- Jan 1, 2018
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I'm trying to determine why my graphics have been acting strange, and has caused a few crashes. As far as I can tell, this is either a GPU or PSU problem (but maybe memory?). I play a few video games here and there. Lately it has been Heroes of the Storm and Factorio. Well yesterday, during a normal HOTS game, my game became very glitchy, nigh unplayable. I thought it might be a bug, but searching the BNET forums I now think it may be a hardware issue because it also happened when I tried to use Factorio. I did some self diagnosing with SpeedFan and CPU-Z. I opened up the case and did some remedial dusting. I'm running Win7, GTX-760, i5-3570K, and 8gb Ram. My PSU is >500W, although i think it is 3-5 years old. This is a self-built machine. It's been humming for years. This is my first problem. I was hoping it would last another year or so before I had to update the chipset. I'm hoping this is a memory or PSU problem. Perhaps it is the GPU? I noticed with Speedfan that HOTS will run fine until it gets above 70C, then the glitches come. I have images. Not sure how to post them here. This is the information I feel is most relevant. Please let me know what more I can provide to get the help I need. PC runs fine with youtube. And now it seems that Factorio is fine as long as I let the GPU temp settle first. Thanks for any help!
edit: I forgot to mention that I also updated my Nvidia driver. I still have the problem. HOTS will crash if it runs with the glitchiness for too long. In fact it will crash my whole computer. Screen just goes black, and I have to hold down power button to turn off and, then reboot from safe mode. As I was writing this post, my PC went to black, then I received a notification that my video driver recovered from a fatal error. I don't know what that means. Now my AVG and Win Defender are both "off" and I can't seem to get them to "on" again... Will try an AVG uninstall and maybe use avast for the time being. Thanks again.
edit: I forgot to mention that I also updated my Nvidia driver. I still have the problem. HOTS will crash if it runs with the glitchiness for too long. In fact it will crash my whole computer. Screen just goes black, and I have to hold down power button to turn off and, then reboot from safe mode. As I was writing this post, my PC went to black, then I received a notification that my video driver recovered from a fatal error. I don't know what that means. Now my AVG and Win Defender are both "off" and I can't seem to get them to "on" again... Will try an AVG uninstall and maybe use avast for the time being. Thanks again.
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