Hello Tom's Community!
Thanks in advance for any help with this, you all are still the best out there.
I recently (Last 6 months) upgraded my rig to the following specs:
i7-6700K (set to default, but more below)
Gigabyte LGA1151 Intel Z170 ATX DDR4 Motherboards GA-Z170X-Gaming 3
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB GDDR5
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
I can't exactly place when I first started noticing even slight performance issues with this setup, but over the last month I have had much more often, and much more crippling issues while gaming. The biggest common issues across multiple games (XCOM 2, Metal Gear Solid 5 Phantom Pain, Dragon's Dogma, DOOM, etc) The lines and flashing lights, or white orbs, happen at such a fast pulse rate I've found it exceedingly difficult to get a solid screenshot of how bad it is, but below captures a bit of both. There is clearly a dark jagged line across the middle of the screen at a downward left to right angle, as well as the white flashing light orbs in the direction the characters gun in the foreground is facing and above the head of the soldier in the background facing the screen. During live gameplay (before crashing in the case of XCOM2) there are lines and white orbs flickering at a fast rate all over the screen. I have noticed that adjusting things like anti-aliasing and ambient occlusion etc do have effects on how many of those 2 things are occurring and how rapidly they do so, but I can 1) never get them to completely go away, 2) often the game will still crash even at minimum settings (like XCOM2), 3) Some games will have slowdowns every 3 seconds of gameplay (like MGS5) or just completely crash when the menu starts (Like Doom), or if they do work, like Dragons Dogma, the angled lines are so frequent it ruins the games ability to be enjoyable.
Things I've tried so far that have not helped:
-Used DDU to remove all drivers and reinstall most recent drivers
-Used GPU-Z to monitor max temp of GPU while gaming, and in the case of MGS5 that can actually limp along without crashing, the max temp at high graphics settings was 73 degrees C, which might be a bit hotter than it should be running, not sure though...
-Uninstalled and reinstalled all games.
Things I've noticed while attempting to troubleshoot:
-Games that have lower impact on my GPU don't seem to have problems (I can play Darkest Dungeon, and while there is the very occasional line flicker, for the most part Resident Evil 6 is running just fine)
-At no point outside of gaming do I have any issues whatsoever. My rig is as fast as I would expect it to be.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8thkX1VoJGNbTFGUlRTT3ZEdUJSd1RVazJEZFAtbEZpUWlZ/view?usp=sharing
Hopefully I haven't missed a totally obvious and silly fix, and even more importantly, I hope my card isn't wonky.
Thanks again in advance for your help!
Thanks in advance for any help with this, you all are still the best out there.
I recently (Last 6 months) upgraded my rig to the following specs:
i7-6700K (set to default, but more below)
Gigabyte LGA1151 Intel Z170 ATX DDR4 Motherboards GA-Z170X-Gaming 3
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB GDDR5
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
I can't exactly place when I first started noticing even slight performance issues with this setup, but over the last month I have had much more often, and much more crippling issues while gaming. The biggest common issues across multiple games (XCOM 2, Metal Gear Solid 5 Phantom Pain, Dragon's Dogma, DOOM, etc) The lines and flashing lights, or white orbs, happen at such a fast pulse rate I've found it exceedingly difficult to get a solid screenshot of how bad it is, but below captures a bit of both. There is clearly a dark jagged line across the middle of the screen at a downward left to right angle, as well as the white flashing light orbs in the direction the characters gun in the foreground is facing and above the head of the soldier in the background facing the screen. During live gameplay (before crashing in the case of XCOM2) there are lines and white orbs flickering at a fast rate all over the screen. I have noticed that adjusting things like anti-aliasing and ambient occlusion etc do have effects on how many of those 2 things are occurring and how rapidly they do so, but I can 1) never get them to completely go away, 2) often the game will still crash even at minimum settings (like XCOM2), 3) Some games will have slowdowns every 3 seconds of gameplay (like MGS5) or just completely crash when the menu starts (Like Doom), or if they do work, like Dragons Dogma, the angled lines are so frequent it ruins the games ability to be enjoyable.
Things I've tried so far that have not helped:
-Used DDU to remove all drivers and reinstall most recent drivers
-Used GPU-Z to monitor max temp of GPU while gaming, and in the case of MGS5 that can actually limp along without crashing, the max temp at high graphics settings was 73 degrees C, which might be a bit hotter than it should be running, not sure though...
-Uninstalled and reinstalled all games.
Things I've noticed while attempting to troubleshoot:
-Games that have lower impact on my GPU don't seem to have problems (I can play Darkest Dungeon, and while there is the very occasional line flicker, for the most part Resident Evil 6 is running just fine)
-At no point outside of gaming do I have any issues whatsoever. My rig is as fast as I would expect it to be.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8thkX1VoJGNbTFGUlRTT3ZEdUJSd1RVazJEZFAtbEZpUWlZ/view?usp=sharing
Hopefully I haven't missed a totally obvious and silly fix, and even more importantly, I hope my card isn't wonky.
Thanks again in advance for your help!
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