Graphics shuttering

[Drkcloud]

I'll try to explain this the best I can. Whenever I'm playing Battlefield 3, something just happens as if my GPU just gives up. My FPS will drop to 0-3 randomly, when selecting a spawn point it will shutter between the different options as if its struggling to produce the images in the background, when flying a jet as I'm changing my view from cockpit to 3rd person it will drop my FPS to 0-3(not always), and even flying the jet in one view it will randomly drop fps to those numbers. It doesn't happen in just vehicles but on foot too.

I don't think its because of the temps are around 60. Now this doesn't always happen. I could play a few matches(lets say 20-40 minutes long) and it would never happen. Only during this sorta of "give up session" this happens.

Another thing I had problems with in the past were graphic tears. If I were to look at a certain area there would be black lines and shapes all focusing to a point on the map. Here are some screenshots of that:
http://imgur.com/Gy3Qh
http://imgur.com/64pxS
http://imgur.com/mLW3h

My graphics card is a MSI Nividia GTX 570 Power Edition.

[BicycleMafioso]

The tears and black lines/shapes are known as artifacts.
Is your GPU overclocked at all? Because that looks like instabilities to me.

[Drkcloud]

The only overclocking that has been done to the card was a factory overclock since its a power edition. The specs for that are here: http://www.msi.com/product/vga/N570G...dition-OC.html.

[lordjust]

I think the overclocking is the problem. I had the same problems with a GTX560Ti that was factory overclocked. Thing is that every chip can handle the overclocking differently and not every card is overclocked right. They just use chips of "higher" quality and rise the clocking without adjusting other things like voltage which are very important. For me it helped to raise the voltage a little bit so that the card runs more stable.

A good way to overclock or change things is using MSI afterburner. First of all I would create a new profile where you put the factory settings in and do some tests in afterburner and other programs like furmark. After that I would do the same tests with the default overclocked profile and create a new profile where I raise the voltage a little bit (as little as possible) and redo the test. If it gets better try to find the right spot where it gets worse and take two steps back. Raising the voltage is very dangerous because you can fry your card very quickly but the only other option would be to reduce the clocking.