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[YCoCg]

That sounds like a GPU issue OP, so try driver updating and if you're comfortable enough opening up your computer and reseating the GPU.

 

[Techno_Inked]

That might be it indeed, glad it seems fixed!

Now enjoy this masterpiece, Expedition 33 is the game of the generation for me so far <3

I tried booting up the game again today and restarted new game but it happened again even without changing any settings . So I tried using DDU but now I can't even get past the Windows login screen yikezz.

Techno_Inked try running some more tests, like benchmarks and stuff. If the problems persist, you can RMA it or even return it if it's in the return window.

What tests should I run and what results am I looking for?

One other thing to consider is setting FPS limits on the problem games. I used to play a Final Fantasy game that had an uncapped frame rate that would red line my computer trying to squeeze literally every frame it could possible. Other people on the steam forums would report crashing and graphical glitches (I had glitches after some time) and capped the framerate of said game and my case temps came way down and the game was fine afterwards.

I tried limiting the fps to 60 and 30. Both didn't work.

Try bench it with 3DMark

If you get the triangles glitches there as well it's 100% a problematic graphics card.

What results am I looking for? Is there anything free that I can try?

5090 are prone to to burning connectors etc. no smell?

Nope no smell.

I recently started having some issues on the latest NVIDIA drivers with Mafia Old Country. Turns out it was Frame Gen that was causing it to crash.

Frame gen isn't on.

I had strange visual glitches and really poor performance with a laptop before. Turned out it was infected and mining crypto for someone.

Doubt this is the case but how did you find out?

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but check Event Viewer after a crash. There may be more details there. If you see something there, I would copy and paste it into Copilot or some other AI client and get some recommendations that way.

Right Click start button in Windows > Event Viewer > Windows logs > Check Application and System logs

I checked it seems to be something about the graphics driver so I downloaded DDU and deinstalled the driver. But now I can't even get past the Windows pin login screen oof.

 

[Techno_Inked]

I am able to get into this screen now, any ideas how I can log back into the system?

 

[Bojji]

I am able to get into this screen now, any ideas how I can log back into the system?

Weird shit, I never had any problem with DDU.

Try startup settings and see if safe mode boots correctly. if it does just restart it from windows menu.

Edit: In general, this option in DDU is the best:

"Safe mode".

 

[Techno_Inked]

Weird shit, I never had any problem with DDU.

Try startup settings and see if safe mode boots correctly. if it does just restart it from windows menu.

I'm now in safe mode again and can get least get back into the desktop in safe mode. But if I use the Windows menu to restart won't it get back to the same problem again?

 

[Bojji]

I'm now in safe mode again and can get least get back into the desktop in safe mode. But if I use the Windows menu to restart won't it get back to the same problem again?

Same screen appears? Try "startup repair" maybe. In safe mode I think you can't install drivers sadly.

 

[Techno_Inked]

Same screen appears? Try "startup repair" maybe. In safe mode I think you can't install drivers sadly.

No I deinstalled the driver already. So DDU was successful. However when I chose the option to deinstall and restart I can't log back into my computer again while at the login Windows pin screen.


Basically I'm at 5:38, except I can't login back into windows. It shows the pin login screen but then I can't input anything

 

[Bojji]

No I deinstalled the driver already. So DDU was successful. However when I chose the option to deinstall and restart I can't log back into my computer again while at the login Windows pin screen.


Basically I'm at 5:38, except I can't login back into windows. It shows the pin login screen but then I can't input anything

Weird indeed. Keyboard works? Try Alt+Ctrl+del - it sometimes helps when I wake up system from sleep and can't log in.

First time I heard about issue like this.

 

[Techno_Inked]

Weird indeed. Keyboard works? Try Alt+Ctrl+del - it sometimes helps when I wake up system from sleep and can't log in.

First time I heard about issue like this.

I tried restarting using the Windows menu while in safe mode. I think I bricked my PC yikezz. I can get back into the blue screen I showed when trying to restart my PC 3 times after physically shutting it down. Is there anything I can do in the CMD to make me get back into my system using my pin login?

 

[Bojji]

I tried restarting using the Windows menu while in safe mode. I think I bricked my PC yikezz. I can get back into the blue screen I showed when trying to restart my PC 3 times after physically shutting it down. Is there anything I can do in the CMD to make me get back into my system using my pin login?

Try that "startup repair". I think it helped me in the past.

Edit: system restore, it you had it on you can try it.

 

[Spukc]

This thread is a great reminder i don't want to upgrade my 3080

 

[Techno_Inked]

Try that "startup repair". I think it helped me in the past.

Edit: system restore, it you had it on you can try it.

Startup repair gets me into the same blue screen. Trying system restore right now

 

[El Muerto]

Download and write Hirens Boot Disk to a usb. There are tools to reset the local log in. You can also run memtest86+ to check the ram too.

Hiren's BootCD PE

 

[BlackTron]

I wonder if you uninstalled the graphics driver using DDU, and then, with no driver available, Windows fails to get to the login screen -the system using the generic display driver until it gets to Windows and then imploding. That shouldn't really happen, because Windows should still apply its own default driver until/unless you install something better, but if you have integrated video (a HDMI or other display port on your mobo), just yank the graphics card entirely and see what happens that way. You might have to change a setting in the BIOS for that to work though.

 

[Sakura]

Doubt this is the case but how did you find out?

