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When you pause the video but the artifacts don't stop moving

That feeling when you find out it was just a cable 😋 thanks for this dude

This is more then I can handle and would bring it to someone that knows a lot more then me. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day.

Mom, look my PC does the "same thing" I need a new one!

*sniffle sniffle* r.i.p. my gpu :( lol this is like watching a video on how to know if your dog is gonna pass away soon lol

I've been seeing artifacts in almost all games so I made a clean install of the drivers but now it refuses to open the Radeon software or any games. It freezes, giving me a black screen with no sound

wow thanks man, i thought that my gpu was broken but when i saw what it looked like when it was broken i was so happy and relived that it isnt broken, thanks man :D.

Thanks for the help. I have been having issues with my monitor shutting on and off randomly and/or a scrambled picture once in a while. It's not the cable, so Ill give some of these a try!

When your screen looks like Max Headroom has smoked too much whackie tabaccie, your GPU might be dying. 😁

Thanks Brian for the info like always, you always doing great videos trying to help others. Can I transform DP cable to HDMI with some type of adaptor is there something like that in the market thanks Brian like always keep up the good work 👍👍😁👍👍

Great aproach, thanx for the help!

ive been getting really bad fps dips when playing beamng lately. I usually average 40 fps with 4 other players, but now its been going as low as 15-4 fps for about 30 seconds (sometimes minutes) and then goes back up to 40 fps. I decided to open task manager and ran it to track performance and when i'd get the fps dip the GPU utilization would go from 70% to 20-15% and sometimes 0 and stay at 0. everything else seemed to be acting normal. at 0% the game was at 1 fps (not surprising lol). does this mean my gpu is dying or could it have something to do with windows?

I have MSI Rx570 8GB Armor paired with MSI B450i Gaming plus AC. My rig has been running for 5 months then suddenly i'm having boot/POST issues. I mean if I turn on I get no signal in the monitor. Then after turning on and off few times Im able to boot. Then during the weekend I cant boot anymore. Even how many retries. So i open the case and found the MSI board Ez Debug LED for VGA is on. I already did all the remedies and still no avail. This time just a black screen unlike before I still get the no signal in the monitor. Dont know if the GPU is faulty or the board or the PSU. Any ideas what it might be?

Well done, Brian.

Hello mr. britec can I have tutorial on installing teredo or what ever it is called I cannot have Xbox party working because of this issue. Thank you

I have a brand new Zotac GTX1650 SUPER,. When i run Subnautica Below Zero, my Monitor just went into power save mode and then comeback and then back to save mode, over and over again, this also happens when loading into ARK. I also tried my card on my brother's setup and it also does the same thing when its trying to run a gpu intensive game. Any idea?

so what if your screens just blank out for a second and all screens reset? i have 4 monitors, and they just flashed everything and reset all the open windows/apps.

I know this is an old video, but I’m working on my nephew’s PC. The GPU cannot be found in the Bios and when I try doing the driver update the PC goes into a safe mode like state. The resolution is called at 1280X720 and everything is stretched. I’m not sure if it’s a Motherboard issue or a GPU issue please help.

I was also experiencing some issues with my GPU. I'd be trying to play a game such as GTA V and every time I would go into the part to look at the map it would become very very laggy. Or even at times in gameplay I would get this like weird blurry color effect on the screen and it would look blurry in the colors would look really vibrant and on top of that the games FPS would drop way below 30 FPS. Now this graphics card is capable of playing GTA V at vary high settings and about 80 to 90 FPS usually. So I thought the problem may have been the GPU. So I decided to pop in my old GPU start up the game now that's GPU generally plays the game at around 50 FPS my old GPU but the funny thing is all of the stuttering and the weird color facts and going into the map was all gone on this GPU. But then I noticed that the driver was on a different version for this GPU but yet they're both the same an Nvidia GPU just one is a GTX 1050 and the other is a GTX 1060 6GB card. So then I popped back in the GTX 1060 and the same thing continues to happen. So I decided to uninstall the driver and try to run it on the driver that it came with out of the box which is like 388 I believe as soon as I downgraded the driver to a older version all of my problems were gone after that. So I'm assuming it was the current driver that was causing my GPU to act weird and funny. Because after I deleted the driver ran an older driver all of a sudden my frame rates were back into the 80s and 90s again and everything was running as it was supposed to so I discovered my problem was a defective driver.

