{"id":7379,"date":"2021-11-24T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7379"},"modified":"2021-11-24T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T00:03:08","slug":"solved-random-graphical-artifacts-appearing-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/drivers\/random-graphical-artifacts-appearing-on-screen\/11321.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Random Graphical Artifacts Appearing On Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having a recurring problem with my desktop recently where random graphical artifacts will appear on the screen. They can appear at any time and I have no way of knowing when they will. They look like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200815111833\/https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IpKAf.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/IpKAf.jpg<\/a> (note: this is not my screen, but the pattern is identical to what I see).<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the computer remains running and I can usually make them go away by restarting my computer. Other times they screen completely freezes up and I have to manually shut the computer down. Oddly, when the screen becomes frozen, I can still hear the sounds and other noises from whatever is going on in the background. For example if I have a YouTube video playing, I can still hear it, and even interact with it normally with my mouse (though the cursor on screen will remain visibly frozen).<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I have noticed that the problem becomes much more likely to occur if I am playing certain games: Warframe, Black Desert Online, and Stellaris specifically. In these cases, the screen will often freeze up shortly after starting the game, whereupon I will be forced to restart. However, I am still capable of playing other games such as League of Legends or DOTA 2 without incident.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect my video card may be to blame. I have already uninstalled and reinstalled all the latest drivers, tried a clean boot in safe mode, ensured the card was properly cooled, and removed all dust from the fans. I purchased the card only a year and a half ago, so I&#8217;m not sure why it would be dying on me so soon.<\/p>\n<p>I have included some basic PC specs below.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Windows 10 Home OS<br \/>\nVersion 10.0.16229<br \/>\nIntel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz 4 cores<br \/>\n16 GB of RAM<br \/>\nAMD Radeon HD 7900 series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":7},"question-category":[52],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7379","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-drivers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7379"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}