My PC Runs Most Benchmarks Great But Won't Play Games Anymore???

[486DX Win3.1]

Display Output is either Black or Monitor says "no signal" on About half of the Games I try to Run. It's not immediate. Most games load to the title menu then crash to black screen when you start them up.

I thought my GPU was going Bad, but Some Benchmarks run flawlessly for an hour. MSI Kombustor and Artifact Scanner runs fine at high frame rates with 0 Artifacting. GPU stress tests- just fine on PassMark Free Trial. PassMark Benchmark shows no problems with the GPU same for MSI Kombustor.

I upgraded to Windows 11 from Win 10. After I did that, some games either load and then turn to a Black Screen With Audio or Black Screen Without Audio, OR ELSE they load and go all the way through the Menu Screen and then Fail when actually Starting the Application (as in pressing "play now" from the game title page)

Some games just won't "go," like Borderlands Wonderland, Fallout 76, and Mass Effect.
But I played a really intensive demanding session of TABS (totally accurate battle simulator) without a single glitch.

Unigen Superposition Benchmark Crashes and Gives the Black Screen of Death. PassMark Benchmark runs Great!

THINGS I TRIED:

Reinstalled Nvidia Drivers/GeForce Experience
NV CleanInstall
Direct X Troubleshooting Tool
Direct X Reinstall
Bios Update to the Latest Bios for my MB
Deleted Game Temp settings in the File Trees
Visual C++ reinstall 2015-2022
Downgraded my CPU Overclock for more stability
Set GPU to factory settings in MSI Afterburner
Disabled MS Defender
Disabled Norton Antivirus/Malware
Verified Game Files Install using Steam

This is crazy

i7 8086K
Aorus Z370
GSkill RAM 32GB
RTX 3080

[Shimejii]

Uninstall Norton, Why do you even HAVE that?

 

Sounds like a driver issue or a windows issue. I would just reinstall windows 11 from a fresh install, or go back to windows 10 Windows 11 is only useful for your system if you use HDR.. Back up the important stuff and start anew. Since those issues started after you upgraded from how you phrased it.

 

Other then that its going to be a few different things, i doubt its the GPU failing since its not that old. Did you mine Crypto on it at all?

[486DX Win3.1]

Just now, Schnoz said:

That's definitely a Windows 11 issue. You should upgrade back to Windows 10, and you should be fine.

 

Also, definitely get rid of Norton. That stuff's actual malware.

 I was rather disappointed with the purchase of Norton. It has SO MANY ADD ONS. Jeeezus......... it is OK as long as I CAREFULLY pick what to let it have running, but at first Norton was a goddam popup nightmare. 

 

 

[486DX Win3.1]

2 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

That's definitely a Windows 11 issue. You should upgrade back to Windows 10, and you should be fine.

 

Also, definitely get rid of Norton. That stuff's actual malware.

So windows 11 huh? It's been out like forever figured they fixed it

 

[Fasauceome]

4 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Uninstall Norton, Why do you even HAVE that?

Seconded. Windows defender, plus the occasional malware scan from something like Malwarebytes (free), is basically all you need in addition to good Internet safety practices, and maybe an adblocker.

 

While this does sound like a software problem, I wouldn't rule out hardware issues. Power delivery/stability, a vram problem, these things will need tracking down if you exhaust the software troubleshooting that you can do.

[486DX Win3.1]

12 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Uninstall Norton, Why do you even HAVE that?

 

Sounds like a driver issue or a windows issue. I would just reinstall windows 11 from a fresh install, or go back to windows 10 Windows 11 is only useful for your system if you use HDR.. Back up the important stuff and start anew. Since those issues started after you upgraded from how you phrased it.

 

Other then that its going to be a few different things, i doubt its the GPU failing since its not that old. Did you mine Crypto on it at all?

 No, I don't mine crypto. Bought the gpu brand new direct from the manufacturer. And I don't even game that much eitehr

 

[486DX Win3.1]

6 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Seconded. Windows defender, plus the occasional malware scan from something like Malwarebytes (free), is basically all you need in addition to good Internet safety practices, and maybe an adblocker.

 

While this does sound like a software problem, I wouldn't rule out hardware issues. Power delivery/stability, a vram problem, these things will need tracking down if you exhaust the software troubleshooting that you can do.

 I just had a previous antivirus and let it expire and then one day noticed that I really had not checked for viruses in quite a long time. I found a very good deal on Norton, so I switched to that. 

 However after seeing Norton, I disabled about 80% of what it "can" do because it was creating processes and stuff and giving me popups and I legit feel like asking NOrton WHY I AM THE ONE THAT PAYS THEM, they should be paying me for all the Shit that they pop up on me

[486DX Win3.1]

11 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Haha, nope! Every Windows 11 system I've seen has been...just... how the hell do they make it this bad?!

I see...... 

   I HATE the right click options! like WTF WHY do that to the perfectly goood right click and I found a workaround for it but it still Sux

[486DX Win3.1]

23 minutes ago, 486DX Win3.1 said:

Display Output is either Black or Monitor says "no signal" on About half of the Games I try to Run. It's not immediate. Most games load to the title menu then crash to black screen when you start them up.

I thought my GPU was going Bad, but Some Benchmarks run flawlessly for an hour. MSI Kombustor and Artifact Scanner runs fine at high frame rates with 0 Artifacting. GPU stress tests- just fine on PassMark Free Trial. PassMark Benchmark shows no problems with the GPU same for MSI Kombustor.

I upgraded to Windows 11 from Win 10. After I did that, some games either load and then turn to a Black Screen With Audio or Black Screen Without Audio, OR ELSE they load and go all the way through the Menu Screen and then Fail when actually Starting the Application (as in pressing "play now" from the game title page)

Some games just won't "go," like Borderlands Wonderland, Fallout 76, and Mass Effect.
But I played a really intensive demanding session of TABS (totally accurate battle simulator) without a single glitch.

Unigen Superposition Benchmark Crashes and Gives the Black Screen of Death. PassMark Benchmark runs Great!

THINGS I TRIED:

Reinstalled Nvidia Drivers/GeForce Experience
NV CleanInstall
Direct X Troubleshooting Tool
Direct X Reinstall
Bios Update to the Latest Bios for my MB
Deleted Game Temp settings in the File Trees
Visual C++ reinstall 2015-2022
Downgraded my CPU Overclock for more stability
Set GPU to factory settings in MSI Afterburner
Disabled MS Defender
Disabled Norton Antivirus/Malware
Verified Game Files Install using Steam

This is crazy

i7 8086K
Aorus Z370
GSkill RAM 32GB
RTX 3080

A Guy Said that it Could be that Windows 11 is craving a TPM module for the TPM header and when signing on to games that load onto a network - Windows 11 PUKES me out of it because of TPM

 

[486DX Win3.1]

21 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

That's definitely a Windows 11 issue. You should upgrade back to Windows 10, and you should be fine.

 

Also, definitely get rid of Norton. That stuff's actual malware.

Could it be TPM header?

 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

53 minutes ago, Schnoz said:

Haha, nope! Every Windows 11 system I've seen has been...just... how the hell do they make it this bad?!

Me using Windows 11 Pro at home and Enterprise at work just fine for over a year: