screen flickers with red pixels?

[Alex]

This might sound weird but every once in a while my game will flicker for like 1 frame with what seem to be red pixels covering the majority of my screen. Anyone else seen this or I am having a stroke?

[Jej]

Give us a screenshot.
If what I think is correct, your GPU is either overheating or it's dying.

[76561198139917577]

Originally posted by JejmanGTA:

Give us a screenshot.
If what I think is correct, your GPU is either overheating or it's dying.

Yeah this is what I thought too. This is how my last gpu died.

[Demodulated]

I definitely agree with the top 2 replies here. The only time I've ever seen red pixels appear on my screen was when my old ATI video card was overheating and dying.

Dust your whole PC with a can of compressed air. You will also need to take your video card right out and dust it thoroughly including the fan and heat sink. If this doesn't work you will probably need a new video card. If you ignore this advice completely your video card will probably die and might damage your power supply or motherboard as well.

[Alex]

Originally posted by JejmanGTA:

Give us a screenshot.
If what I think is correct, your GPU is either overheating or it's dying.

well that would be ♥♥♥♥♥♥, my 960 is rather new just recently replaced my 680 i had for years. but come to think of it, this was occuring near the end of our long play session. il watch my temps today. but the odds of me grabing a screen of it without just recording the whole time i play is 1/100000 haha. thanks for the reply

[76561198139917577]

Originally posted by Karls:

Originally posted by JejmanGTA:

Give us a screenshot.
If what I think is correct, your GPU is either overheating or it's dying.

well that would be ♥♥♥♥♥♥, my 960 is rather new just recently replaced my 680 i had for years. but come to think of it, this was occuring near the end of our long play session. il watch my temps today. but the odds of me grabing a screen of it without just recording the whole time i play is 1/100000 haha. thanks for the reply

Your new 960? wow that's suspicious then, I don't know what to say. Good luck! =D

[Emily]

Same issue here (for a 6870 with the latest drivers), independent of GPU temperature and in-game graphics settings. It only happens during daytime in-game for whatever reason.

Perhaps my GPU is dying, too, although out of the ~50 GPU-intense games I've tested since GTA V, none have shown anything resembling this bug.

[Art Vandelay]

new gtx 960 here too and i have the same problems (is not dying) .

[crashz]

I have an 1 year old GTX 760 and I get this aswell (but only when it rains ingame )...

[Alex]

Originally posted by crashz:

I have an 1 year old GTX 760 and I get this aswell (but only when it rains ingame )...

Thanks for the response, it was also raining when this was happening during a heist for me. maybe it's just a bug.

A follow-up for anyone else who finds themselves in this discussion, I have not seen the issue since it was happening in one of the heists I did a few days back. My temps for everything are normal. I will however keep a lookout for it and pay attention to what’s going on in game at that time and report back my findings if I can.

[crashz]

Alright, it's weird man, I really hope this is a bug. Damn those graphic cards don't last long

[Kraken]

Yea, this is happening to myself as well as some other people according to other discussions, so it's definitely not because our GPUs are dying :P

[Edge_Master]

I had something similar, althought it wasn't covering the majority of the screen, just the part where the area names come up on the bottom right hand side in SP.

I assume you are running in dx11?

Can you please try running it on dx10 and running the game on all normal settings and see if the problem still persists.

[⚡Snake⚡Plissken⚡]

Originally posted by Karls:

This might sound weird but every once in a while my game will flicker for like 1 frame with what seem to be red pixels covering the majority of my screen. Anyone else seen this or I am having a stroke?

If you do a stress test on your GPU now, ift could cause you more inherent problems

^^ OK scratch that, try uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling
Use Driver sweeper DDD
Somoeone else had a major issue wiht RAIN and his GPU, this fixed it

[Alex]

Thanks for the replies guys , I found out this problem is only mission specific for me. It’s during one of setups for the “The Humane Labs Raid” heist. That last mission where you need to deliver the EMP.

During this mission I asked my friends in vent if they saw this "flicker" as well and literally all 3 of them said they could see it. Some of them are on amd cards and some on nvidia. One of my friends brought up a good point, he thinks it might be the lightning flash effect specifically causing this issue. Who knows, it’s not really a big deal since I only see it during one mission. But since all my friends where seeing this it’s probably just a bug and it’s on rockstar to fix it eventually.

[KyrenCross]

I can also see red flickers randomly when raining. it's just a split second, maybe it indeed got to do with some lighting and stuff.