Help - 1080 Ti and XG2703-GS problems
Posted: 21 Jul 2019, 21:52
I'm hoping someone will have some advice here. I'm running an i7-6700K, EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3, and a ViewSonic XG2703-GS@1440p/165Hz. Everything has been golden here for a couple years with G-Sync.
Suddenly in the last week I started seeing what I could best describe as "mirage heat ripples" in the bottom 1.5" of my screen. Upon examining further, I've noticed that I see what looks like screen tearing when panning up and down (in say Overwatch) when there are lots of objects that are horizontal on the screen. For example rafters in a ceiling. Nothing looks as smooth as it used to, and a lot of these anomalies are very distracting while gaming. This is happening in various games. I'm also getting a ton of stutter and performance warnings on the gsync test on this page.
I normally have my stuff set to run @165Hz and I frame cap at 162. G-Sync is enabled in the NVCP. Things I've tried:
1) Reduced to 144Hz, 120Hz, and 100Hz. Problem seems to get worse the lower I go.
2) Replaced DP cable.
3) Did a clean install of the nVidia driver 430.86
4) Downgraded (via clean install) nVidia driver to 425.31
5) Disabled and re-enabled G-Sync in the NVCP
6) Played with various combinations of VSYNC on and off and frame limits set below the refresh rate, at refresh rate, and above.
7) Reset all nVdia settings to default
8) Verified G-Sync is on via the G-Sync indicator in NVCP
Additional possibly relevant stuff:
1) I had recently (a couple weeks before this happened) upgraded the BIOS on my motherboard to accommodate a bugfix for M.2 NVME drives. I am planning on adding a drive but have not done so yet. This of course reset all my BIOS settings and I reconstructed.
2) When playing WoW several days before this problem started, my screen started strobing. When I tabbed out, everything was fine. That issue has not come back.
3) About 2-3 weeks before this issue, I started seeing brief FPS stutters every couple minutes on heavy action in Overwatch. I would see a drop in GPU usage (from 98% to around 80%) for a moment when this happened.
Any help/ideas appreciated. Are there any other things I can try? How can I determine if the issue is the GPU or display?
-Dz
Suddenly in the last week I started seeing what I could best describe as "mirage heat ripples" in the bottom 1.5" of my screen. Upon examining further, I've noticed that I see what looks like screen tearing when panning up and down (in say Overwatch) when there are lots of objects that are horizontal on the screen. For example rafters in a ceiling. Nothing looks as smooth as it used to, and a lot of these anomalies are very distracting while gaming. This is happening in various games. I'm also getting a ton of stutter and performance warnings on the gsync test on this page.
I normally have my stuff set to run @165Hz and I frame cap at 162. G-Sync is enabled in the NVCP. Things I've tried:
1) Reduced to 144Hz, 120Hz, and 100Hz. Problem seems to get worse the lower I go.
2) Replaced DP cable.
3) Did a clean install of the nVidia driver 430.86
4) Downgraded (via clean install) nVidia driver to 425.31
5) Disabled and re-enabled G-Sync in the NVCP
6) Played with various combinations of VSYNC on and off and frame limits set below the refresh rate, at refresh rate, and above.
7) Reset all nVdia settings to default
8) Verified G-Sync is on via the G-Sync indicator in NVCP
Additional possibly relevant stuff:
1) I had recently (a couple weeks before this happened) upgraded the BIOS on my motherboard to accommodate a bugfix for M.2 NVME drives. I am planning on adding a drive but have not done so yet. This of course reset all my BIOS settings and I reconstructed.
2) When playing WoW several days before this problem started, my screen started strobing. When I tabbed out, everything was fine. That issue has not come back.
3) About 2-3 weeks before this issue, I started seeing brief FPS stutters every couple minutes on heavy action in Overwatch. I would see a drop in GPU usage (from 98% to around 80%) for a moment when this happened.
Any help/ideas appreciated. Are there any other things I can try? How can I determine if the issue is the GPU or display?
-Dz