KaeptnKnoppers

Everything. really everything except for my headset,mouse,keyboard and monitor. not all at once though. First i thought it was just the gpu, so i changed that. i noticed it didnt change anything, so i built a completely new rig, except for the gpu. i used th einitial GPU at first, and then switched to the one i bought when i thought gpu was the problem. didnt help

Just went through my old pictures on my phone and saw a bluescreen message i took a picture of, to google the code or something. That bluescreen popped up while playing PUBG and since then my PC has been freezing and shutting down in random places, whenever an animation in a webbrowser started, or while clicking on netflix previews. Im not really sure, its related to this issue, since i still have the issue after upgrading my rig, but i noticed, it said something about GPU, so maybe it has. anyway, heres the pic.

Started for me when i bought escape from Tarkov from the official Russian Website. It was only on that game at first, Rust and other Games still looked good. I reinstalled WIN10 because i thought it could help with the Problem in Tarkov. Now, since its been about 3 years since this started, im not sure anymore if the other Games still looked fine after that, but i think they did... Then i noticed in in Rust and all other games too. (Also, its the same, when i watch Videos of people playing the Game. Now the only game playable is League of legends, which doesnt look all that bad. Maybe thats because the Game is in top down perspective, where you basically look down directly at your character from a close angle, so the game doesnt have to render shit, thats like a few feet away from the character. The area a few metres around you looks normal, but everything thats just a few meters away has low LOD, i have extreme shimmering problems especially with typical AA heavy textures, like fences, or for example the electrical Powerlines in Rust. Textures that are a bit further away are so washed out/ pixelated, that they dont really stand out from their background, which makes it hard to know what youre actually aiming at. But its not only ingame for me: Its also in all Media Playback and while browsing the Internet. For example, if characters in TV look normal, if its like a close shot of their face, but the characters standing just a bit in the Background look like youre streaming in 480p or something. It alsmost seems as if the monitor is showing everything in a lower resolution, even though Both Monitor and Windows Resolution is at 1920x1080. Where it probably most stands out, when youre not ingame is the Fonts of written Text. No matter if you have clearType on, or even Force it, the letters and numbers just look more Pixelated. The YouTube Logo for example, which looks normal when i use youtube on my Phone looks bad on my PC, like it´s really low res. The round edges are pixelated and dont look clean, just like the YouTube font next to it. Even noticed in my BIOS logo, which is kinda weird, but maybe I´m just imagining stuff right now, idk. i had this for years now, so maybe i just remember stuff looking better than it actually did. changing PC didnt help at all, but that could also be, because i kept the monitor,mouse and keyboard from my old PC at first... For 3 years now, ive been looking forward to moving out in 2023 and buying a new rig once again for a fresh start, but some people here claimed that they did that and it didnt help, which at this point sounds extremely illogical and also quite discouraging... Well, i have a normal Fan, you know one to cool you down in the summer, not a PC Fan which was connected to the same Multisocket-Powerstrip as my Computer and Monitor and whenever i turned on the fan, my Pc lagged for a second and then recognized a new connected device, it even made that sound that it makes when you plug in a USB device. And when i turned it off, it made the USB Disconnected Sound. And that too doesnt make the least of sense, because its litteraly a different Device, which is not compatible with PCs and uses a normal Power Cable for electric sockets. So i have no idea how my PC managed to "connect" to the device, just because they shared a power strip. Now, the interesting thing about that is, that i took out that fan again this summer after a year, and it didnt connect to the PC anymore. Now if i remeber correctly, i switched Power Strips in between. The graphics-issue is still there, even if i dont use a power strip at all, so just changing that obviously doesnt fix it. But what i want to emphasice is, that i was using the weird (maybe faulty) power strip from before, when the issue first appeared. So please someone tell me what to make of this. Could a faulty Power strip be the reason the issue starts? The reason i say that is because of the fact that the fan, which was just plugged in the same strip had an effect on the PC. So that means that the power strip somehow at least kinda connected these devices in a really weird way. Could that mean that the faulty strip distributed more electricity than it needed to, or distributed some of the power that it actually shouldve just distributed to the fan, possible damaging sensitive components like the GPU or even the CMOS Battery (or some other sensitive Mainboard component)? I know it doesn´t really make sense, but tbh this whole issue is crazy and illogical, so if my Computer has a really WEIRD issue, and the power strip connected to it also has a really WEIRD issue, that i have no idea how it happens, it makes me think those things could be connected. I know its a long shot, but if we could have solved this issue without long shots, then this thread wouldnt have 150 pages. Anyways, please share your opinion, on the whole power-strip thing, i just described. Oh, and, if by some miracle, some of y´all in the Discord Group figure this out, please remember to let us Forum people know about it too.

So, moving to a different place and then buying a new rig for that place is a working solution right?

Also, you mentioned beforehand that you sent in your GPU and when you got it back, the issue was fixed. This makes me think, that ypur issue was different from ours, since changing GPU and any other part doesn't help us at all

If anyone of you has family members/friends that live in the same house as you own a laptop (preferably one that does 1920×1080) , you should ask to borrow it and test some games on it. If the graphics are fine, even though the laptop has been in your house for months or years, we can assume that getting a laptop to play games on might be a solution. Of course gaming on a laptop isnt the best, but right now I'd be happy to play older games with working graphics/antialising

What about simply buying a laptop. A new laptop has never been connected to anything from the old pc, not even monitor. Thinking logically buying a laptop should solve the issue. I hate playing on a laptop but if it helps it may be a solution? Is there any reason to think this wouldnt work? I cant think of a logic reason but afterall our issue is really illogical... what do you think?

Man this issue is so depressing... Also, didnt we have a 4 year old thread on another forum? Seems like it got deleted, the link doesnt work anymore . RIP

well you can always move a few kilometers away and buy new hardware from scratch while leaving your old gear behind

btw can sopmeone buy a laptop and ship it to a friends house and try it out there for the very first time?

this. i have exactly the same issue. i live in germany too btw. Also, i have a fan connected to the same power strip my pc and monitor are connected too and whenever i turn on the fan, my PC lags for a second and does the "USB device found" sound. when i turn the fan off, it lags and does the "usb device disconnected" sound. which is really weird because the fan isnt connected to the computer, they just share a power strip. how does that happen?

This thread is about a really specific issue not related to yours

Before the issue started for me like 2 years ago, i got a few bluescreens. i googled the bluescreen code and it was something like: failed to load graphics into vram quick enough, or something, i dont remember the exact phrasing...

First of all: BIG OOOOOOF Welcome to the club. Changing systems/ parts isnt helping at all, so if you have the issue, you´re pretty much doomed. What kind of routers do y´all have btw?

This has been driving me crazy for 2 years now. I think the problem is the monitor, thats been infected by the PC/Voltage. Some Pixel issue? when you move to another house, you should get everything brand new, including monitor. Theres no way, you´ll still have the problem, right?