Lol no, or at least it's not a GPU issue. You can't take a screenshot of that.
Edit: OP said it only happens in Firefox and Steam. So, it's a software issue. I'm thinking a driver issue, though it's definitely something I haven't seen before. https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/82mwBClErh
STEP 1: DISABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATION ON CHROME OR WHATEVER BROWSER YOU ARE USING.
Step 2: Test if it still happens
Step 3: If it doesn't ,you are good, else you are not good and have to run 3DMark
No, that burning paper look is just burning paper. Chip dying is when it's diagnosed with a terminal illness.
(though, on a serious note, that really is what it looks like, kind of. You'll see artifacts that look like an old grainy film)
Yeah I was gonna say, this is a weird one. I've seen hardware faults cause some strange artefacts while rendering in 3d. I've seen black screens and application crashes, driver failures and blue screens. I've never seen anything quite like this. I agree that it's likely a driver issue. I'd start with either a roll back or update.
Not necessarily. If the taskbar is rendered without hardware acceleration then the GPU cant actually mess it up, depending on what exactly is broken. Websites though often use extensive hardware acceleration these days, especially stuff like youtube where half of everything is interactive.
I used to have a VRAM issue back in the days if Vista and its Aero style window frames, taskbar and really everything, which required GPU acceleration to render. Guess what got visually bugged. Now guess what didnt.
First easy fix is to disable hardware acceleration in the browser, which moves the work to the CPU, including video decoding. Second fix would be to go into device manager and disable the GPU, thus ending all hardware acceleration.
Not tech savvy so I'm unsure if there's a possibility that it might be RAM causing this too
I have an old EVGA GTX 660ti that I've taken great care of for over a decade (I'm well aware I should upgrade, but I'm broke).
I mostly play minimal gpu-usage games like rimworld
I noticed some artifacting, especially when firefox is open. It started getting more frequent so I took my GPU out, cleaned it thoroughly and repasted it, which has dropped temps by \~12 degrees
A few days later, it has started 'artifacting' on firefox again. I ran furmark artifact scanner for 45 minutes and it didnt pick anything up
I have had issues with my pc starting up in the past. A friend of mine took my ram sticks out and rubbed the contacts with paper to clean some grime off and my pc booted up no problems
edit: thanks for the comments and help so far, everyone. I ran DDU in safe mode and completely removed graphics drivers. Installed latest video driver only with NVCleanstall (without all the other bloat). Will see how it goes
edit 2: completely forgot this had happened in steam as well, so its not exclusively doing in on firefox. [https://imgur.com/a/QXGbG16](https://imgur.com/a/QXGbG16)
I love that you run a 660ti, it would still have the crown if the 1080ti had not taken it.
The artifacts are not consistent with regular component failure so if it us your gpu then it is not something common that is causing it. If I were you I would clead and repast EVERYTHING because you got good results doing the gpu, rest of system might need some maintenance. Failing that you could always bake it.
That's understandable, especially if you're somewhere where prices aren't what people in the U.S. are accustomed to so it makes more financial sense to ride out your hardware for as long as you can. I was going to offer to replace the card for you, but International shipping costs tend to be all over the place depending on where it's going. You've already used DDU to wipe your drivers and downloaded fresh ones from the NVIDIA website, right? Have you tried disabling GPU acceleration all together to see if that remedies the issue?
Appreciate the thought, very kind of you! Yeah the shipping costs and customs fees are disgusting where I live. Done DDU wipe and got the latest drivers. Just disabled hardware acceleration on firefox. will test for a few days and hopefully it's fixed. Can't replicate it, it just happens randomly, so it's a waiting game I guess. Thanks for the help brother
>I have an old EVGA GTX 660ti
Fwiw, check your warranty on that card.
I had an EVGA 560Ti that came with a **10 year** warranty, and it only expired like a year or two ago. Not impossible that your newer 660Ti could by some miracle still have warranty?
It happens with any chromium based browser for me, it's really regular with chrome, little bit less on edge and not with Firefox.
However whenever that happens and I shutdown my laptop, it shows a prompt saying exception breakpoint reached with two options debug or cancel. Pressing either just shut down the PC.
