Team Fortress 2 -- Heavy artifacts (AMD)

[perkele1989]

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.

XFX HD6870 Dual Dissipation 1GB GDDR5 AMD-FX 4170 @ 4.3 GHz 8GB DDR3 XMS3 1333MHz ArchLinux x86_64 with drivers from arch official catalyst-dkms package (13.1-2)

Pics:

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packages on hold since their new versions are not compatible with catalyst 13.1, and catalyst-dkms package is currently outdated:

xorg-server xf86-input-evdev

[perkele1989]

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.

[mikedebian]

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.

[perkele1989]

Can you please post your specs mpxlbs, so we easier can narrow this down to specific platforns/gpus/drivers etc

[mikedebian]

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:

[Nightgunner5]

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).

[Tele42]

@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.

[MrSchism]

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.