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What a day

Yesterday, what started out as a day off from my usual tasks to test local image generation models (which ended up working just fine, qwen image generation only takes roughly 1.5 minutes per image on my gpu to create quite stunning artwork, at least when Claude prompts it), to figuring out what exactly was my issue with the GPU.

Thing is, I've tried figuring out the issue in the past, downloaded a bunch of GPU benchmarking tools and other software to test it in the past when I had weird game crashes on games that'd require a lot of GPU process such as Cyberpunk and/or GTA5 remastered. It kind of put me off for a while as I wasn't able to record those gameplays or stream properly because even with less resource intensive games there'd be these weird artifacts popping up and sometimes some weird linebreaks from certain models in games that'd end up making it unplayable.

Either way, Claude figured out what exactly was wrong last night as I mentioned in the post and figured out a fix for all software, so in the near future I'll be retrying those games to see if they stop crashing/bugging out which will make it easier for me to stream reliably in the future.

Unfortunately it's been over 3 years since I've purchased the GPU, but some people in the reddit thread mentioned that this is a hidden fault so maybe I can still check if they'd be able to replace it.

Anyway, the reddit post did quite well and was top of reddit's hot section for a while there on the official claude subreddit, so that was quite exciting.

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Some there also asked me to place the guard on github so others with similar issues could test it out, and according to comments there were a few who saw the post and had similar issues.

https://github.com/Holozing1/vram-guard

Think this is my first public repo with stars on it, yay!

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Claude seems quite good with these kind of things, only wish I had had it test my hardware a bit sooner before the warranty expired. At current markets with prices for GPU/RAM soaring, I won't be thinking about buying something new anytime soon, so hopefully this is something that came broken and has stayed limited rather than degrading further over time. If anything I'll be able to know now if it's becoming worse.

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