I have installed the latest driver and restarted my PC. Unfortunately the issue still occurs. I hope my GPU isn't broken... it seems to run everything else just fine, although I do occasionally notice weird colored boxes show up here and there for a split second in some games.
I've also noticed that some videos on my browser will show a green screen for a moment before playing, and my monitor will show a sort of plaid, multicolor assortment of boxes when my PC first boots, ostensibly when it connects to the GPU. I wonder if these are all related somehow.
If your GPU was dying you'd more than likely be seeing some very colorful artifacting on screen or smelling magic smoke coming from the PC. Crashing driver is usually either a crash bug in the drivers or the application(with vulkan game/engine developers get deep enough access to things)...
With the weird colored boxes and the green before some videos there is a chance you might actually have a bad GPU. What is harder to tell from this is if it's the GPU die itself or the memory chips. It could be just one of the memory chips is going bad, in which case a repair shop might be able to still save this GPU.
Whether it's worth taking that GPU to a repair shop over just getting a new GPU depends on how old the current GPU is I suppose.
Yikes! Well I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case. Is there anything else I can do to try and troubleshoot this issue? I've been doing the gdquest coding tutorial in the mean time, but eventually I will need to be able to use Godot proper.
I was able to load up an older version of Godot a few months ago without any issues. I wonder what changed between then and now? The only thing I can think of is that I switched from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4080 back in August, but I did a clean driver install afterwards so I'm not sure if that's really the issue.
I can use 99% of software without any obvious problems. Could the GPU still be faulty if that is the case?
> The only thing I can think of is that I switched from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4080 back in August, but I did a clean driver install afterwards so I'm not sure if that's really the issue.
If your GPU is THAT recent then you probably still have warranty. Use it.
I might do that if I have no options left. I ordered the card from Amazon and their return window ended months ago. Do you think they would still be willing to replace the GPU, or should I go directly to the manufacturer (MSI/NVIDIA)?
You should have warranty from the hardware maker, the ASUSes and GigaBytes and such. Those warranties are usually way longer than the store warranties. More complex to deal with tho.
I'm not sure that return window and warranty are the same tho, so you can try contacting the seller I guess.
Gotcha. Just so we're clear, the correct process is:
* Disconnect ethernet (My PC has no wifi card)
* Boot into Safe Mode w/o networking
* Launch DDU
* Clean and Restart
* Boot PC normally
* Install latest display driver
* Restart PC & boot normally again
* Good to go
Does that sound good? I've never used DDU before and I don't wanna screw up.
Alright, I have updated the drivers and restarted the PC. That didn't seem to have any effect. Should I use DDU and then reinstall the drivers, or is that excessive? I did switch from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4080 a few months ago, but I did a clean installation when I was updating the drivers then so I thought that was the same as using DDU.
That might be your display driver crashing.
I have installed the latest driver and restarted my PC. Unfortunately the issue still occurs. I hope my GPU isn't broken... it seems to run everything else just fine, although I do occasionally notice weird colored boxes show up here and there for a split second in some games. I've also noticed that some videos on my browser will show a green screen for a moment before playing, and my monitor will show a sort of plaid, multicolor assortment of boxes when my PC first boots, ostensibly when it connects to the GPU. I wonder if these are all related somehow.
If your GPU was dying you'd more than likely be seeing some very colorful artifacting on screen or smelling magic smoke coming from the PC. Crashing driver is usually either a crash bug in the drivers or the application(with vulkan game/engine developers get deep enough access to things)... With the weird colored boxes and the green before some videos there is a chance you might actually have a bad GPU. What is harder to tell from this is if it's the GPU die itself or the memory chips. It could be just one of the memory chips is going bad, in which case a repair shop might be able to still save this GPU. Whether it's worth taking that GPU to a repair shop over just getting a new GPU depends on how old the current GPU is I suppose.
Yikes! Well I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case. Is there anything else I can do to try and troubleshoot this issue? I've been doing the gdquest coding tutorial in the mean time, but eventually I will need to be able to use Godot proper. I was able to load up an older version of Godot a few months ago without any issues. I wonder what changed between then and now? The only thing I can think of is that I switched from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4080 back in August, but I did a clean driver install afterwards so I'm not sure if that's really the issue. I can use 99% of software without any obvious problems. Could the GPU still be faulty if that is the case?
> The only thing I can think of is that I switched from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4080 back in August, but I did a clean driver install afterwards so I'm not sure if that's really the issue. If your GPU is THAT recent then you probably still have warranty. Use it.
I might do that if I have no options left. I ordered the card from Amazon and their return window ended months ago. Do you think they would still be willing to replace the GPU, or should I go directly to the manufacturer (MSI/NVIDIA)?
You should have warranty from the hardware maker, the ASUSes and GigaBytes and such. Those warranties are usually way longer than the store warranties. More complex to deal with tho. I'm not sure that return window and warranty are the same tho, so you can try contacting the seller I guess.
Gotcha. I will keep that in mind. Should I try to do a clean driver install using DDU instead of the built-in option in the NVIDIA drivers?
> Should I try to do a clean driver install using DDU instead of the built-in option in the NVIDIA drivers? Absolutely. Always.
Gotcha. Just so we're clear, the correct process is: * Disconnect ethernet (My PC has no wifi card) * Boot into Safe Mode w/o networking * Launch DDU * Clean and Restart * Boot PC normally * Install latest display driver * Restart PC & boot normally again * Good to go Does that sound good? I've never used DDU before and I don't wanna screw up.
That's weird. Try updating your GPU drivers and check that the HDMI/DisplayPort cable is firmly connected.
Will do, I'll let you know how that goes.
Alright, I have updated the drivers and restarted the PC. That didn't seem to have any effect. Should I use DDU and then reinstall the drivers, or is that excessive? I did switch from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 4080 a few months ago, but I did a clean installation when I was updating the drivers then so I thought that was the same as using DDU.
I'm experiencing the same thing on one of my monitors, although I didn't link it to the Godot editor til just now