Help with GTX1070 and Drivers

[mugikhan]

This problem randomly started today as I was playing overwatch. These random dots started appearing on the screen. Later I found out that these were due to windows 10 and nvidias drivers.

I reinstalled windows and completely removed the graphics driver using DDU and the screen works perfectly with no dots. As soon as I install any Nvidia driver the dots reappear. Now I don't know what to do as I need the drivers to be able to use my second monitor and play games.
I've tried reseating the GPU as well but the problem lies with the drivers and windows

Any help will be appreciated. It's a Galax GTX1070 HOF btw.

This is what the dots look like

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[Deku]

Wtf I would also like to know

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[iamgigglz]

The moment I saw that picture I was ready to say it's a faulty/cooked card, but when you uninstall the drivers the dots go away?

Maybe something to do with clock speeds. I'm reaching here but maybe the card is sitting at a low "safe" clock without drivers. Install the drivers, GPU clocks up and you start getting your dots.
Maybe try downclocking the card once the drivers are installed.
Off the back of that theory, what are the GPU temps like?

Also, have you tried with just the default native Windows drivers? With my Gigabyte I found that I didn't even need to download Gigabyte's software; Win10 just installed comprehensive drivers as part of its updates.

 

[xcalibersa]

Tried changing display prort?

 

[D3TTOL]

Maybe I can help with this shite for you

I have a GTX 1080 and it did this "artifacting" thing.... sort of similar to what your image shows.
I ran through several forums and it seems to be a problem with quite a lot of people with various brands.

From what I can make of it was that the GPUs were ramping up and down constantly while idle or when they needed more vram suddenly and the GPU activity spiked then this "artifacting" would happen.

So a couple questions....

Is your screen running higher than 60hz?
You are clearly running two screens... It seems to happen more often to people running two or more screens on a GTX 10xx series card.
Do you have any software similar to MSI afterburner or an OEM app that lets you switch between "standard" and "Go faster" mode?
When browsing web pages(or just opening and closing them). Does this make the "artifacting" more apparent?

EDIT: Nvidia are aware of this and are coming out with small patch updates that either make it better or make it worse.
Honestly I think Nvidia themselves don't know what's happening

 

[OhiAs_ZA]

Eish this is not good. Luckily I dont have any issues with the 1080 strix

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[mugikhan]

Done some digging myself as well and found out the problem to be with the GDDR5 (micron) memory. So I checked out the Galax website and there was an update available for the VRAM which fixed all the issues. Stress tested it and been using it fine since then


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[Toy Machine]

What version of drivers are they ? I read somewhere that the latest drivers made Steams hardware coding or some shit like that break and crash, so if it is the drivers maybe just try roll back to the previous version?

 

[mugikhan]

Done some digging myself as well and found out the problem to be with the GDDR5 (micron) memory. So I checked out the Galax website and there was an update available for the VRAM which fixed all the issues. Stress tested it and been using it fine since then


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And it worked fine for two weeks and started artifacting again so sent it in to Wootware. Hopefully it gets sorted out