Amara

oof check the OS firewall: sudo ufw status verbose or sudo firewall cmd list all. Allow the port with sudo ufw allow 27017/tcp. Then check teh cloud providers security group or firewall rules in its dashboard; those are separate and both…

for me it was the default config... swapped it and boom, fixed

@darias668 The frame cap tip was great. Finally got better battery life on a PC that runs on a potato.

ahh classic reset any overclock or undervolt, especially memory clock. artifacts that look like small colored blocks are often VRAM instability, and a driver update can change memroy behavior enough to tip a marginal OC over.