[SOLVED] Artifacting(?) in games

[maffo22]

Hello,

For quite a while now I've been getting graphical glitches in pretty much every game I play. I was hoping any of you had any ideas. The computer parts were bought and build around september 2018.

I've already tried:

• Removing the videocard, cleaning it and the PC fully
• Removing old drivers with DDU, and tried several different drivers (currently on 445.98)
• With and without MSI Afterburner (althought I didn't mess with the settings much)
• Nothing seems to be overheating (as far as I can tell?)

PC specs:

• MSI GeForce GTX 1080
• AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
• Gigabyte x470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING
• Corsair CX-M Series CX550m - 2015 Edition
• G.Skill Aegis 16GB

Here is an example of it happening, although it happens in pretty much every game I play (some are more subtle).
(with Sniper Elite it seems to stop when I turn Tessellation off, don't know if that says anything)

I hope any of you could help me with this, thanks for reading.

 

[helpstar]

Is the Bios of your motherboard up to date?

Check with a different GPU and PSU or the GPU in a different system

 

[maffo22]

Is the Bios of your motherboard up to date?

Check with a different GPU and PSU or the GPU in a different system

This is my BIOS, I'm pretty sure I updated it once when I first got it with the help of a friend

 

[Flayed]

Try running the heaven benchmark see if it happens there. Check the warranty period for your graphics card, hopefully it is 3 years in which case they may well send you a shiny new 2080 if you RMA it.

 

[helpstar]

update the BIOS to F50 by "Q-flash"
https://www.aorus.com/blog/How-to-Update-Your-BIOS-Part-2.php

1. make sure you have updated BIOS to F31 before F40, then F50
2. Before update BIOS to F40, you have to install EC FW Update Tool (B19.0517.1 or later version) to avoid 4 DIMM DDR incompatibility on 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ CPU
3. Due to BIOS ROM size limited, NO Bristol Ridge (AMD 7th Gen A-series/ Athlon™ X4 series) APU support.

BIOS file:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-ULTRA-GAMING-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios

 

[Flayed]

Do you have to update bios in order like that just for Gigabyte x470 motherboards? I'm asking because I just updated my Asus board to the latest one (which is only 1.0.0.4)

 

[maffo22]

update the BIOS to F50 by "Q-flash"
https://www.aorus.com/blog/How-to-Update-Your-BIOS-Part-2.php

1. make sure you have updated BIOS to F31 before F40, then F50
2. Before update BIOS to F40, you have to install EC FW Update Tool (B19.0517.1 or later version) to avoid 4 DIMM DDR incompatibility on 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ CPU
3. Due to BIOS ROM size limited, NO Bristol Ridge (AMD 7th Gen A-series/ Athlon™ X4 series) APU support.

BIOS file:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X470-AORUS-ULTRA-GAMING-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios

I followed your advice and updated to F50, so far no improvements unfortunately. I read somewhere that a failing PSU might cause issues like this, is this true? I am hoping it's that, rather than my GPU.

Thanks for the help so far

 

[maffo22]

Try running the heaven benchmark see if it happens there. Check the warranty period for your graphics card, hopefully it is 3 years in which case they may well send you a shiny new 2080 if you RMA it.

If all else fails I will contact support, I bought it i september 2018 so it should still be in warranty.

 

[helpstar]

Do you have to update bios in order like that just for Gigabyte x470 motherboards? I'm asking because I just updated my Asus board to the latest one (which is only 1.0.0.4)

have a look at the how to on the asus bios download page

 

[Flayed]

have a look at the how to on the asus bios download page

It shows how to update the bios using the latest available one (which is 6 months old lol)