HD4000: White dots around...

[idata]

(Sorry for my poor English.)

At first, it should be noted that this is not due to overheating or overclocking, tested in different ways.

Playing some games on the HD4000, i see a lot of the annoying white dots on the screen (a "clone" computer - but nvidia video - has no such effect).

Searching the forums has shown that this is related to the processing of shadows, transparent textures or alpha textures, or merging the edges of certain textures (and so on) by video driver.

I see a lot of such linear or random white dots in Metro 2033 (anywhere), GTA IV (linear оn textures edges and random on vegetation textures), STALKER (in shadows), I can make screenshots if necessary .

HD4000' performance (especially overclocked) would be enough for many purposes, if not for those pesky artifacts... Is this a driver bug?

Thanks for the clarification.

HD4000 (i7-3770k) + v. 2897 driver (and 2885, and earlier), H100, Asus MVG, GSkill 16 Gb, SSDs RAID, Dell 1920x1080, Win7u x64 SP1.

[Allan_J_Intel1]

Hi gregj,

I have noticed you were using customized drivers not provided on the Intel web site.

Please let me know if you already tried version 9.17.10.2875

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Graphics&ProductLine=Desktop+graphics+drivers&ProductProduct=3rd+Generation+Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+Processors+with+Intel%C2%AE+HD+Graphics+4000/2500 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Graphics&ProductLine=Desktop+graphics+drivers&ProductProduct=3rd+Generation+Intel%C2%AE+Core%E2%84%A2+Processors+with+Intel%C2%AE+HD+Graphics+4000/2500

Thanks

Allan

[idata]

Hi, Allan,

I tried 2875 driver too, with same effects.

But, despite v.2897 driver (I currently use) is provided on Intel web site with respective status "current": http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&changeLang=true&DwnldId=22182 http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&changeLang=true&DwnldId=22182 Download Center , I'll try v.2975 again.

[idata]

I made few screenshots as illustrations what I mean. Of course, still images don't show flickering.

This effect appears only in dark, shadowed scenes, but in bright scenes there is nothing like it.

2885 driver, balanced 3d settings and all other on defaults. This is a hardware failure?..

STALKER COP

http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/f6/0440334f87cb3e0aa6d05f379541bff6.png http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/f6/0440334f87cb3e0aa6d05f379541bff6.png

http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/5f/7e809bd205d10a3338e0e76de6cc425f.png http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/5f/7e809bd205d10a3338e0e76de6cc425f.png

Metro 2033

http://i52.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/d4/f40ceb4c245089abc3c5c3033629c2d4.png http://i52.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/d4/f40ceb4c245089abc3c5c3033629c2d4.png (ooo-h, anywhere on walls)

http://i52.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/b1/cd225c65842dba667c951861a02173b1.png http://i52.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/b1/cd225c65842dba667c951861a02173b1.png (settings)

GTA IV

http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/74/1af0bc277f91131cb9684aa96a2f1b74.png http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/74/1af0bc277f91131cb9684aa96a2f1b74.png (look at left curtain)

http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/10/0f54c8f7f7294b9e9f9284431cbbb510.png http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0105/10/0f54c8f7f7294b9e9f9284431cbbb510.png (settings)

And yes, I tryed different drivers.

[MSchm21]

Can you try lowest settings in Metro 2033?

Looks like your iGPU is damaged.

[idata]

Switching to the lowest settings did not bring any positive results:

http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0106/04/661612d8e593725c0e4b49eec02dc204.png http://i51.fastpic.ru/big/2013/0106/04/661612d8e593725c0e4b49eec02dc204.png

I'll try to replace the CPU, and then MB...