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Artifacts during web browsing.

McClintoc

McClintoc

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I recently upgraded from a 1GB 6870 to a 2GB 7870 and have notice some artifacts while browsing the web. I never had any artifcats at anytime with my 6870 and now that I have upgraded, I get these clusters of little black squares only when I am browsing the web. I have absolutely no problems in games and even youtube videos play just fine. These clusters show up at various times while doing mundane browsing. They showed up immediately after upgrading and using the stock drivers on the CD that came with the card. I DL'd and insatlled the latest drivers off AMD's website and that didn't fix the problem. Are these GPU artifacts or something else? I am uisng Firefox on Win7 Ultimate 64.
 
Turning off aero should fix it, but you shouldn't run into artifacts unless you're doing something GPU intensive on the side (like mining)
 
hajalie24 said:
Turning off aero should fix it, but you shouldn't run into artifacts unless you're doing something GPU intensive on the side (like mining)
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That is why it's so confusing. I am not doing anything GPU intensive while I'm browsing. My games are GPU intensive and I have no issues there. :confused:
 
Probably something wrong with the card, the memory is likely not behaving itself at hardware accelerated desktop clocks. I had to send a card back once for a similar problem (little patches of corrupted green squares popping up here and there).
 
Couple of things to try: lower VRAM speeds for your 2d clocks, or revert to an older driver. You can disable aero and browser GPU acceleration but these are not fixes per se, and are definitely ideal; I always use Aero and GPU acceleration on my Win7 box. So you can disable those but, those aren't fixes. These are the most probable causes IMO - check your driver, see if another release fixes it, and then see if lower VRAM clocks fixes it.

It could very well be a defective card as well, I had one card that was open box (purchased from newegg) that had a strange BIOS flash which altered the VRAM clocks somehow. Which caused artifacts. It can also be a defective card, and if that is the case the problem usually gets worse over time. Artifacts can start in 2D mode, then suddenly pop up with 3D apps. If a driver doesn't fix it, I would strongly suggest returning it to the point of sale to get another identical card.
 
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