HL2 Ep2 Graphic Problems (possible artifact?)

[silenteye]

Whenever I shine a light on a character in this game (e.g. Vortigaunt or Alyx) and its supposed to show the shadow of the character, i get this weird graphic blocky stuff on the top third of my screen, i wonder whether or not its artifacting or something.

and here is the example



hopefully someone can help me here
i do have my video card overclocked (using ATI Tool) a little bit, but not very much (i think its at optimal settings) or some sort of automatic overclock settings using ati tool

 

[motox33]

You can start by defaulting to original clocks.

 

[spaceman]

that looks like the scenery behind the walls. update your drivers if possible. I don't believe it is artifacting though.

 

[dnottis]

You can start by defaulting to original clocks.

QFT

 

[Slade]

thirded here:

go back to stock clocks.

 

[ilal2ielli]

Are you forcing AA in the drivers? I had this same problem so I thought it was the overclock on my card, it wasn't. So disabling AA got rid of it, but then I realized I was forcing AA through the drivers, so I set Ep2 to Application Controlled in the nVidia Control Panel, and then it worked perfectly after that.

 

[silenteye]

Are you forcing AA in the drivers? I had this same problem so I thought it was the overclock on my card, it wasn't. So disabling AA got rid of it, but then I realized I was forcing AA through the drivers, so I set Ep2 to Application Controlled in the nVidia Control Panel, and then it worked perfectly after that.

thanks alot, i'll be sure to try it out

although i already beat it so i dunno if theres a point

BTW I HATE ALYX

 

[cantankerous]

I believe the newly released 163.76 drivers were released and recommended for just for this game? It doesn't look like an artifact at all but a different scene bleeding through the current one from the background. A clean driver update should do the trick I would think.

 

[THRESHIN]

alyx would be much better if she was naked

 

[MartinX]

You can start by defaulting to original clocks.

Lol, QFT, I get those if my card is even 1 mhz above stock when playing HL .

 

[DrewRosenHouse]

i had the same issue, i believe it has something to do with forced aa in nv control panel like the previous poster said.

 

[JackAshley]

that looks like the scenery behind the walls. update your drivers if possible. I don't believe it is artifacting though.

Yeah, totally is the scenery - artifacts dont usually form pictures (though it would be AWESOME if they did!)

EVGA Tech Support: "Do you see the bunny on your screen? Yes? Ok that means your video card is artifacting, we'll give you an RMA..."