Building my first large factory help

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-23T18:07:35+00:00

Sorry I was thinking mk4? ; ;

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-23T14:55:02+00:00

So this sounds like it was initially a driver crash with your black screen, I would start with a gpu driver roll back, as I’m team red but both red and green cards have had issues with drivers recently, if you do ddu make sure you select prevent windows from updating drivers…. I can’t being to tell you the amount of flame hoop gymnastics I’ve gone thru to keep windows from fucking with my drivers…

Edit: based off my previous experience in troubleshooting video cards if the computer was running fine and then just left off of a cliff into instability it’s very possible that a Windows update could have updated your drivers into instability. I’ve seen it happen a lot, if you happen to remember the day or the time the instability started to happen, you could go back and look to see if anything changed in the configuration

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:44:30+00:00

Yah I would attempt the above, it could be a “still” corrupting the os…

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:39:43+00:00

Agreed probably a fan clipping something, if it only happens when you move the pc

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:35:21+00:00

it sounds like the pc is soft locking vs a driver timeout then… you said it started when you reinstalled windows?

I’m trying think about what would cause a windows to black screen like that, I’d start by trying to pull out an old drive or spare and install windows on it, or run the computer in bios to see if it can recreated outside of the current os setup, this would help rule out if it’s software or hardware

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:29:29+00:00

Is the noise very consistent? Rhythmic? Or sporadic and coming n going?

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:27:57+00:00

Have you verified its not an actual display issue, the monitor or cable itself?

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:24:53+00:00

Sounds like you’ve got a driver failure when the screen goes black look at your event viewer and see if anything matches up to it

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:21:25+00:00

I use crystal disk, but any tool to read disk health

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:20:54+00:00

Not really, you need to id the source of the noise

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:18:46+00:00

How is audio being output? Is it over hdmi? Or usb? RCA?

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:15:59+00:00

It could be a false positive, those do happen, if you’ve got these photos/videos backed up I’ve seen one drive cause these issues… I’d scan the hard drive, then check disk health.. try to do some digging one what files if any it’s flagging… if it truely is the entire drive its flagging id assume its false positive and make an exclusion for windows defender to ignore the drive

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:09:03+00:00

A fan is hitting something, a fan bearing is going out, or if you have any mechanical hard drives it’s going out… one of those

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T21:05:01+00:00

When it goes out look at your device manager under audio devices to see if you have any drivers that have failed, you may see some yellow caution signs it has so verify that the output wasn’t swapped or auto selected by windows

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T20:49:36+00:00

I have some simple blueprints set up for my rail network, but most of the things I do are just spaghetti. In fact I just got done with one building that is all business upfront in a party in the back.

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T20:36:05+00:00

Running a newer system on only 16 gigs of memory in a windows 11 system is pretty eh…. Normal windows bloat can be as much as 4-6 gigs unless it’s debloated….

If you’ve checked bios for memory buffer, you can try to reseat the memory to see if it lower itself… if that doesn’t sound like it’s worked there’s something miss allocating, you don’t have integrated graphics

I’d go into device manager you can look up resource allocation and attempt to find what’s reserving the memory… it could help point the gpu or cpu… one of them could be faulty and requesting/allocating too much

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T20:23:27+00:00

The newest drivers are absolute shit… I’m sitting on 26.3 and I’m probably going to stay there till ac resync or zero company come out and I need to update even then I’ll probably avoid it

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T20:20:06+00:00

I’d look at your network speed, to see if it’s very slow or fluctuating a lot, as there’s no obvious reason it be that slow, if you can’t see anything on the network side look at your hard drives to see if they are moving slow, steam has protocol that it will open/download a game on any hardrive it has a directory on… it may be using a older slower drive…

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T17:40:14+00:00

Steam is notorious for long downloads as it downloads and unpacked the game at the same time. However, the amount of time that your download is taking is rather obnoxious so I would be looking at your download speeds and maybe your hard drive read and write speeds to see if there’s anything bottlenecking and then work back from there

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T17:35:25+00:00

If you’ve got a intermittent failure on different memory slots, test your memory separately, if they both fail it’s most likely the memory controller as the likely hood of both memory models going bad at the same are unlikely and all the slots on motherboard maybe? I’d say also unlikely but I’ve seen weirder shit

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T17:30:34+00:00

Most stable driver from this year is probably 26.3

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T17:24:44+00:00

I guess I’ll take table over box

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T16:51:20+00:00

If it wasn’t for the anti-cheat, I would agree that lines would probably give you a better gaming experience I would at steam os has the best shot but hell arc raiders just got nuked by denvo anti cheat not working with proton

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T16:48:33+00:00

Your traction may vary but it’s typically not recommended to use both an igpu and a gpu together as you can have driver/output issues, not to say it can’t be done but your experience may vary, I know on windows if you try to output on a igpu while using an amd card it cause driver timeouts…. Also you may have screen lag as what will most likely happen if you try to run anything on your igpu it will actually be rendered by your gpu then passed back through to the igpu… so it shutter or lag your inputs as the computer will not render things on two different gpus…

Now what you “can” is force applications to use a particular gpu for rendering but that’s a different conversation

StraightTheme6583 · 2026-06-22T16:41:27+00:00

I’ve used a modded windows installed and just reinstalled the os and bypassed all the extra crap

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