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megaloblatta longipennis 1 Dec, 2020 @ 8:12pm

Flickering White Pixels in Games

Whenever I play certain games I sometimes see small white squares/pixels appear. The games that this is prominent in and can be consistently recreated are Shadow Of Mordor and Divinity Original Sin 2. In SOM it happens after I brand a caragor. I will see shimmering white pixels all over the face and neck of the beast, possibly indicating that the light from the brand causes it. In Divinity it happens in blood pools that form on the ground after attacking an enemy. However, whenever I take any screenshots, the pixels are not visible in any way, which leads me to believe it is not a problem with the graphics card (1070 ti). The card also has only about a year of use. Another thing I noticed is that, in SOM, whenever I turn tessellation off in the graphics settings, the effect of the shimmering pixels disappears/ lessens. Any ideas?

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r.linder 1 Dec, 2020 @ 8:44pm

If it's only in those games with that setting, just leave tessellation off.

I would still try using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in safe mode to wipe the driver and reinstall the latest NVIDIA graphics driver (without GeForce experience, screw that bloatware/spyware garbage) to rule out a potential driver issue as the cause.

megaloblatta longipennis 1 Dec, 2020 @ 8:48pm

Originally posted by Escorve:
If it's only in those games with that setting, just leave tessellation off.

I would still try using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in safe mode to wipe the driver and reinstall the latest NVIDIA graphics driver (without GeForce experience, screw that bloatware/spyware garbage) to rule out a potential driver issue as the cause.

I tried the DDU and reinstall, but I'm still seeing the issue. Not all games have an option for tessellation unfortunately. I'm seeing it in Team Fortress 2 as well. Nothing is overheating either.

r.linder 1 Dec, 2020 @ 9:19pm

Originally posted by Celebrimbor:
Originally posted by Escorve:
If it's only in those games with that setting, just leave tessellation off.

I would still try using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) in safe mode to wipe the driver and reinstall the latest NVIDIA graphics driver (without GeForce experience, screw that bloatware/spyware garbage) to rule out a potential driver issue as the cause.
I tried the DDU and reinstall, but I'm still seeing the issue. Not all games have an option for tessellation unfortunately. I'm seeing it in Team Fortress 2 as well. Nothing is overheating either.

Sounds like it's the card itself then. Whether or not it's just bad clocks or voltage, or the card going bad, I have no idea.

megaloblatta longipennis 1 Dec, 2020 @ 10:22pm

Originally posted by Escorve:
Originally posted by Celebrimbor:
I tried the DDU and reinstall, but I'm still seeing the issue. Not all games have an option for tessellation unfortunately. I'm seeing it in Team Fortress 2 as well. Nothing is overheating either.
Sounds like it's the card itself then. Whether or not it's just bad clocks or voltage, or the card going bad, I have no idea.

Nothing wrong with the card itself that I can find. When I contacted Nvidia support and showed them they even said it wasn't the card. I probably should RMA, but I don't want to receive a replacement and still have this same issue

r.linder 1 Dec, 2020 @ 10:33pm

Originally posted by Celebrimbor:
Originally posted by Escorve:
Sounds like it's the card itself then. Whether or not it's just bad clocks or voltage, or the card going bad, I have no idea.
Nothing wrong with the card itself that I can find. When I contacted Nvidia support and showed them they even said it wasn't the card. I probably should RMA, but I don't want to receive a replacement and still have this same issue

If it's not software then it has to be hardware, and I haven't seen any other people complaining about that issue.

It sounds like artifacting, which is usually an OC problem, but you uninstalled and reinstalled the driver with DDU so the OC would be wiped.

Autumn_ 1 Dec, 2020 @ 11:51pm

Try changing your anti-aliasing settings.

I've had the same thing in some games where I don't use AA, so try messing with that.

Tessellation, Anti-Aliasing, or DSR, change all them and see if it fixes it.

I seriously doubt its your GPU if it's only in a few games, doesn't show in screenshots, and changes depending on a graphics settings.

_I_ 2 Dec, 2020 @ 1:06am

more likely brightness/contrast settings in games, on the display or gpu color correction control panel

ddu should fix gpu settings, check games display settings, and reset the displays osd menu settings

Last edited by _I_; 2 Dec, 2020 @ 1:12am

SoldierScar 2 Dec, 2020 @ 1:42am

Is your gpu overclocked?

hawkeye 2 Dec, 2020 @ 4:32am

Could be a cheap dodgy cable, an electronic issue, even an nvidia control panel issue. Note that a screenshot isn't actually a shot of what's on the screen but what's in the gpu. A video would be needed with examination frame by frame.

Blood etc might be a decal. These are known to shimmer.

megaloblatta longipennis 2 Dec, 2020 @ 3:05pm

Originally posted by SoldierScar:
Is your gpu overclocked?

No overclocking, factory settings

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AgentRuby 8 Dec, 2020 @ 6:39am

Windows update did it. Recently there was a 20H2 update and a .net update. All of my games have been shimmering and flickering ever since.

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megaloblatta longipennis 8 Dec, 2020 @ 9:37am

Originally posted by AgentRuby:
Windows update did it. Recently there was a 20H2 update and a .net update. All of my games have been shimmering and flickering ever since.

Ah ♥♥♥♥ really? hopefully Windows fixes that. Even after the recent update I did I still see them. Do yours look the same as I'm thinking. In specific spots in games?

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_I_ 8 Dec, 2020 @ 9:40am

then its drivers
get the correct ones again

major windows update wipes drivers and uses the random ones it grabs instead of the correct ones

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megaloblatta longipennis 8 Dec, 2020 @ 10:42am

Originally posted by _I_:
then its drivers
get the correct ones again

major windows update wipes drivers and uses the random ones it grabs instead of the correct ones

I've done a clean DDU uninstall and reinstall of the latest drivers for my gpu, no change unfortunately

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Axolay 19 hours ago

Man I've had random tiny white boxes in cutscenes of indiana jones: the great circle and tiny white pixels using rethinking voxels in vr in minecraft. I am using a 3080 and am worried my gpu i paid so much for is failing. I haven't noticed these artifacts before and they seemed to have just appeared out of nowhere. The card runs at 60 - 72 and sometimes 80 degrees but that's rare, and I' running it on stock clock.

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