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[deuceyd]

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[Illusion of Progress]

What does event viewer say? Do you have any Event ID 18 or 19 logs? Any logs about the video drivers having stopped responding?

What does Windows say? Any dumps in these directories?

Windows/LiveKernelReports/WHEA
Windows/LiveKernelReports/WATCHDOG

Any logs files, if present, can be opened with WinDbg, or you can upload them and someone else can take a look at them.

This sounds like either some machine check exception, or it might be the Raptor Lake instability thing. You can test for the latter (besides checking logs as advised above) by manually underclocking the p-core ratio down to as low as 52x and seeing if the issue goes away. If so, your system is unstable. There's updated BIOS and power limit settings/recommendations but I'm not in the loop as to what those are for each board/CPU; just that the issue exists with many upper tier (Core i9 especially but also Core i7) Raptor Lake CPUs.

So one of those those two things, a machine check exception (which can be any piece of hardware faulting) or the Raptor Lake thing are what I'd check. Again, Windows keeps logs, so refer to them unless you want to go on a guessing game based on symptoms alone.

I can't answer the performance thing as well since I'm not familiar with Tarkov, but to my understanding, it can be CPU heavy so maybe it's not unusual in some circumstances. As a Minecraft player, I know this all too well. Having *insert high end hardware here* does not allow a system to never have less than desired performance.

[Azza ☠]

I would suggest checking your temperatures (CPU / GPU / Motherboard) while gaming or similar high-usage. Setup an onscreen temp display, if your motherboard has that feature or app.

Under your Windows Task Bar > Search/Run > Type "Event Viewer" and select from list.

On the far-left menu: Go to Event Viewer (Local) > Custom Views > Administrative Events

This will show a ton of Yellow Warnings (which is normal and be can ignore mostly. Just check for the latest Red Error Messages since your last issue or boot. Click on them and check the General tab below for possible root causes of the issue. If related to the issue, note those down here as it will greatly remove most of the guess work.

Right-click your Windows button > Terminal (Admin)
or under Search/Run > Type "cmd.exe" and select Command Prompt (Admin)

Under the admin prompt, type: SFC /scannow
(This will check corrupts/issues in your critical Windows files and attempt to repair them)

You might also then want to run: DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
and repeat again the scan: SFC /scannow
(that will ensure your local Window's image is the latest online to check against)

That game "Escape From Tarkov" is a very poorly optimized game, it's likely not your hardware fault it runs like that.

Screen flickering in under Windows is commonly caused by display drivers or the graphic card overheating such as it's VRAM, if not damaged. Another reason could be your monitor cable or the monitor itself. However, that is only if it is happening all the time / randomly. In your case, it's just with certain apps/games?

If it's just from "Escape From Tarkov" then it would likely be due to the Unity engine crash, yet that should be fixed after a reboot. Hense I would suggest it's overheating of the GPU (graphics card) more likely at first guess?

[deuceyd]

I use msi afterburner to monitor my temps in game, my cpu stays under 70c and my GPU highest I ever see it go is 65c.

The flickering pixels only happen after my PC freezes and I restart it doing a hard shutdown. I think I can rule put faulty cables or my monitors going bad due to the fact I can consistently fix the issue by reinstalling the current graphics driver. Perhaps the drivers are getting corrupt when I hard shutdown my pc when it's in the middle of freezing?

But if that's the case I have no clue what's causing the freezes. One freeze I had was just Tarkov, which I was able to open task manager and close the program. Temps were within normal ranges. The 2nd time it happened in tarkov it was a full pc freeze. No response from ctrl alt delete, no nothing. Hard shutdown, reboot, pixels flashing everywhere both monitors. Reinstall graphics driver and it all goes away. The freezes happen in cyberpunk 2077 also so I don't think it's tarkov specific.

All my pc parts aren't even 2 yrs old. I've ran memory health checks on my ram and on my drives recently and had no red flags or issues pop up. My CPU idle temps are really good, around 33-37c on a cool day.

