Hello.
Would you be so kind and in case the artifacts appear again, make a short video with them or better take some pictures and post them here.
I suspect that you have some problems with memory chips, in fact it could be cold contact. In my case i went with the card to a repair shop where the guy used the heat blower to remake all the contacts.
After that i did not encounter any artifacts.
But that was my case.
No problem! hopefully they don't come back but if they do i'll send a few pics, it doesn't have to be artifacts, sometimes its the textures in the game that get stretched or bugged.
this is from 9 days ago, the issue fixed itself sometime between 9 days ago and yesterday (no idea when it fixed itself exactly)
As you can see, there's stretched textures on top of the artifacts, the artifacts can be of any color but they always stay inside the window of the GPU-demanding game/program, my GPU is an 8gb one but it has memory chips used for a 4gb (with twice the normal amount to give it 8gb)
The gpu driver didnt get updated, the windows update installed something 4 days ago maybe that's why, not sure cause these artifacts happened on windows 7 too, and i tested it in some other guy's PC and it had artifacts too, but that was before mine fixed itself, i could go crazy and restart my PC but then if they come back i would have no clue on how to fix the problem again, and you can say that this GPU is a chinese knockoff so we have to take that into account and blame the parts used for it or some weird and unknown stealthy mining software/maleware built-in the GPU
LOL you play warcraft . I love that game.
Yes indeed , that "artifacts" you posted are not caused by the memory.
So yes you need to keep an eye to see if those problems comes back.
The artifacts are back, and i think it started after i closed Explorer.exe from Task Manager and reopened it via task manager, so i guess it was something software related after all huh? i'll try to pinpoint what's causing them later.
Closing dwm.exe via task manager removes all artifacts from the screen (if they appear in a game, they stay visible on the desktop until i do that, alt tabbing to a game makes them appear) but it doesn't fix the issue like that day when it randomly fixed itself when i wasn't even messing gpu-related stuff, during that time i could run any game in any resolution or mode and no crash or artifacts until i closed explorer.exe and restarted it (which is linked to winlogon & dwm.exe so maybe they are the key to fixing this problem)
Don't know if it's relevant but my gpu is shown as GPU - 0 in task manager, i read that it's supposed to show as GPU 1 but maybe that's just for laptops (mine is a desktop PC)
if it's indeed abnormal then my guess is that it's using the integrated gpu when it should be using the dedicated one, in the bios i selected "dgpu", but maybe its a bug that happened because its a weird chinese GPU which doesn't even display voltage in MSI Afterburner, i dont think its possible but who knows what could happen with these electronics?
this one is created with AMD Software Adrenalin Edition: (GPU itself, drivers and CPU)
GPU - AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP - Primary/Discrete
VRAM - 8192 MB - GDDR5 1500 MHz
Graphics - AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Graphics Manufacturer - Built by AMD
Usable Memory Size - 8192 MB
Core Clock - 1206 MHz
Memory Type - GDDR5
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Memory Bit Rate - 6.00 Gbps
Total Memory Bandwidth - 192 GByte/s
BIOS Part Number - xxx-xxx-xxx
BIOS Version - 015.050.002.001
BIOS Date - 2020/08/14 01:51
Device ID - 6FDF
Revision ID - EF
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 0B31
SubSystem Vendor ID - 1002
Bus Type - PCI Express 3.0
Current Bus Settings - PCI Express 2.0 x16
GPU - AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP - Primary/Discrete
VRAM - 8192 MB - GDDR5 1500 MHz
Driver Version - 22.20.27.07-221020a-384804C
AMD Windows Driver Version - 31.0.12029.10015
Direct3D API Version - 12.0
Vulkan™ API Version - 1.3.217
OpenCL™ API Version - 2.0
OpenGL® API Version - 4.6
Direct3D® Driver Version - 9.14.10.01523
Vulkan™ Driver Version - 2.0.233
OpenCL® Driver Version - 31.0.12027.7000
OpenGL® Driver Version - 22.10.220823_1f70af4
2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1634
2D Driver File Path - /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}/0001
UI Version - 2022.1130.1413.1936
AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.1.24
Driver Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Windows Edition - Windows 10 Core (64 bit)
Windows Version - 22H2
CPU - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU - @ 3.40GHz 4 Cores
RAM - 8 GB
Model - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Processor Speed - 3.39 GHz
Cores - 4
Threads - 8
RAM - 8 GB
At the moment of taking these, the artifacts are still showing, if they ever get fixed again i'll make new ones and compare, yesterday i kept on closing processes and stopping services then i restarted my PC and it kept on restarting at startup then it showed that white font message on black screen "The previous overclock settings have failed, system has been restored to it's default settings. Press F1 to enter setup. Press F2 to load" and i have no idea why it did that as i wasn't trying to overclock it, i'm not using the latest AMD driver and i will stay on this driver version since the entire problem fixed itself once before, i'd rather not change anything and figure out how to do it first, maybe it's only possible on this driver, (i was using the latest one 1 month ago but it uninstalled itself and said the driver caused a conflict or something like that, that's why i'd rather stick with this driver)
GPU Load doesn't stay at 100% it keeps going from 0% to 100%, the gpuz graph shows it as spikes.
