Bought my graphics card last week and bought my first game for PC . Came to play it and there are horizontal waves running down the screen. I've tried looking into things like screen tearing , but quite frankly i haven't idea what to do. my system is : i5 6600 Sapphire nitro rx 580 LE latest driver installed kingston fury 16gb asus h110-ddr4 coolermaster nepton 120xl windows 7 ultimate 550w superflower psu HP S2031 - 60hz refresh The game in question is Hitman .Currently im running it on dx11 (dx12 windows 10 only ?) using an old monitor with resolution of 1600x900 with a vga output to hdmi adapter direct to GPU Game is installed via steam . Hitman settings v-sync - on v-sync interval - 1 (100% fps) HDR - off super sampling -1 level of detail -ultra anti-aliasing- SMAA texture quality- high texture filter- ansiotropic 16x SSAO- ON Shadow maps- ultra shadow resolution -high override memory safeguards- no Radeon settings anti aliasing - use application settings anti aliasing method - multi sampling morphological filtering - off anisotropic filtering mode - use application settings texture filtering quality - standard surface format optimization - on wait for vertical refresh - off unless application specifies OpenGL Triple Buffering - off Shader Cache - amd optimized Tessellation mode - amd optimized. Frame Target control - disabled When i run the benchmark that comes with hitman im averaging about 55 FPS , is this about right ? Im trying to give as much information as possible hopefully someone can help.Appreciate this is a lengthy post but id really like to play Hitman without seeing these lines. Thanks In advance
Turn of all anti-aliasing, texture filter- ansiotropic, v-sync , set detail to low and see if hitman runs smoother and how many fps you get. Lets us know the results.
just tried the following Hitman settings v-sync - off v-sync interval - 1 (100% fps) HDR - off super sampling -1 level of detail - low anti-aliasing- off texture quality- low texture filter- ansiotropic 2x SSAO- Off Shadow maps- low shadow resolution -low override memory safeguards- no average frames went to 88 lines are still there. to be honest im quite happy running at the 55ish FPS i just want rid of the lines. Also is it worth going to windows 10. I hate the interface but directX 12 seems a lot more popular now
Ok download heaven benchamrk and run it at the highest settings and see if you still get the lines. https://benchmark.unigine.com/heaven
just done the benchmark there , everything set to ultra v sync off , it was hitting 72 fps average .added v sync and it dropped to 56.lines still there Think this may be a monitor / adapter issue .
Take a picture of the issue then go to https://imgur.com/ and hit 'new post' at the top. On the next page select 'copy' to copy the URL and post it here
Yup, that worked. Well, if the lines disappear in Windows and only appear when gaming it is most likely a GPU fault, although you say it only happens in one game?
Was the card new? How comfortable are you in opening up the PC? I'd suggest you take out the GPU and run the game from the IGP on the CPU. If the lines disappear then it's a GPU issue, if not - well - it could be a number of things
I may be wrong as i'm unfamiliar with the board - so kick me to touch if i'm wrong Is there a chance he may be able to just plug the cable into the onboard outlet and the MB will adjust automagically? The amount of posts i see where someones got poor gfx performance and it turns out they've plugged it into the onboard by mistake indicates that some modern motherboards still allow a straight swap if it's not been disabled in the BIOS. If not he may be able to adjust the BIOS setting to enable onboard or disable 'always enable external GPU' (or similar)? May be easier guiding him through the BIOS than removing the card - swings and roundabouts admittedly though
Yes, simply disabling the GPU (or more accurately, enabling the onboard) would be easier if the BIOS allows it.
Yeah im comfortable taking it all apart wont be tonight thought because ive got an exam in the morning just noticed the lines are there on windows , its just harder to see with a brighter background.starting to think its the monitor , the DVI port didnt work on it anyway and i cant imagine VGA to hdmi adapter is the optimal solution anyway.GPU is brand new.
Ahh, well that changes things. Try a different cable if you have one and also make sure all cables are seated correctly
