Should I be concerned?

That One Guy 0 · July 30, 2023

I've recently purchased a used RX580 which the seller claimed was mined on for less than 3 months. So far, everything has been working fine except for when I tried to play with the settings on AC Unity to stress the vram and got these weird scan lines after maxing out AA. They didn't appear in the menu and the HUD or the desktop and changing back the settings didn't fix the problem. However, when I restarted the game with the same settings they were gone. Was this a bug with the game or should I be worried?

Edit: took my dumb ass long enough to realize that it's not even a bug, let alone a hardware problem. It's an effect triggered when you're low on health.

Edited July 30, 2023 by That One Guy 0

Hinjima · July 30, 2023

3 minutes ago, That One Guy 0 said:

I've recently purchased a used RX580 which the seller claimed was mined on for less than 3 months. So far, everything has been working fine except for when I tried to play with the settings on AC Unity to stress the vram and got these weird scan lines after maxing out AA. They didn't appear in the menu and the HUD or the desktop and changing back the settings didn't fix the problem. However, when I restarted the game with the same settings they were gone. Was this a bug with the game or should I be worried?

I wouldn't worry. Games and PC's are weird and sometimes things just glitch out regardless. If it keeps happening then we have a problem, but once or twice might just be something acting up.

johnno23 · July 30, 2023

as mentioned above.....

Sounds more like a glitch messing with settings.

Even with perfect GPUs it is possible to get them to glitch if one throws enough at them with some games. I blame the games more often than the GPU.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/assassins-creed-unity/assassin-s-creed-unity-patch-fixes-more-than-300-bugs

Plus it is from 2014 so no idea if they even bother to fix some of the more difficult bugs as they have moved onto to more AC releases since then.

That One Guy 0 · July 30, 2023

3 hours ago, Hinjima said:

I wouldn't worry. Games and PC's are weird and sometimes things just glitch out regardless. If it keeps happening then we have a problem, but once or twice might just be something acting up.

Thanks for your reply. Will have my eye on it. Fortunately, the seller's given me a one month warranty.

That One Guy 0 · July 30, 2023

11 minutes ago, johnno23 said:

as mentioned above.....

Sounds more like a glitch messing with settings.

Even with perfect GPUs it is possible to get them to glitch if one throws enough at them with some games. I blame the games more often than the GPU.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/assassins-creed-unity/assassin-s-creed-unity-patch-fixes-more-than-300-bugs

Plus it is from 2014 so no idea if they even bother to fix some of the more difficult bugs as they have moved onto to more AC releases since then.

Thanks a lot. Showed the video to a repair shop and they said the same. Will keep an eye on it in case sth goes wrong tho.