Then why did it start working perfectly and kept working perfectly for 10 days straight until i restarted explorer.exe? (i didn't shut my PC down during that period of time, only sleep mode)
Then why did it start working perfectly and kept working perfectly for 10 days straight until i restarted explorer.exe? (i didn't shut my PC down during that period of time, only sleep mode)
The fact that you restarted explorer means nothing.
Correlation does not imply causation. I am sure its been quite a ride getting a BIOS getting the GPU flashed only to find out your abused mining card cant run default clocks with the right bios in its intended environment, but that is unfortunately sometimes life when buying mining components which is why its generally not recommended.
Don't get confused though; if you slow down and read what you posted it's much more clear.
- Mining card
- Wrong Bios
- Modified drivers
Do you hear yourself? What is more likely? That your GPU is shitting the bed? Or by "randomly rebooting explorer" after an arbitrary amount of time (10 days must be the magic number?) that you have somehow discovered a bug in two different operating systems:
Closing dwm.exe via task manager removes all artifacts from the screen (if they appear in a game, they stay visible on the desktop until i do that, alt tabbing to a game makes them appear) but it doesn't fix the issue like that day when it randomly fixed itself when i wasn't even messing gpu-related stuff, during that time i could run any game in any resolution or mode and no crash or artifacts until i closed explorer.exe and restarted it (which is linked to winlogon & dwm.exe so maybe they are the key to fixing this problem)
Don't know if it's relevant but my gpu is shown as GPU - 0 in task manager, i read that it's supposed to show as GPU 1 but maybe that's just for laptops (mine is a desktop PC)
if it's indeed abnormal then my guess is that it's using the integrated gpu when it should be using the dedicated one, in the bios i selected "dgpu", but maybe its a bug that happened because its a weird chinese GPU which doesn't even display voltage in MSI Afterburner, i dont think its possible but who knows what could happen with these electronics?
this one is created with AMD Software Adrenalin Edition: (GPU itself, drivers and CPU)
GPU - AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP - Primary/Discrete
VRAM - 8192 MB - GDDR5 1500 MHz
Graphics - AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP
Graphics Manufacturer - Built by AMD
Usable Memory Size - 8192 MB
Core Clock - 1206 MHz
Memory Type - GDDR5
Memory Clock - 1500 MHz
Memory Bit Rate - 6.00 Gbps
Total Memory Bandwidth - 192 GByte/s
BIOS Part Number - xxx-xxx-xxx
BIOS Version - 015.050.002.001
BIOS Date - 2020/08/14 01:51
Device ID - 6FDF
Revision ID - EF
Vendor ID - 1002
SubSystem ID - 0B31
SubSystem Vendor ID - 1002
Bus Type - PCI Express 3.0
Current Bus Settings - PCI Express 2.0 x16
GPU - AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP - Primary/Discrete
VRAM - 8192 MB - GDDR5 1500 MHz
Driver Version - 22.20.27.07-221020a-384804C
AMD Windows Driver Version - 31.0.12029.10015
Direct3D API Version - 12.0
Vulkan™ API Version - 1.3.217
OpenCL™ API Version - 2.0
OpenGL® API Version - 4.6
Direct3D® Driver Version - 9.14.10.01523
Vulkan™ Driver Version - 2.0.233
OpenCL® Driver Version - 31.0.12027.7000
OpenGL® Driver Version - 22.10.220823_1f70af4
2D Driver Version - 8.1.1.1634
2D Driver File Path - /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}/0001
UI Version - 2022.1130.1413.1936
AMD Audio Driver Version - 10.0.1.24
Driver Provider - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Windows Edition - Windows 10 Core (64 bit)
Windows Version - 22H2
CPU - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU - @ 3.40GHz 4 Cores
RAM - 8 GB
Model - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Processor Speed - 3.39 GHz
Cores - 4
Threads - 8
RAM - 8 GB
At the moment of taking these, the artifacts are still showing, if they ever get fixed again i'll make new ones and compare, yesterday i kept on closing processes and stopping services then i restarted my PC and it kept on restarting at startup then it showed that white font message on black screen "The previous overclock settings have failed, system has been restored to it's default settings. Press F1 to enter setup. Press F2 to load" and i have no idea why it did that as i wasn't trying to overclock it, i'm not using the latest AMD driver and i will stay on this driver version since the entire problem fixed itself once before, i'd rather not change anything and figure out how to do it first, maybe it's only possible on this driver, (i was using the latest one 1 month ago but it uninstalled itself and said the driver caused a conflict or something like that, that's why i'd rather stick with this driver)
GPU Load doesn't stay at 100% it keeps going from 0% to 100%, the gpuz graph shows it as spikes.
