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RX 580 black screen when games launch

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I've just bought a used 580 8gb to replace my old GTX680 hoping I could get back to some gaming while in lockdown (not played anything in years really), however any time I start a game the screen goes black. System specs are as follows:

Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H

i5 3570k oc to 4.2ghz

16gb RAM (8 Corsair Vengeance Pro, 8 Patriot G2, running at 1333 as 1600 wouldn't work)

Corsair 600w PSU (not sure of the exact model just now)

I couldn't even get the system to boot at first but fixed that with a BIOS update. Now when I try to play CoD Warzone the initial menu comes up ok, and I can go into the options screens to change settings, but when I click onto Warzone the screen goes black. Tried running The Talos Principle through Steam and it's a similar thing, the initial loading screens show up but when the main menu appears the picture disappears. The game is still running as I can hear the music and the noise from tabbing between the different options, I just can't see anything. Also tried Unigine Superposition, which gets the full way through and produces results, there's just no picture while it's running.

I've tried 20.4.1, 20.2.2 and 19.10.2 (recommended for MW) drivers, but have the same issue with all of them. All Nvidia drivers were removed with DDU in safe mode.

Does anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? Everything was working fine with the 680 so I'm really hoping I haven't just bought a duff card...
 
Soldato
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It could be any number of things but i've seen this behavior when any 3d application would try and run an incompatible resolution and HZ. First try and run any game that doesn't work right now in windowed mode. That will quickly tell you if this is the case or not.
 
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I had a similar issue with the RX580, the solution was to turn off updates before uninstalling all drivers with DDU. Then install new AND driver.

The problem i had was apparently caused by some basic driver that Windows installs conflicting with the AMD one. Hence disabling updates stops this being installed.
 
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