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I see these random colored squares in all modern games and I have no clue how to even start troubleshooting an issue like this.
Asked chatgpt, but it wasnt much help. It said that I might have an LED in my room that is causing reflections on the screen (lol).

I have a 6800xt gpu

thanks for the help in advance

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Are you talking about these? 
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If not, I can't see anything wrong in the picture. 

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18 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Are you talking about these? 
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If not, I can't see anything wrong in the picture. 

yup, sometimes they are bigger, sometimes they are smaller. Older games dont have these, probably because of different use of shaders or something.

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1 minute ago, clandestinerat said:

yup, sometimes they are bigger, sometimes they are smaller. Older games dont have these, probably because of different use of shaders or something.

Try downclocking with MSI afterburner, especially the memory

Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");

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Seriously does look like something is reflecting on the screen. 

Typical a dying produces artifacts and total system crashes, not weird colored blops like these. My guess would be your monitor is faulty. 

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2 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Seriously does look like something is reflecting on the screen. 

Typical a dying produces artifacts and total system crashes, not weird colored blops like these. My guess would be your monitor is faulty. 

Already tested on  3  different monitors unfortunately 😞 its weird because its stable enough for the system to not crash but not stable enough for these weird artifacts to appear...

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20 minutes ago, clandestinerat said:

Already tested on  3  different monitors unfortunately 😞 its weird because its stable enough for the system to not crash but not stable enough for these weird artifacts to appear...

Using same video cable? 

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46 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Using same video cable? 

Nope, different ones. I have a second pc aswell that ive switched in to test the screens, all good. I made a video to showcase the issue a bit more

 

also, i have 6900xt, typo oops

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1 minute ago, clandestinerat said:

Nope, different ones. I have a second pc aswell that ive switched in to test the screens, all good. I made a video to showcase the issue a bit more

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Never, ever have I seen this with a "dying" GPU. Always other looking artifacts. 

Have you tried DDU? Maybe this is a driver problem. 

Blasty suggested downclocking, and yes, that can help if memory has gone bad but faulty VRAM usually cause very specific blocky artifacts, not these colored blops, so I don't believe downclocking will help you. 

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2 minutes ago, BetteBalterZen said:

Never, ever have I seen this with a "dying" GPU. Always other looking artifacts. 

Have you tried DDU? Maybe this is a driver problem. 

Blasty suggested downclocking, and yes, that can help if memory has gone bad but faulty VRAM usually cause very specific blocky artifacts, not these colored blops, so I don't believe downclocking will help you. 

Also another Idea thats possible

Could it be the game? Cause at least in the vid it seems like everything happends BEHIND the trees which is odd as well and we havent seen OP try a different game than this one and silent hill 2 is a very poorly optimised and buggy game

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1 minute ago, Millios said:

Also another Idea thats possible

Could it be the game? Cause at least in the vid it seems like everything happends BEHIND the trees which is odd as well and we havent seen OP try a different game than this one and silent hill 2 is a very poorly optimised and buggy game

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1 minute ago, clandestinerat said:

Tbh when it does it behind the trees it looks prettier than the original game

Can you try other games and see if it happens there too?
if not its very possible its just the game rather than hardware

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Just now, Millios said:

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My mistake then on that one

Hide the pain 😄

It's all good, no worries

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Just now, BetteBalterZen said:

Hide the pain 😄

It's all good, no worries

Tho I did find this

Not 100% the same looks wise but artifacting on the 6800xt and the solution was undervolting with new drivers

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3 minutes ago, clandestinerat said:

Ive tried underclocking and volting the gpu, didnt work. I couldnt try vram tho because adrenalin doesnt allow me to go below 2000 for some reason.

reinstalling drivers were some of the first things ive tried. Even reinstalled windows

Right, if it keeps happening after Windows reinstall, then yeah, does sound like a hardware issue. I guess last thing to do before confirming the card dead is to test it in another system, see if the same errors appear. 

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7 minutes ago, Millios said:

Tho I did find this

Not 100% the same looks wise but artifacting on the 6800xt and the solution was undervolting with new drivers

This looks more like typical GPU/VRAM artifacts yes, big blocky artifacts. This is way more normal than what OP shows. 

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This looks more like typical GPU/VRAM artifacts yes, big blocky artifacts. This is way more normal than what OP shows. 

Just as a quick update, i finally got around to testing the gpu in a completely new enviroment (new system, cables, everything), and the same artifacts appear accross multiple games, so it seems like the gpu is dying, its just doing it in a very weird way ;(( rip

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On 5/3/2025 at 4:41 PM, clandestinerat said:

Just as a quick update, i finally got around to testing the gpu in a completely new enviroment (new system, cables, everything), and the same artifacts appear accross multiple games, so it seems like the gpu is dying, its just doing it in a very weird way ;(( rip

Yes, unfortunately I agree. Do you still have warranty? If yes, then use it. 

I hope you get a proper working GPU soon!

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