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My screen looks like a glitch-art poster. Driver bug or hardware failure??

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  1. Haruto Fontaine
    @haruto.fontaine16

    long time lurker first post lol my Radeon card has started showing artifacts on teh desktop. Colored blocks, stretched polygons, flickering lines across the screen:

    gpu artifacts

    it doesnt crash right away, but its getting more frequent. i updated the driver yesterday and nothing changed. is this the beginning of the end for the card, or is there something i can fix? im trying to stay calm, but teh card isnt cheap to replace. if theres a way to narrow down whether its the card or something else, Id like to try it first.

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  2. Vera Lopez
    @vlopez

    wait do teh artifacts appear in the BIOS or boot screen too?

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  4. Clara Ivanova
    @civanova-2pe
    in reply to @haruto.fontaine16

    As a temporary workaround, lowering teh memory clock with the vendors tuning tool can reduce VRAM-related artifacts. It doesnt fix the card, but it can keep it usable while you sort out a replacement. good luck man!

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  5. Cyrus Wolfe
    @cyrus_frame
    in reply to @civanova-2pe

    lol same thing happened to me try a different cable and monitor xD A bad cable gives sparkles and dropouts, but rarely teh structured colored blocks that VRAM faults produce. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  6. Kofi
    @solidmonk

    i'd be careful about recommending a memory underclock as a fix. It can hide a fault until teh return window closes.

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