Is my VRAM dying??

[elliotpage]

Hello there

I have been getting weird graphical glitches happening to me recently, specifically when I play star wars battlefront 2. These graphical glitches seem to happen after about one game has been played or if i change the graphics while in game. Eventually the glitches get worse and worse till the game eventually crashes. I have run MemTest, Prime95 and used seatools to check my HDD and all of these tests passed so I'm now thinking that the issue may be bad VRAM?? I have attached images below:

https://imgur.com/a/ch6GtS3
https://imgur.com/a/EPpUCBx

I have had a failing GPU before and this seems to be different, for starters with my old failing GPU I could not print screen the artifacts id see on screen whereas I can with these glitches for some reason. Any help is much appreciated, I'm at my wits end!!

Specs:

https://imgur.com/a/3k6Z14T

Thanks

 

[Barty1884]

Those screenshots wouldn't make me suspect VRAM issues, at least not initially.

I'd expect VRAM artifacting to be more along these lines:

With those screenshots, I'd be inclined to start with the GPU driver (upgrade or roll-back) and/or a problem with the engine itself. I've heard of random instances of similar artifacts.... all the ones I've seen are mentioned to be unreal engine titles though, and Battelfront2 is Frostbite....

 

[bobthemagicmoose]

First, a disclaimer. I don't know what I'm talking about. Now that that is out of the way, I would guess that your problem is with the logic within the GPU (processor) itself and not the VRAM. The bulk of VRAM is storing texture data and I would think that, if your VRAM were bad then your textures would be messed up, not the post-processing that is done after they are mapped to the polygons. I would try disabling as much post-processing as you can and see if you can find something that avoids the bad part of the GPU.

After reading the above comment by @Barty1884 - it does seem more plausible that this is a driver/game issue and not a problem with your graphics card. Does it happen with other games?

 

[elliotpage]

This happens only with battlefront 2 and just seems to happen when there is a big graphics change in the game i.e when I change map or change the graphics settings. I've also tried searching online and have found no examples of anyone with the same issue. I have the most recent driver for my card but I'll try rolling back and see if there's any improvement

 

[elderMat7]

It just sounds like a failing GPU to me.

 

[elliotpage]

So I just rolled back my GPU driver, just picked one at random and it's fixed my problem !! Thank you so much, thought my hardware was dying