PC Crashes With White Squares

[racecar39]

Recently my PC has been freezing with white squares, I feel like it could be my GPU because I run most of my games over it's VRAM limit. But the games mostly run over 45-60 FPS so I keep it that way. The GPU isn't overclocked either. GPU is GTX 750 Ti. Any help would be appreciated.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Running over VRAM limit may cause games to lockup, or have pausing/stuttering overall. Due to the fact that if the visual settings + res are trying to use more VRAM at times then your GPU actually has, it resorts to having to flush some of the VRAM more often to make room... this is where poor performance is usually seen. The FPS overall does not always reflect this if the game can generally run good on your specs.

Think of System RAM and general OS use. Will you be stopped for opening up more and more due to lack of RAM? In most situations no, but that means flushing previous things in RAM to make room and that can show visual performance issues when that occurs, or the system overall showing signs of just being slow, as a result.

Monitor CPU/GPU Temps and ensure not getting too hot.

If you are seeing all sorts of visual distortions with regards to your GPU, that could be the GPU (or its onboard VRAM) failing. As it is possible to have a certain VRAM chip go faulty, and thus issues might not show visually until that VRAM gets used, resulting if visual corruptions when a bad spot in the VRAM is trying to be used.

[racecar39]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Running over VRAM limit may cause games to lockup, or have pausing/stuttering overall. Due to the fact that if the visual settings + res are trying to use more VRAM at times then your GPU actually has, it resorts to having to flush some of the VRAM more often to make room... this is where poor performance is usually seen. The FPS overall does not always reflect this if the game can generally run good on your specs.

Think of System RAM and general OS use. Will you be stopped for opening up more and more due to lack of RAM? In most situations no, but that means flushing previous things in RAM to make room and that can show visual performance issues when that occurs, or the system overall showing signs of just being slow, as a result.

Monitor CPU/GPU Temps and ensure not getting too hot.

If you are seeing all sorts of visual distortions with regards to your GPU, that could be the GPU (or its onboard VRAM) failing. As it is possible to have a certain VRAM chip go faulty, and thus issues might not show visually until that VRAM gets used, resulting if visual corruptions when a bad spot in the VRAM is trying to be used.

Thank you! But this has been happening for 2 days now and my PC has been crashing in-game and even when i dont have a game alt tabbed and im just on the browser.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If it does it at just on OS Desktop or web browser, chances are the GPU is failing.
As web browser does use hardware acceleration (your GPU) by default.

[racecar39]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

If it does it at just on OS Desktop or web browser, chances are the GPU is failing.
As web browser does use hardware acceleration (your GPU) by default.

Thank you. Good thing I was saving for a GTX 10 Series GPU.