have a GTX 960 which completely stopped working during sleep mode for some reason, never had a problem with it and now it won't show up anywhere on my computer. Not in the BIOS, not in Device Manager or even CPU-Z. I used DDU to clear out all Nvidia files and and do a reinstall but it says that the drivers can't find compatible hardware (Running Windows 10 btw). My 760 on the other hand works fine. So did Win 10 completely fubar this thing or can I bring it back? I tried almost everything so far.

So what if my Screen (On start-up sometimes) Just goes white or shows a multi color static screen? Just today when that happened i restarted the pc 4 times with no success so i was forced to hold the power button down. I have tried to get it to happen again but not success there either. I just need to know whats happening before i send it back in to get looked at.

soo then what does it mean when your pc every now and then lets you hear an error code while starting up and the screen shows up a little bit later than normally

My screen turns a really blakish green when I turn my pc on put only when I actually login what do you think is wrong?

So i have my 1660 super for about 3-4 months and while im playing some games my pc starts to really slow down, the sound and image get all distorted then I get blue screen. I reinstalled the gpu drivers again witth ddu and its still happens. I dont know if its because my monitor (its very old, I have to use a HDMI/VGA conector to work) but I really apreciate help.

I have an issue, my screen keeps going black and I hear a disconnect sound then it turns back on, it mostly happens when I play video games, but it also happens when I just watch movies which is weird because I thought it only happens when I put pressure on the card but now even when simply browsing the internet it happens, I don't know if it's a GPU issue or maybe a PSU issue, the card doesn't even heat up or anything and it doesn't look broken and it isn't dusty so I'm really confused why is this happening

When im in game i suddenly get a blank green screen then my pc crashes and sometimes i get these blue lines on start up which freezes my pc and then i have to restart it and hope i get past start up. Could that be bcus of my gpu?

Hey can u help me with my computer I gave it for installing extra 2ram and 1 gpu but it's work for a little bit and restart by saying errors

i've got red artefacts,code 43 error and no directx installing,most programs dont detect the gpu,any suggest?

I see white squares now and then every time a new asset is loaded for the first time. Started happening with my 1070 and now even my igpu is doing it. Is it display/cable related?

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Hello my pc sometimes gets restarted or giving me 7-10fps when launch games .. Previously i was getting 70 fps above in games .. My gpu is gtx1060 6gb and psu cooler master thunder 450w .. What should be the problem

Question only Halo 2 is acting up. When I fire the gun there the bottom corner of my screen temporarily fills with a solid color. Other games and videos work. What could it be?

I've been seeing a bit of ghosting, but I can tolerate that, even if it's annoying, but whats really starting to get to me is that it flickers to a black screen. It was happening only on one game, but just today it happened on another. Is that a dying gpu, or a driver issue, or maybe even an problem where it's not connected to the motherboard correctly?

screen flickers black lines and flickers off and on after couple hours of use, could it be faulty?

What do you think is the best software for testing a GPU for BSODs?

Question right now my computer is not detecting my other monitor I've tried switching the cables but it didn't work so I'm wondering if this has something to do with the GPU

So I did everything you told me too and I still have weird colors all over my screen and when I run the furmark and put it on full screen it's completely fine but when I open a game or something it just flashes a bunch of different colors really fast and idk what else to do if you could get back to me I would very much appreciate it

I’m having an issue, i don’t know if it’s a gpu issue though, i can’t run a game without both of my monitors turning off…but my gpu temps are always around 45-55c (i mainly play valorant) also i do not hear the fans sounding like a jett, so i don’t know what it could be, it’s fine when i’m just having discord open or google chrome, the fans don’t spin, only when a game is running (evga ftw3 ultra) model please help.

