Massive green lines across screen only on some steam games, origin games and benchmarking software runs with no issue.

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Getting massive green horizontal lines across the screen but only on some more intensive Steam games such as Doom and Dying Light, yet it doesn't happen when I play games on Origin like; BF4, Dead space 3, MoH warfighter, Crysis 3 etc which are all fine maxed out.

The lines occur as soon as I launch the games from both desktop and steam app so before I get into the game through the in game menu. If i tab out of the game it remains until restart.

First I tried copying my steamapps folder with games then uninstalling steam and reinstalling then finding games with steam installer once I placed the file back.
Then I uninstalled steam and all the games with it and tried to remove anything steam related on my hdd and ssd and then reinstalled steam and doom to test and still getting same issue.

I have the most recent drivers for my card according to AMD autodetect and windows.

I've ran Furmark and Heaven benchmarking for about 20 minutes each just to test the gpu and that was fine with stable temperatures for my card.
I have no recorded display driver crashes.

System specs;
Win10 pro
i7 4790k
MSI z97
MSI 390x
Corsair vengeance 16gb 1866 (2x8)
Samsung evo 250gb (has steam application installed)
WD black 2tb (has steam games installed)
Display is a 36" Toshiba tv
 
Solution
If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes...

Guy_7_

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Am using most up to date drivers but just tried to roll back and still getting the same green lines
 
If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
 
Solution

Guy_7_

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Ahh I was skeptical at first due to me not thinking it was a driver/gpu issue so I didnt think to use DDU as I had no display driver crash warnings but this worked so thank you James!
 


glad to hear it.