HUGE Texture issues, help please?

[mjohnson3764]

Have played the game for 2 days now on my new rig that was just built last week and I'm now having this big texture issue.

Running 2x GTX 980ti and playing on 3 monitor surround with Asus ROG Swifts. No issues up til now while running on max settings, and today I go to play and these issues come up.

Never an issue before, and now there are huge squares missing in the map, or hanging in the sky, the lighting is having issues, and every so often a wall of texture covers my screen as I'm driving.

I'm going to try and post a couple pictures. I've tried everything with my hardware to alleviate the problem, but to no avail.

Has anyone experienced this same issue and found a solution?

[mjohnson3764]

http://tinypic.com/r/33atf08/8

http://tinypic.com/r/11a8nk6/8

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What are your temps when this happens? I only know of two things that can cause this from experience, its high temps and bad drivers.
If its not temperature related, do you have your GTX980Ti's setup to receive automatic updates or autoconfigure graphics via geforce experience? that could mess it up too.

Oh another thing I know of that can cause weird artifacts are bad SLI bridges. If its not temp or drivers, maybe try and reset your SLI bridge and see what happens. Could just be dust buildup as well but since your PC seems new then I doubt it.

First thing you should do though is just shutdown your computer, and turn it back up. Sometimes it works wonders/

[mjohnson3764]

One of the GPUs stays around 65-70 all the time, the other one sits around 75-80 and peaked at 84 while playing. I read that temps could be an issue, but these issues happen regardless. Whether I just start it up, or its 2 hours in, same issues.

Drivers are completely up to date.

I can try the SLI bridge and see what happens. No dust yet because its so new. I did however optimize the game via GeForce experience. Could this cause an issue?


Thanks for your help!

[mjohnson3764]

Here's another pic showing the "walls" of texture.

http://tinypic.com/r/27xl9j6/8

I've seen something like this before in like WoW or a few other games, but only very sparingly and that was on different computers than this one. This is constant and unrelenting though.

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If it was fine before optimizing via geforce experience then Geforce experience probably changed its Nvidia profile settings and forced things that's not working for the game. I personally do not use Geforce experience because its just not that accurate in its analysis and often times applies settings that dont even work for the game. Its best to just change graphical settings via Nvidia control panel manually and if you want more options then download Nvidia Inspector, it gives you ever setting you can change in the drivers for game profiles, its way more in depth. I understand its more confusing, Geforce experience is supposed to make it easier for gamers to configure things but it just doesn't do it right in my opinion, its best to set things manually.

I would also suggest downloading something like MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision X to setup a better fan profile for your SLI configuration because those cards (GTA 980's) having lower power output should be outputting less heat , your's are going higher than expected. My 980's never even go above 65c on full load since this architecture uses very low power which means less heat. For you its two things causing them to heat up that high, 1: you're using the cards default fan profile (Which always sucks if you ask me) and 2: Your case airflow isn't setup properly, need to make sure your intake and exhaust fans are positioned properly.

But yeah GTX980's you shouldn't expect temps like 85c. That's way in the past with the GTX500 series FERMI chips, those got real hot because they used more power.

Here's a pic of Nvidia inspector
http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p629/Reaver34572/inspector%201.png
http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p629/Reaver34572/inspector%202.png

For MSI afterburner and EVGA Precision fan curve. You're basically setting how fast your fan goes at what temperature. So for example if the card hits 60c, then you can set it to ramp up fan speed to 70 percent etc, and up it the higher the temp goes. All about controlling the temps so it never goes too high. Default fan profiles for cards suck specially if you're on a sli setup, you need to setup an aggressive fan profile because two cards beside each other will be hotter.

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Example of a very aggressive fan curve setup
http://i1159.photobucket.com/albums/p629/Reaver34572/fan%20curve.png

[JustPorter]

I'm running SLI 980ti's in a small case so mine run a little hot too (peak in 80's in demanding games) but have never had this texture issue in Mad Max even after many hours of playing max settings at 4k.

I may have missed it but didn't see anything about overclocking, are your cards overclocked? That's the only time I've ever seen texture issues like that are during overclocks that are a too high.

I'm running Win 10 with Nvidia 355.82's with geforce experience, no automatic tweaks though as I like to set my games up manually.

Could also be a GPU memory issue, can you try one card (disable SLI) and see if it goes away. If not, switch to the other card by itself and try again.

[Terminus]

Second the heat issue. The only times I've seen stuff like that were when I've overclocked a card and it either overheated or the settings weren't quite right.

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I had an issue like this today when I just got the game. Did you try it with vertical sync on? I turned vsync off (I perfer it off in all games), and it had horrible texture effects flashing all over the screen just like you're seeing. But then I put vsync back on and *poof* went away back to normal.

[mjohnson3764]

I haven't tried Mad Max again yet, but I did follow your fan profile and it has made things slightly better.

I benchmarked and after using the new profile, the cards peak at about 80 now, although still no where near as good as yours at 65, it's an improvement.

There's not much I can do about the top card getting hotter than the bottom due to, well nature since heat rises, however I'm not sure if I could do something different with my case.


