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Screen going black for a second while playing

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Anyone had this issue? Playing RDR2, everything is fine but then every minute or so the screen goes black for a second and then recovers to normal gameplay.

Thanks.

I'm also getting scanlines and it's doing the same on the desktop.

Also, the Nvidia max frame rate settings doesn't seem to work?
 
Done a clean reinstall of drivers. Same issues, black screen flickering and scan lines. Even on desktop.

On a couple of restarts it didn't seem to do it. But usually it does now.

Any more ideas? Cable? Monitor? Card?

Thanks.
 
Disable monitor standby/sleep in windows.

Try that first.

Set fps to a capped 143 via NV cool and quiet in NV control panel or reduce refresh rate in windows.

If you do both the above straight away you won't know which one sorts it though so I'd test each one out individualy.

My 3080 was problematic on various drivers through the time I had it and had to reduce the Hz on various drivers for stability.

It could be nothing to do with what was up with my scenario but worth a try.
 
tommybhoy said:
Disable monitor standby/sleep in windows.

Try that first.

Set fps to a capped 143 via NV cool and quiet in NV control panel or reduce refresh rate in windows.

If you do both the above straight away you won't know which one sorts it though so I'd test each one out individualy.

My 3080 was problematic on various drivers through the time I had it and had to reduce the Hz on various drivers for stability.

It could be nothing to do with what was up with my scenario but worth a try.
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Ok I'll try that, thank you.

I did notice that setting the rate cap in NV control panel didn't seems to drop the framerate in game is it should. However, the monitor was claiming 240Hz constantly in RDR2.. which I don't believe.

Setting windows to 144hz did seem to help.

HRL said:
DP or HDMI? Try which other one you haven’t tried if you can.
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DP, due to high refresh rate.
 
Changing the monitor standby and sleep didn't work. Nor lowering the frame cap in NVCP.

The only thing that works is lowering the display output frequency in Windows.

Not sure what that implies?
 
gjbf1 said:
Changing the monitor standby and sleep didn't work. Nor lowering the frame cap in NVCP.

The only thing that works is lowering the display output frequency in Windows.

Not sure what that implies?
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Faulty cable? Have you got a HDMI 2.1 cable that you can try and lock the res to 120Hz as a test?
 
HRL said:
Faulty cable? Have you got a HDMI 2.1 cable that you can try and lock the res to 120Hz as a test?
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This. Cable doesn't sound like it's up to the job or can handle the bandwidth properly. Test with a quality DP cable from the no competitors (read reviews).
 
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gjbf1 said:
You think it's the cable?

I just changed the windows refresh settings to 144 and it was fine. Now back to 240, fine again...
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Cables are digital. If data is corrupted, the entire screen is thrown away, resulting in a black screen. Corruption might not happen all the time, but it still could be the cable.
 
HRL said:
Faulty cable? Have you got a HDMI 2.1 cable that you can try and lock the res to 120Hz as a test?
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No. I'll have to buy another DP cable. Any recommendations?

MartinPrince said:
This. Cable doesn't sound like it's up to the job or can handle the bandwidth properly. Test with a quality DP cable from the competitor (read reviews).
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Competitors

The cable seems to handle 240Hz sometimes, I'd have thought it would be more consistent if it were the cable?

Pooh said:
Could it be a temperature issue ? Are you connecting with HDMI or DisplayPort
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DP.
 
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have you tried changing the cable to another dp port on the 4090?
I had this kind of issue a few years back with a 780ti and it was one of the dp ports was faulty switching over to another one will rule that out, otherwise it sounds like the dp cable to me.
 
gjbf1 said:
No. I'll have to buy another DP cable. Any recommendations?



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The cable seems to handle 240Hz sometimes, I'd have thought it would be more consistent if it were the cable?
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They do that. Most of the time they work, then they suddenly black screen.

It might not be the cable, but it certainly could be. For sure, it's worth the price of a cable to find out.
 
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