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New 4070 Flickers..

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Hi all,

Just replaced my 6700XT with a new 4070 card and the performance is great, but I'm getting intermittent flickering, not just when playing games, but open the desktop also. Never had any issues like this with the AMD card. Sometime it's just a few ms, the times the whole screen will go blank for 1-2 seconds. Boots don't find it, and I have lately NVIDIA gamer drivers installed.

Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?
 
Finners said:
Do you have a freesync monitor and enabled g-sync? If so they probably are not compatible unfortunately
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I don't think my monitor is freesync

SpellowHouse said:
Sounds like your cable. Try lowering the refresh rate.
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Monitor is only 60hz, and using the same cable as before.

It also seems to glitch when using RDP to the PC. RDP drops with a display error then I need to re-connect, so I don't think it's the monitor or cable.

Could it be a faulty card? PSU issue? the 4070 is low power draw so I didn't think it would be a PSU uses (the 6700XT was working find for 2 years). I'm going to try swapping PCIE power cables just in case there is a PSU issue.
 
Other things to try:
Remove and refit the new GPU.
Check if you have the latest bios for the motherboard especially if there's a newer one to support or improve stability with NV 4000 GPU's
Reset the motherboard bios to default but note down any settings you may have in place such as overclocks, voltages etc so you can reapply later. I couldn't get a new GPU to work recently until I did this but I would expect it to be this way (either work or not), rather than cause something like flicker. Could be worth a try anyway.

Could also try refitting the old GPU and run it for a while which would rule out any problems with the cables.
 
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Si. said:
I don't think my monitor is freesync



Monitor is only 60hz, and using the same cable as before.

It also seems to glitch when using RDP to the PC. RDP drops with a display error then I need to re-connect, so I don't think it's the monitor or cable.

Could it be a faulty card? PSU issue? the 4070 is low power draw so I didn't think it would be a PSU uses (the 6700XT was working find for 2 years). I'm going to try swapping PCIE power cables just in case there is a PSU issue.
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What is your monitor?
 
Did you remove all traces of the AMD drivers? There could be a conflict going on so if not use something like DDU to uninstall the AMD drivers, it may actually be a good idea to remove all GPU drivers and reinstall the latest Nvidia ones from scratch.
 
pastymuncher said:
Did you remove all traces of the AMD drivers? There could be a conflict going on so if not use something like DDU to uninstall the AMD drivers, it may actually be a good idea to remove all GPU drivers and reinstall the latest Nvidia ones from scratch.
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If that does not work, try a older driver.

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SpellowHouse said:
What is your monitor?
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If it is not Freesync or G-sync capable, dissable it in NV control panel and see if it improves.
 
Flickering seems to be a widespread issue with the 4000 series. It seems to be a driver issue. I am pretty sure it shouldn't be as bad as you are experiencing, or far more people would be complaining about it, perhaps it is some other driver that you have that's causing the issue.
 
SpellowHouse said:
Flickering seems to be a widespread issue with the 4000 series. It seems to be a driver issue. I am pretty sure it shouldn't be as bad as you are experiencing, or far more people would be complaining about it, perhaps it is some other driver that you have that's causing the issue.
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If your monitor has any freesync or gsync options turn it off using the monitors internal menu.
 
There's been a flickering issue in the last couple of Nvidia game ready drivers (since the one around the time of the Diablo 4 launch). This could be the problem. Disabling g-sync made it go away for me, and could be a workaround until they finally get around to fixing this.
 
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