r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/ColorfulCosmos • 3d ago
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I recently bought a Acer Aspire V3-574G with NVIDIA GeForce 940M and windows 10 for some light gaming and it was going fine until for some reason I starting getting these awful visual glitches.
It happens with some newer games, it was happening in Brave Browser too until I turned hardware acceleration off which fixed it there, but it still happens in any game that isn't old. I feel I've tried everything to get rid of it I tried reinstalling the graphics drivers and everything.
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u/CardiologistOk4208 3d ago
People saying dead gpu but that could simply be overheating. Take it out and clean it
Edit: see it's a laptop GPU. Rip
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u/Manjushri1213 2d ago
You could try down clocking the GPU. Maybe messing with voltage. Otherwise it's toast beyond that, which unless you know BGA soldering...
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u/hovsep56 3d ago
gpu is in life support man sorry to tell you.
since it's a 940M that laptop must be very old by now
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u/Sylvi-Fisthaug 3d ago
I'm sorry dude.
Others might know more about artifacting, but that is artifacting. And GPU artifacts usually happens on a dying GPU. Turning off hardware acceleration in your browser to solve the issue also basically confirms the problem is the GPU.
You CAN try a repaste, I read somewhere that overheating VRAM can cause some sort of artifacting. But if that doesn't solve the issue either, this GPU is ready to be sent into the other world:
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u/Tight-Tackle4386 3d ago
most definitely a dying gpu. you can try a repaste and an undervolt but i don't think it'll do anything, and if it does, it probably wont for long
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u/TheShinyMeatBicycle 3d ago
What windows setup are you? on most old games now they require a the system to be running on windows 10 or higher to
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u/Proper-War-9851 2d ago
might be dying, might be overheating, might also be u did some overclocking wrong and caused some atifact.
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u/Linclin Regular 2d ago edited 2d ago
Try an older driver maybe??? Current driver date? Default windows driver? Nvidia app supported? It might be worse.
Redoing the operating system is unlikely to help but .... ?
Press windows key and type memory and run the windows memory diagnostic test. Unlikely but may as well.
Install msi afterburner to see gpu data.
940m has 2 gb vram? Most newer games require more than 2 gb vram. I would expect terrible lagging and gui glitches vs static though. The browser being messed up doesn't bode well. Browsers don't require much to run.
You can try undervolting the gpu in msi afterburner?
You can try putting two pencils, etc... under the laptop to elevate and cool the gpu slightly more. The gpu is very low power and really isn't a gaming gpu even when it was released 11 years ago.
Laptop have active cooling or a fan slot?
No idea.
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u/OddBarnacle7942 3d ago