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So I've tried googling this but come up with nothing.
My card (an EVGA RTX 2080 Super XC Ultra) has been great, despite being a used ebay buy. Until recently. I've started getting shadow flicker in games. Like severe shadow flicker. I'd make a video, but the point is it's drastic. We are talking move the camera and the shadows completely change throughtout the scene.
After diagnosing, I noticed it only seems to occur when the VRAM gets hotter than 70C. What's worse, is that it seems to be worsening as a problem.
I tried newer drivers than what I am presently running (I normally run 456.71 due to a displayport->HDMI 2.1 adapter bug NVIDIA refuses to fix), nada. Same issue. Different API's can lessen or worsen the issue but it never goes away if the game shows symptoms. Some games show no symptoms. Valheim seems the worst of the bunch.
Bottom line / question: Is this a driver thing, a game thing, or is my card truly dying and I am doomed to go down the rabbithole of a pandemic RMA? Anything else I can try? In the event it is dying... Anyone have a GPU of equivalent or better specs they'd sell a guy at a normal price? Desperate plea I know, but my alternative is integrated graphics and a GTX 1060... 3GB.
I'm going to make a cellphone video soon to show this. I don't want to stress the cards vram more with encoding a possibly intense capture job. Plus, I'm not even sure if it would show there.
Also, I know Micron ram was an issue early on, but I appear to have Samsung according to GPU-Z.
My card (an EVGA RTX 2080 Super XC Ultra) has been great, despite being a used ebay buy. Until recently. I've started getting shadow flicker in games. Like severe shadow flicker. I'd make a video, but the point is it's drastic. We are talking move the camera and the shadows completely change throughtout the scene.
After diagnosing, I noticed it only seems to occur when the VRAM gets hotter than 70C. What's worse, is that it seems to be worsening as a problem.
I tried newer drivers than what I am presently running (I normally run 456.71 due to a displayport->HDMI 2.1 adapter bug NVIDIA refuses to fix), nada. Same issue. Different API's can lessen or worsen the issue but it never goes away if the game shows symptoms. Some games show no symptoms. Valheim seems the worst of the bunch.
Bottom line / question: Is this a driver thing, a game thing, or is my card truly dying and I am doomed to go down the rabbithole of a pandemic RMA? Anything else I can try? In the event it is dying... Anyone have a GPU of equivalent or better specs they'd sell a guy at a normal price? Desperate plea I know, but my alternative is integrated graphics and a GTX 1060... 3GB.
I'm going to make a cellphone video soon to show this. I don't want to stress the cards vram more with encoding a possibly intense capture job. Plus, I'm not even sure if it would show there.
Also, I know Micron ram was an issue early on, but I appear to have Samsung according to GPU-Z.