Dying GPU?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

So I've been playing geo-fs which is a browser based flight simulator and it's been doing this a lot:

Sometimes it'll get so bad that the system will completely lock up and restarts itself a few minutes later. I also play an FPS shooter and just recently the graphical settings would be permanently stuck on the lowest settings. Do I have a dying GPU on my hands? In everyday browsing, everything runs normal.

[TrigrH]

looks like it

[Frosty]

I'd say that it it probably on it's last legs.

[SamuelJE]

Yeah, does look like a dying GPU... Sorry mate.

[Macsorj]

It definitely looks like it's dying. It could also possibly be caused by overheating.

[Himommies]

3 minutes ago, Frosty said:

I'd say that it it probably on it's last legs.

 

2 minutes ago, Macsorj said:

It definitely looks like it's dying. It could also possibly be caused by overheating.

 

3 minutes ago, SamuelJE said:

Yeah, does look like a dying GPU... Sorry mate.

Before we jump to conclusions maybe he should you know change a HDMI cable or reinstall drivers

[Aelita Sophie]

Since Windows gives you the message that it restored your graphics settings, it would mean the driver crashed, thus your GPU crashed. From the artifacts, I would conclude either dying GPU memory or core, or simply overheating. Check temps to be sure. If its lower then 80c (just to be on the safe side) then heat isn't the issue and it's just simply dying.

And I'll kill off the hopes for changing cables or drivers, as these kinds of artifacts do not come along with those issues. Cable cant be the issue, as if its a bad connection, you would just have a flickering image or no image at all. If it happened to be a VGA connection (analog) then the colors and resolution might be off, but thats not the case. Drivers as well, if its a simple driver crash, then the screen would just freeze or fail to render parts and then turn black screen until Windows restarts the driver.

 

The card might be working fine on the casual load (ex just browsing), but that is due the state that the GPU is on that moment. Certain parts of the core and memory aren't enabled at that moment until it actually needs it. Also the clock speeds are at that moment turned down a notch.

 

So, unless it's heat, it's dying.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

36 minutes ago, Aelita Sophie said:

Since Windows gives you the message that it restored your graphics settings, it would mean the driver crashed, thus your GPU crashed. From the artifacts, I would conclude either dying GPU memory or core, or simply overheating. Check temps to be sure. If its lower then 80c (just to be on the safe side) then heat isn't the issue and it's just simply dying.

And I'll kill off the hopes for changing cables or drivers, as these kinds of artifacts do not come along with those issues. Cable cant be the issue, as if its a bad connection, you would just have a flickering image or no image at all. If it happened to be a VGA connection (analog) then the colors and resolution might be off, but thats not the case. Drivers as well, if its a simple driver crash, then the screen would just freeze or fail to render parts and then turn black screen until Windows restarts the driver.

 

The card might be working fine on the casual load (ex just browsing), but that is due the state that the GPU is on that moment. Certain parts of the core and memory aren't enabled at that moment until it actually needs it. Also the clock speeds are at that moment turned down a notch.

 

So, unless it's heat, it's dying.

Don't think it's heat. Just got back from some gaming (albeit, now in terrible graphical settings) and Afterburner reported 44 degrees. Also sometimes I would just launch geo-fs after just browsing and that'll happen (other times it just loads fine). I guess it is on its last legs. That GPU might have just totalled my system hahaha.  

[Aelita Sophie]

4 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Don't think it's heat. Just got back from some gaming (albeit, now in terrible graphical settings) and Afterburner reported 44 degrees. Also sometimes I would just launch geo-fs after just browsing and that'll happen (other times it just loads fine). I guess it is on its last legs. That GPU might have just totalled my system hahaha.  

Nah don't worry to much. Hardware these days can handle a beating. The rest of your system is probably fine.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

45 minutes ago, Aelita Sophie said:

Nah don't worry to much. Hardware these days can handle a beating. The rest of your system is probably fine.

Well, it's more like I'm not too sure if my system is worth getting a brand new GPU for at this point. The only thing it has going for it at this point is the 16GB of RAM. Single core performance is terrible. Might look for second hand cards. Any recommendations that are similar to the 550ti?

[Aelita Sophie]

1 hour ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Well, it's more like I'm not too sure if my system is worth getting a brand new GPU for at this point. The only thing it has going for it at this point is the 16GB of RAM. Single core performance is terrible. Might look for second hand cards. Any recommendations that are similar to the 550ti?

A 750ti would be a decent upgrade? Then you don't really need to watch out for your PSU. Its cheap new and cheap used. http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-750-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GTX-550-Ti/2187vs3161

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

15 hours ago, Aelita Sophie said:

A 750ti would be a decent upgrade? Then you don't really need to watch out for your PSU. Its cheap new and cheap used. http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-750-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GTX-550-Ti/2187vs3161

Update:

I just switched out with my brother's 550ti since we have the same exact card (both MSI branded 550tis) and it also had artifacts all over the place and the driver crashed on geo-fs. Tried this web page on my brother's system before and it doesn't seem to run without any issues (I've ran it twice and worked flawlessly). So I'm not sure at this point if it's a Windows issue or just a wonky board.

 

When it crashes, geo-fs says it's a rendering error and mentions invalid array length if that helps. Exact same error on both cards.