But again I monitor my temps using mai afterburner I never see them reach above the temps I listed and those numbers don't seem out of the ordinary.

[deuceyd]

Next time it happens I'll pull up event viewer and post the results i can find. I've got to get to bed now since I got work otherwise I'd dig through it now. Will there still be useful info in there considering I'm not getting any windows bluescreens or anything just freezes?

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by deuceyd:

I use msi afterburner to monitor my temps in game, my cpu stays under 70c and my GPU highest I ever see it go is 65c.

The flickering pixels only happen after my PC freezes and I restart it doing a hard shutdown. I think I can rule put faulty cables or my monitors going bad due to the fact I can consistently fix the issue by reinstalling the current graphics driver. Perhaps the drivers are getting corrupt when I hard shutdown my pc when it's in the middle of freezing?

But if that's the case I have no clue what's causing the freezes. One freeze I had was just Tarkov, which I was able to open task manager and close the program. Temps were within normal ranges. The 2nd time it happened in tarkov it was a full pc freeze. No response from ctrl alt delete, no nothing. Hard shutdown, reboot, pixels flashing everywhere both monitors. Reinstall graphics driver and it all goes away. The freezes happen in cyberpunk 2077 also so I don't think it's tarkov specific.

All my pc parts aren't even 2 yrs old. I've ran memory health checks on my ram and on my drives recently and had no red flags or issues pop up. My CPU idle temps are really good, around 33-37c on a cool day.

But again I monitor my temps using mai afterburner I never see them reach above the temps I listed and those numbers don't seem out of the ordinary.

Are you using Windows 10 or 11?

Windows Task Bar > Run/Search for "powercfg.cpl"

Under Power Options, check if it's set to "High Performance"

On the left menu, select "Choose what the power buttons do"

Ensure when I press the power button is set to "Shut down"

Click "Change settings that are currently unavailable" and at the bottom I would suggest unticking "Turn on fast startup" even though it's recommended.
(fast startup create a memory image of what's already loaded in Windows to speed up the next boot from, but if you aren't careful it means it's not a clean reboot and can even keep old corruptions/issue for the next hard restart)

I hate "fast startup", it can cause more issues than help and I personally see no performance gain from it anyways, if using a high speed SSD (solid state drive) for the boot / OS (operating system).

That could be the reboot issue, since not temperature.

Then you will just have to address the crashing problem.

[deuceyd]

Windows 11 I'll check this out tomorrow thanks for the support

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by deuceyd:

I use msi afterburner to monitor my temps in game, my cpu stays under 70c and my GPU highest I ever see it go is 65c.

The flickering pixels only happen after my PC freezes and I restart it doing a hard shutdown. I think I can rule put faulty cables or my monitors going bad due to the fact I can consistently fix the issue by reinstalling the current graphics driver. Perhaps the drivers are getting corrupt when I hard shutdown my pc when it's in the middle of freezing?

But if that's the case I have no clue what's causing the freezes. One freeze I had was just Tarkov, which I was able to open task manager and close the program. Temps were within normal ranges. The 2nd time it happened in tarkov it was a full pc freeze. No response from ctrl alt delete, no nothing. Hard shutdown, reboot, pixels flashing everywhere both monitors. Reinstall graphics driver and it all goes away. The freezes happen in cyberpunk 2077 also so I don't think it's tarkov specific.

All my pc parts aren't even 2 yrs old. I've ran memory health checks on my ram and on my drives recently and had no red flags or issues pop up. My CPU idle temps are really good, around 33-37c on a cool day.

But again I monitor my temps using mai afterburner I never see them reach above the temps I listed and those numbers don't seem out of the ordinary.

Hardware faults can happen. The only cause for them isn't high temperatures. So you can't rule hardware faults out as a result of the temperatures being low.

