GTX 1080 strange verical pixel offset issue

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ubercake

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I'm not sure if anyone else is seeing this with their new Nvidia cards, but occasionally I'll get a persistent vertical screen tear (probably the wrong terminology for this situation?) down the middle of my screen by which the center 3-5 pixels are offset entirely to the right edge of the screen from top to bottom. To illustrate imagine if you could pinch the middle 3-5 pixels from the top of the screen to the bottom and move them to the right edge of your screen. Then the portion of the screen originally to the right of those center pixels move to the left by the same offset (and by doing this your entire screen resolution is utilized).

There are two ways I can remedy the situation:

1) Change the resolution to something lower and then change it back to the native resolution. I sometimes have to do this 2 or 3 times for it to take.

2) Restart.

Once the issue is resolved using one of the techniques above, I don't see the issue every time a mode change happens. I think it's driver related because it usually takes place going from sleep to wake or game mode to desktop or desktop to game mode. I've seen the issue at the Windows desktop and in 3D gaming programs. Also, I never see it at the BIOS screen otherwise I might think it were a hardware issue. I'm just not used to Nvidia drivers giving me any problems.

I've seen this issue happening since I got my 1080.

I noticed it happens primarily when coming out of sleep mode, though I've seen it on the desktop a few times just after Windows startup. It's crazy moving windows around on the screen and when they cross the middle you see 3-5 pixels all the way to the right.

I'm just trying to get some consensus on this issue as I've reported it to Nvidia a few weeks ago (have not received a response).

Anyone else seeing this? Does anyone know of a more permanent fix?
 
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Neurodrive

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I actually have had the exact same issue. I have an EVGA 980 ti FTW and an Acer XB271HU monitor (1440p, 144hz).

Just like you, the only remedies seem to be switching the resolution back and forth until it corrects, or restarting. The offset isn't always upon startup either. I have alt-tabbed out of games and had the offset occur as well.

It's pretty annoying and I'm not sure if it's the fault of Windows or an Nvidia driver update some time ago.
 
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I have an Asus PG279Q. I think it uses the same panel as the XB271HU? Or is it a 1440p issue and the driver?

I would attribute it to hardware issue (cable/monitor/GPU) if the problem were persistent, though it isn't. It doesn't even trigger only when under huge processing demand. It only triggers between video modes (including off to startup); and only some of the time.

The fact that I've only seen this phenomenon after I got my 1080 could be coincidental with the driver update when the 1080 was released and subsequent driver updates including this same issue, but I used this monitor and cable with a 980 prior without experiencing these issues.

Dare I say I'm feeling a bit like I'm dealing with an AMD-like driver issue?

I'll try to get a picture of it to post the next time it happens.
 
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I actually experienced both a right and a left vertical displacement today. I was playing Titanfall 2 and shift-tabbed to Windows and the offset was in Windows, but not in Titanfall 2. I rebooted and then Windows was fine and the offset existed in Titanfall 2. The top image is the left displacement in Windows 10 while the bottom is the right displacement in Titanfall 2.

I couldn't take a snip because it would come out correctly, so these images were taken from my cell phone and modified to be small enough to post...
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ubercake

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You may be on to something there... I wonder if there is some sort of bug in the Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). I'm going to shut it off for now and see if I continue to have any problems...
 
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Have you tried it? I had similar thing happening on my HTPC, the desktop resize seemed to fix it.
 
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I just installed the latest production version of the Nvidia drivers which required a restart. I restarted and had the right-border issue.

There's a resize and scaling desktop option in control panel that equates to the over/underscan of the AMD driver settings (I think?). The default setting is to allow the monitor to control the aspect ratio. I changed this to something to the effect of "Let the GPU control the aspect ratio." I'm going to see how that flies.
 
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At this point, I can conclude it was likely the monitor and an issue with the Asus PG279Q. Eventually, I learned to turn the monitor off and back on to get rid of the offset columns of pixels.

After replacing the Asus PG279Q with the Alienware AW3418DW, the issue is gone. I have to conclude it was the monitor all along.
 
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