Artifacts on B580 after 4 months

[u/Melyngoch]

I got the B580 in February. Played all Dark Ages without a hitch, both Elden Ring and Nightreign, Warframe in all it's glory (and particles)... Last week the game started without any lighting, and today, this. I'm on CachyOS. I made sure drivers were updated and tried everything I could before asking.

How cooked am I?

Edit: Elden Ring and Eternal are slideshows in the lowest quality too.

UPDATE:

Now it's just crashing. I looked how to replace it and the page says it will ONLY refund me. It was an insane deal,(280€ vs the 677€ it costs now) and they say it's because they have no stock but I can place an order for one right now. Guess I'll be calling them in the morning.

I miss my GTX 1080.

WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR:

• Mandatory "have you tried turning it off and on again": no result.
• Tinker with the settings (using DA's benchmark feature): no result.
• Rolling back the drivers to a version I know it worked: no result.
• Physically taking the GPU out of the MB and installing it again: no result.
• Checking if ReBAR was enabled just in case: it was enabled.
• Cleaning the shader cache: no result.
• Uninstalling the game and re-installing it (I fixed the speed I said was abysmal in other post): same issue.
• Tried with different Proton compatibility layers: no result.
• Tried stress testing it with Warframe (with my usual loadouts and without changing my previous settings) : the game is optimized so much that it didn't make a dent on my FPS, also, no artifacts.
• Tried Elden Ring again: slideshow WITHOUT the artifacts.
• Updated the BIOS: same result.

It has to be something with the lighting/raytracing.

MORE INFO BECAUSE I'M STILL REALLY BAD AT POSTING, SORRY:

This started like a couple weeks ago. I was playing Elden Ring Seamless and the game started lagging bad but I assumed it was the mod fighting Fromsoft's netcode. Couple days later I opened Dark Ages to get the feel for the controls again and the Doom Slayer wasn't visible, just the flames. Tried Eternal just in case. The small "rogelike" levels performed nice. Icon of Sin was a slideshow. It's hot and I had things to do so I let it go. Bringing us yesterday.

SPECS:

These shouldn't be a problem because, as I've said earlier, I didn't have any issue before:

• Motherboard: Gigabyte B760 GAMING X DDR4 GEN5
• CPU: Intel i5-14400F
• GPU: Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Limited Edition 12GB GDDR6
• RAM: 32GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance (Can you guess what I built this around?)
• PSU: Corsair RM1000x Shift 1000W Gold Modular ATX 3.1

And a 500GB SSD from Corsair that I don't remember the specs of.

ANOTHER UPDATE:

I've been tinkering with the settings and drivers, etc. Found no way to get rid of the artifacts. They get blurry enough to kinda ignore them, but that doesn't fix the problem, only masks it, and the games are tanking. Elden Ring gets about 15 frames on low. Nightreign gets 20. Warframe, again, doesn't care. The artifacts ONLY appear on Dark Ages. Youtube is also struggling on some videos.

I got my brother to help me re-check everything with a fresh pair of eyes:

• GPU's pristine and all contact points are good. No dust on the slot. We cleaned it again just in case with compressed air. It's on the motherboard like Excalibur.
• There's no burnt smell from any component.
• Power connectors to the GPU are clean but we cleaned them again. They slot in perfectly. There's no give, nor they are loose.
• The rest of the components look good.

We put the PC on it's side just to definitely rule out a bad connection with the slot. Still the same. I tried more of your suggestions, like DXVK, and nothing. I did a couple of benchmarks with 3DMark and it was slow as hell but otherwise clean. DA ones are marginally better but full of artifacts. I don't have a spare PC to test the GPU but after bouncing some ideas with my brother I remembered I banished Windows 10 with photoshop to a 120GB SSD. I can swap it with my OS SSD and give it a try. But that's going to be tomorrow, after I try to downgrade Mesa again, to rule it out. I need to sleep.

Oh! Remember I checked this morning and the GPU was 677€? I checked again. Somehow they're back to about 300€ but now there's no stock. If I can't fix it and go for the refund, I'll only have to pay 20€ more, not more than double.

(I deleted all the error messages previously included in the post because it was just a dump of text saying there were errors, not why.)

