Artifacts

[Mruniverce]

Hi All , I am getting artifacts when playing Call of duty modern warfare 3, after about an hour playing it. I know its probably overheating.... it does not do this when I play Cod modern warfare (the first one). Can this be fixed or should I get a new card? I can spend about 200.00 dollors on one. But I need advice on what new card to buy, need something for gaming. any ideas?. Specs.....Widows 7 64 bit,  Intel cor2 Duo Cpu E-8400@ 3.00GHZ, 4.00GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce 9800gtx/9800gtx+ graghic card,  Power supply Corsair HX620W,Nvidia 780i motherbored, Thanks.

[truenorth]

It may well be that the issue is your video card but before spending your hard earned money on another card run
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
and determine your temperatures. Do a test without the program running and another with it running. If you need input re the results post them here and members will comment on them. truenorth

[Mruniverce]

ok  i will download and run test..... thanks will get back to you soon.

[Mruniverce]

Ok temps while playing Cod 3......GPU 57c  Temp 56c  CPU 32 . NOT playing..... GPU 49c  CPU 22c Temp 49c .

[Linux711]

I suspect that the card is defective, not overheating. Do you have a spare card that you could drop into the comp or onboard graphics?

[Mruniverce]

No , I do not have a spare card. Could anyone please give me advice on a new card? my budget is 200.00 dollors and I listed my specs on first post. I need a card strong enough to play Call of duty modern warfare 3. thanks.

[Transfusion]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102908
Radeon HD 6850-provides the best price-performance ratio.

from http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+6850
You can also use http://www.hwcompare.com to compare the individual specs of every single graphics card on the market.

[Mruniverce]

What do you think of geforce560 ti ?

[Transfusion]

http://www.hwcompare.com/8891/geforce-gtx-560-ti-vs-radeon-hd-6850/

The GTX 560 performs slightly better for a minimum of $239 on Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006662&isNodeId=1&Description=GTX+560+Ti&x=0&y=0

[Mruniverce]

Well Thank you transfusion you really know what your talking about cause I have been doing some of my own research and the 6850 is a really good card for the price. about.com has it ranked 6 in the top ten cards for 2011. My wife said I can top out at 250.00 for a card so I may go with either the 6850 or the 6870 not sure yet. Thanks again man.

[truenorth]

As a participant in this post i have been mulling over this issue for a few days now. Correct me if i am missing something here. But as your O/S is win 7 (which is the latest and current Microsoft O/S -other than win 8 which is in testing) and the other specs on the computer reflect a recent computer why is this a factor of your video card? I would expect that the newest computers with the latest operating system ought to be able to handle any current game. So is it only this game that causes the issue? Has this game ever operated properly without the problems it is currently exhibiting? The game compatibility criteria should indicate whether your equipment is capable of playing the game. Is there anything to indicate that it isn't? It just seems odd to me that if this computer is as it seems to be that you should be replacing a video card. truenorth

[BC_Programmer]

I would expect that the newest computers with the latest operating system ought to be able to handle any current game.

When it comes to Video cards, the processing power required for basic desktop usage are far less than those required by a modern 3-D game. Also, the hardware utilization of the Graphics hardware while playing such a game is far greater than it is at the desktop, which can make issues more readily apparent, especially if that utilization results in overheating.

[truenorth]

BC,Your comments are well understood. However i would have expected that at the time of acquisition of this particular game the O/P would have verified this "The game compatibility criteria should indicate whether your equipment is capable of playing the game. Is there anything to indicate that it isn't?" Plus this was why "especially if that utilization results in overheating." i suggested the test did . Which from the results does not appear to be an issue. So aren't we back to my previous observation?truenorth

[BC_Programmer]

It doesn't matter whether the card meets the specs or not if it's defective.

If a game doesn't use, say, Shader Model 4, than none of the hardware on the card is employed relating to that feature, so you don't see any issues, even if there are hardware issues with that circuitry. Same for many other features, Including video card memory. Graphics memory isn't filled by many games, but newer games will fill them "more" so if there are issues with the Graphics memory in higher addresses, newer games will see issues whereas older ones will not; etc.

[truenorth]

Gotcha. But if the O/P is actually dealing with a defective graphics card and taking into consideration my earlier comments re the "newness potential" of the computer then perhaps a warranty issue comes into play here.truenorth
P.S. I guess at this point to relate to this possibility we need a return of the O/P.