I have a Corsair 780T and this is the current setup:

2x 140mm intake in the front (came with it)
2x 120mm intake Corsair AF120 in bottom (added)
1x 140mm exhaust in rear (came with it)
2x 140mm exhaust Corsair SP140 (bought) but they are pulling through my H110 radiator.


I have a feeling that there just isn't enough exhaust for all my hot air to go, but I'm not sure what solution there might be. If I put the rad on the front then I'm loosing all that cold air intake. On the top as it is I'm possibility not allowing enough hot air to get out.

The only other places for a rad are the back (140mm) or bottom (240mm) but my current rad is 280mm so I'm stuck with either top, front, or buying a new cooling system.


What do you think?

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Impending Rentacle Tape původně napsal:

I had an issue like this today when I just got the game. Did you try it with vertical sync on? I turned vsync off (I perfer it off in all games), and it had horrible texture effects flashing all over the screen just like you're seeing. But then I put vsync back on and *poof* went away back to normal.

If that is the case then I'm leaning towards heat issue even more because you say it got better when vsync was on. The reason it got better with vsync is because it effectively caps your framerate to do its job , and lowered framerate equals less heat. While with vsync off your video card was free to produce as many frames as possible which increases the heat output significantly and your temps most likely spiked too high then producing the graphical issue.

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mjohnson3764 původně napsal:

I haven't tried Mad Max again yet, but I did follow your fan profile and it has made things slightly better.

I benchmarked and after using the new profile, the cards peak at about 80 now, although still no where near as good as yours at 65, it's an improvement.

There's not much I can do about the top card getting hotter than the bottom due to, well nature since heat rises, however I'm not sure if I could do something different with my case.


I have a Corsair 780T and this is the current setup:

2x 140mm intake in the front (came with it)
2x 120mm intake Corsair AF120 in bottom (added)
1x 140mm exhaust in rear (came with it)
2x 140mm exhaust Corsair SP140 (bought) but they are pulling through my H110 radiator.


I have a feeling that there just isn't enough exhaust for all my hot air to go, but I'm not sure what solution there might be. If I put the rad on the front then I'm loosing all that cold air intake. On the top as it is I'm possibility not allowing enough hot air to get out.

The only other places for a rad are the back (140mm) or bottom (240mm) but my current rad is 280mm so I'm stuck with either top, front, or buying a new cooling system.


What do you think?

That setup seems fine , I would keep the rad at the back of the top for exhaust yes. It might just be a case of what kind of fans you have, stock fans usually are crap for moving air . It usually doesn't matter how big or how fast the Rpm is , but how much air they can move based on the blade design.

It's tough with sli sometimes in smaller cases because if your gpu's aren't suffering , the heat from them rises to your processors heat sink and cripples that instead . But does your case have a fan mount for the side panel ? That as an intake would help too . But focus on rear exhaust , that needs to move a lot of air out from the video cards, or you could mount delta fans to the radiator to pull everything out the top. But yeah it's tough with a smaller case I'm afraid .

[mjohnson3764]

This is a large case (Full tower) but no side fan available. The only stock fans being used are the rear exhaust and the front 2x intakes. Everything else is a Corsair fan bough seperately.

Maybe I could swap out the stock rear fan with something that has better performance?

What is a delta fan for the radiator? I'm currently running 2x 140mm SP Corsair fans which are meant for more Static Pressure to pull through that radiator.


Also, that wasn't me with the vsync thing, that was another poster, but I will try and see if there is a difference one way or another. The fan profile made things a bit better but it seems like it should still be way better if you are able to keep 65C consistently

[Gloo64]

I think it's an issue with playing on triple monitor. I have 980 sli playing at 6060x1080 and get the exact same stuff as you, but if I set it to 1920x1080, I don't get any. Seems like it's just a case of the game not being optimized well for triple monitor resolutions (as also seen by the harpoon not working unless you boost, or go into first person).

I could be wrong though, and there may be some other reason why this is happening, but my temps are normal, and I've messed around with all of the graphical settings to try and find a solution. If you figure out the reason why, please respond to this and let me know, otherwise I'll just wait for a patch that will hopefully address this, and other issues.

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mjohnson3764 původně napsal:

This is a large case (Full tower) but no side fan available. The only stock fans being used are the rear exhaust and the front 2x intakes. Everything else is a Corsair fan bough seperately.

Maybe I could swap out the stock rear fan with something that has better performance?

What is a delta fan for the radiator? I'm currently running 2x 140mm SP Corsair fans which are meant for more Static Pressure to pull through that radiator.


Also, that wasn't me with the vsync thing, that was another poster, but I will try and see if there is a difference one way or another. The fan profile made things a bit better but it seems like it should still be way better if you are able to keep 65C consistently

Sorry got my details jumbled up between you and another posted lol. But I would swap out that rear fan for a better one since pushing hot air out is very important . Also delta fans are industrial grade fans , they are faster and the best at moving air at the cost of loud noise however. I have three delta fans push pull setup with my noctua nh-d14 heat sink and my processor temps are great, still beats plug and play water coolers ( used to have a corsair h100 but didn't work for me) .

But try out vsync , it will cap your framerate and effectively lower your temps as a side effect and hopefully get rid of the issue . This will only work if your problem were temp related to begin with though . There's still other possibilities of it being driver related or GeForce experience settings.