I recently RMA'ed my 1080 Ti card that I used to have, because I was experiencing many different rendering errors in it with a bunch of different games.
The manufacturer held it for a month, and then they sent me a 2080 as a replacement.
After having used that 2080 for a couple of weeks, I realized that I am still experiencing the same horrible rendering errors that I experienced with my previous (1080 Ti) card, and I have no idea why.
I think my original card still must have had something wrong with it regardless of whether it was causing these problems, since they held it for a month and in that time, some of their reps said they were trying to repair it, before they offered me a replacement after a month.
So now I'm left wondering:
1. Did I own two defective GPUs in a row? or
2. Are these rendering errors caused by something else other than my GPU?
3. If they are caused by something else, then what, exactly, is causing them? Or at least, what could be the possible causes?
Although many different rendering errors occur for me, the most prominent, frequent, and annoying one, is that my games fail to render smoke/fog properly. Whenever a scene has smoke/fog in it, either:
a) every game looks as if I'm playing Silent Hill 2, because instead of rendering smoke/fog properly as the game is supposed to be doing, it instead fills my whole screen with endless, huge waves of smoke/fog everywhere.
Or it makes it look like I'm caught up in a middle of a sandstorm in a desert (even if I'm in an environment like city in the game), by causing what appears to be wafts of sand randomly to float through the air as if they were being blown out by an invisible machine, even in scenes that shouldn't have any sand floating in the air.
b) I've also noticed weird particles being rendered in the sky. Like if there is a scene with burning fires, then I will see a huge waves of sparks everywhere all over my screen, like as if I'm in the middle of blizzard that is filling my screen with orange dots instead of white dots (except it shouldn't have white dots either since these scenes are not a blizzard scene and not even winter scenes).
c) Or sometimes I see strange particles floating in the sky that looks as if someone had cut up a bunch of black plastic garbage bags, and then released the pieces into the sky during the middle of a tornado (in other words, I see bits of tiny black particles floating everywhere).
These rendering problems are preventing me from enjoying my games and they are also driving me insane. I need to know what I can do to solve them. But unfortunately I don't have endless amounts of money to spend on new hardware. And I don't even know for sure it is even a hardware problem or not. And if it is, I also don't know which hardware piece is causing the problems (originally I assumed it was the GPU, but maybe it's not?).
I've ran diagnostic tests on my RAM and CPU, and they always pass the diagnostics tests (but could they still be defective anyway?).
I've also already used DDU and did a clean re-installation of the newest NVIDIA drivers. Doing that has zero effect on these problems which I'm talking about.
I've also created a Dropbox that has many examples of in-game footage that I've recorded which demonstrate their rendering problems happening. If any of you are an expert on these kinds of matters and would be willing to take a look at those files in order to help identify what could be causing these problems, then I'd be happy to PM you a link to those files.
Can someone please tell me how I can finally identify the cause of & solve these problems? Or if no one on this forum knows the answer, then can you please at least point me to the best place on the internet where I can go to ask and where they will probably be able to tell me the correct answer?
The manufacturer held it for a month, and then they sent me a 2080 as a replacement.
After having used that 2080 for a couple of weeks, I realized that I am still experiencing the same horrible rendering errors that I experienced with my previous (1080 Ti) card, and I have no idea why.
I think my original card still must have had something wrong with it regardless of whether it was causing these problems, since they held it for a month and in that time, some of their reps said they were trying to repair it, before they offered me a replacement after a month.
So now I'm left wondering:
1. Did I own two defective GPUs in a row? or
2. Are these rendering errors caused by something else other than my GPU?
3. If they are caused by something else, then what, exactly, is causing them? Or at least, what could be the possible causes?
Although many different rendering errors occur for me, the most prominent, frequent, and annoying one, is that my games fail to render smoke/fog properly. Whenever a scene has smoke/fog in it, either:
a) every game looks as if I'm playing Silent Hill 2, because instead of rendering smoke/fog properly as the game is supposed to be doing, it instead fills my whole screen with endless, huge waves of smoke/fog everywhere.
Or it makes it look like I'm caught up in a middle of a sandstorm in a desert (even if I'm in an environment like city in the game), by causing what appears to be wafts of sand randomly to float through the air as if they were being blown out by an invisible machine, even in scenes that shouldn't have any sand floating in the air.
b) I've also noticed weird particles being rendered in the sky. Like if there is a scene with burning fires, then I will see a huge waves of sparks everywhere all over my screen, like as if I'm in the middle of blizzard that is filling my screen with orange dots instead of white dots (except it shouldn't have white dots either since these scenes are not a blizzard scene and not even winter scenes).
c) Or sometimes I see strange particles floating in the sky that looks as if someone had cut up a bunch of black plastic garbage bags, and then released the pieces into the sky during the middle of a tornado (in other words, I see bits of tiny black particles floating everywhere).
These rendering problems are preventing me from enjoying my games and they are also driving me insane. I need to know what I can do to solve them. But unfortunately I don't have endless amounts of money to spend on new hardware. And I don't even know for sure it is even a hardware problem or not. And if it is, I also don't know which hardware piece is causing the problems (originally I assumed it was the GPU, but maybe it's not?).
I've ran diagnostic tests on my RAM and CPU, and they always pass the diagnostics tests (but could they still be defective anyway?).
I've also already used DDU and did a clean re-installation of the newest NVIDIA drivers. Doing that has zero effect on these problems which I'm talking about.
I've also created a Dropbox that has many examples of in-game footage that I've recorded which demonstrate their rendering problems happening. If any of you are an expert on these kinds of matters and would be willing to take a look at those files in order to help identify what could be causing these problems, then I'd be happy to PM you a link to those files.
Can someone please tell me how I can finally identify the cause of & solve these problems? Or if no one on this forum knows the answer, then can you please at least point me to the best place on the internet where I can go to ask and where they will probably be able to tell me the correct answer?