All of sudden out of nowhere while playing GTA5 my PC started to crash with artifacts covering the screen.
No hardware, setting, driver changes.
It seemed something specific was causing it as it mostly happened upon opening the map or after dying and appearing at the hospital.
I could be driving around fast causing havoc with smooth fps without any crashing, open the map - crash.
The issue isn't GTA related, later turned out it happens with other games like FarCry 4 and Skyrim with an enb mod.(took longer for it to crash) Same with Heaven Benchmark 4.0. (75 degree temp at full load)
Didn't crash on CoD4.
The artifacts differ each time but follow the same pattern of multi color check board. Once it was a single purple pixel.
After few seconds it turns to blue screen. Sorry for bad image quality, if needed I can try to get better pics.
http://s28.postimg.org/domjvzjhp/unnamed.jpg
http://s12.postimg.org/hkwssstfx/unnamed_1.jpg (close up)
http://s13.postimg.org/4hs2zgn1j/unnamed_2.jpg (close up)
http://s29.postimg.org/xolyezmmf/unnamed_3.jpg (Blue screen)
It must be a safe bet it's the GPU at fault?
Tried underclocking GPU clock and Memory clock a bit with Palit's ThunderStorm without success. Maybe I should've set the values lower.
Even If I can fix this with downclocking I should still RMA it, it would suck to play with decreased performance.
Though RMA would be a huge hassle.
Messaged scan.co.uk right after the first crash, didn't really apply for an RMA, just asked how would the process go about as I've left the UK since I bought the card. I though maybe it's just GTA5 at that point.
Haven't received a response from them yet.
Must still be under warranty, it will be two years since I bought it on novermber.
What could you recommend for troubleshooting?
This is a huge bummer, GTA5 is so fun but now I can't enjoy it constantly fearing a crash.
I'd highly appreciate any help.
No hardware, setting, driver changes.
It seemed something specific was causing it as it mostly happened upon opening the map or after dying and appearing at the hospital.
I could be driving around fast causing havoc with smooth fps without any crashing, open the map - crash.
The issue isn't GTA related, later turned out it happens with other games like FarCry 4 and Skyrim with an enb mod.(took longer for it to crash) Same with Heaven Benchmark 4.0. (75 degree temp at full load)
Didn't crash on CoD4.
The artifacts differ each time but follow the same pattern of multi color check board. Once it was a single purple pixel.
After few seconds it turns to blue screen. Sorry for bad image quality, if needed I can try to get better pics.
http://s28.postimg.org/domjvzjhp/unnamed.jpg
http://s12.postimg.org/hkwssstfx/unnamed_1.jpg (close up)
http://s13.postimg.org/4hs2zgn1j/unnamed_2.jpg (close up)
http://s29.postimg.org/xolyezmmf/unnamed_3.jpg (Blue screen)
It must be a safe bet it's the GPU at fault?
Tried underclocking GPU clock and Memory clock a bit with Palit's ThunderStorm without success. Maybe I should've set the values lower.
Even If I can fix this with downclocking I should still RMA it, it would suck to play with decreased performance.
Though RMA would be a huge hassle.
Messaged scan.co.uk right after the first crash, didn't really apply for an RMA, just asked how would the process go about as I've left the UK since I bought the card. I though maybe it's just GTA5 at that point.
Haven't received a response from them yet.
Must still be under warranty, it will be two years since I bought it on novermber.
What could you recommend for troubleshooting?
This is a huge bummer, GTA5 is so fun but now I can't enjoy it constantly fearing a crash.
I'd highly appreciate any help.
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