Screen Artifacts

Forum discussion tagged with Screen Artifacts.
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    Question Display problems on MSI Bravo 15 laptop ?

    Tech noob here. I’m running Linux-Tumbleweed-Gnome-Wayland on a 3 yr old MSI AMD Bravo 15 Ryzen 7 laptop. My screen is acting up. See a video sample here: → Imgur: The magic of the Internet Any idea what the source of the problem could be? Hardware? Connection cabling? Circuit board going bad...
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    Question Vertical bands on brand new monitor ?

    Monitor: Samsung ViewFinity S6 **Background** I received a Samsung ViewFinity S6 monitor and when I connected my nintendo switch to the monitor using HDMI, the display faded for a while. After restarting the monitor, the display was back to normal. After 15 minutes a strange vertical band...
  3. Fryddie

    Question When I stream on discord I freeze for 1 second and my screen goes black and recovers normally but then I have mini freeze from time.

    Its not stopping if i dont restart my pc. Its only on a game [Friday night funkin] my config: Processor Ryzen 5600g Motherboard A320m-k Video card Vega 56 nitro sapphire Ram 32g ddr4 corsair vengeance Alimentation 650w MSI
  4. jamesnatsu

    Question Screen glitch on start up, anyone got an idea as to what this is?

    Hi there. Can anyone tell me what is going on with my screen? This has been an ongoing issue for some time now but seems to be getting worse. Occurs only on start up and persists for about 5 min. When this started happening it was only just covering the task bar and was gone within about 1...
  5. Redoxi

    Question PC gets weird dashes on the screen when the gpu is on high load

    Hey, I had this problem a few weeks ago, GPU, PSU & monitor is only about 2 months old so relatively new. It happens on both monitors of mine. My specs: GPU: PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT Red Devil CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x MAINBOARD: Asus ROG STRIX X-370 F Gaming PSU: Corsair RM850e RAM: Corsair...
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    Question What is happening to my laptop screen and can it be fixed ?

    Hello there. Yesterday, my laptop display showed the artefact shown in this link Nothing really happened beside travelling with my laptop stored in its usual backpack, no liquid exposure or anything. Weirdly, those traces do not appear when i display a whole white window, such as an empty...
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    Question Weird Screen Distortion (Help Please)

    Hello, I am having some weird kind of screen distortion with my new windows 11 laptop display, which also occurs on a connected external monitor display. Please see the linked/attached image. Not sure what this is, nor how to exactly describe what's going on. It seems to happen on apps/programs...
  8. Exist25

    Question Colored Dots Flashing on Screen ?

    I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out the cause of this issue. I've noticed it with a few games now which usually is fixed with limiting framerate. However, with Elden Ring I cannot seem to make this stop from happening even if I limit my monitor's refresh rate to 60hz which is the max fps...
  9. Flame1

    [SOLVED] Screen burn-in on a TN panel???

    I just noticed my monitor has outlines of the Spotify UI burned into the screen, the outlines of it are there regardless of what I put on the display. Photos below: I have Spotify open most of the time on that monitor, but I turn the PC off every night and often move things in and out of that...
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    Question My graphics card is acting weird with Screen artifacts

    So a couple of days ago, I started having an issue with my computer's graphics card and for some reason, it's now displaying artifacts all over my screen and I have no idea what is happening. When I type, there are sometimes more of these artifacts. It's not just that but when I play games like...
  11. Ravirr13

    Question Weird distortion in the middle of the screen

    Hey there, Lenovo Slim i7, 14AP7, model 82SX0002US (Intel i7-1260P, Iris XE 96EU). 2.8K (2880x1800) 90Hz. Recently I've noticed an odd artefact on my screen: sometimes I see these reddish-greenish lines near random objects on my screen. It's especially noticeable between the words either in...
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    Question Graphics card suddenly having issues but it works on another PC ?

    Here are my specs: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB XC Ryzen 5 3600 Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX (used to be SeaSonic G Series SSR-550RM 550W 80 Plus...
  13. seagullrocck

    Question Is my graphics driver broken or is it the screen itself ?

    I recently noticed that the screen of my Acer Nitro 5 2019 laptop has been acting weird. Just below my taskbar, there's a fine black line across the screen that flickers. I tried updating my discrete driver but it didn't do anything. I tried scanning using the command prompt but it said that...
  14. SweetCrxck

    Question White blocks appear and freezed

    Hello, Yesterday I started my pc and while logging in my monitor displayed weird white blocks over the screen and my pc freezed. I cleaned my pc to have it dust free and did a clean windows install but that didn't make any diffrence. When I start up the pc, I get no output from the gpu (I...
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    Question Laptop screen gets wierd

    Hii, I have a relatively new laptop, 7-8 months old, but I have noticed an issue very early. When ever I hold the laptop in such a way where a little too much pressure is exerted on the body of Laptop (not the screen part) it becomes unresponsive and the screen gets wierd i.e. entirely blacked...
  16. Odonix

    [SOLVED] Screen Tearing, Blue Screen, and No Display ?

