Graphical problems (I'm not running on a laptop)

[Yourflyisdwn]

Intel i5-4670k
GTX 780 3GB
16GB memory
Windows 7 64-bit

When I'm playing the game, artifacts on the screen will flicker. Like big black (sometimes white) rectangular shapes sometimes the size of city blocks. The only time this doesnt happen is if I'm running everything on the lowest settings, and this is NOT how I want to play the game. I've verified my cache, I've uninstalled and re-installed, I've updated my video drivers, I've updated Windows (and restarting my computer), I've disabled steam overlay, and my version is 1.0.5.

I have no mods installed, and I haven't even built a road or building yet. This problem has persisted every time I create a game. I even let it run for 10 minutes hoping it'll go away, but sometimes it gets worse. I've checked all over these forums and reddit and I cannot find a solution.

Also I am unable to take screenshots because the screenshots don't show the flickering graphics.

Thanks guys

 

[Hyraclyon]

I have the same artifacting problem with my GTX 780. It gets worse when running at higher settings and resolutions. The issue becomes less when I clock my graphics card down a notch, but persists even when downclocked below standard speed. I do not have this issue on any other games.

 

[Yourflyisdwn]

Maybe it is a problem with the 780. I've seen a couple different issues people have been having, but most of them are specific AMD cards. This could be the same thing.

 

[Yourflyisdwn]

Ok so I used the fix that has been going around where you set the launch options to "-force-d3d9" and so far it works fine.