[2.0.32] 7900GRE graphics instability

[BDRandy]

1. What did you do? Literally just playing the game on a XFX 7900GRE. Takes nothing special in-game to reproduce besides specific hardware.
2. What happened? Horizontal graphics artifacts that happen infrequently. I have uploaded a video demonstrating the artifacts. Normally they are not as frequent as in the video, I just caught them at a good time. Factorio is running in the background during the video; I took the video without factorio on the screen to show the artifacts are not within the game window. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZXvIcNEV00
3. What did you expect to happen instead? I expected no graphics artifacts.
4. Does it happen always, once, or sometimes? It does not happen all the time. It can be anywhere from <1 second to several hours in-between noticed artifacts.

Extra important information: These graphics artifacts are not likely to be malfunctioning hardware because: The artifacts ONLY ever appear with factorio running. Nothing else at all has ever caused them. I have tested 3 GPUs, 2 were 7900GREs and one was a 4080S. The artifacts happened on both the 7900GREs but not the 4080S. It is not monitor related because it happens on two different monitors, both with separate display and power cables. They have happened ever since I installed the 7900GRE, well before the 2.0 update. During the frequent glitches (<1 second in-between) as shown in the video, the artifacts immediately stop when Factorio is closed. The artifacts do not appear on screen recordings. I have contacted GPU manufacturer, and they said because the artifacts only happen in one specific game, it is extremely unlikely that the GPU is faulty.

The artifacts are also unlikely to be graphics driver related because: They happen on every driver version I have tested. Again, no other game or benchmark causes them. I was able to reproduce them on a new computer, with a 7900GRE with nothing else installed on the operating system.

I have tested this to the best of my ability, Factorio is the only option I see that could be the culprit.

[Loewchen]

Post the log of a session with the issue, see 3638.

[computeraddict]

1. What did you do? Literally just playing the game on a XFX 7900GRE. I have contacted GPU manufacturer, and they said because the artifacts only happen in one specific game, it is extremely unlikely that the GPU is faulty.

A very cursory search showed tons of people complaining about similar problems with their 7900gre's. This is almost certainly an AMD problem. "The GPU only malfunctions on one game" doesn't make it not a GPU issue.

[Rseding91]

Considering we do not do anything special for any given GPU, intel, nvidia, or amd, I put the blame squarely on the driver.

[jodokus31]

You could try changing the monitor to 60Hz and/or experiment with VSync/VRR. Maybe also a second monitor with a different refresh rate could be a problem.