Just played HL2DM for a good 2 hours, no artifacts there, max temp on GPU reached 64C so I really doubt it is my setup.
Same happens here at times. It only happens on first connect for me though, so my workaround is to disconnect from the server, go through the "History" under the server tab and rejoin. Presto, no artifacts.
Can you please post your specs mpxlbs, so we easier can narrow this down to specific platforns/gpus/drivers etc
Sure thing. I've had this happen on a Radeon 5770, 7850 and 7950, in Ubuntu 12.10 using Unity and Linux Mint 14 using Cinnamon up from when Team Fortress 2 was released until today with the Catalyst upgrades. Currently on 13.3 Beta 3. I only have these artifacts in TF2, not in any other source/goldsrc games. I too have a FX CPU from AMD (FX-4100), but I don't see how that matters, although it's a bit curious.
Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 4213 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
Network Information:
Network Speed:
Operating System Version:
Linux Mint 14 Nadia (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.5.0-26-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11300000
X Window Manager: Mutter (Muffin)
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-03-25
Video Card:
Driver: ATI Technologies Inc. AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Driver Version: 4.2.12173 Compatibility Profile Context 12.10.17
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x679a
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 18,78" x 10,55" (21,54" diag)
47,7cm x 26,8cm (54,7cm diag)
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC892
Memory:
RAM: 3918 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: nb_NO.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 780149 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 506621 Mb
Installed software:
Recent Failure Reports:
I don't know about Ubuntu/Mint, but I had this problem on Fedora until I removed the catalyst driver (the radeon driver that comes pre-installed is much more stable).
@haikarainen Is this still an issue for you? There have several newer releases of catalyst and most if not all bugs related to TF2 on the opensource drivers have been wrangled.
No reply; closing. This issue seems to have been resolved. If not, please feel free to reply and confirm that the issue is still occurring.
Nothing extracted yet.
So today I was about to play some TF2 on my setup which has worked close to flawlessly before (with the exception of horrible loading times etc.). I noticed that some patches had been applied since last time I launched it (2 weeks - 1 month approx) so I hoped maybe some of my issues had been fixed.
But nope. After the server changed level I started noticing visual artifacts, and they got worse the more to the center of the map I went, and disappeared when I went back to spawn. I checked my temperatures just after I shut it down and it was at a healthy 46 C (GPU).
This is weird, I've never had any visual artifacts with this GPU before. If nobody else notices them I have an identical GPU laying around I could test with though, to make sure I haven't hurt it somehow.
Only changes to hardware I've made since I last played is replaced CPU from Athlon II X4 645 to AMD-FX, although I highly doubt it makes a difference.
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Please don't close this issue yet (unless it is a duplicate) as I will try other source engine games and maybe the other GPU as well. Thanks
Also if it says anything I've put the following packages on hold since their new versions are not compatible with catalyst 13.1, and catalyst-dkms package is currently outdated: