Game killed my monitor

[Toasted Toads]

I was playing single player, and 3 times the game totally crashed my PC. It just shutdown with no warning. After the 3rd time I restarted and my screen looks blurry. I checked the display settings and it is set to 1440x900. My monitor is 2460x1440, but it does not even give me the option to change it to a higher resolution. I updated my graphics driver and restarted again, and it is still broken. Anyone know what to do about this?

[Toasted Toads]

I did everything I could think of and nothing fixed it. Finally I reformatted my drive and reinstalled Windows, and it is still stuck on 1440x900. This is the most insane broken game I have ever seen. How can a game even do that? My monitor is broken!

[Toasted Toads]

OMG I JUST FIXED IT. So I unplugged the Display Port cable of my 2nd monitor (the one which was not broken), and then the primary display (broken) allowed me to switch it back to 2560x1440. Then I plugged the secondary display back in, and it automatically switched back to 1440x900, but then allowed me to switch it back again to 2560x1440. Now it appears to be fine.

[genzo]

nice

[sintri]

You do realize while crashing is perfectly normal for a software fault, hard shutdowns generally are a symptom of an hardware issue, even more so if it just shuts down without a blue screen.

[Toasted Toads]

Originally posted by sintri:

You do realize while crashing is perfectly normal for a software fault, hard shutdowns generally are a symptom of an hardware issue, even more so if it just shuts down without a blue screen.

I'm well aware that is normally the case. I actually build and repair systems for a living. I can assure you there is nothing wrong with my system. If there were anything wrong with it, crashing while running this game would indicate that it's probably heat related, or a GPU issue, in either case it would happen pretty much any time the system is stressed, especially while gaming. I can run any game on the planet for as long as I want and my system will not crash. Well any game other than this one. I can run 3D Mark extreme on an infinite loop while dialing in my overclocks to the top 1%. I can run Blender renders all day and night. If it were a hardware problem, it would surface quite regularly. Not just 3 times in 1 hour of playing Forza Horizon 5, but never before, and never with any other application.

[Blitz]

It happened to me once in an Open race, and I consider my hardware to be quite strong. fortunately it didn't damage anything but seeing that it happened to other person it's scary, I think it might be something wrong with game.

[Toasted Toads]

Originally posted by Blitz:

I think it might be something wrong with game.

Ryzen 3700x with all cores 4.9ghz
Gigabyte Aorus Extreme
32gb Corsair Dominators @3600Mhz
Gigabyte Gaming OC Radeon RX 5700xt
Patriot Viper NVMe 1tb
Corsair RM750x 750w PSU

(other hardware, probably not relevant)
Samsung 860 Pro SATA SSD 1tb
Crucial MX500 SATA SSD1tb
Seagate Exos HDD 8tb

You?

[sintri]

Originally posted by Christmas Kermit:

Originally posted by sintri:

You do realize while crashing is perfectly normal for a software fault, hard shutdowns generally are a symptom of an hardware issue, even more so if it just shuts down without a blue screen.

I'm well aware that is normally the case. I actually build and repair systems for a living. I can assure you there is nothing wrong with my system. If there were anything wrong with it, crashing while running this game would indicate that it's probably heat related, or a GPU issue, in either case it would happen pretty much any time the system is stressed, especially while gaming. I can run any game on the planet for as long as I want and my system will not crash. Well any game other than this one. I can run 3D Mark extreme on an infinite loop while dialing in my overclocks to the top 1%. I can run Blender renders all day and night. If it were a hardware problem, it would surface quite regularly. Not just 3 times in 1 hour of playing Forza Horizon 5, but never before, and never with any other application.

Then I can rest well knowing that you don't actually think the game killed a monitor, and that you know that Ryzen exhibit hugely different load/behaviors under full load and gaming. I can also rest well knowing that you've also ran stuff other than blender for stability testing because that actually does a pretty poor job at high level stability testing.

Though if you are sincere about it, I'd start with the psu.
Got it, not sincere, forget I said anything.

[Toasted Toads]

Originally posted by sintri:

Then I can rest well knowing that you don't actually think the game killed a monitor, and that you know that Ryzen exhibit hugely different load/behaviors under full load and gaming. I can also rest well knowing that you've also ran stuff other than blender for stability testing because that actually does a pretty poor job at high level stability testing.

Though if you are sincere about it, I'd start with the psu.

It didn't actually kill the monitor, as I said I fixed it. What it did was it appears to have broken the driver to the point that even multiple factory resets and a reformat and fresh Windows install, followed by another driver reinstall could not fix it. For some reason unplugging it from the GPU and plugging it back in did fix it. The only thing I can thing of is, whatever this game did to the driver, it seems to have written to the monitor's internal memory that it should be detected as 1440x900, and then unplugging it from the GPU must have cleared that and allowed it to be detected properly again.

There is nothing wrong with my system. But if you want to argue about that we can. I could mine Bitcoin for a week straight if that will make you feel better. Maybe I could make back the money I wasted on this trash heap of a game.

[Blitz]

Originally posted by Christmas Kermit:

Originally posted by Blitz:

I think it might be something wrong with game.

Ryzen 3700x with all cores 4.9ghz
Gigabyte Aorus Extreme
32gb Corsair Dominators @3600Mhz
Gigabyte Gaming OC Radeon RX 5700xt
Patriot Viper NVMe 1tb
Corsair RM750x 750w PSU

(other hardware, probably not relevant)
Samsung 860 Pro SATA SSD 1tb
Crucial MX500 SATA SSD1tb
Seagate Exos HDD 8tb

You?

Ryzen 7 5800x
Asus B550 ROG Strix
32 GB RAM
RTX 3060 "12GB"
Couple of M.2s
750w PSU

And now that you mentioned the driver, I remembered that a couple of times, my screen went black (and I can hear the game running in the background), so I turned the monitor off and on again and it "fixed" the issue. It has happened like 3 times.

So yeah, I think there is something weird going on. :/

[Masterpiece 🔴]

lol, next time you lose the mouse cursor, dont forget to format aswell, lmao

[Rabcor]

Sounds like corrupted EDID data.

it's either a problem with your gpu or your cable, try plugging it into another PC, if that doesn't work, try a different cable, if that doesn't work then try ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with your monitor's settings and if you don't ifnd a way to fix it there then yeah your monitor's broken, but it's impossible for this to be the game's fault.

[T3CHSK4T3R]

using stupid misinformation in title...priceless

[Coffee]

Originally posted by Christmas Kermit:

Originally posted by Blitz:

I think it might be something wrong with game.

Ryzen 3700x with all cores 4.9ghz
Gigabyte Aorus Extreme
32gb Corsair Dominators @3600Mhz
Gigabyte Gaming OC Radeon RX 5700xt
Patriot Viper NVMe 1tb
Corsair RM750x 750w PSU

(other hardware, probably not relevant)
Samsung 860 Pro SATA SSD 1tb
Crucial MX500 SATA SSD1tb
Seagate Exos HDD 8tb

You?

Yeah having good hardware doesn't make you immune from issues with this game. I get random crashes to desktop and these are my specs. All other games I have work flawlessly.

AMD Ryzen 9 5950x
Corsair H150i RGB Pro XT Liquid Cooler
ASUS RTX3090 24gb
Gigabyte X570 Aorus PRO WIFI ATX Motherboard
G.Skill 32GB(2x16GB) Trident Z Neo RGB DDR4 3600MHz
Corsair Force MP600 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD
Seagate Barracuda 4TB Hard Drive
Corsair HX 1200W 80+ Platinum Modular PSU
Samsung Odyssey G7 240hz 27"

[CunkFeatures]

Originally posted by Christmas Kermit:

I actually build and repair systems for a living.

Putting Lego together is not a living. Its a hobby.