Hey guys.  I've just finished building myself a new gaming rig that blows away anything I test on it but I seem to be having a couple of weird problems on a few specific games.  Crysis Warhead and Company of Heroes both suffer from this weird problem where huge lines seem to point out from random objects.  Look at my screenshot for a better description but at some points I actually seem to be in side objects and it's really fucking up the game for me.    

    

Generally that is caused by your graphics card overheating.  It probably is something wrong with your hardware, the graphics card specifically.
 
edit - guess it could be bad graphics card RAM, if you know you're not over temp.

Really? Bad RAM?  None of the other games I've played around with have had any problems,  Empire Total War, Mirrors Edge and TF2 all run great without a hint of weirdness.  Guess I'll get some better temperature monitoring software.  I cant only see so much with GPUZ

Yea I checked the temperature of the GPU while the game was running not while I was on desktop so I know the GPU isn't the problem also the drivers were the first things I checked. 
 
Just checked my CPU with speedfan and it looks like I could do with a better cooling fan over that.  Is 50 degrees C high or low? I've never actually owned a CPU that had this feature before so I don't really have a basis for comparison. 

that looks like a graphical artifact from overheating for sure. have you oc'd?

Is 50 degrees C high or low? I've never actually owned a CPU that had this feature before so I don't really have a basis for comparison.

No I haven't.  No OC at all. 
 
Just gave it a good test to see what the temperature would look like after 5 minutes of play and the highest temperature I got across my card was 55 degrees.  Think I'll buy myself a new CPU cooler and see if that solves the problem.  The stock one is kinda crap anyhow.

" No I haven't.  No OC at all.  Just gave it a good test to see what the temperature would look like after 5 minutes of play and the highest temperature I got across my card was 55 degrees.  Think I'll buy myself a new CPU cooler and see if that solves the problem.  The stock one is kinda crap anyhow. "

I had the same problem with a previous graphics card I had. I only got a couple of spikes here and there though. Unfortunately its probably a hardware problem, if your GPU is still under warranty you might want to send it back. Or contact the maker of your card through their website to see if they have any solutions.  

It could be a corrupt game file.

 it looks to be the same thing in both pics, maybe there's something wrong with the gun model

It sounds to me like a faulty graphics card, both your GPU and CPU temps are fine, have you tried running ATI Tools artifact tester?

Well I literally built this PC over the weekend so I haven't even had time to think about Overclocking.  I reserve overclocking for when the card starts to show it's age. 
 
I just ran another test playing Crysis and it seems like my CPUs temperature shoots up to about 70 or 80 which seems quite bad.  I've already ordered a new cooler so I'm hoping that solves the problem.  If not it should at least prove that the GPU is the problem, I don't really trust the stock cooler anyway.   The CPU seems to run in the low 40s while I'm not playing any games so I'm sure it'll be fine so long as I stick to non-gaming.

 thats such a typical overclocking/overheating artifact, ive seen it a million times when ive searched around for typical artifacts etc. I think the new cooler will help, it should help the overall temperature of your pc. id advice not using your pc for games or anything else demanding until it arrives so that excessive heat wont permanently damage anything. (the risk probably isnt huge, but better safe then sorry)
 
if it doesnt help, reinstall drivers. if THAT doesnt help, create a new windows install partition and play the game from there just to make 100% sure its not a software problem.

Last time I had that happen to me it was on my old ATI card and updating the drivers fixed the problem.

Check if Geometry Instancing is enabled.
 
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Driver problem

"  thats such a typical overclocking/overheating artifact, ive seen it a million times when ive searched around for typical artifacts etc. I think the new cooler will help, it should help the overall temperature of your pc. id advice not using your pc for games or anything else demanding until it arrives so that excessive heat wont permanently damage anything. (the risk probably isnt huge, but better safe then sorry) "

" @mhkjtha said:

"  thats such a typical overclocking/overheating artifact, ive seen it a million times when ive searched around for typical artifacts etc. I think the new cooler will help, it should help the overall temperature of your pc. id advice not using your pc for games or anything else demanding until it arrives so that excessive heat wont permanently damage anything. (the risk probably isnt huge, but better safe then sorry) "

That's probally the advice I would go with. I overclock alot and that usually happens when it's too overclocked. Crysis warhead is quite demanding on a videocard and I also have a cooler with three fans on it and that doesn't happen anymore. If you do continue to play games now, the damage might be permanent. Ati cards are known to have alot of heat, 80 degrees however is normal for most videocards, yet with my cooler, I don't get any more than 50 degrees now.   Also sometimes when you buy a videocard, it's already factory overclocked, ati cards are factory overclocked past nvidia cards, they have higher settings. Also don't use anti aliasing on crysis warhead, or turn that down a bit, it might help. It's definently a cooling problem and overclocked card. Just because you didn't overclock it, doesn't mean it's already not factory overclocked. Either that, or RMA that card and get it replaced. "

Well I do have one more suggestion, download rivatuner, an overclocking program, just use the fan mode. Set the fan to 100% or near that if it's too loud, should help alot with the overheating. Sometimes ati card's fan settings are low by default, well same as most videocards. If you don't know how, just google it. It's important to keep the fan on high when you are playing games like crysis and stuff considering a videocard can generate alot of heat. However it's not suppose to artifact like that.