My pc specs are as follows:
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black
GPU: MSI Armor Radeon RX570 8GB GDDR5
Motherboard: ASUS M5A78L-M Plus
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X DDR3 1600 (2 x 4GB)(2 x 8GB) (24 GB Total)
PSU: EVGA Bronze 500W
SSD: HP M700 120GB
HHD: 3 x 2TB Western Digital Blue 7200 RPM
DVD Drive: ASUS 24x DVD-RW SATA Drive
Monitor: ViewSonic XG2705 27 Inch 1080p 144Hz
DisplayPort Cable: IVANKY DisplayPort 2.0, 2K@144Hz 4K@60Hz
Built in February 2019.
I am about to pull my hair out, I've been dealing with this issue for a few weeks now and have no idea what's causing it. When I bump my desk when I get up my screen goes black. I moved the cable around and figured out that it moving is what was causing the issue. Sometimes I have to change display ports on the GPU to get it to come back on. It is a little loose on the PC side, completely tight on the monitor side. I also randomly get an error from my Radeon software that tells me it can't make a good connection so it can't display the proper output quality (144Hz 1080p). When I switch ports it goes away.
The other issue, when I'm playing graphically demanding games, my FPS will drop out frequently, like every few minutes. It only lasts for about 6 seconds each instance. Example is, when I play red dead 2 online, my FPS averages about 40 with all the settings on medium. The GPU is running at around 65 Celsius and using 80-82 watts of power. My FPS will randomly drop to 12 or so and I noticed as it does this, the power draw changes from the 80s down to the 50s, usually around 55 watts or so. When I'm playing esports games, such as CS:GO, I never have an issue. It averaged 66 FPS with everything as high as it can go. My GPU should be able to play RDR2O on high settings without a hitch, but can barely handle medium it seems like.
RDR2O also crashed once every couple hours or so completely. It pulls up a graphics driver error on my Radeon software, says something about how a graphics driver stopped working, and Rockstar just has an error saying ERR-GFX-STATE. I think this is a game error rather than a GPU issue though.
What I've tried:
- Rolling back GPU Drivers
- Overclocking GPU and CPU (no change so went back to no overclock on both)
- Changing how many cores RDR2O uses
- Set everything to high performance instead of balanced or power saving
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm so frustrated with it right now. My GPU has 3 months left on the warranty so I'm also wondering if I should just RMA it just in case or not. Thank you in advance.
