My Specs:
- System: Windows 10 home 64 bits
- BIOS: v8.4
- Processor: AMD A10-7860K Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G (4CPUs) - 3.6GHz
- Memory: 16GB RAM
- DirectX: 12
- Graphics Card: Radeon (TM) RX 480
- Resolution: 1280 x 720 (Recommended)
For context: I've been playing Elden Ring for more than 100 hours. Occasionally the game would crash and send me back to desktop seemingly with no consequences, I could reopen the game and keep playing with no much trouble until it happened again.
Rarely, the game would stop, and at the same time or just seconds later the image would look corrupted, divided in squares like a chessboard, in which some squares would look like the original image and the other ones looked all colorful and distorted, then everything would go black. Most of the time after a minute or so everything would close and send me back to desktop. Sometimes the black screen seemed endless so I would force shutdown and when I turned the pc back on everything seemed to be in order.
- Example: IMG-20181229-210919.jpg (1067×800) (postimg.cc)
(not a screenshot of mine, but this is exactly how it looked, only that for me it happened mid game)
Now my current problem is that 3 days ago the thing with the "chessboard distorted screen" has been leading not only to the endless black screen, but also after forcing shutdown and restarting, once I clicked on steam, the pointer would stay in its "loading" state, the "updating steam" window wouldn't even appear, the taskmanager wouldn't show any hint of Steam's processes, and even my whole pc wouldn't function as it should, the speaker tab woulnd't pop-up when clicked, the windows tab would pop-up but clicking the shutdown button would do nothing, leaving me with no choice other than force it. Once I'd turn it back on, the Steam thing would persist.
I've managed to "solve" the steam problem temporarily, but it was just a matter of time until it happened again and I don't know what could be causing all of this.
The "solution" was formatting my pc, reinstalling windows, reinstalling steam and then my AMD drivers. But once the crash with the distortion happened again, the Steam problem would start once again.
Anybody has any suggestions?
