Yesterday, right before I started my gaming session, my windows automatically updated and after that I tried to play games. However, when I launched rocket league I got rainbow colored screen tears across my screen and every 3 seconds my screen would go black for a moment and then return to normal. The black screen flickering occured in GTA V as well; also, it is both of my monitors that are flickering. I then thought it was the automatic windows update that was causing the issues, so I uninstalled the updates, but then that caused major issues with booting up and restarting, so I completely reformatted/reset windows. This fixed the restarting freezing/issues, but did not make any difference to the flickering. I then used DDU to remove the old drivers and installed brand new drivers - this didn't fix it either. I also dusted my pc and that did not fix it either. I'm not overclocked or anything. I ran a benchmark on unigne valley and somehow did not notice any issues. Is my gpu dying? How could a 4 yr old GPU die so quick?? Pls help.
I built the PC in 2016:
System
CPU
I7 6700K
Motherboard
ASUS PRIME Z270-A
RAM
GSKILL RIPJAWS V DDR4 16GB 3000MHZ
GPU
MSI GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G
Case
NZXT S340 RED
Storage
WD 1TB BLUE AND SAMSUNG EVO 250GB SSD
PSU
EVGA 650W GQ
Display(s)
LG 25UM58-P ULTRAWIDE and LG 29UMP58-P ULTRAWIDE
Cooling
CORSAIR H100I GTX
Keyboard
CORSAIR K70
Mouse
LOGITECH G502
Sound
ASTRO A40
Operating System
Windows 10 PRO