RTX 3060 ti produces random checkered black and white or grey checkered patterns in part of the screen.

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MSI GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 2X 8G OCV1 LHR GDDR6 1695 MHz Boost 14 Gbps 256-bit 3xDP1.4 HDMI PCIE4.0 (RTX 3060 Ti Ventus 2X 8G OCV1 LHR)
I have tried different monitors, and it made no difference.
The patterns disappear when I use my CPU graphics.
Card is 8 months old and is used 2 to 3 hours a day for gaming.
 
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This type of artifact is common when Vram is bad,
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Is it similar to your card?
 
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Thanks for the quick reply.
No, its more like a smal square or rectangular area of the screen getting covered with checkered patterns for a second or 2. The location of the pattern varies. Hard to capture a pic.
 
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plutomate said:
would be really helpful to see a picture to explain problem :rolleyes:
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Like I said, those events only last a second.
If you have suggestions on how to capture pics of it, fire away. :rolleyes:
Description: the screen appears normal everywhere but for a 2 to 3 inch square grey or black checkered pattern. Like a small checker board. It flashes and disappears. The size and the location of the pattern varies from one event to the other.
Thats it.
Similar looking patern from the web, the individual rectangles are about half the size. The rest of the screen remains normal. Its also starting to appear in several locations on the screen at the same time, maybe expanding.
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fatedust said:
I suppose this is the same video cable which is connected to your RTX 3060 Ti?
I saw you mentioned trying with different monitors but do not mention different cables.
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Good idea, Ill investigate.
Its been getting worst in the last few days. The patterns are more frequent, and one even lasted several seconds.
Ill post results.
 
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If it happens while gaming hit WIN key +G to bring up Xbox Bar and select record this will record the last 30 seconds of your Game
 
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Does it look like this video I took?
If so, it might be NVIDIA bug [3992875]:
"Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]"



I have this issue in Chromium based browsers, but I also have glitches that are more symmetrical, like your pic with the grey & white pattern. Still trying to catch that one in action. Those are harder to capture as they are more random & I haven't found a way to reproduce them intentionally. I think it might be an issue with DirectX11 apps. I haven't seen it while gaming, but it seems to happen more often after closing a game or watching Netflix.

I'm using a Gigabyte 3060.
 
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SumGuy said:
Does it look like this video I took?
If so, it might be NVIDIA bug [3992875]:
"Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]"



I have this issue in Chromium based browsers, but I also have glitches that are more symmetrical, like your pic with the grey & white pattern. Still trying to catch that one in action. Those are harder to capture as they are more random & I haven't found a way to reproduce them intentionally. I think it might be an issue with DirectX11 apps. I haven't seen it while gaming, but it seems to happen more often after closing a game or watching Netflix.

I'm using a Gigabyte 3060.
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Hi Sam have you Tried with Hardware acceleration disabled
 
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Alan J T said:
Hi Sam have you Tried with Hardware acceleration disabled
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Disabling hardware acceleration works, but causes some occasional choppy/slowness issues, of course.

If I change the Chrome browser flag "Choose ANGLE graphics backend" from default to OpenGL, or D3D9, instead of one of the D3D11 options, the artifacts go away too (with or without hardware acceleration). So, that also seems to reinforce the possibility of it being DirectX11 related.
 
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SumGuy said:
Does it look like this video I took?
If so, it might be NVIDIA bug [3992875]:
"Small checkerboard like pattern may randomly appear in Chromium based applications [3992875]"



I have this issue in Chromium based browsers, but I also have glitches that are more symmetrical, like your pic with the grey & white pattern. Still trying to catch that one in action. Those are harder to capture as they are more random & I haven't found a way to reproduce them intentionally. I think it might be an issue with DirectX11 apps. I haven't seen it while gaming, but it seems to happen more often after closing a game or watching Netflix.

I'm using a Gigabyte 3060.
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I have been having this EXACT problem. As you have noted it is very hard to catch in action. I was convinced my GPU is going bad because I swapped out to my old card (an ancient 960) and the problem stopped. For me it the problem is an MSI 3060.

During troubleshooting I did a complete format of my machine. After Windows update installed gpu drivers (but BEFORE I installed the latest nvidia drivers) I briefly experienced very similar problems on the desktop, too. This made me consider something more sinister was happening.


However, after installing the latest drivers this no longer happens - just the chromium based black glitches in your video. Honestly somewhat relieved to find this thread and discover the card may be ok after all!
 
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I have the exact same issue, got the card sent back, 12GB ventus 3x OC2 , same black squares , switched off hardware acceleration, done windows reinstall , new cables, new everything, new system drive and still happens.

watch the bottom left corner of the facebook post in the video. I was recording many times till I finally managed to catch it.
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The checkerboard pattern using Google Chrome appeared randomly for me too. I changed the monitor cable, a timely Nvidia GPU driver update was installed and the checkerboard pattern issue resolved. I suspect the Nvidia update actually solved the problem.
System specs in signature.
 
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SmokeyGrayPoupon said:
The checkerboard pattern using Google Chrome appeared randomly for me too. I changed the monitor cable, a timely Nvidia GPU driver update was installed and the checkerboard pattern issue resolved. I suspect the Nvidia update actually solved the problem.
System specs in signature.
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Are you using the latest stable Nvidia driver v546.01, or the Hotfix v546.08? Unfortunately for me, it still happens with v546.01.
 
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