It appears you are stuck in the Black Lodge.

Did you reinstall the game? Also. use the youtube tag, its right next to the chain icon in the formatting toolbar. looks like this: [ youtube = ]

didnt reinstall yet. good idea.

Did you try run other demanding games and check if you have the same problem? Looks like you're graphics card is dying or overheating (artifacts).

Also try updating drivers and changing settings, see if it works somehow.

yeah, i tried other demanding games such as witcher 3 or the division - no artifacts at all.

i also tried to change every setting of the graphics card with radeons control center, but to no avail.

Well, be glad. QC ain't a game you would want to play anyway; )

"Well polished."



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to cards ram is too hot, turn your OC down, and if you GPU is too hot as well, it should just bottleneck instead

austrailia is big on underclocking cards because the retail cooling is never good enough for some parts of the country

check your frame rates and cpu and gpu temperatures. I am not suggesting programs, there plenty around.

ITS A RAVE

'AMD radeon and whatnot' is not a useful description of what you're running here.

What exactly is your graphics card? Obviously there are plenty of AMD users that don't have this problem.
What driver version are you using? have you tried other driver versions?

Have you checked your component temperatures?

will update my post with a detailed rundown of my system later.

i tried different driver versions. new ones, old ones, beta ones.

is it the same in "fullscreen" and "borderless windowed"?

yep

I would guess it's either running too hot because of either bad airflow in the case/too much overclocked with bad airflow (it's summer after all). Turn down the OC if you have done any (especially the gpu memory), check the airflow of your case, maybe blow out some dust if it's been a long time.

It could also be a bad driver, google how to properly remove driver and reinstall a fresh one.

PSU could be bad and not giving it enough power.

Card could simply be dying, if it's a really old card this might be it. If you have access to a friends card you could try with that before getting a new card.

There is a lot of info about what causes artifacts on the web so I'd check around for other games in general and try to narrow it down.

1. Is Quake Champs the only game this happens on?
if yes:
Then it is a beta game and some of your driver settings could be causing it. Try driver cleaner etc. If the card runs fine in other demanding games like doom etc, then just submit a bug report to ID.
if no:
Could be a hardware issue, try the graphics card in another PC. If it works fine in another PC then try updating your motherboard chipset drivers.

your computer is underpowered for qc

Try baking the card, quite a few people have been helped with bad cases of artifacts when they have baked their cards in the oven, even dead cards have come to life. Not a troll, google it, if you decide to do it be sure to remove fans and shroud. GL, hope you get to the bottom with what's causing the problem.

meanwhile, i replaced my radeon r9 290 with a geforce gtx 980. everything is running smooth now.

thanks a lot for all your troubleshooting. esr = <3

Try bake it anyway, just to see if it works ;)

nope. i can sell the old radeon to you so you can put it in the oven, my friend.

My oven is broken, need to bake it first ;)

Or you can just sell it on ebay and get 2x what you paid for it due to cryptotards

Your graphics card RAM is knackered.