Screen going black for a few seconds randomly in games

[Stauto]

While playing any games the screen will randomly turn black for a few seconds then turn back on, I have noticed though playing games in 144hz will trigger this to happen more and in rare cases the computer will crash to a blue screen. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks.

[_I_]

check connections

and what monitor brand/model/year
could be bad caps or led/cfl power board in the monitor

[Stauto]

İlk olarak _I_ tarafından gönderildi:

check connections

and what monitor brand/model/year
could be bad caps or led/cfl power board in the monitor

what do you mean by connections? like plugs?

acer kg271ua 27in qhd 144hz freesync gaming monitor

the monitor is only a few months old

[_I_]

if its only when gaming it could be drivers

or occationally it could be lots of things
try it on another pc

[Lord Flashheart]

As a guess, electrical interference. With my gaming PC using display port it does not happen.
Another machine using HDMI it happens when my fridge turns on/off.
Are you using a shielded cable?

[Buck]

What's the BSOD? (Check the event log or use bluescreenview or who crashed)

If it only happens while playing games then it's likely WDDM TDR (Display Timeout Detection and Recovery), Basically, the Graphics card/driver is becoming unresponsive, so windows resets it. Games will typically crash when the renderer goes bye bye like this, but sometimes they can cope with it.

The BSOD is a kernel crash and may happen if the driver cannot be successfully reset, or another problem happens.

Check your windows event log to see if any TDR events have been logged. If so, check your GPU and drivers. update/remove/reinstall them clean (don't bother DDU or other silly cleaners, they're not necessary. just use the drivers own uninstaller)
Make sure the GPU is properly seated and aux power is connected and your PSU meets it's requirements.
If you are overclocking, reduce to defaults.

[_I_]

hes not getting bsod, jsut the display flashes black and back to normal

it may be a bad ground, if the pc and monitor are not on the same outlet

[Bad 💀 Motha]

İlk olarak Buck tarafından gönderildi:

What's the BSOD? (Check the event log or use bluescreenview or who crashed)

If it only happens while playing games then it's likely WDDM TDR (Display Timeout Detection and Recovery), Basically, the Graphics card/driver is becoming unresponsive, so windows resets it. Games will typically crash when the renderer goes bye bye like this, but sometimes they can cope with it.

The BSOD is a kernel crash and may happen if the driver cannot be successfully reset, or another problem happens.

Check your windows event log to see if any TDR events have been logged. If so, check your GPU and drivers. update/remove/reinstall them clean (don't bother DDU or other silly cleaners, they're not necessary. just use the drivers own uninstaller)
Make sure the GPU is properly seated and aux power is connected and your PSU meets it's requirements.
If you are overclocking, reduce to defaults.

We recommend DDU cause it takes out the guess work, ensures what needs to be cleaned get 100% flushed; and is 10X quicker then using the Uninstallers; which also don't remove everything.

[UTFapolloMarine]

from my expirience that can be a graphics card problem. try different chords as in dvi, vga or hdmi, try a few tvs or monitors, also that can be a virus or windows corruption problem as well. if a windows reinstall doesnt fix that, its gpu failure as in it got fried due to power surege, over clocking or just overheating. good luck

[Stauto]

Also another note, I had wiped my computer last month, and I did have the monitor before then and even after wiping it still would have these issues. Would it most likely be a hardware problem then a driver problem?

[UTFapolloMarine]

İlk olarak Stauto tarafından gönderildi:

Also another note, I had wiped my computer last month, and I did have the monitor before then and even after wiping it still would have these issues. Would it most likely be a hardware problem then a driver problem?

that sounds just like a gpu problem, but by chance right click this pc and open properties should take you to your specs, see if its not a ram failure, modern bios will tell you whats dying it if so, my bios tells me whats dying or not, i dont know what your bios is or is like, so that sounds like a recent problem i had, i wouldnt go spending cash though, take it to a pc shop, they will tell you what the problem is, if your bios dont have a self diagnoses program, you need to manually do it at a shop they can tell you whats not be read properly sounds like gpu if it was an overheating problem the whole pc would shutdown

[dirthurts]

Sounds like you're hitting the thermal limit of your GPU. Check your temps. If they're getting above 65 or 70, it could be the issue. Even though cards are rated for higher temps, this is the GPU and many boards will black out to keep the heat/current in check.
Adjust your clocks to run lower or cap your framerate. Even better, get a better GPU (I'm betting it has a cheap cooler on it or it's just not up to the task).

