Annoying Display Errors in Exterior (Artifacts?)

[morgium]

Hello,

since this is my first post i want to start with thanking everyone here for the obviously great community and the efforts many people put in helping each other.

I looked on the forums for similar problems, since its hard for me to describe whats going wrong, i made a video to show you whats happening.

 

When i play Skyrim, the Sky and distant Landscape occasionally flickers, but sometimes the textures go black and look totally corrupted for a few milliseconds.

Have a look at the last 10 seconds of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ9EOprY0zM to see what i mean.

 

My specs:

 

Intel [email protected], 8GB OCZ Ram (which is working perfectly, i checked), Samsung SSD (checked this one also), and a new ATI Radeon HD 7850/1GB.

Im running Skyrim under Windows 7/64Bit at 1920x1080, 4xAA, 16xAF.

AA is set to Multisampling AA (not Adaptive) in the Driver Settings.

 

If you need any more information, i will be happy to provide them.

 

My Question is basically: Is the video Card broken, or is it a Software Issue (be that the driver or Skyrim or anything else?) I have similar Issues in Metro2033 i should add, but far from beeing this annoying (only when there's smoke and complex lighting, and i had that before i changed video cards as well, so im mainly interested in skyrim now)

 

Thanks for your time in advance!

[steve40]

If you are overclocking anything, don't.

Make sure you are using the latest Catalyst driver from the ATI website.

Make sure you have "Enable Surface Format Optimization" UNCHECKED in "Catalyst->3D Application Settings->Catalyst AI". Also try unchecking "Morphological Filtering".