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Boggus
Mar 26, 2007

A yellow jumpsuit makes all the difference.
Problem description: Bought a Radeon VII less than 2 months ago, upgraded from a Vega 56. I got graphical artifacting in certain games, it is shown as in glitchy shadows and lightning. The artifacting has a certain "blocky" look to it, almost checkerboard at times. Some games are not affected, some are greatly affected and some only have minor issuess.

Examples:

Sunset Overdrive - Greatly affected, all shadows are a mess.
Click here for gameplay video.

Far Cry 4 - Minor issues
Click here for gameplay video. - Grainy "checkerboardy" popin on the white wall and textures on the mountain to the upper right. Most easily seen when viewed in 1440p.

Click here for gameplay video. - Grainy "checkerboardy" popin on the stairs.

Attempted fixes: Tried different drivers, old aswell as recent, no change. Tried different settings in the games; setting shadows to low, turning of ambient occlusion, adjusting anti-aliasing etc. No difference.

Recent changes: Only recent change to the system was upgrading from a Vega 56 card. Did a full driver uninstall aswell as cleaning up with DDU before installing the new GPU. Underclocked the VRAM aswell to see if it improved anything but it had no effect.

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Operating system: Windows 10 Home.

System specs: Ryzen 1600, 16 GB RAM, Gigabyte Gaming-3 B350 motherboard, Radeon VII, Seasonic 850W PSU, Kingston 250gb SSD, Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD, Western Digital 1TB mechanical harddrive.

Location: Sweden

I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes


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From prior experience and reading on the web, a faulty VRAM or memory controller can sometimes manifest itself in graphical artifacting. But then again, these kinds of errors can also be driver related. I got warranty on the card but I need to be as certain as I can that I have ruled out software related issues.

What are your thoughts?

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