Black dots in playback videos

[Ryuraiden]

Hi, I'm experiencing problems (As described in the title) lately where black dots randomly, suddenly, and without a fixed cause appear when i first click the play button on a video. sometimes it covers the whole screen, some times a little bit of it, for just about 2-3 seconds, then everything continues fine as it should, and it doesn't appear again no matter how long the video is. I've made some google searching, there ain't much, but people were suggesting that the Graphic card was dying. I cannot agree to this, as my card is 1 year old, and i play games like the witcher 3 with ultra settings, and no problems there, no artifacts or whatsoever. And no, my card is not running hot, it goes max at 80 degree. It's hard to simulate the issue, as i have no idea what causes it, but it happens mostly when i watch videos on facebook. I'm not really sure yet, but i think it also happened in videos locally on my machine.

Win 10
FX8350
GTX 970 Galax

 

[GreyCatz]

Hi, I'm experiencing problems (As described in the title) lately where black dots randomly, suddenly, and without a fixed cause appear when i first click the play button on a video. sometimes it covers the whole screen, some times a little bit of it, for just about 2-3 seconds, then everything continues fine as it should, and it doesn't appear again no matter how long the video is. I've made some google searching, there ain't much, but people were suggesting that the Graphic card was dying. I cannot agree to this, as my card is 1 year old, and i play games like the witcher 3 with ultra settings, and no problems there, no artifacts or whatsoever. And no, my card is not running hot, it goes max at 80 degree. It's hard to simulate the issue, as i have no idea what causes it, but it happens mostly when i watch videos on facebook. I'm not really sure yet, but i think it also happened in videos locally on my machine.

Win 10
FX8350
GTX 970 Galax

Greetings, Ryuraiden:

Try this:
Open Control Panel and click Hardware and Sound. Select Nvidia Control Panel and click 'Manage 3D Settings' in the menu to the left. Under the Program Settings tab, you can choose what GPU should run different apps, e.g. Facebook. If Facebook doesn't appear on the default list, uncheck the box that says 'Show only programs found on this computer'. This will give you a very long list of apps to select.

Cheers,
GreyCatz.

 

[Ryuraiden]

Hi, I'm experiencing problems (As described in the title) lately where black dots randomly, suddenly, and without a fixed cause appear when i first click the play button on a video. sometimes it covers the whole screen, some times a little bit of it, for just about 2-3 seconds, then everything continues fine as it should, and it doesn't appear again no matter how long the video is. I've made some google searching, there ain't much, but people were suggesting that the Graphic card was dying. I cannot agree to this, as my card is 1 year old, and i play games like the witcher 3 with ultra settings, and no problems there, no artifacts or whatsoever. And no, my card is not running hot, it goes max at 80 degree. It's hard to simulate the issue, as i have no idea what causes it, but it happens mostly when i watch videos on facebook. I'm not really sure yet, but i think it also happened in videos locally on my machine.

Win 10
FX8350
GTX 970 Galax

Greetings, Ryuraiden:

Try this:
Open Control Panel and click Hardware and Sound. Select Nvidia Control Panel and click 'Manage 3D Settings' in the menu to the left. Under the Program Settings tab, you can choose what GPU should run different apps, e.g. Facebook. If Facebook doesn't appear on the default list, uncheck the box that says 'Show only programs found on this computer'. This will give you a very long list of apps to select.

Cheers,
GreyCatz.

Greetings GreyCatz,

Thank you for your reply. I have only one Display adapter, so, there is no confusion here. But i did what you said and everything seemed normal, e.g my chrome browser have default settings. My GeForce gtx 970 driver is updated... Do you have other suggestions?

 

[Colif]

Does this happen watching YouTube videos on Chrome? does it happen on other browsers?

I think I have witnessed what you are describing, it can be half the screen, it can cover almost entire screen but there can be areas you can see through it. I have seen this on Youtube videos the last few days, but its only on videos from TV shows, I don't see it on videos made specifically for youtube

I don't have any suggestions though as it appears to be an encoding problem that quickly goes away once video is playing.
running latest Nvidia drivers and latest version of Chrome.