While playing game (far cry 4), the game ´crashed´ and on screan i could see coloured stripes that were horizontal and had light gray and dark gray colours. Is it also a sign that ´my´ graphics card is dying? Im using AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series.

everytime i open google chrome my screen goes entirely black for a few seconds. my second monitor works just fine, I drag the mouse to it and it appears...PLEASE HELPPPP

my 2008 imac 20" has the problem

So if my xbox shows grey checkerboards in mirrors edge or rainbow dots in black ops 3, my GPU is dying?

I was playing a game and when I quit to play Fortnite my screen changed colors and the game stopped working. I saw that there was a driver update so I thought that may have been the problem, but when I try to install it it just stays on the same screen and won’t finish the install process. This is an NVIDIA RTX 2060 super and I’ve only had it at just a year this month.

i had artifacts on my new gpu only when i booted and it was only on display port and not hdmi, i enabled csm boot in bios and it doesnt seem to do it anymore, do you think that was why?

My system has a gtx 970 and I am running it with a 500w psu, when I play heavy games it turns off suddenly. What can be the reason. Is it a problem with the psu or the vga

how to combine any multiple exe software and windows 10 iso file into one isoimage installation... and it will automatic install all the software when i format my PC into Windows 10... after the format done... all the software i want are already in my PC...

Ok, I have the weirdest issue with my GTX 1070 in my gaming laptop: A few weeks ago I noticed some weird screen flashes and stripes only when playing graphically demanding 3d games. Then, some games stopped working completely and gave me gpu related error messages during after starting them. I reinstalled the drivers with ddu. Nothing changed. Then I tried furmark and no extreme temperatures or glitches were noticable. Weirdly enough the the gpu max temperature while running furmark was only 65°C while the gpu gets much hotter playing newer 3d titles like assassins creed odyssey. So i reinstalled windows, checked the mainboard drivers. Still the same problem. Even when I installed w10 on another drive, the problem remains. What is noticeable though is the fact, that especially directx11 titles show graphical glitches and directx12 titles won't work at all. 3dmark benchmark showed this exact same pattern, with the dx12 benchmark just crashing after loading. Still, if this was only software related, a system reinstall should've done it, right? Since I still got warranty on the device I sent it to the manufacturer and they tested the system with furmark and used that to prove me, that the gfx card is fine. How can this be? I can't run any 3d application EXCEPT furmark anymore because the graphical glitches make it unplayable or it will just crash or not start at all. It's simply infuriating.

Cheers Brian some more good advice.

I am just wondering if I could have damaged the printboard part which goes into the motherboard slot, since I pulled it out without pulling down that leverage in the side of the pcie socket.. Could it be damaged? I dont notice anything big, just minor things like freezing screen for like 0.3 seconds when playing bf4, but it happens rarely. Or for example when I am full screen on youtube and the windows taskbar popping up for like milisecond once or twice and doesnt happen for the rest of the day. Minor things like that.. I did test the gpu with bencmarks and no issues (same for cpu). Already changed my hdmi cable but idk maybe its my monitor.

when I connect the HDMI plug to my gpu, no display on the screen so, I changed gpu and checked the other gpu is working but nvidia gt 1030 is not working. Any solutions ?? by the way gpu is running(fan is working) but no display or any signals

I have a dedicated card and an integerated card but my dedicated card won't let me control the brightness so I have to rely on my integerated Vega 10 card.

My GPU crashes in Rainbow six siege and MW but in Furmark everything works fine, could my PSU have an defect?

