Weird lines across screen

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So I am pretty sure this is something to do with my monitor like a brightness problem (its a fairly new monitor so I hope its not just dying) but I have only seen this happen on 1 or 2 other games besides darkwood and it seems to be at the worst in this game. Just hoping someone can help me out with a fix since this is starting to become quite the eye sore. Pic below



https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1833013477

[Red Dragon]

Looks like a resolution issue. What's your monitors resolution and do you use the equivalent one for your desktop/game?

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Originally posted by Red Dragon:

Looks like a resolution issue. What's your monitors resolution and do you use the equivalent one for your desktop/game?

My monitor is a 1920x1080 144hz and yes I do use the same res in game

[Red Dragon]

Do you remember what other games caused the same phenomenon? Are your graphics card drivers up to date?

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its happened with a few games that have pixel graphics, somewhat like darkwood and yes my drivers are up to date.

[Red Dragon]

A quick search turned up this thread but no solution was found and the monitor was also implicated as a cause: https://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/horizontal-lines-for-some-games-not-a-vsyncscreen--29387848/

Let's try anyway though, but work with me here and give me more info:
Do both your desktop resolution and the game run at 144hz?
Are you forcing anti aliasing or some other graphics effect via the Nvidia Control Panel or the AMD equivalent?

Are you using the HDMI or DVI cable?
Is it the original cable and are you sure it is plugged in correctly without wobbling and undamaged? Try exchanging it with another cable and see what happens. Some older HDMI cables can't actually handle 144 and maybe that's the issue, so use the DVI cable instead, maybe the manufacturer is a cheapskate and included an older or lower quality HDMI cable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_comparison

Otherwise try contacting the monitor manufacturer and ask if they know whether it may be a hardware defect.

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Originally posted by Red Dragon:

A quick search turned up this thread but no solution was found and the monitor was also implicated as a cause: https://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/horizontal-lines-for-some-games-not-a-vsyncscreen--29387848/

Let's try anyway though, but work with me here and give me more info:
Do both your desktop resolution and the game run at 144hz?
Are you forcing anti aliasing or some other graphics effect via the Nvidia Control Panel or the AMD equivalent?

Are you using the HDMI or DVI cable?
Is it the original cable and are you sure it is plugged in correctly without wobbling and undamaged? Try exchanging it with another cable and see what happens. Some older HDMI cables can't actually handle 144 and maybe that's the issue, so use the DVI cable instead, maybe the manufacturer is a cheapskate and included an older or lower quality HDMI cable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_comparison

Otherwise try contacting the monitor manufacturer and ask if they know whether it may be a hardware defect.

OK so here is what I came up with. I tried turning the resolution down on the game and so far I have not seen ANY lines on ANY resolutions besides my native resolution of 1920x1080 I have yet to try this on the other games that have had this problem but I will if I encounter it again in the future. To answer some of your questions: "Does the game run at 144hz" testing this now I get a solid 145 min to 148 max FPS, "HDMI or DVI" I think I am running hdmi but I might be wrong on that, im not good with cables :P, and as for exchanging cables I dont have any extras that would fit my new monitor. I hope this helped answer some things but as for tests to try to fix it at my native resolution I am going to try enabling v-sync and messing with brightness as I have found some forums saying that it could be caused by my monitor being too bright/dark. Thanks for your help.

[Red Dragon]

Okay I'm like 70% sure it's the cable if the effect is completely gone at lower resolutions.
Did your new monitor seriously come without any cables at all? Not even a DVI cable? (just google for a picture of HDMI cable and DVI cable to see which one is which).

You could also try just lowering the 144hz to 120hz or even to 60hz while keeping the 1920 resolution and see if that changes anything. It sounds very much like the cable can't transmit all the necessary information fast enough to your monitor at 144hz and Full HD and once you lowered the resolution less info needed to be transmitted and thus the effect disappeared. I don't think it has anything to do with your monitors brightness, whereas broken or outdated HDMI cables are known to cause weird visual artifacts like horizontal lines or weirldy colored lines. Definitely try lowering your hz to 120 or even 60 and see what happens. If that's it then its surely the cable and you can just fix it by ordering a DVI cable on Amazon or you just keep the old cable and settle on 120hz.

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Originally posted by Red Dragon:

Okay I'm like 70% sure it's the cable if the effect is completely gone at lower resolutions.
Did your new monitor seriously come without any cables at all? Not even a DVI cable? (just google for a picture of HDMI cable and DVI cable to see which one is which).

You could also try just lowering the 144hz to 120hz or even to 60hz while keeping the 1920 resolution and see if that changes anything. It sounds very much like the cable can't transmit all the necessary information fast enough to your monitor at 144hz and Full HD and once you lowered the resolution less info needed to be transmitted and thus the effect disappeared. I don't think it has anything to do with your monitors brightness, whereas broken or outdated HDMI cables are known to cause weird visual artifacts like horizontal lines or weirldy colored lines. Definitely try lowering your hz to 120 or even 60 and see what happens. If that's it then its surely the cable and you can just fix it by ordering a DVI cable on Amazon or you just keep the old cable and settle on 120hz.

Update: So I tested lowering the refresh rate and that didnt do it, I tried 120 and 60hz and had the lines. As for the cable coming with the computer I am like 90% sure it didnt or if it did we had a problem and had to go get a new one cuz I remember going out with my friends for a while looking all over for a cable that would match up with everything.

I'm gonna come to the conclusion that its something to do with the cable like you said and I might look into getting a new one but right now since this is the only game that I play that it happens with Im gonna hold off and just play at a lower resolution but I really do appreciate your help and keeping in touch with this thread for this long lol.