload the same ones that you used earlier?

 

[tersome]

It sounds like it might be your monitor. It could be screen tearing if it only happens when you look really fast.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

I sometimes get that too. Doesn't seem like Overheating -- I think it's just crap coding .

Weird brown artifacts? It's the only game that I ever get this with. Not oblivion, BF2, FEAR, etc -- nothing.

 

[biff420]

Well I could try fraps. Also, I think I have narrowed it down to vsync. If I have vsync enabled then I get perfect looking gameplay. Without it, there artifacts are all over the place. The only problem now is that I don't think I can live with the lagginess vsynce introduces.

I am using the samw 91.47 driver that eVGA recommends so I don't think I want to stay too far from them.

Also I know its not a heat issue as I rarely go above about 72C with heaving gaming. Usually stays in the mid 60s though with idle around 50C.

 

[josh6079]

Yet another victim to SLI and Vsync. I'm sorry.

As for the lag it can introduce, have you tried using Triple Buffering through DXTweaker or nHancer?

 

[JRW]

I have this problem with COD2 as well and thought my videocard was bad ..but no other games do it at all no matter how long I play , Im pretty sure it started doing it when I installed the COD2 dual core patch but never bothered re-installing COD2 fresh to rule it out.