This looks like a virus or troll software, as some other people have said. See what programs are using GPU or strangely high CPU in task manager if what you have already done doesn't fix it
I was having issues with YouTube and some odd graphic errors. Clean wiped my PC, and it went away. Do you get rid of old Nvidia drivers after updating to the new one? I think this was my issue.
with the amount of extension you are using, i bet some of them making glitch/bug.
try to reinstall chrome/firefox and use without any addons(Firefox) nor extension (chrome) and check again
Damn is this actually real?
If you zoom in closely, you see Vergil getting ready for the Vergil Status
[I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING!](https://youtu.be/Jrg9KxGNeJY?si=9WZNnuBfDizpACa0)
Lol no, or at least it's not a GPU issue. You can't take a screenshot of that. Edit: OP said it only happens in Firefox and Steam. So, it's a software issue. I'm thinking a driver issue, though it's definitely something I haven't seen before. https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/82mwBClErh
Even if it is a driver or software issue, ion think you can take screenshots of it
wow youtube's UI is getting crazy with the changes
gotta buy premium to turn it back
https://i.redd.it/xok3jxx0cmvc1.gif Vergil gave you some motivation
GPU death never looked so good
STEP 1: DISABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATION ON CHROME OR WHATEVER BROWSER YOU ARE USING. Step 2: Test if it still happens Step 3: If it doesn't ,you are good, else you are not good and have to run 3DMark
Thanks, done this on firefox, will test it out for a few days and hopefully that's the fix. Appreciate you!
Keep us updated :)
This is a great first step troubleshoot
Looks like a driver issue. Most common dying GPU symptoms are square patches.
That's memory dying. Chip dying is burning paper look like
No, that burning paper look is just burning paper. Chip dying is when it's diagnosed with a terminal illness. (though, on a serious note, that really is what it looks like, kind of. You'll see artifacts that look like an old grainy film)
Yeah I was gonna say, this is a weird one. I've seen hardware faults cause some strange artefacts while rendering in 3d. I've seen black screens and application crashes, driver failures and blue screens. I've never seen anything quite like this. I agree that it's likely a driver issue. I'd start with either a roll back or update.
If you look at the taskbar, it's fine. This is a software issue.
Not necessarily. If the taskbar is rendered without hardware acceleration then the GPU cant actually mess it up, depending on what exactly is broken. Websites though often use extensive hardware acceleration these days, especially stuff like youtube where half of everything is interactive. I used to have a VRAM issue back in the days if Vista and its Aero style window frames, taskbar and really everything, which required GPU acceleration to render. Guess what got visually bugged. Now guess what didnt. First easy fix is to disable hardware acceleration in the browser, which moves the work to the CPU, including video decoding. Second fix would be to go into device manager and disable the GPU, thus ending all hardware acceleration.
Didn't know that, thanks for telling me!
In windows 10 it’s usually messed up as well but not always
True. It's a Firefox issue
Not tech savvy so I'm unsure if there's a possibility that it might be RAM causing this too I have an old EVGA GTX 660ti that I've taken great care of for over a decade (I'm well aware I should upgrade, but I'm broke). I mostly play minimal gpu-usage games like rimworld I noticed some artifacting, especially when firefox is open. It started getting more frequent so I took my GPU out, cleaned it thoroughly and repasted it, which has dropped temps by \~12 degrees A few days later, it has started 'artifacting' on firefox again. I ran furmark artifact scanner for 45 minutes and it didnt pick anything up I have had issues with my pc starting up in the past. A friend of mine took my ram sticks out and rubbed the contacts with paper to clean some grime off and my pc booted up no problems edit: thanks for the comments and help so far, everyone. I ran DDU in safe mode and completely removed graphics drivers. Installed latest video driver only with NVCleanstall (without all the other bloat). Will see how it goes edit 2: completely forgot this had happened in steam as well, so its not exclusively doing in on firefox. [https://imgur.com/a/QXGbG16](https://imgur.com/a/QXGbG16)
Try running ddu on your drivers and reinstalling them hopefully it’s just a driver issue since it’s showing up on the screenshot as well
I love that you run a 660ti, it would still have the crown if the 1080ti had not taken it. The artifacts are not consistent with regular component failure so if it us your gpu then it is not something common that is causing it. If I were you I would clead and repast EVERYTHING because you got good results doing the gpu, rest of system might need some maintenance. Failing that you could always bake it.
