Strange grid laid over screen

[Sarnecki.7085]

Hi there!

 

So I'm loving the game, especially since I recently upgraded my rig with a brand new CPU and a 3070. Great FPS, everything on high, good performance.  The one issue is this weird effect I've never seen before...  I describe it as little 1cm cubes, a grid of them laid over my screen, and you can only really tell they're there because the edges have this "Doctor Strange mirror dimension" thing going on.  It's JUST distracting enough to notice it all the time, notably during movement.  It's not to do with Vysnc or anything basic like that, and I tried to take a screenshot and the effect doesn't show. It's also not present during loading screens.

 

I had someone suggest that because I didn't reinstall windows when I got my upgrades maybe it was an old driver issue?  Basically I'm hoping to find someone who knows exactly what this is and what to do before I go and start manually reinstalling drivers and what not. 

[Jukhy.2431]

If you don't see the grid lines in the screenshot the problem is likely with the monitor. One possible solution I found is to check your monitor's settings, if there's option called eg. "alignment grid" then turn that off. At least Asus monitors often have this setting.

Edit: could also be faulty monitor or another solution could be to get the latest drivers for the monitor from the manufacturers website.

Edited March 11 by Jukhy.2431
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[Sarnecki.7085]

It's a Samsung 32-inch television I use as my monitor.  I never had this problem pre-hardware upgrade, so I'm guessing it's PROBABLY not a display issue.  I have absolutely no clue at this point, tho. 

[Chaba.5410]

6 minutes ago, Sarnecki.7085 said:

It's a Samsung 32-inch television I use as my monitor.  I never had this problem pre-hardware upgrade, so I'm guessing it's PROBABLY not a display issue.  I have absolutely no clue at this point, tho. 

A TV?  Like this?

https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/tv/grid-pattern-visible-on-homogeneous-brighter-images/td-p/2820801

Edit: Driving a TV is going to be different for your GPU driver than it would be for a standard computer monitor.  Really, check your driver settings.

Edited March 12 by Chaba.5410

[Healix.5819]

21 hours ago, Sarnecki.7085 said:

I tried to take a screenshot and the effect doesn't show.

Note the screenshot that GW2 saves is not a raw screenshot. Max out the gamma for a sample. You have to print screen and paste the image or use the snipping tool.

22 hours ago, Sarnecki.7085 said:

I had someone suggest that because I didn't reinstall windows when I got my upgrades maybe it was an old driver issue?

If you only changed the CPU, re-installing isn't necessary, but if you changed the motherboard, that changes everything. For the GPU, you should choose to clean install when installing the drivers.

[Sarnecki.7085]

On 3/11/2023 at 11:15 PM, Healix.5819 said:

Note the screenshot that GW2 saves is not a raw screenshot. Max out the gamma for a sample. You have to print screen and paste the image or use the snipping tool.

If you only changed the CPU, re-installing isn't necessary, but if you changed the motherboard, that changes everything. For the GPU, you should choose to clean install when installing the drivers.

I replaced the RAM, CPU, motherboard and GPU.  I had my computer guy do it because I wasn't super comfortable installing a motherboard, and he was able to avoid reinstalling windows and as far as I know, reinstalled the drivers. 

[Rebuke.3176]

I have the same polygon thing going on with my laptop so it's not your graphics card at all.

[Ashantara.8731]

This?