PC Graphics

[micumedic]

I have had my system for ~ 3 years and no issues until about one month ago.  I am getting these errors.  It is either very long walls / vectors as seen under the letter E on the screen or flashes of colors as seen in the other screen shot.  These pictures are from Far Cry 5 but has occurred in Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 as well.  

I have never seen an artifact when not in a game.  I have never overclocked the graphics card and do not have my CPU overclocked. 

I attempted to uninstall and reinstall the graphics drivers.  After having issues, I deleted my C drive and did a fresh install of windows, Radeon drivers and Far Cry 5 (from saved file using the back up feature in Steam).  Despite this, this is still occurring.  

Did my graphics card just go bad?  I don't know what else to try. 

Thank you in advance, 

Kyle

[thastoff]

I'm experiencing similar artifacts in COD: Modern Warfare as well as Wolfenstein II using any driver version released after 20.5.1 on my rx 5700xt. I'm not sure what drivers are available for your card but you should try one of the 20.4 series if possible.

Chris.

[pokester]

I would try an older driver. Run DDU and see if the problem exist after installing a prior driver you know worked right. 

If the problem persists you might have memory on the card going bad. If you have overclocked this card at all make sure to test it at default settings. 

Contact your GPUs makers support help. It may be time to ask for an RMA if the prior driver does not work. 

If the old driver does work then contact AMD about the issue:  https://www.amd.com/en/support/contact-email-form 

[micumedic]

Where would I find old drivers?  AMD would only have the newest.  Second, do you know if there is software to check video ram like there is with system ram?

Thanks

[pokester]

On the driver page for you card down below is a small link that reads previous drivers it is easy to miss but those only go back less than a year. It drives me nuts that AMD only keep about the last 10 months of drivers. If I were them I would have the last driver for the past few years. Many older GCN users can't even get the 2020 drivers to load. 

Luckily there are several 3rd party sites that host them.

GURU3D dot COM is a great, safe place to get older drivers. 

[mstfbsrn980]

This kind of distortion occurs when the GPU core frequency is too high. Lower the core frequency with WattMan (-5% or -10%), there will be no problem...