Then why did it start working perfectly and kept working perfectly for 10 days straight until i restarted explorer.exe? (i didn't shut my PC down during that period of time, only sleep mode)
GPU 0 is the RX 580 if you do not have a (Intel) -F CPU or a non -G AMD CPU. Laptop CPUs have a GPU built in, but only some desktop ones do.
Let me look around for some more VBIOS for your card. I might be able to find one that works.
@AMDSucks can you find a sticker like this on the back of your card? It would help me find what card you have. There may also be one with a 4-character code on it.
The fact that you restarted explorer means nothing.
Correlation does not imply causation. I am sure its been quite a ride getting a BIOS getting the GPU flashed only to find out your abused mining card cant run default clocks with the right bios in its intended environment, but that is unfortunately sometimes life when buying mining components which is why its generally not recommended.
Don't get confused though; if you slow down and read what you posted it's much more clear.
- Mining card
- Wrong Bios
- Modified drivers
Do you hear yourself? What is more likely? That your GPU is shitting the bed? Or by "randomly rebooting explorer" after an arbitrary amount of time (10 days must be the magic number?) that you have somehow discovered a bug in two different operating systems:
that tens of thousands of people have somehow not noticed since this card was introduced in 2017?
It was well over 10 days, i said that as a figure of speech, anyway, it worked perfectly in every way with different games (when it crashed and showed artifacts before) i dont know how or why and that's what i'm trying to figure out, and i didn't randomly close explorer.exe, i was playing a game in Ultra (which used to give artifacts before) and it worked perfectly, then i closed explorer.exe (with the game still running) and the artifacts appeared right after i started explorer.exe so there you have it, its software related.
My gpu is a special case, its an 8gb gpu that uses memory chips made for 4gb gpus, and it doesnt show voltage in msi afterburner, all of these factors are enough to convince me that there has to be to be some kind of conflict just because this gpu is one of a kind and they didnt take it into account when they (the drivers/windows etc devs) tested gpu compatibility with the various drivers/services/processes, and there's no issue in terms of temperature, it never shows artifacts/crashes unless its running heavily-demanding gpu stuff. (and never gave a BSOD)
I also found lot of people saying their GPU (not mining ones) shows artifacts unless they revert back to an old driver, so there's that, seems to be a common AMD issue
Now all i need is to make my gpu go back to that state where it works perfectly, the problem is that i dont know what triggered it, i was just playing different games (some of them with a bit of artifacts) while using chrome and VLC and pcsxe2 in OpenGL (Software) mode which gave no artifacts, and putting my PC to sleep, it happened during a month of doing that and at one point i said hey there's no artifacts let me try this game, boom no artifacts, now lets try that other game that used to crash on startup, boom works perfectly, so if it was indeed a faulty gpu then it wouldn't work perfectly for a long time and stop working again when i closed explorer.exe it doesnt make sense, and that guy who tested my gpu was also using Windows 10 and his PC was weak he had a weak PSU and probably low-end RAM, just like me, my mobo & cpu are 10 years old and i had to update the bios in order for the gpu to be detected, otherwise it didnt boot.
Thanks Count von Schwalbe i think i tried the entire database already, i reverted back to the bios the gpu came with, and it showed that it can work there so why not stick with it and figure out how to do it again, after that all i'd have to do is do whatever i have to do to make it stop artifacting every time i start my PC, but if you really want there's just one sticker very similar to that one you showed me that says
AMD RX580 8G DDR5 256BIT
SN: KKLKJ 2210000000153
Those artifacts look a bit like when I overclocked my 8800 GT way too much. No crashes, neither the system nor games, but BF2142 had these weird "geometry into infinity" glitches.
Might be worth clocking the card down a bit and see if that helps. Maybe it isn't running perfectly smooth at whatever clocks it's going at.
Speak gentlemen. I've been following the forum and I'm having the same problem. I took an XFX RX 580 2048SP 8G 1286M D5 3X DP HDMI memories Samsung K4G80325FB. On the product label as shown in the photo is an RX580S85D RX580S85DDM VK1. RX 580 2048SP 8G 1286M D5 3X DP HDMI made China SN W1V074409 Chip AMD 215-091052
Dual bios in one of the bios it has an RX570 bios this bios seems to me when I turn the selector switch it is not recognized by the program to configure like the MSI afterburner or even the AMD program which I don't just use the drives. I use the amd software adrenalin edition 23.9.2 drive on a windows 11. Could anyone give me a guide or a link to where to find these two bios. Because I've searched almost everywhere, tested several and nothing. It's giving a green screen. It flashes after 3 times on the green screen. I use it on a 55-inch Samsung TV with HDM cable! new . Below are photos and details of the plate.
. I love that game.
