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

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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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)...
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Computer freezes with Visual Artifacts/Scrambled Screen (even at BIOS)

System Specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2l (BIOS f8b - stock)1 Processor: Intel Core 2 DUO - stock cooler PSU : CoolerMaster eXtreme Power Plus 460W HDD: 1 x 640 GB SATA, 1 x 320 ...
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Why Do I Get Artifacting In Photoshop Artboard

I get this wicked magenta and black artifacting when in Photoshop CS4 on Mac when I resize the window. It doesn't affect the image canvas, but it's on the artboard all around it. Hardware: Early ...
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White lines during boot before Windows boot manager

Sometimes, when I turn on my laptop, it shows some white lines that disappear inmediatly Video Lines are practically inappreciable Photo It happens randomly and white lines are showed the instant the ...
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visual artifacts, visible also on screenshots

For some time on my desktop computer I have strange visual artifacts. Here are a few examples of the artifacts: These artifacts are visible even on screenshots (the pictures above are actual ...
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Screen artifact

I've looked at several previous questions and answers to this kind of problem but haven't sorted out a fix yet. I wonder if someone recognizes which program this comes from, then maybe I can fix it ...
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Getting green boxes on monitor, then PC restarts

I have an Asus Gtx 650Ti Boost. After 4-6 hours of playing a game or browsing the internet, I get green boxes all over the screen and then the PC restarts. After restart, the screen looks normal. ...
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What is causing strange display artifacts on my screen

I want to preface my question by giving the specs of my laptop. I am running Windows 7 64 bit, I have in Intel 3rd generation mobile i7 processor, and a Nvidia 660M graphics card with 2GB of memory. ...
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How to test videos for artifacts?

I am having some issues with videos where the encoding gets choppy for a stretch: frames jumping back and forth, pixels bleeding from one frame into another. Like in this video right there. I know ...
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Black (and sometimes blue) screen after Windows 7 login

I have a new PC with Windows 7. At login to my user (not admin) account, there is always a "black screen" moment - the login screen dims, then my desktop appears and with it, for a split second, a ...
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Apple iMac mid 2011 Graphical Artifacts

I bought a brand new iMac mid 2011, and from time to time I've get these artifacts. What could be the cause? It looks like this when the temperature of the Graphical Diode = 77-80C, but when I was ...
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Why do moving lines become fuzzy on my monitor?

I recently got a new notebook. With moving images there are some graphical issues, and I'd like to know what causes them. None of my earlier monitors exhibited similar issues. Moving high contrast ...
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Why I am I getting color artifacts while watching YouTube in Flash at times?

I'm watching things on YouTube as well as hulu and at times I get this: What could be the cause of it?
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Screen glitches / artifacts / flickering on all modern distros and kernels. I haven't been able to find solution for over half a year

Horizontal lines, glitches, black or white horizontal bars appear randomly on the screen. It's very, very random. Sometimes it's barely noticeable, sometimes it's like on two videos below. The issue ...
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Faint, curved white line on monitor. How to get rid of it?

There is a faint, curved white line on my monitor. The line is not all the way across the monitor, it stops at the middle. It's much more noticeable on bright color images/videos, and less noticeable ...
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Screen artifacts/pixelation at random on a few different Dell Latitude 3520 notebooks

We have a few of these Dell Latitude 3520's that have had an odd artifacting issue. The image is not still, it is more like a constantly moving static, and I cannot recreate the issue when I get my ...
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How to remove large white blocks from Excel preview in Google Drive?