    So I have been dealing with a few issues for a while now and finally decided to ask you lovely people for some help/suggestions. Problem 1 I will occasionally experience screen tearing, I notice it when playing games and when just scrolling through a website or on Discord. I keep my video...
  17. SilverPigtail

    Question So I decided to oc the monitor...

    Hi all, I have an Asus TUF Gaming VG27AQ1A 27" that has the option to overclocking it. I decided to try just because some graphic drivers reduce my Hz to 120 (that problem is solved). When I did this, I could see a box in the center of the screen that was on another resolution. This could be...
  18. mattwerew

    Question Very noticeable screen tearing artefact on monitor while scrolling

    I've been getting this very weird and annoying artefact whenever I'm scrolling through websites, watching videos and using programs. Its not the type of screen tearing when you turn off vsync in games, it only seems to happen towards the bottom of the screen. Here's a short video of what I'm...
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    [SOLVED] Screen seems fuzzy / blurry?

    Hi all, just did a clean install of windows 10 with mostly new components and the screens looks a bit fuzzy or blurry. Its hard to describe, so here is a screenshot. Take a look at the edges of the facebook, youtube, instagram and Gmail icons. I hope it comes across, but to me it looks...
  20. GCF2597

    [SOLVED] Screen tearing when using fullscreen (AMD/Freesync)

    For as long as I’ve had my computer I’ve been suffering from screen tearing at the bottom quarter of the screen whenever I go fullscreen in my games, though for some unknown reason I experience none when im in windowed mode. I use Freesync and my FPS is always in my Freesync range (48-75 hz) so...
  21. _dawn_chorus_

    Question Strange issues, Is it my GPU?

    Been doing a lot of gaming over the past few months and recently I have had some strange issues arise but only during AoE2 DE. I have had a HARD freeze, had to hotboot out of, strange flickering/pop in of assets and buildings as I drag the mouse around, and a couple times a blurred horizontal...
  22. project_m

    Question Random blue/red/yellow pixels + random crashes when starting up games or benchmark

    So i started getting these problems randomly. I was already about to buy a new CPU so i did that and it just made it worse. I then installed new RAM and a new GPU and still i had these problems. I think it is due to my Psu being too old/overused or it just doesn't have enough power or something...
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    [SOLVED] Screen Strange Artifacts

    Hi all I have a really strange issue, wondering if anyone has been it before? https://ibb.co/jvqMhjr I acquired a Xeon based system, it doesnt have a hard drive. And I have replaced the RAM, CMOS battery, VGA cable and monitor and I still get the above screen strangeness. I think it might be...
  24. froggy14

    [SOLVED] Laptop screen issues

    Hello. From time to time, my laptop screen gets some pink and green lines and the lower part of the screen stops working. The issue seems to appear only on darker backgrounds as when I open the Chrome it somewhat comes back to normal, but it still keeps a little flicker. The current operating...
  25. kuldeep.jadeja.09

    [SOLVED] Gtx 960 2gb OC is showing 0 MB VRAM ? can any hardware expert repair it ?

    Greetings Experts , i have a Graphic card which shows flickered display as per shown in the attached JPEGs,. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmM9KbxY Also i check with the GPU-z and it showed every details of this card except Bus Width and Bus handle (something , sorry , i don't know much about this stuff...
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    [SOLVED] Three Black rectangles on left side of screen

    Hi all, I am not sure if this is the correct thread to add this question, if not please let me know. Since yesterday, I been having this problem with my computer where three black rectangles are on the left side of my display and they do not go away. I never seen this before and after searching...
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    Question Bad screen tearing! RTX 2080 i9

    I have screen tearing in EVERYTHING full screen, youtube, netflix, literally everything. I get screen tearing in every game except rust i have no clue why. I have tried turning V-Sync on, off , adaptive, adaptive half, and fast. Everything is the same. I dont know if i have some setting...
  28. subanta

    Question AMD Graphics Issue

    Hi, My PC is old and I have never had any problem in the past with any component. Recently small square boxes fill my screen randomly and hangs my pc. This happens mostly when I play games. Now it has become very frequent, and I have unplugged my graphics card. Without the graphics card, there...
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    New GPU but when i turn pc on it turns off after 1 second

    Spec I5-750 Asus p7f-m 500 watt psu GTX 660 Ti 1.5 gb Got a new GTX660 Ti 1.5 gb and when i turn on the pc it turns off after one second. When i disconnect the PSU to the GPU and leave the G{U in the PCI e slot the pc boots on and is fine but whenever i connected the GPU to the PSU the computer...
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    Should I upgrade?

    Hey guys, I currently have an AMD Athlon X4 640 and I would like to upgrade to an AMD FX-8320E. Is it worth it for me to upgrade the CPU? I would like to play the most current games on moderate settings that would get me stable frames. Also, keep in mind I am a budget gamer.