My HDMI cable was bad, good thing I was getting frustrated. Thanks for all the recomendations

my intel gpu says stopped working code 43 thing after starting up pc but when i update it it goes black screen when clicking start menu. when i restarted the pc it will say error again idk what happening

Put a failing GPU look fine on screen but occasionally the monitor cut on and off or does that sound more like it monitor failure

I just had a fairly new Pc built last year but had NOT actually used ( only powered up to load music production software ) until yesterday [ 20/04/24 ] while I was playing back some music I had created. I paused and went into RU-vid for musical help, found a useful vid then saw another and went to click on it. The second I did this the video froze then screen went entirely green then blackout. My led keyboard and Mouse did the same, so I waited a min or 2 and nothing. So I pressed the reset button hoping it was just a glitch, my led keyboard/mouse lit up but... not my screen. I swapped hdmi cables, tried on different screens, checked if cables were inserted correctly and still nothing. Is this a sign of a dead GPU or should I take to a Repair store BEFORE I decide to smash this Tower up?

My pc goes black screen after 8 mins and I have to restart my pc to do anything ram is fine and I got an ssd so idk if it’s my graphics card

My gpu just started performing very bad in one day... Like fps in games is half of what it used to be... Temps are ok, drivers are the latest but still very bad performance any suggestions?

hi i need some help i got a GTX1070 and when i use furmark it runs ok the temp is ok . but however when i play some games and at some same moments my pc crash and restarts. also, it happens when i use deepfake that uses my GPU to render. what can be the problem? i tested the GPU on other pc and its the same problem. but the seller says that the stress test is ok and it's my pc problem so the guaranty doesn't work here

I am unable to use the computer while the gpu is inserted in the system, but I can use the system if I remove the gpu and rely on intel hd graphics. Will DDU remove my Nvidia drivers even if the graphics card is not in the system ?

I will try my best to describe my situation. So, high quality SMPS cord was damaged and was replaced with a low quality as a backup. I didn't know this. So, I played RDR2 and my PC crashed everytime. So I stopped for a while. But when I open it now, the graphics of the lock screen seems off and it freezes within a few seconds. Please help.

Mine just started chrashing and Then started geting red spots and now Windows wont start and IF it does it just shows lines everywhere i have not heard any louder fan noises or highet temps

hello britec sir in past days iam getting video tdr failure issue is it gpu failling ?? or driver issue please help me

Hi, When i play high end game for 30 min sometiimes it gives shapes like pyramid in-between, and rest nothing happens like black screen or pc shut down. Can you tell me wheather its my hardware issue or just drivers or GPU has to be cleaned ? Please reply

I dont have any screen glitches, any, and benchmarks on my gpu scores normally. Still, i get into the games and it looks like low quallity textures on my rtx 2070 all on ultra, i tried everything...any ideas please?

I'm getting Stuttering, Freezing, and Screen Glitches, while all my drivers and windows is updated to the max. Is this the only cause of this? (I have an EVGA 1080 Ti SC Black Edition) I have only had it for around a year in a half.

Hi, I don't know if you can help me, on games like PoE, r6, tekken8 or even Apex, (so different GPU/Cpu loaded games), my game will crash if I take graphics higher than low, all while my Cpu is very high loaded and my gpu just at 50-60%, I have a 1060 6gb and a 10600kf so my Cpu is supposed to be better and newer than my gpu. But all these games crash, can you help? I don't know what to replace

Been having some strange visual glitches like my main monitor will go black then my system will freeze and nothing will happen then my right monitor will go black before having to do a hard shut down not to sure what's been causing these issues

I have a dell nvidia quadro m5000 graphics card, on a asrock x399m mobo, I get the d6 code and black screen. I installed another video card and it worked fine. I want to fix my quadro m5000, any ideals ?

I have a laptop with I7 9750h Gtx 1650 (on asus turbo mode) Intel hd (may be causing my screen to go wacky) 8gb ram After an hour using it I have been seeing top and bottom just going weird, and maybe even the part that isn’t weird moved to the right, with the very right part at the left. My laptop is a g531gt-AL017T

I miss my old work station card. It was an Nvidea quadro 4000. Using it for computer modeling allowed my computer to cut down rendering time by atleast 25%. Its to bad that when i first bought it new, i totally forgot about reapplying a new layer of thermal compound which probably burnt out my gpu. Now i have an xfx rx570 8gb for work purposes but i do have to say my work station card peformed better but it wasnt much of a gaming card.

