Hey guys so I just got my first graphics card, an RX 470, and when I put it in and played something like hitman it worked perfectly. However when I played Fallout 4 for the first time everything seemed fine until I got to move in the bathroom. I keep seeing these weird and strange flashing blocks on the walls and floors and even on the items they project on the loading screen. They flash in and out and its very annoying. Before I discovered this I played The Amazing Spider-man and it actually had nearly the exact same problem. Any suggestions? I tried messing with the settings and unticking things etc but that didn't seem to help. I also updated my drivers beforehand.

Some screenshots (If you look at the floor, you can see those white dots are moving position, this is what I'm referring to)
http://imgur.com/D3w2ZdA
http://imgur.com/KzjlmZz
http://imgur.com/PH2ts4q

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Do you mean artifacting? Like blocks or shapes of colors that don't belong

I usually see that with heating issues. Do you have enough airflow? Is your GPU getting hot? What settings have you tried changing and to what?

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Well I don't quite know what artifacting is. If I could describe it, I would call them flashing blocks that kind of show a grid of sorts? But its not the GPU getting hot as far as I know? How can I check that?

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The thing is when I take a screenshot it says its saved but it doesn't allow me to upload it so I have no idea how to upload the many screenshots I did take without steam doing it for me

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But I still don't know how to upload it onto my steam profile's list of screenshots? Or would you recommend I do it somewhere else?

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Uploaded some

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Your GPU should have come with software or you can grab it from the manufacturer's website. They pretty much all have some sort of monitoring software. You could also use something like CAM and see what temperatures you get

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It turns out its not overheating, its staying between 40-50 degrees while I play them

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Well that's good, one thing ruled out at least. Not sure what else it might be but it looks like there have been lots of other ideas. Good luck!

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are you using DX12 when playing hitman? It could be a driver issue.

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I believe I was using DX11

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Try testing other games and drivers. Could be your GPU memory is defect.
Edit: If you can test in another PC if the same issues happen. It's not necessarily a temperature or voltage problem.
If the same things happen it's time to replace it.

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Yeah this type of problem isn't persistant in my brother's computer. However he has an i5 while I have an i3.

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Well that's weird.
Did you test it long enough? Hours, not just a few minutes.
Has his case got better airflow than yours? Do you have 2 fans in your case, 1 sucking in at the front, one extracting at the back?
What's the exact name of the GPU? It could be a model specific issue.

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I actually didnt test it for long but I didnt really think I needed to. Do you think it could fix itself on its own? Also, I believe I do have two fans that do that exact thing, and it just says Radeon RX 470, idk the specifics sadly as my brother took care of most of that stuff.

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I'd suggest trying other drivers. Every driver update from both manufacturers always seem to break some other things.
If you have the same artifacting in other games contact the vendor and replace it. This kind of thing doesn't fix it itself.
Take photos of the old card, specifically the serial number when returning it.

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But see I don't want to believe its a defected GPU because Hitman and a few other games worked perfectly. It just seemed to be these two (and more that I don't know of I suppose?). So that's why I feel it must be some kind of setting I'm just missing, idk.

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I would prefer to keep this card though, and considering it didn't have that effect on my brothers computer which has the same GPU (Well, its the same model, maybe the specifics are different), I don't think its AMD's fault. But if all else fails, I guess I can send it back and ask for a new one

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No, we did not

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So, you bullshitted me?
Here's your logic:
Hey bro, my car sometimes misfires. What can it be?
Well, i drove my car down the same round without any problems. It must be the road or something else.
Yeah, you're probably right.
Edit: I'm off to play so good luck.

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I don't really understand what you mean? I don't mean to trick you or anything, I'm just saying what I find and what I know. My brother and I have the same kind of graphics card, we aren't sharing it.

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I am calm ;)
Sadly, the latest answer shows they still don't understand what it means to test your GPU in another PC.
Edit: Is the formatting somehow wrong in this thread now?

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Ooooohh Ok I get it, I'm sorry, I'm like a total blonde when it comes to this stuff. Ill see if my brother wants to try that and get back to you

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Bump for nice avatar ^^

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Thanks! Kurama's face is so adorable in that!

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Great... So its a defective card basically? Or did I just get the wrong card? Because apparently this thing happened in 3/4 other games I tried

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Got it, Ill definitely do that, Thank you

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It's a common bug in Fallout 4, been around for awhile. Devs don't care apparantly. Everyone has the issue. No idea what fixes it just reload a save when it happens or restart if that doesn't work.

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Its definitely not a common bug because ive fished around the discussions and online and found no one with the same issue. It also persists in other games as well so I think my card is just defective.

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