Is my GPU dying?

[superleeds27]

Bit of a strange on here.

Over the last month or two, I've had random issues when opening images in affinity and Photoshop. I've also had it once when opening a video in handbrake.

Basically what will happen.is the image will open in affinity, but the PC lags like hell. Things still function, but if I move the mouse, it does staggered movement. Hitting the start button, it appears maybe 5-15 seconds afterwards. Reboot and the system is fine.

Here's the weird thing. This doesn't happen all the time? Just seems totally random? It's hard to try and see what's happening when everything is in go slow mode.

It's also happened once yesterday when after the reboot, I went into the Nvidia control panel settings and it started lagging again, which made me think GPU.

Anyone got any suggestions/advice/thoughts at all?

I know this is feels a bit needle in the haystack! Just wondered if anyone has every experienced the same thing?

 

[Blackjack Davy]

It could be almost anything at this point. Gfx card hardware failures are usually visual glitches/weirdness in my experience rather than what you're experiencing though.

 

[aaronyuri]

Sounds like you have something causing stuttering. Have you tried to view task manager at the time the stuttering occurs?

This doesn't sound like a dying GPU to me.

 

[Tetras]

Bad driver install can do that, also hardware acceleration issues in an app like discord or a browser.

I'd have a look at task manager as suggested above and the event viewer.

Doesn't scream bad graphics to me either, though always possible.

 

[superleeds27]

Sounds like you have something causing stuttering. Have you tried to view task manager at the time the stuttering occurs?

This doesn't sound like a dying GPU to me.

Have tried but it's an absolute nightmare. The next time it happens (if it does) I'll try do task manager and see what it's reporting.

Bad driver install can do that, also hardware acceleration issues in an app like discord or a browser.

I'd have a look at task manager as suggested above and the event viewer.

Doesn't scream bad graphics to me either, though always possible.

Im pretty sure I did get task manager up once when it happened but nothing jumped out as, uh oh. Again, if it happens again, I'll take a better look and investigate.

 

[NetMan]

Could it be expanding the swap file because its running low on RAM?

Antivirus software scanning the file as you open it?

Might also be worth using crystal disk info to check drive health status.

Sounds like you would need to leave task manger / resource monitor open in the background otherwise by the time you've opened it everything will have gone back to normal.

 

[superleeds27]

Could it be expanding the swap file because its running low on RAM?

Antivirus software scanning the file as you open it?

Might also be worth using crystal disk info to check drive health status.

Sounds like you would need to leave task manger / resource monitor open in the background otherwise by the time you've opened it everything will have gone back to normal.

See that's the thing, I'm not sure if it does ever go back to normal as I just tend to reboot the machine.

Can't see it being RAM, there's plenty.

AV - possibly, but then wouldn't it do it every time and not just randomly?

With the way it decided to freak out when I was just looking at the NVIDIA control panel makes me think it could be a driver issue, or something along the lines of that?

 

[NetMan]

I was thinking more of the problem you had when opening the images / video when I posted rather than the issue you had with Nvidia control panel.

Is there a newer version of the Nvidia driver available / if not have you tried going back to an earlier version?

Power save settings was it idle before you opened the vid etc - maybe try setting performace mode for a bit.

Something simple like a bad sata cable can cause weird problems.

Did you check event logs?


Think Id still check drive status with crystal disk info and mayde run a disk check.

It doesn't help when Microsoft keep releasing updates that break things.