I opened up steam and was playing the counter strike tutorial when all of a sudden my game freezes up and looks like this. Scared the crap out of me! What is going wrong?!

17 Comments

  1. AliciaXTC

    You need to locate the box your graphics card came in because you’re going to need the serial number for the RMA.

  2. Brief_Cobbler_6313

    Your GPU might be DOA. Try another game  Try to run the game on integrated graphics and see if it still happens. You can try to update the drivers too. 

  3. W_R_E_C_K_S

    I’d take out that graphics card and put it back it. My best guess is it’s not seated all the way.

  4. PaulyKPykes

    Looks like you unlocked your monitors party mode! 🥳

  5. Xenon-Hacks

    Try things in this order

    Update drivers

    Reseat the GPU

    Reseat your ram

    Run DDU and try drivers again

    Didn’t work?

    It’s dead

  6. firedrakes

    do a clean install of both gpu and chipset driver.

    run the full uninstall of ddu(make sure you have driver needed and dl first but not install)

    after running both the ddu and clean install of drivers.

    this still happens. then its a gpu issue.

  7. These_Pumpkin3174

    Try a different game first. If the other games have the same issue…

    Check and make sure you’re actually using the video card (also check and make sure bios isn’t doing something weird.)

    Do a clean install of your video drivers. If that doesn’t work…

    Hardware. Remove the video card, and put it back in, make sure it’s seated well. Make sure your video cable to your monitor is connected and seated snug. If you still have problems, try a different cable (dvi, dport, hdmi, try different ports on the card as well) if none of those work…

    Try your old video card.

    If that doesn’t work, exorcist.

  8. godspoke99

    This is crazy my GTX 1080ti also died not even an hour ago. Similar artifacting, then crash, then darkness. RIP.

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