Hello everyone so figured I'd post a new thread with a few issues I've experience thus far since I received my new PC. Specs at the end of this thread.
There are two seperate issues I've experienced, one of which is partially detailed across another threads and since I'm asking for advice regarding both of them, I felt a seperate thread would neatly close the loop and prevent further derailment of other threads (original thread: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/samsung-lc49rg90ssuxen-49-back-in-stock.72659/page-6) - I think the issues fixed, or rather I think I know where I was going wrong previously.
Issues are twofold;
My First Issue [I consider this resolved]
I'll start with the first and most widely discused to date (thanks for assistance thus far from @Jamie85 and @SpyderTracks ). Essentially I have a Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor but I am struggling to get my GPU to display anything on the monitor at 240Hz. I get a black screen. As it turns out, this is a known issue and nVidia have listed it as a bug on certain driver updates. There are hotfix drivers which have worked for others, but didn't seem to be working for me.
As an update here, I think I've found out what is causing the issues (or certainly some of them) for me and unsurprisingly its user error most likely
I suspect its down to the fact that I had 'scaling' set to be peformed by my display within nvidia control panel, I changed this to scaling to be performed on the GPU, unplugged my second monitor and it seemed to work. Annoyingly however my second monitor won't really display properly with the G9 operating at 240hz so I've reverted back to 120hz for now until I can determine if its just 'never' going to work (guess its a limitation relating to Display stream compression but I'm well out of my depth there). But yay, at least theoretically, it works (with the hotfix driver 456.98 only).
My second issue
So the second issue, basically I'm still getting regular crashes to desktop when playing games. It happens across several titles (see list below) and is inconsistant as to where/when the crashes occur.
I tried numerous things to try and assist including;
Doom Eternal
Assassins Creed Odyssey
Borderlands 3
Outer Worlds
Red Dead Redemption 2
Fallout 4
I've tried to run benchmarks (3D Mark for one) and its not crashed yet doing those even on the extended tests.
As an aside, I ran windows memory diagnostic a few times and its always come up with zero issues, kind of thought the memory could be the culrpit but I've really no idea.
Any thoughts or anything else you think could be worth trying here before I get back in touch with PCS, I've kind of exhausted all possibilities here. I think given I've had a replacement GPU, its ... well... not the GPU, But as nothing else 'appears' broken, I'm not sure where to look or what other fault finding I can do.
There are two seperate issues I've experienced, one of which is partially detailed across another threads and since I'm asking for advice regarding both of them, I felt a seperate thread would neatly close the loop and prevent further derailment of other threads (original thread: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/samsung-lc49rg90ssuxen-49-back-in-stock.72659/page-6) - I think the issues fixed, or rather I think I know where I was going wrong previously.
Issues are twofold;
My First Issue [I consider this resolved]
I'll start with the first and most widely discused to date (thanks for assistance thus far from @Jamie85 and @SpyderTracks ). Essentially I have a Samsung Odyssey G9 monitor but I am struggling to get my GPU to display anything on the monitor at 240Hz. I get a black screen. As it turns out, this is a known issue and nVidia have listed it as a bug on certain driver updates. There are hotfix drivers which have worked for others, but didn't seem to be working for me.
As an update here, I think I've found out what is causing the issues (or certainly some of them) for me and unsurprisingly its user error most likely
I suspect its down to the fact that I had 'scaling' set to be peformed by my display within nvidia control panel, I changed this to scaling to be performed on the GPU, unplugged my second monitor and it seemed to work. Annoyingly however my second monitor won't really display properly with the G9 operating at 240hz so I've reverted back to 120hz for now until I can determine if its just 'never' going to work (guess its a limitation relating to Display stream compression but I'm well out of my depth there). But yay, at least theoretically, it works (with the hotfix driver 456.98 only).My second issue
So the second issue, basically I'm still getting regular crashes to desktop when playing games. It happens across several titles (see list below) and is inconsistant as to where/when the crashes occur.
I tried numerous things to try and assist including;
- Updating drivers (uninstalling via DDU each time) to various versions including the hotfix drivers
- Uninstalling/reinstalling the various games
- Moving a game around on the PC (from one of the main drives to another, I've only tried this with Doom Eternal so far to no effect)
- Reseating the Card
- Entirely replacing the card with a replacement 3080 (thanks PCS for the speedy turnaround there)
- Crashes Experienced
Doom Eternal
Assassins Creed Odyssey
Borderlands 3
Outer Worlds
Red Dead Redemption 2
Fallout 4
I've tried to run benchmarks (3D Mark for one) and its not crashed yet doing those even on the extended tests.
As an aside, I ran windows memory diagnostic a few times and its always come up with zero issues, kind of thought the memory could be the culrpit but I've really no idea.
Any thoughts or anything else you think could be worth trying here before I get back in touch with PCS, I've kind of exhausted all possibilities here. I think given I've had a replacement GPU, its ... well... not the GPU, But as nothing else 'appears' broken, I'm not sure where to look or what other fault finding I can do.