It was a few years ago so I don't remember 100%, but I think I went to the task manager -> performance -> resource monitor (the three dots in the top right of the performance tab) and then was looking at stuff using a lot of resources that shouldn't be, while I was playing games. I think there was some process in the network part sending data to someplace sketchy and that's how I found specifically what was causing it.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Hi no, I've never overclocked my GPU or CPU.

stop downloading pirated games.

my friend had the same issue. bought the game from steam and worked fine. the triangle flashes. happened for him in both expedition 33 and metal gear solid delta.

so that's ur answer.

I think rebooting the PC for him did fix the issue with expedition 33. ( happened to him twice from my understanding, both reboots fixed the problem. stopped caring about his drama with MGS delta.

 

[Techno_Inked]

Try that "startup repair". I think it helped me in the past.

Edit: system restore, it you had it on you can try it.

Damn you've been of great help this worked!

I wonder if you uninstalled the graphics driver using DDU, and then, with no driver available, Windows fails to get to the login screen -the system using the generic display driver until it gets to Windows and then imploding. That shouldn't really happen, because Windows should still apply its own default driver until/unless you install something better, but if you have integrated video (a HDMI or other display port on your mobo), just yank the graphics card entirely and see what happens that way. You might have to change a setting in the BIOS for that to work though.

I have no idea but it deinstalled the driver. Then when I did a system repair I installed the latest Nvidia driver again and now the game works without any visual glitches and can get past the first cutscene again.

It was a few years ago so I don't remember 100%, but I think I went to the task manager -> performance -> resource monitor (the three dots in the top right of the performance tab) and then was looking at stuff using a lot of resources that shouldn't be, while I was playing games. I think there was some process in the network part sending data to someplace sketchy and that's how I found specifically what was causing it.

Thanks for the tip man, I'll be on the lookout for this!

stop downloading pirated games.

my friend had the same issue. bought the game from steam and worked fine. the triangle flashes. happened for him in both expedition 33 and metal gear solid delta.

so that's ur answer.

I think rebooting the PC for him did fix the issue with expedition 33. ( happened to him twice from my understanding, both reboots fixed the problem. stopped caring about his drama with MGS delta.

I haven't pirated any games since like a decade ago lol. Rebooting didn't help at all. As I've tried for a week.

 

[Redneckerz]

Huh? Since when do people with money need to know the details?

Because if you are going to invest into something like this, you may want to know what you are doing? Personal development, and all.

But you are right, why should we know anything, right.

You can have money and not know how to troubleshoot a PC. Its like BMW M3 owners- very few of them turn their own wrenches.

That's the thing - you have money. There is no incentive to atleast be aware of what - in this case the GPU - does.

Because real talk - RTX 5090 is a rather crash prone thing for the kind of high end it supposely delivers.

 

[PlayStaytion]

You can have money and not know how to troubleshoot a PC. Its like BMW M3 owners- very few of them turn their own wrenches.

Yes but lets be real- console is about as bulletproof as you can get. Basically the Toyota of gaming.

It's just a red pill, don't overthink it.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

interested to know what PSU you're using to power all this. Could just be a case of poor power delivery. Have you tried to lower the power limit on the 5090 at all?

 

[PlayStaytion]

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What all that have anything to do with plastic and silicon melting? that's unheard of before and quite more severe. There are only two options left, changing the material or doing a complete new architecture from scratch, and fortunately, AI can do this and quite more effective this way tbh than what we're getting from AI right now.

 

[poppabk]

Huh? Since when do people with money need to know the details? If you can afford it an build it as your first rig, so what? Why wouldn't you buy something that is recommended by others? Isn't that a solid sign of being a noob? A more experienced PC builder would pick parts based on their incoming brand bias like, Never Buying Asus because that Athlon motherboard sucked, or Gigabyte = Ass because I had to RMA a 600 series GPU from them. Or Fuck Intel because I worked there and they were fucking assholes.

But to think that when people were complaining about UE5 being shitty they were talking about their screen becoming a corrupted mess of triangles before crashing everytime?

 

[tylrdiablos]

interested to know what PSU you're using to power all this. Could just be a case of poor power delivery. Have you tried to lower the power limit on the 5090 at all?

OP has already said: Seasonic PRIME TX-1300

 

[Dorfdad]

Welcome to pc gaming, brush up on how to make an image backup as you will probably need to restore them a few times over the years

 

[SScorpio]

Try bench it with 3DMark

If you get the triangles glitches there as well it's 100% a problematic graphics card.

3D Mark is more for simulating a game, it's possible for a card to pass this while still being unstable.

For stressing a card and testing for glitches, I'd recommend furmark instead. It puts a lot more pressure on the card. It can be the difference of I can game, but get random crashes but I test it and it's fine. To, I stressed it and found a problem.

 

[Knightime_X]

Check nvida control panel.
Are you forcing some graphical extras like frame generation?
If so, is it overkill? No point in aiming for 500fps when your monitor can't even support it.
try to play without dlss and without framegen or tone them down.
Do you have DLAA enabled?
its possible you have a combinations of settings active that are A: causing delibrate conflicts. B: More power than it knows what to do with. (crazy I know) or C: having too much of a good thing is causing artifacts. AB and C are interchangeable. So try to tone everything thats unnecessary down or off.

Go in plain with all features disabled and see how raw horsepower is working.
Some games may have issues with extra features.

 

[Randall365]

How are your temperatures - that could give a clue as when things overheat they do funny things?

It seems counter-intuitive, but this is why I think it is easier to build your own rig - you can swap in bits of the old one to troubleshoot this type of stuff.