Does anyone know how to remove these large white blocks from the preview of an Excel file in Google Drive? The file itself is somewhat old and has gone through many large changes, including ...
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Completely white areas show reddish lines on the laptop screen

Video showing the issue : https://youtu.be/8Sd-mw77Evg Summary : the areas where the color is uniform, for example full white, show vertical lines. I seem to recall that GPU does not update all the ...
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New monitor has red/green ghosting around moving objects

I bought an Acer KB242HYL monitor and whenever something moves on it there's red/green smearing on the moving object. I tried adjusting the refresh rate and using a different HDMI cable and none ...
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Occurrence of weird artifacts

I've noticed that some videos and some specific resolutions like >720p are displayed in the following manner: I tried updating all drivers but the issue still persists. It started happening very ...
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Crash with black screen, except a dashed line on the left edge

Recently my laptop (ASUS X54C) has started crashing once every day or two. I can't work out any proximate cause of the crash, as it often happens when I'm just reading something, and it doesn't seem ...
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Games crashes to desktop with no error, artifacts and visual tear

I hope this is the correct stack exchange site. 4 days ago I upgraded my motherboard and cpu as well as new cpu cooler. MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK -> MSI MAG Z490 TOMAHAWK Intel i5 6600K -> Intel i5 ...
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Colored dots appear all over the screen in 3D games on RX 5600XT

I'm having an annoying issue with my PC. I had it a while ago in rdr2, when it suddenly appeared after many hours of playing and now i'm having it in cyberpunk 2077. It looks like colored dots and ...
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Intense graphical glitching

Twice now, I've walked away from my computer for long enough that the screen turns off and then come back to this: This time, it was only a firefox window, but the last time, the problem extended to ...
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Graphic artifacts / Glitchy appearance around border of browsers - Windows 10 Home

So recently my laptop has randomly on rare occasions decide to glitch out around the borders of browsers, notably, when using internet browsers. I have an example in the screenshot attached. The ...
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Zorin OS displaying black screen and glitchy cursor instead of login screen

I have a 2006 MacBook which kept beach-balling after login and I couldn't do anything, so I decided to install Zorin OS. It is a very good OS and I am enjoying it, but it often has this weird and ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 keeps freezing after a successful boot

I've been using on Ubuntu 18.04 for a year and suddenly it started to freeze a few seconds after a successful boot. I can see the desktop for a few seconds. It's asking for a gnome-keyring password, ...
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Screen is getting horizontally offset at random

I've got a single monitor setup on a pretty old PC (Windows 7, i5 2500K, Radeon 5850 GPU) which was doing fine until today. Today I've had a few instances where my screen suddenly gets offset by ~...
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Intermitent boot failure and graphics artifacts on boot (ONLY after hours turned off)

Since the early days of this build, some times the MOBO gives 5 short beeps on boot (There is no beep code table on the manual, for what I could find, it means Process error!?). But only after some ...
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Graphics Card Dying?

Lately my laptop has been having these odd graphical glitches and artifacting, as seen here: I'm almost certain that this is not a driver or software issue as my laptop is a dual boot and I started ...
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Firefox displays horizontal lines down the screen

I installed a Quadro NVS 285 graphics card recently, and ever since then Firefox will randomly display horizontal lines down the screen. I reinstalled Firefox, and it did not fix the problem. This ...
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How can I stop a video file to stop sputtering while I watch it?

I was finding that when watching some video files using VLC 2.0.6 (Twoflower) that I have on my hard drive, they were sputtering quite a bit (stopping and starting causing video and audio artifacts ...
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Graphics and USB devices freezing soon after OS loads

I run Ubuntu/Windows dual boot. Last night I started the upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04, and my computer has not worked since in either Windows or Ubuntu. Here's what I got when I rebooted after the upgrade, ...
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HP dv6-2155dx Weird Display Issue

I consider myself to be a fairly savvy computer guy, but this is a new one for me - I have an HP dv6-2155dx laptop. It has an integrated Intel HD graphics chipset. There are some scenarios (I haven't ...
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Graphical Issues After Using Windows Live Mesh Remote Desktop

I was using Windows Live Mesh's Remote Desktop feature to use my PC from my laptop. After disconnecting and returning to my PC's monitor when I turned it on my graphics were all messed up. Here's ...
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laptop display problem

My sony vaio laptop screen displays pictures that are bloomed.The text as i am typing is mixture of green and blue.My NVIDIA GEForce is disabled as the laptop wont boot with it.External monitor ...
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