[SOLVED] Graphical artefacts after crash

[buster108]

I was playing this game called universe sandbox the other day and basically pushed it to its limits by accident. You can cause supernovas in the game and I did one too many and crashed the game. The crash was odd however, as it caused loads of multicoloured graphical artefacts before hanging. PC had never done that before and had not crashed for probably a year or so. I restarted and noticed windows was all patchy. All the black colours on windows were made up of different shades of grey squares if that makes sense, just another artefact essentially. Not to mention windows was noticeably slower. Reinstalled nvidia driver and went on fine.

A few days later played some Totally accurate battle simulator and the PC really struggled with it even though it can run it fine on paper. Similar things become more and more common, more crashes etc.

Then played GTA V. A game Ive run on this sytem for 6 years no problem. Suddenly I get fps drops just minutes in, then huge graphical artefacts, then messages saying VRAM maxed and then crash.

Weirdly, after that, I could still play Halo MCC.

Then I tried Totally Accurate battle simulator again and then a couple maps in, boom. A crash. Then that was it. The artefacts on windows are permanent now. Driver reinstalled, went to old ones, directx, registry cleanup, sfc scannow, reseated gpu and ram, checked power cables, made GPU wasnt unbalanced or not seated correctly. Nothing worked. Switched to the iGPU and seems to be fine. So am I right in thinking the card is totalled ?

I had no idea a game could do that to a GPU. My original hope was it as just unity engine (Universe sandbox and TABS both run on it). But GTA V confirmed it wasnt. Weird that Halo ran fine for like an hour, no issues whatsoever.

Hoping something can be done about it on my end? Tho does seem like a VRAM issue which im not sure can come back from


Thanks in advance!


specs:
i5-3570k
Gigabyte GTX 770 4gb
8gb ram
750W PSU

(I understand this is an old setup but all the games mentioned it can run easily and I'm looking to avoid forking out money for a new GPU

Edit: I forgot to mention. After the big crash, everytime I booted up with the GPU windows wouldnt let me turn on the night light function nor put the PC to sleep or change accounts etc. It was weird, like it was locked out from some settings. Double checked to see if it was in safe mode, it was not)

 

[vov4ik_il]

I would run VRAM checking with any software (Kombuster artifact scanner for example) and if it gets artifacts - put the card to rest, it is old...

 

[InvalidError]

I had no idea a game could do that to a GPU.

In general, it cannot. Your GPU may have been on the verge of failing and the simulated supernova just happened to push it over the edge.

 

[buster108]

I would run VRAM checking with any software (Kombuster artifact scanner for example) and if it gets artifacts - put the card to rest, it is old...

So it couldn't even run Kombuster's test haha. Just opened the window and instantly closed. Think that speaks volumes. Poor things done I reckon

 

[buster108]

In general, it cannot. Your GPU may have been on the verge of failing and the simulated supernova just happened to push it over the edge.

Yeah to be honest I figured it be near impossible for the game itself to do that. Makes more sense that the 8 year old card is the actual issue

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yeah to be honest I figured it be near impossible for the game itself to do that. Makes more sense that the 8 year old card is the actual issue

Game causes load on GPU.
If you have poor case ventilation or gpu cooler is full of dust or failed gpu cooler fan, you get GPU overheating.
Prolonged operation in exceedingly high temperatures can cause damage/failure.

So indirectly - game can do that.