I've had this exact same issue. It was caused by a crappy cooler not keeping the temps in check.

It's happening more at higher FPS as your card is running at 100% at all times to push out as many frames as possible. Cap the frames if you can't upgrade, or downclock (or undervolt) a bit.

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Nothing anyone has suggested in this thread has anything to do with OP's problem. Monitor "Blacking out" is 100% a problem with the -CABLE-. Nothing to do with hardware, or drivers, or video card or any of that.

@OP: You've most likely got a crappy cable that can't handle 144hz at the distance you're trying to push it at. The longer the cable is, the worse the signal gets. Either get a shorter cable, or replace it with a new one. Look in your monitor's manual (or download the manual off the website) and see if it will do the full native refresh rate of 144hz and resolution via hdmi. Some monitors will over hdmi, some will require DisplayPort for 144hz. If your monitor supports full speed over hdmi, then I can point you to an affordable HDMI Premium Certified cable that will 100% be compatible with your monitor. If you require DP / DisplayPort then.. there's no way to really know. You may realistically have to try 20+ different DP cables until you find one that will work correctly.

[Stauto]

İlk olarak |mρεηdίηg Rεηταζιε Tαρε tarafından gönderildi:

Nothing anyone has suggested in this thread has anything to do with OP's problem. Monitor "Blacking out" is 100% a problem with the -CABLE-. Nothing to do with hardware, or drivers, or video card or any of that.

@OP: You've most likely got a crappy cable that can't handle 144hz at the distance you're trying to push it at. The longer the cable is, the worse the signal gets. Either get a shorter cable, or replace it with a new one. Look in your monitor's manual (or download the manual off the website) and see if it will do the full native refresh rate of 144hz and resolution via hdmi. Some monitors will over hdmi, some will require DisplayPort for 144hz. If your monitor supports full speed over hdmi, then I can point you to an affordable HDMI Premium Certified cable that will 100% be compatible with your monitor. If you require DP / DisplayPort then.. there's no way to really know. You may realistically have to try 20+ different DP cables until you find one that will work correctly.

I am using the DP cable that came with the monitor which is a 1440p monitor requiring the DP in the first place so that should not be the issue.

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İlk olarak Stauto tarafından gönderildi:

I am using the DP cable that came with the monitor which is a 1440p monitor requiring the DP in the first place so that should not be the issue.

Has this always been an issue? Or did it work for a long time then suddenly start showing up? But quite literally random black screens or the screen blacking out with no blue screen and no system crashes (system is still running as if nothing ever happened when the monitor comes back on) is literally the monitor losing signal over the cable. Try a different Displayport port on the video card. Or you may have a faulty cable. I have a 1080p screen @ 80hz and I'm trying to push my monitor's signal over 20ft of cable and I had exactly your described problem.

Screen would black out and then when it came back system was right there running as if nothing had happened. Eventually found out it was a poor quality cable I had and I went through about 20 different cables before finding one that worked. Since then I've had zero issues.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

İlk olarak Stauto tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak |mρεηdίηg Rεηταζιε Tαρε tarafından gönderildi:

Nothing anyone has suggested in this thread has anything to do with OP's problem. Monitor "Blacking out" is 100% a problem with the -CABLE-. Nothing to do with hardware, or drivers, or video card or any of that.

@OP: You've most likely got a crappy cable that can't handle 144hz at the distance you're trying to push it at. The longer the cable is, the worse the signal gets. Either get a shorter cable, or replace it with a new one. Look in your monitor's manual (or download the manual off the website) and see if it will do the full native refresh rate of 144hz and resolution via hdmi. Some monitors will over hdmi, some will require DisplayPort for 144hz. If your monitor supports full speed over hdmi, then I can point you to an affordable HDMI Premium Certified cable that will 100% be compatible with your monitor. If you require DP / DisplayPort then.. there's no way to really know. You may realistically have to try 20+ different DP cables until you find one that will work correctly.

I am using the DP cable that came with the monitor which is a 1440p monitor requiring the DP in the first place so that should not be the issue.

Most cables provided with Displays have been junk, I toss them aside and only use as an extra backup, as they are made extremely cheap they aren't worth using. That is also the case with most Monitors, seriously go buy a DP cable and it will be better then what came with the Display, I can pretty much guarantee it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TTQ306M