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I was playing The Secret World two nights ago and started getting little black squares on the screen...
Here's an example of what they look like: http://i.imgur.com/8uPqI.jpg
Obviously only two got captured in the screenshot as they flicker quite a bit, but sometimes there are 10 or so of them scattered around the screen.
The card is a HIS 6950 2GB (reference) with unlocked shaders so my first thought was to reverse the shader unlock. I shutdown, switched to the second BIOS and tried again, with the same result.
I did however notice that running The Secret World in DX9 (instead of DX11), did not produce these squares. That said, I had been playing TSW with DX11 fine without the squares for quite some time.
Last night, I wanted to troubleshoot some more, and took the card out and cleaned any dust out of it, put it back into the machine. I downloaded Unigine Heaven DX11 benchmark tool and ran through it twice. Once with defaults, the other maxed out. Neither time did I see any of these black squares on the screen.
I thought the problem was resolved, so I loaded back up TSW in DX11 and the squares were there.
Because I'm a second hand owner, and HIS RMA isn't great to begin with, I'm a little weary of trying to get an RMA number and sending the card back. My main fear is that they will say NTF (no trouble found) and make me pay to have it shipped back to me...
Also, forgot to mention, the card is not overclocked and has ran fine for quite some time. I did notice when I started getting the black squares that the temperature was 88C with the fan only running at 35% This is the first time I've ever really checked the temperature. I downloaded HIS iTurbo tool and the automatic fan control profile for this card is crazy. It doesn't ramp up the fan to significant speed until 90C. This seems to be a problem with all 6950 cards from scouring Google.
Any thoughts?
Edit: I just checked the BIOS in RBE for the fan configuration. At 88C it should be going at 75% fan speed. I ran Unigine in windows mode, with GPU-Z beside it. Card got to 80C but fan never passed 33%. This happened on both the unlocked shaders BIOS AND the stock BIOS. Fan goes past 33% fine manually, I guess some sensor is busted?
Here's an example of what they look like: http://i.imgur.com/8uPqI.jpg
Obviously only two got captured in the screenshot as they flicker quite a bit, but sometimes there are 10 or so of them scattered around the screen.
The card is a HIS 6950 2GB (reference) with unlocked shaders so my first thought was to reverse the shader unlock. I shutdown, switched to the second BIOS and tried again, with the same result.
I did however notice that running The Secret World in DX9 (instead of DX11), did not produce these squares. That said, I had been playing TSW with DX11 fine without the squares for quite some time.
Last night, I wanted to troubleshoot some more, and took the card out and cleaned any dust out of it, put it back into the machine. I downloaded Unigine Heaven DX11 benchmark tool and ran through it twice. Once with defaults, the other maxed out. Neither time did I see any of these black squares on the screen.
I thought the problem was resolved, so I loaded back up TSW in DX11 and the squares were there.
Because I'm a second hand owner, and HIS RMA isn't great to begin with, I'm a little weary of trying to get an RMA number and sending the card back. My main fear is that they will say NTF (no trouble found) and make me pay to have it shipped back to me...
Also, forgot to mention, the card is not overclocked and has ran fine for quite some time. I did notice when I started getting the black squares that the temperature was 88C with the fan only running at 35% This is the first time I've ever really checked the temperature. I downloaded HIS iTurbo tool and the automatic fan control profile for this card is crazy. It doesn't ramp up the fan to significant speed until 90C. This seems to be a problem with all 6950 cards from scouring Google.
Any thoughts?
Edit: I just checked the BIOS in RBE for the fan configuration. At 88C it should be going at 75% fan speed. I ran Unigine in windows mode, with GPU-Z beside it. Card got to 80C but fan never passed 33%. This happened on both the unlocked shaders BIOS AND the stock BIOS. Fan goes past 33% fine manually, I guess some sensor is busted?
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