To the contrary, I'd guess that if things keep going awry and reinstalling fresh drivers fix it until it happens again, then you're likely facing precisely that; a hardware fault somewhere.

My brand new video card was doing exactly this until I did an RMA on it, which is why I suggested that as one of the two possible things to check first (the CPU being the other, given it's a high priority possibility in this case).

While my drivers weren't in need of reinstall when it happened to me, I've read of other cases where it does happen.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Some games have issues running on these CPUs that have P& E Cores.
If that turns out to be the issue, you can use this tool to whitelist game or app EXE files and have the efficiency mode disabled for them so they only run on the P Cores.

https://videocardz.com/newz/coredirector-is-a-new-free-tool-designed-to-keep-apps-off-intel-e-cores

[Worlds fastest turtle]

Should have gone AMD.

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by SNX986X:

Should have gone AMD.

Nah, the RTX 4090 is a beast and one of the best graphics card I've used myself with zero issues. It's not likely the graphics card.

However, for the graphic card drivers (specially if you changed from Nvidia to AMD or visa versa).... you could use an app called "Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU)" to remove all ghost drivers remains before installing a clean copy.

Nvidia has their own clean up tool:
https://developer.nvidia.com/cleanup-tool

[Worlds fastest turtle]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Originally posted by SNX986X:

Should have gone AMD.

Nah, the RTX 4090 is a beast and one of the best graphics card I've used myself with zero issues. It's not likely the graphics card.

Erm, CPU? We all know it's an Intel one, not sure why you are mentioining the 4090.

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by SNX986X:

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Nah, the RTX 4090 is a beast and one of the best graphics card I've used myself with zero issues. It's not likely the graphics card.

Erm, CPU? We all know it's an Intel one, not sure why you are mentioining the 4090.

Ahh thought you meant AMD graphics card, rather than Nvidia.

My bad, you are talking about the early Intel i9-13900KF and i9-14900KF CPU crashing issue. That's mostly due to the motherboard AI auto-overclocking. Flashing the latest BIOS gives you an extra option under it to set Intel default clocking or (depending on the motherboard) a fixed overclocking.

Bad 💀 Motha - Gave another solution too.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea this has become quite a thing now with these Intel P & E Core CPUs.

Some games like Red Dead 2 people are having much troubles with such game whenever they attempt to run on Intel 13th or 14th Gen CPUs. The E Cores is somehow the problem with game not launching at all, or running stable. Would be nice if Intel or Microsoft could provide an easy toggle for this in Win10/11.

Like what Microsoft did for Graphics Settings in Win10/11 allowing you to easily dictate which GPU an app or game uses by default; on a per-app basis.

I'm now starting to wonder how many people have refunded games because they couldn't get them to launch or run stable on PCs with such CPUs. Or how many games are affected by this.

[Rolfio_NL]

Check your BIOS power settings for your CPU!! I have a similar set- up and my CPU might been damaged by having too much power drawn into the CPU even while I was running on default settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3StcUhVRWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIubZYwBfPc

take care!

[The_Abortionator]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Originally posted by SNX986X:

Erm, CPU? We all know it's an Intel one, not sure why you are mentioining the 4090.

Ahh thought you meant AMD graphics card, rather than Nvidia.

My bad, you are talking about the early Intel i9-13900KF and i9-14900KF CPU crashing issue. That's mostly due to the motherboard AI auto-overclocking. Flashing the latest BIOS gives you an extra option under it to set Intel default clocking or (depending on the motherboard) a fixed overclocking.

Bad 💀 Motha - Gave another solution too.

the crashing is not due to AI overclocking orwhatever you think it is. ALL of Intels numbers and advertisements are based on shooting insane amounts of power through these chips and they literally can't take it.

The bios updates literally give you an option that is within safe bounds for operation. Using ANY other setting or overclocking literally puts you back into the same situation destroying your chip.

Just use the newer power setting as default, what is so hard about that?