Red spots in Witcher 3? OC'd 980

[Coffinspired]

Yeah, weird...

 

I know, I know...lower OC.  I'll be doing that later after work and IF it stops at some point before hitting stock clocks, I'll have to use a custom profile just for that game I guess.

 

It's just odd that it's ONLY that game.  No benches, no other games, no issues otherwise anywhere else...rock solid.  I can overload the card in benches or game at 4k and it's %100 stable.  What's going on here??   Temps rarely go over 70 during full load @ 1520 boost/8200 MEM.

 

I've seen a few others on the Reddit/CPRed forums have this issue with (usually) Maxwell cards and citing drivers and the game engine...

 

Oddly also, I was hammering my old GTX770 (over 80c) with W3 on a pretty massive overclock, over 50 hours in and I never saw an artifact issue with that card.

 

 

[zyntaxable]

Screenshot?

[Axeonelite]

Yeah, weird...

 

I know, I know...lower OC.  I'll be doing that later after work and IF it stops at some point before hitting stock clocks, I'll have to use a custom profile just for that game I guess.

 

It's just odd that it's ONLY that game.  No benches, no other games, no issues otherwise anywhere else...rock solid.  I can overload the card in benches or game at 4k and it's %100 stable.  What's going on here??   Temps rarely go over 70 during full load @ 1520 boost/8200 MEM.

 

I've seen a few others on the Reddit/CPRed forums have this issue with (usually) Maxwell cards and citing drivers and the game engine...

 

Oddly also, I was hammering my old GTX770 (over 80c) with W3 on a pretty massive overclock, over 50 hours in and I never saw an artifact issue with that card.

 

Maybe the VRAM is being accessed too much and the OC combo is bunking it up. Try Heaven or 3d mark and see if the issue happens there also. 

[Altecice]

Yup that seems like an unstable OC for that game. I have my 980Ti's OC'd and everything is perfect on that game for me.

[Coffinspired]

Screenshot?

I'd have to get one when I get off work...I know this is a BS response, but here's a video of EXACTLY what mine does...though mine is much less severe.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJcLcnt_CGA

 

Maybe the VRAM is being accessed too much and the OC combo is bunking it up. Try Heaven or 3d mark and see if the issue happens there also. 

Yeah, I'm sure that's the case...though it has never happened in any other scenario. ( both in benches or taxing 4k situations)

 

Yup that seems like an unstable OC for that game. I have my 980Ti's OC'd and everything is perfect on that game for me.

I'm sure that's the issue and I'm not too concerned about it until I'm home later and see it happen on stock (gasp!) clocks.

 

I'm just curious why it only happens in "THIS game".  Seems strange.

[xMishax]

witcher 3 is known to be very oc sensitive. Even when lets say valley or 3dmark passes with oc perfectly, witcher 3 might glitch like this. My suggestion would be lower clock by a hair and see whether that fixes your problem

[Coffinspired]

Yeah, I know.  Like I said, I'm not worried about anything and I'm not new to this stuff.  My current OC is right on the edge of what my card is capable of.

 

It wasn't really a "what do I do" post and more of a curiosity about opening a dialog about why this engine is causing this anomaly.  Seems odd to be able to slam the card in benches and 4k stuff and be fine..

[faraday16]

HI Guys,

 

I know this post is pretty old, but still first page in Google.

 

In my case it wasn't about OC, my card has never been overclocked. I had to disable Bloom in W3 graphical options.

 

Cheers.