Crash to desktops

[Jimboboliath]

Hello,

 

I have for some time now been experiencing ctds with what seems to be mostly dx12 games like Forza horizon 4 and red dead 2 (yes I'm aware there are a while host of problems with it at present)

 

These issues led me to searching for a dx12 benchmark in the flavour of timespy which upon running gives me some flickering green and purple lines (video attached ignore the sound flicker I caught my mike) however the software did not crash. When running a dx11 benchmark for over an hour (heaven) there is no flickering and no crashes. All my hardware is only a couple of months old other than the GPU and I'd like to pin down the issue one way or another to either software or a relevant component.

 

I am on the latest version of Windows, 9900k (oc to 5ghz) gigabyte aurous pro WiFi 32gb Corsair 3200 zotact amp 1080ti Nvidia 440.12

 

When looking into windows logs at the crash to desktops I get very little useful information

Any ideas much appreciated.

 

[flashiling]

have you installed your nvidia drivers?

i had a problem with my nvidia geforce experience where it downloaded the new updates but didn't install.

check that.

[Jimboboliath]

I did a DDU and installed drivers to 441.08 then with the 441.12 update I missed the checkbox and it put geforce experience back on

[BTGbullseye]

14 hours ago, Jimboboliath said:

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That looks like some significant artifacting. What are your video card temps while running these tests? Are you overclocking any part of the video card?

 

If it's not overheating and it's not overclocked, the card is probably failing, and you'll need to replace it.

[Jimboboliath]

Thanks @BTGbullseye for the reply. Everything is stock (I uninstalled afterburner) and the card never gets above 70c with the fans sitting around 60% under load.

 

As the card is no longer in warranty (2nd hand purchase 10 months ago) I want to be absolutely sure that it is GPU hardware that needs to be replaced. The thing I cannot currently get passed is I am only experiencing these issues with dx12. Running heaven or furmark and the card seems to sit there all day long with no issues.

[BTGbullseye]

21 hours ago, Jimboboliath said:

Thanks @BTGbullseye for the reply. Everything is stock (I uninstalled afterburner) and the card never gets above 70c with the fans sitting around 60% under load.

 

As the card is no longer in warranty (2nd hand purchase 10 months ago) I want to be absolutely sure that it is GPU hardware that needs to be replaced. The thing I cannot currently get passed is I am only experiencing these issues with dx12. Running heaven or furmark and the card seems to sit there all day long with no issues.

DX12 is basically just getting the software out of the way, and letting the hardware handle things. The software introduces a layer of error correction to some extent, so a failing card should generally start showing issues in DX12/Vulkan first. It could be something as simple as the DX12 instruction set in the hardware is corrupted, but that's not something you can fix, and will likely grow much worse over time.

[Jimboboliath]

So there are specific API instruction sets baked into the card?