What is happening (rendering glitch)?

[Myastan]

The newest AMD graphics driver update may have broken my game. I have tried googling the issue using keywords such as 'artefacting' etc. but I have not been able to see anyone else with the same issue. What keywords should I use to google the issue, and what remedies are available if any?

 

[Brammmers]

That could also be a bad overclock, or faulty hardware (possibly a bat bit of vram).

Set everything to stock clocks (if oc) and run memory testers/stress tests.

J

 

[Riverside]

Looks like overheating GRAM to me. Try the old drivers to see if it goes away.

 

[Myastan]

That could also be a bad overclock, or faulty hardware (possibly a bat bit of vram).

Set everything to stock clocks (if oc) and run memory testers/stress tests.

J

Looks like overheating GRAM to me. Try the old drivers to see if it goes away.

The VRAM settings didn't do anything, but bringing down the GPU proper clock ~6% resulting in a ~5% FPS loss did fix the issue. However, ED is the only game this happens in (other games run fine at maximum clock), and this started happening only since this newest driver. Is there cause for concern with the card? What is the issue even called?

 

[Brammmers]

What gfx card is this? Is it old?

Could be a thermal issue (ED and the new drivers could be pushing it harder).

New thermal paste and/or cleaning the fans and heatsink of dust might help.

J

 

[Myastan]

What gfx card is this? Is it old?

Could be a thermal issue (ED and the new drivers could be pushing it harder).

New thermal paste and/or cleaning the fans and heatsink of dust might help.

J

This is a Sapphire Nitro+ 6750XT that has only been in use since November, albeit at all clocks always maxed out (previously without issue, and even now issue only in ED).

 

[Shurimal]

The VRAM settings didn't do anything, but bringing down the GPU proper clock ~6% resulting in a ~5% FPS loss did fix the issue. However, ED is the only game this happens in (other games run fine at maximum clock), and this started happening only since this newest driver. Is there cause for concern with the card? What is the issue even called?

That's the thing with overclocking, some games work fine, some may glitch, some may crash the driver. Have you done stress testing using Furmark?

I don't think it's a heat problem, though—Sapphire Nitros are some of the best cooling systems available for AMD cards. Sapphire overall is nr. 1 choice for AMD, thoroughly solid cards.

 

[Myastan]

That's the thing with overclocking, some games work fine, some may glitch, some may crash the driver. Have you done stress testing using Furmark?

I don't think it's a heat problem, though—Sapphire Nitros are some of the best cooling systems available for AMD cards. Sapphire overall is nr. 1 choice for AMD, thoroughly solid cards.

Yep, 1 hour stress tests held up entirely fine.

 

[Riverside]

The VRAM settings didn't do anything, but bringing down the GPU proper clock ~6% resulting in a ~5% FPS loss did fix the issue. However, ED is the only game this happens in (other games run fine at maximum clock), and this started happening only since this newest driver. Is there cause for concern with the card? What is the issue even called?

Check your cards temps & try reverting to the older drivers. ED does a lot of the terrain generation on the graphics card, it may be putting an unusual stress on the the card that an artificial benchmark doesn't.

I've never seen those triangles in ED & I run my (Nvidia) graphics card pretty hard for hours at a time in ED. It could be an issue with the new drivers, or some other local issue (eg overclocked a little too close to the limit & ED is a miners canary on your PC). I think if it were the game there would be a lot of other people bringing it up but you never know,maybe you're an early adopter of your card/driver combo?

 

[Ozric]

This is a Sapphire Nitro+ 6750XT that has only been in use since November, albeit at all clocks always maxed out (previously without issue, and even now issue only in ED).

Elite does seem to have various issues with the AMD 6000 series cards, that neither Frontier or AMD seem to be able to pin down. They both tried for a while, but I'm not sure if anything's been done recently.
I upgraded from a Vega 56 to a Sapphire 6700xt and ended up with more issues than improvements, although the FPS got a big boost.

There might be something in here to help, I haven't checked it in a while.

AMD RX 6000 series driver issues & workarounds

Update: Multiple confirmations that the 23.7.1 drivers have resolved VR rendering and performance issues. Leaving orbit/gravity lines as the remaining problem point (see below). Update: @MrVaad has posted a 3DMigoto shader patch to address the aliased orbit/gravity lines here. Update: Most of...

forums.frontier.co.uk

 

[Northpin]

This is a Sapphire Nitro+ 6750XT that has only been in use since November, albeit at all clocks always maxed out (previously without issue, and even now issue only in ED).

ED is one of the most heavyweight games in term of loading the gpu/cpu
So you either revert to the previous drivers or you keep these drivers and bring down the clocks to stable values

No point to run stress tests or to compare to other games - ED is quite unique