Graphics Glitch - becomes unplayable

Time:3:20PM
Frequency: begins somewhat randomly between 10 minutes after logging in or sometimes up to an hour after i begin
World name: Leviathan
Character name: Serene
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1. Just play the game... I've tried window, borderless, and full screen and it happens in all of them.
2. eventually the screen will blank out for about 5 seconds, and when the game returns to view the FPS is about 5 making it very difficult to do anything. Only fix is to close the client and restart it.

PC Specs
win 7
Core i7 3770
16Gb ram
nvidia GTX 650 TI

Are you over heating?

not at all ... processor is not even at 20%
video card runs game smoothly until it happens .. its a sudden thing.
also, if i exit and log back in, maybe 30 seconds have elapsed, and im good till it happens again

Yep, I have the same Issue. I have an Nvidia Geforce 670, i5-3570k, 16GB of RAM. win7.

I'm guessing it's an Nvidia programming glitch.

Same issue here, I have a GTX 570, i5 750, 8gb RAM, Win7 64bit

Weird thing is, I had no Issues before the server went down, but now it's unplayable..... plus before it goes black the whole ui is starting to stretch and just break.....

I wonder if you guys don't have a high enough wattage power supply, enough amps, not 80-plus certified, runs REALLY hot, or if you have the video card attached to the same power rail as other devices.

It's possible that the video card isn't drawing enough juice.

Also you should remove some weird settings or go into the NVIDIA control panel and disable weird features to see if it runs better, and of course to update any drivers.

But remember not to mess around too much with your power supply it can kill you.

It was fine earlier though which is the weird part...
Here a screenshot of the broken ui, it just flashes like that..
click me :D

1000W power supply and its got dedicated cables straight to the video card.
positive its not a power issue, all other games run just fine.
Also, I use all default settings so if it turns out to be a settings issue, theres an issue with the game using defaults.

I'm sure the Devs are busy solving bigger problems like the error 10102 and 90k.
I decided I should try finding newer drivers since its been a while and see what happens.

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GeForce GTX 650 Ti
This product has been detected as your primary device

Current Driver Version: 311.06
Latest Driver Version: 320.49

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looks like there are new drivers since July. I should have thought of this sooner, this could be the issue. I think everyone should update to the latest WHQL (not beta) drivers and play for a day to see if the problem goes away. I'll post back after about 24 hours with results.

go to NVidia site ( http://www.geforce.com/drivers ) and run the "Auto-Detect Your GPU" feature in the drivers section and post your driver versions. Then update to the latest. Maybe we can find the root cause together.

8 hours of play today ... no more graphics glitch ... now if they can only solve these connection issues....

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Originally Posted by DannyB

8 hours of play today ... no more graphics glitch ... now if they can only solve these connection issues....

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Wha did you do to fix it?

Judging by his previous posts, he simply upgraded his drivers.

There are even newer drivers available than what he listed, but those are beta drivers. While the current beta drivers will be released as WHQL drivers soon, it's up to you if you want to use beta drivers or not.

I've been using beta drivers 326.80 for my GTX680 without issues.

I have the same issue but haven't bothered with drivers because I don't want to log off and stop playing after waiting all day to get in lol. As a temp fix though whenever it starts running choppy I just alt tab out for a couple minutes then when I tab back in the game is working fine again.

As mentioned, I simply got the latest official release drivers.

Had another 8 or so hours of play since and things are perfect. So I'm fairly sure that was the issue.

Btw, thanks for the tip adathain. I'll give it a shot if I happen to run into the issue again. Although I think I'm good now.

Yes, it is confirmed that the Nvidia drivers cause this problem, so the next time the server crashes on you may as well use that time to update the drivers ^_^

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Originally Posted by Scorv

Yes, it is confirmed that the Nvidia drivers cause this problem, so the next time the server crashes on you may as well use that time to update the drivers ^_^

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Do you have any reference about that matter ?

I'm having a ton of graphical problems and I have to most recent nvidia drivers. I'm using a GTX650 TI and there are white veritcal screen tears and absolutely no text anywhere. Completely unplayable.

I've noticed that the flashing screen problem I described and the graphical distortion yngmalm and others have described are separate issues.

Might want to try the beta drivers if the latest standard drivers give you problems.

Sadly, this problem made a surprise return today at the worst possible time in the middle of a dungeon. Ive had at least 16 hours of play since i updated my drivers. and now I'm dealing with the damn 1017 error! Grrrr! what the hell!

I can deal with the graphics glitch.. seriously .. add a proper damn full server queue so i don't have to do the login dance any more!!