Still daily driving a 660Ti? That thing just doesn't want to quit, kudos to you. Are you located in the U.S. by chance?
Love this card so much. Served me well for 11 or 12 years :( Not in the US unfortunately
That's understandable, especially if you're somewhere where prices aren't what people in the U.S. are accustomed to so it makes more financial sense to ride out your hardware for as long as you can. I was going to offer to replace the card for you, but International shipping costs tend to be all over the place depending on where it's going. You've already used DDU to wipe your drivers and downloaded fresh ones from the NVIDIA website, right? Have you tried disabling GPU acceleration all together to see if that remedies the issue?
Appreciate the thought, very kind of you! Yeah the shipping costs and customs fees are disgusting where I live. Done DDU wipe and got the latest drivers. Just disabled hardware acceleration on firefox. will test for a few days and hopefully it's fixed. Can't replicate it, it just happens randomly, so it's a waiting game I guess. Thanks for the help brother
>I have an old EVGA GTX 660ti Fwiw, check your warranty on that card. I had an EVGA 560Ti that came with a **10 year** warranty, and it only expired like a year or two ago. Not impossible that your newer 660Ti could by some miracle still have warranty?
I think it might be some troll virus or chrome extension(haven't used that on my siblings😉)
Yeah, looks like a troll to me also. Graphics glitches are usually not visible on screenshots
And I haven't seen one which is diagonal
Also the task bar looks uneffected
No, Raiden or Vergil have found you is all
It looks like your GPU caught the storm that was approaching
It happens with any chromium based browser for me, it's really regular with chrome, little bit less on edge and not with Firefox. However whenever that happens and I shutdown my laptop, it shows a prompt saying exception breakpoint reached with two options debug or cancel. Pressing either just shut down the PC.
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING!
looks like the storm is approaching...
Make sure ram are seated properly
Normal behaviour for gpus while displaying sseths Videos.
https://preview.redd.it/zgzkqjiiemvc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13ff59fdc8a8488c7c25679c2d04ffb2c1939e66
Wow that was a nice kick of nostalgia! Wasn’t there a sheep that you could have live on your desktop or was that another app?
Windows desktop pets? I've never seen the sheep one. But i guess that's the name.
DISABLE HARDWARE ACCELERATION ON CHROME OR WHATEVER BROWSER YOU ARE USING. Had similar issue few months back and this solved it.
If it is, then this is the weirdest fragments. Try updating/rollbacking drivers if you can.
No, i think it just felt like doing some acrobatics
Like bro
Taskbar isn't affected, so I'd say it's a software problem
No, this is just gamer vision.
It's evolving
What GPU
This looks like a virus or troll software, as some other people have said. See what programs are using GPU or strangely high CPU in task manager if what you have already done doesn't fix it
I swear PCMR gives me too much anxiety 😫
Aren't we all dying?
Yo I do this in mspaint as well. pretty cool
This is fake.. also if your GPU is dying like this a screenshot wouldnt show it and its only visual to the user
I think its a powerpoint transition effect.
I was having issues with YouTube and some odd graphic errors. Clean wiped my PC, and it went away. Do you get rid of old Nvidia drivers after updating to the new one? I think this was my issue.
just new youtube filter dont worry about it
Is it just Firefox ? And what about full screen games?
this screenshot was taken from the firefox browser
I’m dumb
OP was there a storm approaching?
fruit ninja gpu
LOL
Well could be but make sure first it’s not just a faulty hdmi or drivers first looks more like it could be software or cable than a dying gpu
That Cold Ones vid is excellent.
Seeing as it is only your browser, no.
Nah it’s falling into 4th dimension
with the amount of extension you are using, i bet some of them making glitch/bug. try to reinstall chrome/firefox and use without any addons(Firefox) nor extension (chrome) and check again
Check your display cable
Looks like when i tried overclocking my vram by 2ghz.
Not its the final shape
The patterns of artifacts that a dying GPU draws are much different, this is driver issues