I have an issue of my screen becoming blurry and the lighting being stretched to the right if that makes sense. My gpu temp is 87c while playing games and my fan speed is set pretty high. I don’t think this could be because my monitor but I’m wondering why it’s being blurred and stretched

Everything was working fine on my pc for the longest, then out of nowhere when i tried to start american truck simulator it started to freeze multiple times when playing a few minutes. Eventually it started to just crash and go back to my desktop. Tried a few more games like fallout 4 and that game crashed back to the desktop once i loaded the game. Life is strange and City skylines froze on loading screen. Then i tried a couple games that dont take much juice from the gpu like south park stick of truth and space colony and they run fine so far. It only seems to be the more demanding games that arent working anymore. My pc is not connected to the internet so its not an update issue. Wondering if i should buy a new gpu 🙁

are alcohol pads safe to use to remove the thermal paste? I previously used the thermal pads that came with my noutua nh2 and those were similar to alcohol pad

Oh thank god it was my displayport cable I just plugged it back in and everything went back to normal. My bank account isnt ready for another 2070...

easy way if you get random graphical glitches - boom there's a way to find out if it's either gpu or drivers.

My gtx950 fails when I set the graphic settings high. Besides that it's running fine on 1080p, low setting. Not sure if my GPU is dying or degrading :(

Hello so I have sticks on my screen so do I need a new a graphics card

Man man i know its a old video, but i used the heaven benchmark and i get a stutter and a black screen every 4-5 sec. Why is that? Some games i can ply at 1080p and some i have to drop down to 720p.

Mine is outpuuting black lines sometimes and i have reinstalled the gpu & drivers many times

Getting D3D errors on every graphics intensive game but no weird graphical issues, the temperature is always below 78°C, did a ram test no errors, drivers are up to date, GPU is 2 years old, GTX 1660 It always says something along the lines of: "D3D device not found! Use GetDeviceName to identify problem. Could not find event..." On the benchmark it stopped at 79°C I'm gonna try the cable thingy.

I have a weird problem not sure if it is due to a faulty gpu, while playing a game if i off tab or after i close a game after playing my gpu goes to 100% 3D and Copy and goes to -1% Video encode and decode and my whole pc freezes and I have to power off the system. Does anyone else know a fix to this or is it just a faulty gpu?

My computer freezes after about 10 mins after boot and I’ve uninstalled windows and reinstalled it and did the same with my gpu drivers and I’m device manager it shows pci related things under unknown devices

mine stop working without any signs

Got a problem Got a graphics card i bought 6 months ago and whenever I try getting into the lobby or sometimes game I get black screen ive used ddu to uninstall and reinstall the drivers and still having same problems and is all up to date

Most games on my pc won't be able to run and will crash and give me error messages. Fortnite would say that its hanged and modern warfare keeps showing me dev error 6068 fatal directx error. I've reinstalled windows and updated to the newest drivers and deleted old drivers. I'm not even able to benchmark my gpu without it crashing and I've installed the latest drivers and tested my ram. My computer runs near 30 degrees celsius. Does anyone have any solutions?

Whenever I boot it flashes green and black and than I have to push ctrl+shift+windows+b and it would usually boot just fine. But today it just wouldn't do anything. Can somebody help me please?

