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Crash to desktop, graphical artifacts

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There are bright, colorful, flashing graphical artifacts on the background of the main screen sometimes. Other times I get these artifacts as soon as I enter the game world. After 10 seconds it crashes to desktop. Sometimes it crashes at the main screen. I've tried several nvidia drivers. They all have issues.

My specs:

i7-3770 @ 3.4ghz

16 gb RAM

Nvidia GeForce GTX 560TI

Windows 7

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Download eVGA Precision and enable the Overlay. Make sure you have the GPU Temperature selected to be displayed in the On-Screen Display.

Monitor your temperature while playing to rule out any potential overheating. I too used to get graphical artifacts in games on my old graphics card and it turned out the VRAM was bad so I had to get it replaced.

You could also download FurMark and give that a go, it's great for finding artifacts and will stress test your GPU while at it. But wait, there's more - it will also serve you as an Acid Trip Simulator.

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Download eVGA Precision and enable the Overlay. Make sure you have the GPU Temperature selected to be displayed in the On-Screen Display.

Monitor your temperature while playing to rule out any potential overheating. I too used to get graphical artifacts in games on my old graphics card and it turned out the VRAM was bad so I had to get it replaced.

You could also download FurMark and give that a go, it's great for finding artifacts and will stress test your GPU while at it. But wait, there's more - it will also serve you as an Acid Trip Simulator.

Thanks for the advice but I already use eVGA Precision and have the fan turned all the way up. The temp is only in the 40's when I get the artifacts. I play ARMA 2 with a temp of between 70-75 and never get any artifacts. I'm pretty sure it can't be an overheat issue.

---------- Post added at 20:44 ---------- Previous post was at 20:43 ----------

Sometimes when it crashes I get an error that says, "display driver has stopped responding and has recovered".

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Never mind. The issue was with my video card and not ARMA 3. My video card developing problems just happened to coincide with the first few times I played ARMA 3.

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