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ARE THESE ARTIFACTS MY GPU DYING OR JUST GEFORCE NOTEBOOK GRAPHICS DRIVER 301.42 BEING WEIRD??

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Accepted solution by Kenji Z. — yeahhh test with a second display output or a different port. if artifacts move with teh srceen content in screenshots, its rendering…
  1. Rafa Celik
    @rafac810

    i installed the NVIDIA GeForce Notebook Graphics Driver 301.42 update last night and this morning my living-room PC looked like this in 3D apps:

    gpu artifacts

    little colored blocks, flickering lines, sometimes a whole strip of the screen goes green for a moment. it doesnt crash, it just looks horrible 🔥 my stomach dropped cuz artifacts usually mean dying hardware, right? but its supsicious that it started exactly after teh update. how do i tell which one it is without spending money? what am i doing wrong??

    rage

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  2. Quinn Fischer
    @quinnf673

    hmmmm quick q any GPU overclock or memory overclock active?

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  3. Rafa Celik
    @rafac810
    in reply to @quinnf673

    yeah so i had a mild memory overclock in a tuning tool that Id forgotten about on the living-room PC. idk what else to say tbh

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  4. Maya Holm
    @maya_uplink
    in reply to @rafac810

    your BIOS observation is a good clue. if artifacts appear only after Windows loads teh driver, but not in BIOS or in Safe Mode (which uses the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter), that leans towards driver/software. if they show up in BIOS too, think hardware.

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  5. Kenji Z.
    @kenjiz943
    Accepted solution

    yeahhh test with a second display output or a different port. if artifacts move with teh srceen content in screenshots, its rendering (GPU)... if they dont appear in a screenshot but do on the monitor, the cable, port or monitor itself is involved. worked for me anyway 🤷

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