Weird geometry artifacts

SammeySammey Join Date: 2012-06-14 Member: 153266Members, Reinforced - Shadow
edited March 2013 in NS2 General Discussion
I sometimes get these weird artifacts. They are actual geometry triangles that get stretched to weird places.
This happens to me on descent, or veil, usualy after the game has been going on for some time.

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This can then happen to world geometry or props and characters ( so i guess everything ).
I once saw an exo that looked like an exploded hamster, with his triangles stretching out to every corner of the map.

Im running on Windows 7
with an i5-3570k CPU
and MSI GTX 560 Ti-Hawk GPU
and 8 gig's of RAM.

It is realy annoying, specialy as a commander, when there is a polygon stretched all over the map, covering everything up :(
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  • briatxbriatx Join Date: 2013-01-18 Member: 180352Members
    I've seen this too. i5-3570k and gtx 660ti.

    I wonder about overheating but everything is stock and not OC on my box, so.
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  • DC_DarklingDC_Darkling Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18068Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver
    There is a topic somewhere in tech support about this. I think it was driver related, but I can not remember 100% for sure.
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  • SammeySammey Join Date: 2012-06-14 Member: 153266Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Ok I will! Thanks guys!
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  • PoliniPolini Join Date: 2012-10-30 Member: 164602Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Sorry for a pseudo-necropost, but i got the same issues in descent too, and in docking, and yes, i have a 670 Geforce.
    I will do the same the next time, but a Alt-Tab usually fix it fir me
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  • IronsoulIronsoul Join Date: 2011-03-12 Member: 86048Members
    edited April 2013
    I'll one up you with this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nheqywmp2hmqgs0/2011-10-09_00004.jpg

    aww yeah. (done with a faulty 5850)
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  • SquishpokePOOPFACESquishpokePOOPFACE -21,248 posts (ignore below) Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165262Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    It's just one of those graphics bugs that pops up from time to time. Appears to be server-specific sometimes, too.

    B1AF72BDFC6C027B9F559771B182D5008CDB8A19
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  • IronHorseIronHorse Developer, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributor Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
    @squishpoke tell me you don't normally play with a giant neon red rifle skin??..
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  • YMICrazyYMICrazy Join Date: 2012-11-02 Member: 165986Members
    Obraxis wrote: »
    This issue is known, and is specific to GeForce cards in the 4XX, 5XX and 6XX ranges. If you encounter this, please take screenshots and then run techsupport.exe in your NS2 steam directory - follow what it says and send the email with the screenshots as requested. Thanks!

    Ah wish I had known it was game related. I got it twice (not often) and usually reset my game to fix it. One time I was playing a heated match and could not abandon it so I had to deal and every time I shot bullets with my exo the whole screen filled up with those streaks so I could not see anything and had to estimate where I thought the target was. Too bad I deleted the demo though it probably would not work either way. I will use that .exe if I get it again.
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  • CyberKunCyberKun Join Date: 2013-02-02 Member: 182733Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    You are so lucky this is game/driver/code issue.

    I've had these bugs before but it was about a day before my GPU killed itself.
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  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    Typically, artifacting like this is a sign of GPU overheating and/or dying. However, the GTX 5XX series seems to have separate artifacting issues in NS2, so the nominal cause is: MSI GTX 560 Ti-Hawk GPU
    Ironsoul wrote: »
    I'll one up you with this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nheqywmp2hmqgs0/2011-10-09_00004.jpg

    aww yeah. (done with a faulty 5850)
    81PoKt8.png
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  • shonanshonan Join Date: 2013-01-28 Member: 182562Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    IronHorse wrote: »
    @squishpoke tell me you don't normally play with a giant neon red rifle skin??..

    That is actually a pink Hello Kitty (tm) rifle ;)
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  • SquishpokePOOPFACESquishpokePOOPFACE -21,248 posts (ignore below) Join Date: 2012-10-31 Member: 165262Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    IronHorse wrote: »
    @squishpoke tell me you don't normally play with a giant neon red rifle skin??..

    Hey, that's the Hello Kitty rifle mod, it's supposed to be pink!
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  • KamamuraKamamura Join Date: 2013-03-06 Member: 183736Members, Reinforced - Gold
    @Scardybob - Hilarious!

    BTW I have them too, very rarely, Geforce 670
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  • RobotixRobotix Join Date: 2013-02-20 Member: 183222Members
    I have a 660 and experience graphical bugs like that occasionally.
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  • ObraxisObraxis Subnautica Animator & Generalist, NS2 Person Join Date: 2004-07-24 Member: 30071Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Silver, WC 2013 - Supporter, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    I've sent off all your screenshots, system specs (where available) and all the playtester videos/specs/shots to the Nvidia Driver team, as I suspect this is a driver issue. Hopefully they will fix it in a future driver release.
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  • CrazyEddieCrazyEddie Join Date: 2013-01-08 Member: 178196Members
    edited May 2013
    shonan wrote: »
    IronHorse wrote: »
    @squishpoke tell me you don't normally play with a giant neon red rifle skin??..

    That is actually a pink Hello Kitty (tm) rifle ;)

    best mod evar

    realism ftw
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  • ritualsacrificeritualsacrifice Join Date: 2012-11-14 Member: 171148Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    yeah, this bug has been around since release. it seems to have gotten a little better, but i kind of suspect it's something to do with the nvidia drivers as well.. it went away for awhile and it started happening again after i updated my drivers recently. For what it's worth, it's never happened to me on any of the NSL maps, or on Jambi.
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  • draktokdraktok Join Date: 2013-02-18 Member: 183156Members
    I can't play a few maps because this happens so frequently with a 560ti. Docking is the worst.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    Whelps, bow down to the zero tolerance power of ATI/AMD. There is a reason these polygons won't even dare to run amok like this under their reign. Polygons have to be kept in check, otherwise you have to deal with polygones :P
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  • ResRes Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20245Members
    Kouji_San wrote: »
    Whelps, bow down to the zero tolerance power of ATI/AMD. There is a reason these polygons won't even dare to run amok like this under their reign. Polygons have to be kept in check, otherwise you have to deal with polygones :P

    what about the polygoons?

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