Artifacting in FFXIV: ARR (stock speeds)

[TheNoobySpartan]

Alright so I bought the Sapphire Vapor-X R9 270X. Started artifacting FFXIV: ARR at random moments. Never artifacted on any other game, not even BF4 Ultra settings running Mantle. Temps don't go over 51 degrees. Graphics driver is running catalyst 14.4, the current one as of this post. Is there something wrong with the graphics card or is it the game?

 

OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

System Specs:

  PSU: Antec High Current Pro HCP-850 850W

  Graphics Card: Sapphire Vapor-X R9 270X

  CPU: Intel i7 2600

  Motherboard: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3

  RAM: 3 sticks of 4G Venegeance SDRAM DDR3 1600. 1 stick of 2G memory from an all-in-one pc.

 

Bios is updated. 

Video of the artifacting here: 

[ManIkWeet]

Likely a driver or card issue (I heard AMD 14 drivers are shit)

Also wtf with your RAM setup dude?

Remove 2 sticks so you have dual-channel so it's not being slowed down by that stupid 2GB stick...

[TheNoobySpartan]

So there's nothing I can do right now? Should I roll back the drivers? and yeah I'll do your RAM suggestion.

 

Likely a driver or card issue (I heard AMD 14 drivers are shit)

Also wtf with your RAM setup dude?

Remove 2 sticks so you have dual-channel so it's not being slowed down by that stupid 2GB stick...

[TheNoobySpartan]

Problem Solved. Did a clean uninstall using AMD's uninstall utility and reinstalled. So far, no artifacts.