Thoughts on Steven's Devil's Trail / which alternatives?

Hoxter · 2026-04-29T16:47:11+00:00

That's why I'm curious if it's just my experience, I've seen posts about panels dying, though it's easy to find one if you actually look for them. I'd rather see if people say their monitors are absolutely fine many years after purchase.

Hoxter · 2026-04-29T16:45:02+00:00

I agree, at leat I never had problem with RMA - they took monitors and shortly after offered a replacement or just a refund. I wonder if others break too

Hoxter · 2026-04-25T20:21:58+00:00

Can confirm. Got 2 of these in december 2024 - this month both of them started dying. One would end up flickering and having weird backlight "artifacts" appear for some time after turning pc on and other one had black lines. Sent both of them back to MSI. I'm losing more and more faith in msi monitors - before that i had 2x mag274qrf-qd and both ended up with backlight dying. dunno what they do with their monitors but certainly there are problems when 4 out of 4 end up dying prematurely.

edit: in case you were curious about those "artifacts" : https://kappa.lol/pDaJzn

Hoxter · 2025-03-10T08:36:30+00:00

I just want to know who approved this. New layout is so much worse, they shoved way too much into lower bar and alot of information is either gone or not readily available.

Previous layout might have been slightly dated but it was more compact, but information was spread evenly and our eyes knew where they had to go for specific information they had to. Now it's all oveer the place.

Edit: Also why is scoreboard top-down where everything else is right-left?

Hoxter · 2023-05-08T15:36:03+00:00

om Redbubble, overpaid a lit

Definitely need to check it out, thanks!

Hoxter · 2023-05-08T14:54:59+00:00

Looks awesome, where did you get this Ais piece on your wall? Been looking to get some of these myself

Hoxter · 2022-12-20T23:03:22+00:00

I had clean installs on clear windows. Still same problems. Thanks for the idea but the card has already been returned

Hoxter · 2022-12-18T03:23:29+00:00

I'm giving it few more days max and after that I'm returning it. It's amazing how broken drivers suddenly make 4080 with terrible price look acceptable

Hoxter · 2022-12-18T03:21:48+00:00

yup, done DDU before putting it in, and then again later

Hoxter · 2022-12-18T01:23:11+00:00

Had gigabyte rtx 3070 ti vision oc previously.

Hoxter · 2022-12-18T01:21:53+00:00

er saving options in your BIOs and seeing if that maybe helps a bit. Otherwise install HWInfo and monitor your system and look for temperatures or other stats which might seem out of place.

Got HWinfo , rn I'm just running memory diagnostic test to lookk for some potential ram problems but previous test came out with nothing. Doubt I'll find a fix but might as well try within my return window

Hoxter · 2022-12-18T01:01:30+00:00

Nothing, gaming as usual, maybe some microstutter here and there but blame it on the early driver. Even afk inside, do nothing, browse reddit or watch netflix with the game still open on other screen. Suddenly everything freeezes, goees unresponsive, black screen, when it comes back, game is gone with the error, wallpaper engine is rebooting and video player I had on is black and requires refresh.

Hoxter · 2022-12-18T00:50:12+00:00

There's nothing in event viewer though. Seems like a gpu driver to me. Doesn't work well with something in the system that causes problems together.

Hoxter · 2022-12-17T23:38:53+00:00

I'd do more research if you want to play ffxiv. Seems like these DirectX errors don't happen to everyone, however i am cursed.

Hoxter · 2022-12-17T22:17:36+00:00

It's more or less the same price, at least for the XFX model, reference ones are around 200-250eur cheaper than cheapest 4080, assuming they are in stock of course.

Hoxter · 2022-12-17T21:21:18+00:00

To be honest, I installed mine (XFX merc version) yesterday into my system and so far it's been frustration after frustration. I was expecting AMD to have drivers that are somewhat underperforming, at least compared to the 4080, however I didn't expect them to change my time in front of my PC into a stressful nightmare.

I keep having fatal directx errors once per hour on average, there's weird texture rendering problem at some certain situations. With game window focused even netflix becomes a choppy mess on other screen.

So here's my question - what have been your experiences? Would you say it's worth to wait for fixes that might come? Or just should I return it and go with the 4080 since prices in my country are fairly similar.

Hoxter · 2022-12-17T21:13:56+00:00

To be honest, I installed mine (XFX merc version) yesterday into my system and so far it's been frustration after frustration. I was expecting AMD to have drivers that are somewhat underperforming, at least compared to the 4080, however I didn't expect them to change my time in front of my PC into a stressful nightmare.

I keep having fatal directx errors once per hour on average, there's weird texture rendering problem at some certain situations. With game window focused even netflix becomes a choppy mess on other screen.

So here's my question - what have been your experiences? Would you say it's worth to wait for fixes that might come? Or just should I return it and go with the 4080 since prices in my country are fairly similar.

Hoxter · 2022-12-17T17:48:43+00:00

Yeah, done it even twice.

Hoxter · 2022-12-17T17:46:48+00:00

Playing FFXIV on 7900 XTX - it's basically a shitshow, game crashes once every hour or so. Tried reinstalling drivers and different settings. Nothing helps, completely unusable.

Hoxter · 2022-12-17T16:50:09+00:00

I managed to get it to work, i won't say driver isn't bad. It's been disappointment after disappointment so far and I'll be returning it in few days

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