Artifacting? Texture issue?

[zenman2112]

Greetings! I recently upgraded a super old Dell Inspiron 530a (mid tower, not micro tower) to use as a spare "gaming" computer for company.

 

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Core 2 Duo E6550 @2.33GHz | Core 2 Duo E8500 @3.16GHz

4GB DDR2 667MHz RAM | 8GB DDR2 800MHz RAM

Nvidia GT 630 2gb | Radeon HD 7850 2gb

 

Before, Fallout 4 was playable but only with a lot of ini tweaks. It's running great now on high but from time to time I'll see texture glitches in random places like workbenches and NPC faces until I get close to them. I fear now it's to do with the graphics card but all my old experiences with artifacts were very different than what I'm seeing now.

 

Here's two screenshots of what I'm seeing. I'm not sure just how frequent it is because I haven't played Fallout 4 on that system extensively, most of these complaints are from others.

 

 

 

http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/LMohr75/Screens/ScreenShot0_zps0lj3y8uq.png

 

http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww258/LMohr75/Screens/ScreenShot1_zpsdt65nh44.png

 

Thank you for any input.

Edited February 2, 2016 by zenman2112

[AeonsLegend]

Looks like missing textures. Could be an installation issue. Could also be GPU overheating if the tower is not built to get rid of the new heat it is generating.

[zenman2112]

Thank you kindly for your reply.

 

I'm thinking it MUST be a driver or GPU issue since the textures are there but only when I get up really close to it.

 

I ordered an SSD, new case with plenty of ventilation along with a bevy of fans. It was all on sale or obviously I could have about bought a new mobo and processor to replace it all completely! I hope for that day soon... still, I'll be able to move the HD7850, PSU and other upgrades into the new case when that day does arrive.

 

I'll reinstall Windows 10 once that all gets here and re-download FO4 fresh from Steam again.

 

Thanks again for your consideration.

Edited February 3, 2016 by zenman2112

[zenman2112]

Thanks again for the input.

 

I threw that hunk-of-junk mainboard and upgraded components into a cheap Deepcool Tesseract full ATX case with 7 fans. I reapplied some Arctic Silver onto the GPU and CPU, re-installed Fallout 4 and Windows onto a Sandisk SSD. I can't tell for sure which of those fixed the problem but so far everything is working great. Fallout 4 used to take ages to load now it's just about 6 or 7 seconds which rivals my main gaming rig's load time. It was a lot of work for such an old computer but this thing will make a decent file server or pfsense router once depreciated!