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Hey,
On Sunday I updated my nvidia 3070 to the latest driver, booted up my pc and loaded up a few programs (discord, chrome an a torrent program) I noticed artifacts on my screen. I booted up GTA V and noticed the textures were stretched, artifacting before crashing giving me the error "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED"
I rebooted my pc and I can't replicate the issue, no artifacts, passed stress testing using furmark/occt/firestrike etc and running games it's perfect with 0 artifacts so what I'm wondering, can a bad corrupt driver cause this? I've never over clocked my gpu/CPU or ram, I've ran a memtest with 0 errors after 10 passes. My PSU is like 3 months old (Corsair hx1000w) I just want to know what drivers an if drivers can cause this?. It's now Wednesday I stream an still 0 artifacting.
Thank you.
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Hello Adam2471,
i am Jaspreet Singh.
The issue could have been caused by files pending from previous display driver. With the fast start option in windows 11 the cache files are sometimes not cleared until a proper reboot.
If the issue is not replicable I would not stress about it.
A branded PC? if so you updated drivers via that makers update utility, a shortcut for which is on your system. You dont update from anywhere else.
If a self build via that mobo maker and the individual card makers
Winupdate by default does not update drivers