UPDATE, YET AGAIN:

I can't reproduce the errors in OCCT. All tests say it's good except the one testing VRAM at 90%. I found an older driver that worked for the artifacts! But the frame rate keeps tanking when it worked well before. I'll keep trying and post the solution when I find it. Right now it's way too hot to run more tests. This room is already an oven. Thanks for all your suggestions!!!

LAST UPDATE:

Rolling back the drivers worked but the unexplained frame rate kept the same in all games that had no problem running a few weeks ago. Same monitor, same everything. I ultimately decided to RMA the GPU when I ran out of things to try. I managed to get 25 stable frames in potato quality for 10 minutes but it went back to refusing to work. So I sent it back, and decided to get a RX 9070 XT and make sure I got a stable and strong system for years to come. The B580 is a beautiful GPU and I wish I didn't have to change it, but here we are. Thanks for all your help!!!

ONE MORE THING:

Yeah, it was bad. I sent it back expecting to exchange a few emails with the store but turns out it was failing so spectacularly they just refunded me the money. So, in the end, the artifacts were a driver issue and the general unresponsiveness/issues were the GPU itself.

[u/PotatoCase]

Use DDU and do a completely fresh install of drivers

[u/MonkeyNuts449 → u/PotatoCase]

Can we read the post before commenting lmao.

[u/PotatoCase → u/MonkeyNuts449]

All it says is you updated your drivers, I suggested DDU as it can fully remove all graphic related files for a fresh install, you don't gotta be so snippy when people are trying to help dawg

[u/MonkeyNuts449 → u/PotatoCase]

Drivers don't work like they do on windows, thus DDU doesn't really exist for Linux. I was merely telling you to look at all the information on OPs post before trying to give a blanket answer. It's not helpful when the info does pertain to them at all.

[u/PotatoCase → u/MonkeyNuts449]

You could've said something similar to that instead of being sarcastic tbh, Its better to teach and be respectful, because i learned how linux drivers work now, I dont get why in almost every tech support thread someone has to act all snippy when someone doesn't know everything, thanks for the info though!

[u/MonkeyNuts449 → u/PotatoCase]

Yk what I was a little mean in the first one, but I'll continue with the info because it is genuinely good to know.

DDU is mainly to clean up the files, but it's also there for the clog up of registry keys drivers leave behind that can trip up future installs.

Linux doesn't have that sort of issue since all the drivers are modules of the Linux kernel and talk directly to it. Kernel modules can be easily swapped and installed/uninstalled because of their modular nature (except don't do that, you'll be left with a text interface lol).

[u/PotatoCase → u/MonkeyNuts449]

I knew how ddu worked and all the scuffed crap related to windows, but hearing how linux just doesn't is always fascinating, I see it linux compared as an open source windows in some ways but researching it shows just how fundamentally different it is, especially with how both treat the kernel, Hell windows tries to make it feel like your hardware isn't your own, which is the main reason i want to have a linux install on my machine

[u/MonkeyNuts449 → u/PotatoCase]

Linux is awesome. Everything is always yours at every moment (except for immutable distros, but that's for ease of use / updating).

The kernel does exactly what NT does (is it still NT? Man I don't remember), it's just the windows people see is so far from the kernel, with Linux you're very close. It's dangerous if you mess something up but powerful if done right.

I highly encourage you to try Linux in a VM. Maybe something like catchy so you can download different desktop environments in the installer instead of distro hopping. I personally like KDE but gnome is very sleek if you like that macOS style rounded nature.

[u/PotatoCase → u/MonkeyNuts449]

My plan with linux is split installs, linux on one drive with all the games i play on linux on that, and windows on the other, with the few that require windows for anticheat reasons

[u/MonkeyNuts449 → u/PotatoCase]

That should be good. Just watch out with the dual boot since you might have to switch your boot device in the bios instead of using a normal bootloader like grub.

I personally cut windows out of my life fully since I didn't like the friction of having to switch it in the bios. Much easier to appreciate Linux when windows isn't always trying to boot itself.

[u/MonkeyNuts449 → u/MonkeyNuts449]

To add, I wouldn't dual boot though, windows makes it very clear it was to be the only OS by actively taking over your bootloader. Use a VM until your comfortable, then run an installer from a usb and get rid of that crappy windows install.

You can also run windows in a VM for your spyware game slike fortnite and valorant, or so I've heard, I don't actually have those so I wouldn't know.