Another freeze, this time when i was trying to send a animated sticker through steam, freeze happened right as i hit send and the sticker tried to animate, im not sure if that indicates anything, hoping maybe someone has some insight they are willing to share there?
 
Im almost entirely out of ideas, the system was rock solid for a good 20 days, no crashes, great performance and smoothness and then in 2 days i have 2 freezes coming out of nowhere.
 
My next step is to see if it happens again, or that sticker thing was just a freak accident, if it happens again, ill try lowering down my ram speed once more, seeing if that helps.
 
Will report back my findings, and i hope someone has some insight what could be the issue when it happens right as it tries to load an image, is that gpu or ram related?

Yeah it does if you let it hang long enough, this is sometimes just a minute or several in the worst cases ive seen.
Im on 517 driver for now and its mostly stable apart from known driver issues. Ive not had a crash since but im still seeing somewhat weird behaviour with specifically Sea of thieves, where it seems like its remaking its shader cache everytime i launch it, thats what the stutters feel like atleast, they are only there at the very start and then never show up again till next time i boot the game.
 
Theres been some stutters with older games but that can very well be cause of them being older, and maybe not optimized for windows 11 or 10 for that matter. Other than that ive run benchmarks in cyberpunk 2077 and that gives pretty good scores and those run smooth apart from a single hitch/stutter when the camera enters the bar in the built in benchmark.
 
Its interesting that since reinstalling the 517 driver the issues i had with it last time have not shown up, browsers dont show any artifacts or weird behaviour.
 
So yeah im not entirely sure what to think at this point, some say the stutters i experience are not normal others say that it can happen and its no big deal. For the most part the card seems stable but all this troubleshooting might be making me notice things that id not normally pay any mind to otherwise.
 
Not sure if any of that makes sense, but its what im thinking currently

Crash - Pastebin.com
 
Ive pasted the windbq readout into a pastebin

Hello my pc has been stable for a while now again on 517 drivers, which is nice. FPS is good in games and smoothness is pretty nice as well, most issues are entirely gone on that driver.
 
Now ive just noticed something weird though, when i play league of legends with friends, i was about to press find match and something pink flashed around the button, which confused me, so after playing ive recorded me wiggling the cursor around the button and sure enough, pink boxes appear, the size of the button itself. https://imgur.com/OP6AvP5 This is the video i recorded.
 
Apart from that the game runs perfectly, with an exception of the end screen when you either get the big Defeat or Victory title, with the continue button underneath, there it will have a sort of black flicker, before returning to normal, its so quick its barely noticeable, but its there everytime now.
 
Any clue what that might be? Ive only had anything like that happen with that particular button, ive tried every other button i could find in the league client, and they are fine. Then i went ahead and tried to uninstall the driver to see how it would behave with nothing installed, and in that scenario it did not do anything, but that might simply just be a result of the lower refresh rate when no driver is installed, or something similiar. I also tried to plug my monitor into any of the other Displayport plugs, no change, also tried removing my secondary monitor, also didnt change anything. And also moved the league client to any of the other monitors, also happens there, but more easy to spot on the main monitor due to higher refresh rate.
 
EDIT: figured i might as well try some things out to rule out that this could be related to other issues ive had. So i tried swapping in my 1080ti, pink square is still there, put back in the 3080ti and then swapped ram to the set ive used previously, still pink squares. Ive also thrown a message off to the games support, perhaps its a known issue of some kind. But yeah doesnt seem to be related to my gpu, could also just be a driver issue.

pavel.pru
Just to confirm, your system has now been stable on the same driver release whereas the only difference that you've re-enabled the "Prefer Maximum Performance" mode?

If this behavior (the flashing button) is reproducible every time you run the game, I wouldn't worry about it. It could be just a glitch that is unrelated to your graphics hardware (even though I cannot say for sure). If you have G-SYNC enabled, you could try deactivating that just to check (it has caused me some graphical issues in the past). You could also try lowering the the monitor refresh rate within the context of the graphics driver (the fact that the game ran on the default (non-hardware specific) graphics driver is surprising I must say).

Yes that is correct, im on the game ready 517 driver, with prefer maximum performance enabled, which is stable so far, but far too early to call yet.
 
It happens every time ive launched it since noticing it, its hard to say for how long its been happening as i dont always host the lobbies so i dont always press that button myself, and since it takes a bit of wiggling my mouse at it, id say its pretty likely that ive just not been lucky(or unlucky) to see it before now.

pavel.pru
These power management issue are truly extraordinary, seeing that all the (different) crashes and instability that are described here seem to ultimately boil down to them (let alone the fact that they are extremely frustrating to troubleshoot). I am glad that your system has been stable. Personally, I wouldn't worry about the flashing button artifact.

And they in no way seem to be on Nvidias radar at all, i think thats the most frustrating thing about it, the ones that should be able to fix this, are not doing it.
 
As for the artifact, i guess its no big deal, but with all the issues ive had with my pc the last half a year or so, it would be nice if it would just work, atleast for a while
 
EDIT: I just had a new crash, a very fast one, was booting up a 3d game and was hit with this crash instantly and it rebooted with this code "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)"

TheDibz
Need some direction on current issue:

Random Black screen during gaming (PUGB and BF2042), sometimes audio continues to work and I need to restart, other times it will crash with 100% fans. 2.5 Hours with out error, then 5 events within 1 hour.

Ran Benchmarks in 2K and in 4K - 144 and 160 Hz with random Black Screen Events in Passmark Performance Test.

Note: GPU was functioning without error on Z390 Classified with a 8700K last week (Computer was disassembled for the 13700K build)


GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 ULTRA GAMING with Hybrid kit installed on 7.2021 (400-HY-1988-B1)
MOBO: Z690 Classified
CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K
Memory: 64 GB G.Skill - F5-6000J3238G32GX2-RS5K
Monitor (2x): Dell 27" 2K GSync/LG 27" 4K GSync
PSU: EVGA 850 P6 (ECO mode off)
 
PercisionX1 VBIOS: 94.02.71.80.74
(Resizeable BAR: Enabled)

EVGA Z690 Bio Version: 2.03

Ordered a open box 1300 P+ PSU and a 1200 P3. The 1300 P+ was Dead On Arrival and needs to be returned to Amazon, the 1200 P3 arrives tomorrow for testing. The EVGA 850 P6 currently in the computer was purchased September 2022.

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​Things I have tried:

Windows 11 - Up to date and rolled back and re-updated (22H2)

Windows 11 - Power Settings - Balanced [Active]

Windows 11 Default Graphic Settings:

1. Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling - Off

2. Variable Refresh Rate - On

3. Optimizations for Windows Games - Off

Windows 11 - Personalization - Static Image

Nvidia Control Panel - Image settings - Performance

Nvidia Control Panel - Manage 3D Settings - Power Management Mode - Normal

Nvidia Driver: (Always Clean installed) 526.47

Crashing with 100% GPU fan speed is a pretty good indication the GPU is faulty.

Got my RMA response today, faulty card with several different failures detected at the off site testing center, the retailer offered me either full refund or pay 50 euro ontop and get a 4080.
 
Picked up the 4080 as the reviews are great and the price in my case, was just 50 euro and the value of a faulty 3080ti.
So i can only recommend an rma if anyone is facing this issue, cant wait to enjoy my system agian.
 

What does that mean exactly?