i have a rx5700 xt and 3700x. I've had the computer for just a year now, and I've been running into countless freezing problems in games now for the past two weeks. Whenever I start up a game now, it will launch and most will get to the menu like normal. In order to run the game though, I have to lower the resolution to 1080p, lower the quality, and limit my frame rate to a maximum 72 fps or 60 fps depending on the game. Some games that won't even work. Running the game at native resolution. It will hard freeze. Running it at medium to ultra settings. It will hard freeze. If I unlock my fps to match the refresh rate of my monitor. It will hard freeze. I still hear sound but the game just freezes and I can't alt f4 on half of them. The weird thing is is that I can run Heaven Benchmark at max settings and I will get a my usual score back. No freezing. However, another weird thing is that I don't have any artifacting, screen tearing, or throttling. My temps are really good when playing games. Going into Forza I can see that maxing out the GPU doesn't cause any issue, but while playing at Ultra settings and native res the world will stop loading in and then a hard freeze occurs. Minecraft with Sildurs shaders works perfectly fine and it's the only game that works without error. Roblox tends to freeze a few times. Borderlands 3 is the only game that I can load in at Ultra Settings and native res until I get a hard freeze ten minutes in the game. Battlefield V has this same issue as well. I've tried literally everything I could think of. An sfc scan, Memtest, Aida64, chkdsk, cleaning out my pc, reseating the RAM, used a different PSU cable to my GPU, DDU, Reinstalling Chipset Drivers, updated BIOS, and the problems haven't gone away. But, now I know that the problem is the GPU after swapping it out and testing the same games working just fine. No hard freezing on any of them and the one game that refused to launch (AC Origins) launched up right away. I don't know what to do anymore. NOTE: Hard freezing ONLY occurs when playing games.

my card only shows error code 43 but gives display correctly

Any idea on why when I turn it on none of my apps are on the home screen then it freezes and goes like a light blue

That blue screen with sad face how do i get the results from that had that the other day now iam having issues with my monitor cutting in and out

my graphics card 830m hsa issues and fifa wont play it keeps crashing indicating a that graphics card failure and direct x crash

i have i3 8100 8gb ram gt 1030 2gb and i was able to run very high gta 5 with normal-high texture 50-80 fps and 2 weeks ago i cant even use the pc with the graphick card last time when i was playing when everything happend i was gta 5 online and the pc just restart and didint start like 3 days .. and when i try to use and play on graphick its freezing screen sometimes turn on of and its dropping and its standing on 5 fps help ?

One month ago i've bought my first gaming pc after working my ass off for years just for my 500$ gpu to die (for no reason) while i was playing battlefield 1 ... i had a bsod than my computer couldn't boot to windows... so i got into safe mode deleted all the graphics drivers with DDU and restarted... BUT, i get a blue screen in the middle of the nvidia driver installation... i letteraly tried everything and i don't know what to do, i mean i can't just give up on it :(.... My question is, is it dead? :,(

Soo I recently pulled the motherboard out of my second hand laptop to repair the hinges. My father and I were both pretty careful not to damage anything fixed the hinges put it all back and booted up the pc which on boot up shows the loading screen perfectly then starts showing some static fuzz just like on old analog TV's from background radiation interference. It did flicker an artifact on start up a few times. Im thinking it could be the lcd cable on its way out but I really don't know, if I hook an external monitor will is bypass the problem if it's lcd related not gpu related?

Ok, so I have always had this issue: my gtx 1050 ti always artifacts and does some other weird stuff, but you never expect it. FurMark for a few minutes, absolutely fine(except the degrees. it usually freezes at 20-27 C). Watching RU-vid videos, or talking to a buddy on discord, artifacting. So what is this artifacting? Screen blanking every so often and these horizontal green lines. Its not too bad, and I wasn't worried, until I was playing Ark and pc screen blanked, audio clip repeating, and fan speed going 100%. Now this happens to this card in specific, meaning that when I plug in my other gpu its completely fine, haven't had a single issue with it. Anyone have any ideas? Someone said that I should upgrade my ram(currently 4+8GB, 2133).

I get slow render on subnautica, textures changing colour on forza horizon 4 and once had black squares on menu screen on sea of thieves and then the screen went black and said no video available. What could this be?

I think my gpu is failing but its at the point i can press either advanced options or restart. When i restart i see my MOBO brand but after taht its just a dark blue screen. Anyone knows what to do?

it doesnt work for me! can you help me? {i have AMD Radeon 7000 series} Please help