Can an OCed CPU cause artifacts?

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ZacharyS

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Yea, in STALKER, I'm getting some artifacts. My GPU is at stock speeds, and it never breaks 65C. However, my CPU is OCed to 2.5Ghz from 2.0Ghz, could this cause artifacts or is it something else?

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first i hear. might be drivers... try another set :) or maybe your videocard is failing...
 
Many people have reported artifacting in this game, especially when it starts to rain. It might be a game optimization problem. Just search around, you don't have to look long to see discussion on this.
 
^agreed, i've been hearing alot of people having this same problem, i really dont think its your cpu.
 
Short answerer:
Not usually

Long Answer:
With an Nvidia video card with a newer set of drivers and a duel-core CPU, it's possible. The newer drivers offload vertex calculations to your second core, where information could become corrupted if your OC isn't stable. This would be a very unusual situation, though.

Advice:
Set your processor back to stock and under clock your video card a little bit. If the game still artifacts then it's just the game.
 
How can you guys not see the corruption? Anyway, I've outlined it in red in one of the pictures.

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without seeing that in motion, how the hell are we supposed judge comparatively?
 
ZacharyS said:
Then either your eyes or you monitor sucks major balls, because it's pretty obvious IMO.
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don't be a dick, not everyone plays that game. without seeing a shot to compare to i would guess it was a shitty texure rather than an artifact. its obvious a bad floppy drive is the culprit.
 
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