Questions tagged [visual-artifacts]

Visual artifacts are anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery.

Visual artifacts are anomalies during visual representation of digital graphics and imagery.

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Does Windows 7 support multiple simultaneous nVidia graphics cards with different drivers?

On one of my dev machines at work (currently running XP), I have two nVidia graphics cards: Quadro NVS 440 (my original card, for my three primary monitors) GeForce GTX 275 (just added, for CUDA development) I can get both cards to work OK by…
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Purple artifacts in RDP session

I'm having an intermittent issue where I get purple artefacting in my RDP session. The RDP is to a local Hyper-V machine which is configured to use RemoteFX. I have a nVidia GTX 970 with the latest drivers (375.70) This is my RDP…
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Graphic corruption followed by message: "Too many 16-bit programs are running"

For reference here are my system specs: Cooler Master Sniper Scout tower Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 Intel G33 Motherboard 6GB DDR2 RAM Radeon HD 4870 GPU 1TB SATA Drive 7200 RPM OCZ ZT Series 650W PSU Windows Vista 64-bit Home…
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Help in diagnosing what's wrong with my computer

I have a DELL XPS 1710. Yesterday night while I was doing nothing special (browsing the web and chatting on the IM, it all of a sudden froze. I restarted it and now the screen is filled with green dotted lines as soon as the monitor goes on (see…
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What causes this graphical glitch in my web browser?

This glitch seems to randomly show up in my web browsers.
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Visual Studio 2010 Graphic Artifacts

This problem started happening to me once I installed SP1 onto my Windows 7 Ultimate install. When changing between tabs, or even just hovering my mouse over buttons, VS2010 starts artifacting. It's bad enough where I often times can't see any of…
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Tmux window indicator rendering issue with FiraCode Nerd font in Windows Terminal

Description: I'm encountering a rendering issue with the tmux window indicator when using the catppuccin theme in combination with the FiraCode Nerd font on Windows Terminal within WSL. Specifically, there seems to be a disconnect between the…
The Nemo Nemesis
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PNG or JPEG for an X-Ray without visible artifacts

A past paper question from a Multimedia Systems exam: If you had an X-Ray photograph of a leg which might be broken, which would give better compression before artifacts were visible, and which would you choose? I think the answer is JPEG.…
user376151
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Can an artifacting video card be useful in any way?

I recently acquired an MSI Radeon R9 280X video card that experiences visual glitches/flickering patches/artifacts in games and in 2D mode. Once I tried to open a video in fullscreen mode from Youtube and the screen just went entirely flickering…
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On screen artifacts, gone after restart

I'm experiencing on screen artifacts which lead me to believe that my GPU is dying. However a restart of my pc has (until now) always solved the issue... This again makes it look like it isn't GPU related. Is there any way to make sure what the…
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Flickering and 2D graphic errors in DX11 mode in fullscreen on AMD HD 5970

I have recently gotten an AMD Sapphire HD 5970 2GB video card. This seems to consist of two 1GB cards on the same chip (there is a crossfireX option but the card otherwise has only one PCI-E connector) When running some DX11 games, there is…
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Video card displays graphic artefacts

When I came home today, my video card started displaying graphic artifacts, and logging in to windows 7 would cause the computer to reboot. The computer was working fine when i last shut it down last night. Here's a video of what's happening. I have…
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Terminal freezes in Linux Mint 12

Since I installed Linux Mint 12, I'm encountering problems in the terminal. I'm working with two tabs in the terminal. Sometimes, when I launch a command on the terminal, it's not refreshed, like freezed with some graphical artifacts. I've to…
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MacBook Pro kernel panics

My laptop has been acting up recently. It's seemed especially slow, video and audio has been very jittery, and it seems unable to do simple stuff like playback YouTube videos without jitter. This under-performance has been accompanied by a series…
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How to prevent this window behaviour in Linux

This happens when I move the windows. Details: openbox ATI proprietary driver no problem in OpenGL contexts I don't want to use any compositing manager It's not so strange, quite common in fact. Read here. Obviously this image doesn't reproduce…
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