Strange streaking lines / glitches flash across screen for multiple games, leading to crash.

[Jaguar5C]

These glitches have prevented me from playing almost half of the games that I own. Any help is appreciated.

I have already tried:
- Updating drivers / rolling-back drivers
- Changing every NVidia control panel setting
- Checking for overheating and overclocking

My specs are not old, and run the games with great fps constant. I am on an Acer predator laptop. The weird glitches appear (they look similar in all games) and always crash the game several seconds after entering some sort of game mode.

I have also had normal crashes in a few games that starting crashing right around the time that all of the other games got the line glitches. For these games, the screen crashed by I could still hear audio. The game screen had crashed but the rest of my computer was fine.

Here is a video of the lines, they got worse 5 seconds after the recording, and then Rainbow crashed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGCNRYW9Kus

[Cathulhu]

Video is unavailable.

[Jaguar5C]

weird, i seem to be able to view it logged out?
Have you tried pasting the link into a browser?

[Cathulhu]

I am in a browser, even tried youtube directly. Video doesn't work.

[wuddih]

gpu fail of some sort, are your temps ok?

i see the video btw.

[シェービングフォーム]

If you get the same kind of flickering in other games it's either hardware failure or a bad driver.

I remember seeing that on my old HD6970 for a few days before it stopped working.

Try cleaning your graphics driver by using DDU and perform a "clean" Nvidia driver install.

[Jaguar5C]

K ill try it

Also, I realized that all the games that have the glitches are 3D. Can't be a coincidence

My temps are fine

[Zekiran]

Your hardware is in fact failing. that's 100% indicative of a card that cannot do what it needs to - I've seen it plenty of times, and have always had to replace the card. It's not a driver issue, your card is dying. Doesn't matter if it's 10 years old or fresh out of the box - hardware fails, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. Make sure that the rest of your system is safely backed up, too, because if you wait too long it may outright break, and that CAN lead (unlikely though it is) to issues with other parts of the machine. (my video card on one unit overtaxed the power supply enough that it then fried the motherboard when they all failed... so... just better to be safe than sorry.)

[Jaguar5C]

Dang. Well, I'm not really ready to buy anything new yet, so I'm going to keep trying every solution I find. Thanks for the help, I'll back my stuff up and keep going as long as I can.