Hardware:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M Aorus Pro-P
- GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC 8G
- RAM: Goodram Iridium DDR4 3200MHz 8 GB x4
- PSU: Be Quiet Pure Power 11 700W
Last week while playing Minecraft with shaders the game suddenly crashed for no reason. Since that day it started happening on an off. I could play an entire day and no crashes would occur.
Once after Minecraft had crashed it showed the BSOD with the code video scheduler internal error.
The strange thing is that before and after Minecraft crashes the audio starts freezing and crackling and the cursor starts to lag. It feels like the whole system is freezing and lagging.
Last week after Minecraft crashed for the first time the videos on YouTube started to have some strange artifacts. Whenever I would hover my cursor over a video to show the UI the colors in the video would get a little brighter or darker and the whole picture in the video would move a little bit side to side. When the UI was gone the picture would move a little bit again and the colors were back to normal. After a clean driver install the YouTube artifacts seemed to be gone except for the tiny movement but the crashes continued.
I've had this 3070 ti for less than a year. It's never been under a lot of stress. I have an old LG monitor 60Hz and I always played with Vsync. The card was always under 60% load and around 65 degrees. Since I've built this pc I haven't had time to play a lot of games. I'd play for a week or two and then stop for a month or two. The only game that I played aside from Minecraft was Control with RTX on and there were no stutters or artifacts.
But now when I launch Control it's just a black picture. The menu works and I have to change the resolution in game for it to show the picture. But after a few minutes it freezes, crashes and the entire screen turns to static. I have to reboot the pc to fix the screen.
I tried installing an older version of drivers from February but it didn't help. I tried reseating the GPU, unplugging PSU cables and changing the display port.
I tried completely reinstalling Windows but it didn't help. I also tried updating the bios on the motherboard to the latest version. Still the same.
While running the Furmark stress test there were no crashes or artifacts. I ran it for about half an hour and the temps settled at around 78 degrees. I also ran it together with the CPU burner to check if the PSU was at fault and couldn't handle the load. But it didn't crash.
I tried to play Minecraft Windows edition with RTX on after reinstalling Windows and the game started lagging pretty bad. It seemed like it was running at 15 FPS even though it ran smoothly before crashes started happening. For some reason the cursor started moving slower and it feels like the entire system turned a bit sluggish.
I don't have the minidump file since I've reinstalled Windows. But it said there was something wrong with nvoglv64.dll
The entire PC is less then a year old. So all of the parts are practically brand new. Is the GPU on its last breath? Should I be looking at buying a new one? Or is there something else at fault here?
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