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White fuzz on PC screen
LockedOnTarget
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So recently I have started getting these white fuzzy blotches all over my screen when I do certain stuff. It first happened when I tried playing SpecOps The Line and since it wasn't happening in any other games, I wrote it off as just the game and my system not agreeing for whatever reason. Then a little of it started happening in Far Cry 3, occasionally appearing for a moment then going away. Then I booted up some other games and it happened in one here and there. Arkham City for example.
My thoughts were that maybe my video card was fucked. So I brought it to the place I purchased it. They tested it and said it was perfectly fine. So I figured I'd wait and see, and that maybe I was just having bad luck with certain games.
Other games were fine, like Borderlands 2, Dishonored, XCCOM, and recently Tomb Raider.
Except now I'm seeing a little of it in Tomb Raider as well. Only when I'm examining relic collectables, otherwise nothing.
But everything has just gotten a lot worse. I'm getting it in pretty much every non game I have now. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Steam, and other programs are getting this fuzz. It eventually goes away until I open something else or browse to another Internet page, then it starts up again.
I'm getting worried. If my video card is okay then what's happening?
My thoughts were that maybe my video card was fucked. So I brought it to the place I purchased it. They tested it and said it was perfectly fine. So I figured I'd wait and see, and that maybe I was just having bad luck with certain games.
Other games were fine, like Borderlands 2, Dishonored, XCCOM, and recently Tomb Raider.
Except now I'm seeing a little of it in Tomb Raider as well. Only when I'm examining relic collectables, otherwise nothing.
But everything has just gotten a lot worse. I'm getting it in pretty much every non game I have now. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Steam, and other programs are getting this fuzz. It eventually goes away until I open something else or browse to another Internet page, then it starts up again.
I'm getting worried. If my video card is okay then what's happening?
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1. your monitor itself is dying, so if you have something else you can plug the pc into to test, you can see if it is. but you need a spare monitor or a tv with hdmi,dvi, or vga input.
2. your video card is dying, and the shop you brought it to test is shit at doing their job.
It's most likely #2.
Tried clearing and re-installing drivers as well and that didn't make a difference.
I'm wondering if I should even bother with the shop again or if I should try and replace this card through Nvidia directly. I got it when Borderlands 2 came out so it's still a new card.
My Let's Play Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UC2go70QLfwGq-hW4nvUqmog
The shop won't replace it if they can't find anything wrong with it, and they didn't. They charged me money to check, too.
My Let's Play Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UC2go70QLfwGq-hW4nvUqmog