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I experience horizontal lines or flashes while games are running, especially recognizable in darker areas.

GPU is Palit GTX 960 SSJ.

  • I've tried downclocking
  • checked all cables
  • switched ends of vga cable
  • reset monitor settings
  • reset driver settings

Also that doesn't happen when I connect PC to TV using HDMI

What should I try before giving up? I think this happends because of noisy PSU or cheapass ramdac

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 Wait wait wait wait wait, vga? You wot mate?

 

 

what sort of lines were they? it might just be your cables, drivers or in the worst case your card.

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Had had a similar thing when I used to use VGA to connect my laptop to the TV. I would use HDMI or Display Port mate. Screw VGA.

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I experience horizontal lines or flashes while games are running, especially recognizable in darker areas.

GPU is Palit GTX 960 SSJ.

  • I've tried downclocking
  • checked all cables
  • switched ends of vga cable
  • reset monitor settings
  • reset driver settings

Also that doesn't happen when I connect PC to TV using HDMI

What should I try before giving up? I think this happends because of noisy PSU or cheapass ramdac

if it works fine with hdmi the pc is fine.

in my opinion its the cable or the screen.

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It's extremely annoying and I want to avoid buying new monitor. Are all modern graphic cards have shitty ramdacs?

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Does driver have ramdac settings or something?

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Wait wait wait wait wait, vga? You wot mate?

what sort of lines were they? it might just be your cables, drivers or in the worst case your card.

It's like banding or scanlines. I'll make video today

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See here's the thing VGA is analog so one of the RGB channels can stop working ie one or more of the colours could be missing. The connection withing the cable might also be unreliable so it is connected most of the time but when you touch the cable one of the channels could disconnect. This can happen for a really short period of time causing bands to appear on the screen because the color data that was meant to be sent and filled in those pixels just never arrived due to a unreliable connection. But than again your gpu might just be failing or even the monitor itself, hopefully not though :P.

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