Alt+Tab caused GPU artifacts to appear

[Ishit Singh]

When I alt tabbed from desktop to the game I experienced GPU artifact for the first time. Is this sign of my GPU dying? My GPU is 2080 and only a year old.

 

I remember when I alt tabbed back to the game at first the game looked normal for half a sec until I saw red horizontal bar which caused my monitor to restart itself, after restart artifact appeared.

 

I was able to recreate it after trying multiple times and here are the pictures-

 

When I alt tabbed back, the game looked normal but with this random red horizontal bar

 

 

 

Then after my monitor restarted itself I got GPU artifacts

 

 

Alt tabbing back to the desktop sometimes ended up no display output to monitor or randomly fixing GPU artifact.

[Moonzy]

any OC?

[Ishit Singh]

4 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

any OC?

nope everything is running at stock but I am running this monitor with adaptive sync. I tried disabling adaptive sync but the results were the same.

 

There are no issues when I connect my monitor via HDMI, it only happens when I use DisplayPort

[Moonzy]

3 minutes ago, Ishit Singh said:

nope everything is running at stock but I am running this monitor with adaptive sync. I tried disabling adaptive sync but the results were the same.

did you disable/enable Gsync while toggling adaptive sync?

[Ishit Singh]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

did you disable/enable Gsync while toggling adaptive sync?

yeah I disabled Gsync in Nvidia control panel and disabled FreeSync Ultimate engine in my monitor settings and tested it but no difference, I even unplug and replug DP cable too but results were still same.

 

I tried disabling and enabling Gsync and ultimate engine FreeSync as you said but still there's no difference.

 

Only when I use HDMI I never get static screen and these GPU artifacts.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, Ishit Singh said:

Only when I use HDMI I never get static screen and these GPU artifacts.

hmm... might be failing VRAM, is it easily reproducable?

 

try turning down VRAM clock by -500 or something, and try again

earlier 20-series GPU had VRAM issues

[Ishit Singh]

Just now, Moonzy said:

hmm... might be failing VRAM, is it easily reproducable?

 

try turning down VRAM clock by -500 or something, and try again

earlier 20-series GPU had VRAM issues

I don't know how to turn down GPU VRAM clock speed and yes, it is easily reproducible. All I need to do is alt tab multiple times while i'm in game.

[Moonzy]

Just now, Ishit Singh said:

I don't know how to turn down GPU VRAM clock speed

download MSI afterburner, install it and adjust this slider towards left

then click apply

 

1 minute ago, Ishit Singh said:

All I need to do is alt tab multiple times while i'm in game.

happens in other game?

 

you can also try re-stalling your GPU driver

download DDU from guru3d and latest driver from nvidia, boot into safemode

run DDU, then install your GPU drivers

[Ishit Singh]

14 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

download MSI afterburner, install it and adjust this slider towards left

then click apply

 

happens in other game?

 

you can also try re-stalling your GPU driver

download DDU from guru3d and latest driver from nvidia, boot into safemode

run DDU, then install your GPU drivers

So far i've only tested alt tabbing in one game but GPU horizontal static bar appear everywhere for a sec, even in Windows boot logo.

 

I found a similar thread

https://community.amd.com/thread/254429

 

He has the exact same static horizontal bar issue but there are no mentions of GPU artifacts though and only difference is his GPU artifacts still appears after switching to HDMI

 

I'll first try DDU and see if there are any difference, if nothing works out then i'll downclock the VRAM

[Tristerin]

RMA the card, I wouldnt deal with that for the price you paid for that unit.  Basically you switched it from 3D rendering to 2D rendering which caused the card to artifact, which is not how they are supposed to work. 

[Ishit Singh]

11 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

RMA the card, I wouldnt deal with that for the price you paid for that unit.  Basically you switched it from 3D rendering to 2D rendering which caused the card to artifact, which is not how they are supposed to work. 

What if its not the GPU but the monitor port or cable itself though? There seems to be no GPU artifact when I use HDMI.

 

But if nothing fix this issue i'll do as you said

[Tristerin]

6 minutes ago, Ishit Singh said:

What if its not the GPU but the monitor port or cable itself though? There seems to be no GPU artifact when I use HDMI.

 

But if nothing fix this issue i'll do as you said

Personally, Ive never had a cable cause artifacting, just a bad overclock or a dying card.  When using displayport it does this and not HDMI?  Id take a guess that the DP port for 144hz and above playing is pushing the card differently, without being there to see it.

[Ishit Singh]

3 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Personally, Ive never had a cable cause artifacting, just a bad overclock or a dying card.  When using displayport it does this and not HDMI?  Id take a guess that the DP port for 144hz and above playing is pushing the card differently, without being there to see it.

yes it only happens when I use DP. I've been using this DP cable for around 4-5 months but only now I've been having artifact issues and this cable is even VESA certified. The model name is-  Accell B142C-007B-2

 

Without any other cable or monitor to test on it's extremely hard to pin point what is causing this problem

[Tristerin]

5 minutes ago, Ishit Singh said:

yes it only happens when I use DP. I've been using this DP cable for around 4-5 months but only now I've been having artifact issues and this cable is even VESA certified. The model name is-  Accell B142C-007B-2

 

Without any other cable or monitor to test on it's extremely hard to pin point what is causing this problem

Stress test the card, Furmark, Heaven etc - does it artifact during testing (not tabbing in and out) with DP?

[Ishit Singh]

29 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Stress test the card, Furmark, Heaven etc - does it artifact during testing (not tabbing in and out) with DP?

I haven't stress tested yet but ran multiple benchmarks yesterday just to see if my GPU performance was dropped and while running those I saw no artifact appearing.

 

It seems like artifact only appear when my monitor get any new data from GPU to output i.e when my PC first boots or when I switch from desktop to fullscreen application

[Ishit Singh]

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