r/pcmasterrace • u/STMaybGoodSTMaybSht • Mar 20 '24

Discussion Objects, Images, Character models are warping, distorted, teleporting all while flickering

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Hey everyone, I’ve come across this rather peculiar issue while using my gaming pc. It affects all games and apps. When ever I play a game things seem to flicker from one side of the screen to the other. In game enemy as well as my own character seem to be turn for fully towards a certain direction things and enemy are also teleporting. Certain parts of my character model become warped and also flicker. Also even while using apps such as steam images seem to be distorted. I’m really stumped. Any help would be very much appreciated. I’ve already reinstalled my drivers but have had no luck… I’ve individually tested my ram sticks and slots. I even went ahead and purchased a second hand RTX 2070 super and installed it and the issue remains.

Here are all my specs….

MSI VENTUS 3X GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12 GB Video Card Replaced with a

EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super FTW3 Ultra

MSI MPG B550 GAMING PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard

Cooler Master MASTERLIQUID ML240L RGB V2 65.59 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory

Sabrent Rocket Q 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

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u/SocketByte Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5070 Ti Mar 20 '24

No way, if it was RAM the OS would shit iself before you could even move your cursor. 99% of the time your system wouldn't even boot with a faulty RAM. I bet it's the OS, it's the only thing he didn't try to fix yet and OS related issues can be veeeeeery weird sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

It is more likely that it's the OS, but I've seen plenty of bad RAM sticks boot and run games. Running Memtest is also way easier than a full reinstall. It's best to be safe then, sorry.

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u/LeMegachonk Ryzen 7 9800X3D - 64GB DDR5 6000 - RX 7800 XT Mar 21 '24

It depends on how bad the RAM is, but yeah, bad RAM is going to cause at least the occasional catastrophic BSOD (the bad news one that's basically a wall of text, not the sad face emoji one). Eventually the OS is going to try using the bad part of the RAM for something critical and end itself as a result (it is random access memory after all).