Question My PC Runs Most Benchmarks Great But Won't Play Games Anymore???

[MasterBlaster22]

Display Output is either Black or Monitor says "no signal" on About half of the Games I try to Run. It's not immediate. Most games load to the title menu then crash to black screen when you start them up.

I thought my GPU was going Bad, but Some Benchmarks run flawlessly for an hour. MSI Kombustor and Artifact Scanner runs fine at high frame rates with 0 Artifacting. GPU stress tests- just fine on PassMark Free Trial. PassMark Benchmark shows no problems with the GPU same for MSI Kombustor.

I upgraded to Windows 11 from Win 10. After I did that, some games either load and then turn to a Black Screen With Audio or Black Screen Without Audio, OR ELSE they load and go all the way through the Menu Screen and then Fail when actually Starting the Application (as in pressing "play now" from the game title page)

Some games just won't "go," like Borderlands Wonderland, Fallout 76, and Mass Effect.
But I played a really intensive demanding session of TABS (totally accurate battle simulator) without a single glitch.

Unigen Superposition Benchmark Crashes and Gives the Black Screen of Death. PassMark Benchmark runs Great!

THINGS I TRIED:

Reinstalled Nvidia Drivers/GeForce Experience
NV CleanInstall
Direct X Troubleshooting Tool
Direct X Reinstall
Bios Update to the Latest Bios for my MB
Deleted Game Temp settings in the File Trees
Visual C++ reinstall 2015-2022
Downgraded my CPU Overclock for more stability
Set GPU to factory settings in MSI Afterburner
Disabled MS Defender
Disabled Norton Antivirus/Malware
Verified Game Files Install using Steam

This is crazy

i7 8086K
Aorus Z370
GSkill RAM 32GB
RTX 3080

 

[Darkbreeze]

What is the ACTUAL model of your motherboard? There are like 11 different "Aorus" models in the Z370 family.

 

[MasterBlaster22]

What is the ACTUAL model of your motherboard? There are like 11 different "Aorus" models in the Z370 family.

z370 Gaming 7

 

[MasterBlaster22]

The Bios is F15

 

[Darkbreeze]

Did you purchase and attach a TPM 2.0 module to the TPM 2.0 onboard header?

 

[MasterBlaster22]

No, I didn't do that

 

[Darkbreeze]

So then you're using a work around to run Windows 11? Because without a TPM 2.0 module it's not running it legitimately. Plus, you've done an "upgrade" from one version of a Windows OS to another, which is rarely something that continues to work without some kind of problem.

I would recommend that you get a TPM 2.0 module that will connect to the TPM 2.0 header on your motherboard. Then back up anything important you have such as personal files, folders, application settings, browser favorites/bookmarks, music, movies, documents, pictures or anything else you can't stand to lose, to another drive or a cloud backup, then with the system shut down connect your TPM 2.0 module and do a clean install of Windows 11. That is likely the only way you are going to resolve your issue if you want to run Windows 11.

Otherwise, I'd back everything up and just do a clean install of Windows 10 and live with that until you can do a clean install of Windows 11.

Either way, your problem is almost certainly a result of the "upgrade" to Windows 11 and is unlikely to be satisfactorily resolved without a clean install of some version. You could chase issues for days and maybe eventually sort it out, but you might also just end up chasing ghosts forever. A clean install is essentially always the better option. Much faster and then no question of whether or not it's OS related. Also likely to fix a lot of problems that you'd never be able to via registry edits or other troubleshooting methods.

And upgrade aside, just running the work arounds for things like this tends to cause it's own problems in some cases as well.

 

[MasterBlaster22]

So then you're using a work around to run Windows 11? Because without a TPM 2.0 module it's not running it legitimately. Plus, you've done an "upgrade" from one version of a Windows OS to another, which is rarely something that continues to work without some kind of problem.

I would recommend that you get a TPM 2.0 module that will connect to the TPM 2.0 header on your motherboard. Then back up anything important you have such as personal files, folders, application settings, browser favorites/bookmarks, music, movies, documents, pictures or anything else you can't stand to lose, to another drive or a cloud backup, then with the system shut down connect your TPM 2.0 module and do a clean install of Windows 11. That is likely the only way you are going to resolve your issue if you want to run Windows 11.

Otherwise, I'd back everything up and just do a clean install of Windows 10 and live with that until you can do a clean install of Windows 11.

Either way, your problem is almost certainly a result of the "upgrade" to Windows 11 and is unlikely to be satisfactorily resolved without a clean install of some version. You could chase issues for days and maybe eventually sort it out, but you might also just end up chasing ghosts forever. A clean install is essentially always the better option. Much faster and then no question of whether or not it's OS related. Also likely to fix a lot of problems that you'd never be able to via registry edits or other troubleshooting methods.

And upgrade aside, just running the work arounds for things like this tends to cause it's own problems in some cases as well.

I ended up scrapping windows 11 entirely as it has pissed me the hell off

 

[MasterBlaster22]

So then you're using a work around to run Windows 11? Because without a TPM 2.0 module it's not running it legitimately. Plus, you've done an "upgrade" from one version of a Windows OS to another, which is rarely something that continues to work without some kind of problem.

I would recommend that you get a TPM 2.0 module that will connect to the TPM 2.0 header on your motherboard. Then back up anything important you have such as personal files, folders, application settings, browser favorites/bookmarks, music, movies, documents, pictures or anything else you can't stand to lose, to another drive or a cloud backup, then with the system shut down connect your TPM 2.0 module and do a clean install of Windows 11. That is likely the only way you are going to resolve your issue if you want to run Windows 11.

Otherwise, I'd back everything up and just do a clean install of Windows 10 and live with that until you can do a clean install of Windows 11.

Either way, your problem is almost certainly a result of the "upgrade" to Windows 11 and is unlikely to be satisfactorily resolved without a clean install of some version. You could chase issues for days and maybe eventually sort it out, but you might also just end up chasing ghosts forever. A clean install is essentially always the better option. Much faster and then no question of whether or not it's OS related. Also likely to fix a lot of problems that you'd never be able to via registry edits or other troubleshooting methods.

And upgrade aside, just running the work arounds for things like this tends to cause it's own problems in some cases as well.

I never did try the clean install of Win 11. I didnt bother to check and see if I had a TPM attached to the header or not.
I would bet "no"

 

[Darkbreeze]

Yeah, your board has a TPM 2.0 header, but unless you've purchased a TPM module, you're likely correct that there is nothing attached to it. Might as well get used to it as Windows 10 is going to be End Of Life before long as well and then it will stop getting updates. This is how they force people to upgrade. And, word is that Windows 12 is already in the works and will be along before too long.

 

[MasterBlaster22]

Yeah, your board has a TPM 2.0 header, but unless you've purchased a TPM module, you're likely correct that there is nothing attached to it. Might as well get used to it as Windows 10 is going to be End Of Life before long as well and then it will stop getting updates. This is how they force people to upgrade. And, word is that Windows 12 is already in the works and will be along before too long.

I remember once I had a whole office running Win XP. XP was the best man... there was some kind of compatibility issue and support issue for a proprietary industry specific software suite that we had. In the end I had to replace my machines and buy new ones that supported everything, cost me like $55,000

 

[Darkbreeze]

What, did you have mainframes? LOL.