Graphical artifacts in Dead Space 1

[AssassinoFinland]

I have a weird problem in Dead Space 1. Sometimes when Isaac gets a video message through his Rig, it messes up the game's graphics. The whole screen becomes covered with multicolored flashing lines that cover up my entire screen so I can't see anything. But when the video message ends, they disappear entirely and the game acts normal again. This doesn't happen in every video message though. I didn't have any problems with the video message in chapter 1. This starts happening only after reaching Chapter 2 and only then it seems to happen in only certain specific situations. I have no idea what is causing this but it is very annoying.

[EA_Darko · Accepted solution]

@AssassinoFinland Sorry for the late reply to your late reply.

Glad to hear that you were able to narrow down the cause of the issue. What you could try doing is forcing V-sync on the card and leave it off in the game options. 

Darko

[EA_Darko]

Are you on PC or console, if on PC can you try repairing the game to ensure that there are no issues with your installed files.

[AssassinoFinland]

Sorry for the lat reply. I'm on pc. I discovered the problem has something to do with V-sync. When I enable V-sync the problem goes away but then it will always be locked to 30 fps. I prefer playing without V-sync because of that. Though playing without V-sync seems to cause other problems in this game as well (like preventing the regenerating necromorph from spawning in chapter 5)

[EA_Darko · Accepted solution]

@AssassinoFinland Sorry for the late reply to your late reply.

Glad to hear that you were able to narrow down the cause of the issue. What you could try doing is forcing V-sync on the card and leave it off in the game options. 

Darko

[AssassinoFinland]

Thanks. That seems to solve it. Now I can play without artifacts and glitches and the fps is locked to 60 rather than 30. Much better than the in-game v-sync.

[EA_Darko]

@AssassinoFinland Excellent, enjoy the game and if you should see any other issues just shoot and we'll do what we can to help.

Darko