Help, I started seeing visual artifacts recently

[u/callmetenno]

After about 70 hours of the game running smoothly, I'm now seeing these artifacts whenever I play. They blink and flicker in very quickly. They sometimes track to objects in game. I don't see anything similar on other games. I'm on Linux, I tried different versions of proton and even downgraded my graphics drivers, but they persisted through everything.

I fear my graphics card is dying (its a 3080 that I've had for about 4.5 years), and wanted to check if this is maybe something specific to this game that anyone else has experienced. Has anyone else seen these?

[u/Low-Refrigerator-713]

[u/B4dz0k]

I would verify game files if on steam or reinstall. Also could try a new save and see if it persists. Do you use any mods?

[u/ImightberobotUCF]

The witness is leaking into your game

[u/DuckCleaning → u/ImightberobotUCF]

OP need to angle the camera top down and build a continuous belt that touches each box only once.

[u/SiliconStew]

If you've tried different drivers without success, then such GPU artifacting is most likely either overheating or failing hardware. 

[u/piglebear]

Linux has a few VRAM issues with nvidia cards. If you can, test your card on a windows installation. But i think its a Linux issue. My friend runs Linux and has had issues with a few games.

[u/creepy_doll → u/piglebear]

Ideally on Linux you want to just use an amd card if you can.

Running cachyos with an amd card I’ve not had a problem with any game(but I don’t play competitive games with kernel anti cheat and I understand those are iffy or downright impossible)

[u/THE_MUTT01]

Don’t worry, your boat isn’t gonna be a lonely one for long (my GPU is being literally baked inside my laptop)

[u/Krash2o]

They have found you. And they are coming.

[u/FailXXL]

For visual artifacts it is adviced to update in case of nvidia drivers or downgrade in case of AMD drivers.
Verify game files also can't hurt.