I recently was playing gta 5 and was having a problem where every so often it freeze for a second or 2 and I set the settings back to default and the screen went checker board with really small squares and some of the squares the background was visible the squares were pixilated. So I used ddu and reinstalled the latest whql windows 11 drivers and I am afraid that didn't fix it because, I still get random pauses.
I had a similar problem before but, I found out that time it was caused by running afterburner and gigabyte's overclocking software that conflicted with each other. I fixed it by doing my overclocking in catalyst.
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