New 9070 XT is failing; white blocks appear during use.
New 9070 XT is failing; white blocks appear during use.
Hello everyone, I recently assembled four new PCs for myself and my friends. They all match in specifications. My machine is just a day old. While playing Helldivers 2, I noticed white blocks randomly appearing on the screen. Everything remains stock, and I haven’t changed EXPO or adjusted any other settings except the AIO fan speed. I’ve attached a video and a screenshot showing the temperatures of the CPU and GPU, which were running quietly in the background. So far, this is my only issue... Is my GPU failing or is there another cause? I’m completely unsure where to start. Here are the full specs: 9800X3D Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 Pro RGB Powercolor 9070XT Red Devil MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk Max Wifi 32 GB Lexar DDR5 6000 CL30 NZXT C1000 Gold ATX3.1 O11 Dynamic with 6x Arctic P12 fans Kingston NV3 2TB SSD. It’s also a clean Windows 11 installation. Thank you in advance for your help! White blocks.mp4
I used the OCbase benchmark tool. It checked the GPU and VRAM but didn’t detect any problems. Your card appears to heat up more during Helldivers 2 than when running the benchmark, possibly related to that. I’ll continue testing games and share an update later.
It seems there’s a problem with the GPU drivers. A new game, especially one less than a year old, can cause graphical glitches like this. This only happened once with Dirt 3—its gold shade turned bright red incorrectly. Updating the drivers resolved it, but I haven’t seen it again. You mentioned building four identical systems, and yours is the only one affected. It might be worth testing other builds that support the 9070XT, such as versions 25.3.1 and 25.4.1. Running one of those could help, even if it doesn’t fix the issue, since drivers remain a likely cause.
I'm really sorry for the delayed response, everyone. I kept hoping to wait for some driver updates but everything stays the same. Even after completely reinstalling the game, the problem persists. I've played a few games now, but it's only in Helldivers 2 that I'm experiencing this issue—it seems to be the most challenging to run and uses the most GPU power. Benchmarking tools didn<|pad|> to not help either. I'm not sure what else to try to resolve this.