Black Screen When Playing Certain Games

[spoopywook]

I am not sure where to begin, but I will say this:
I have a relatively new PC (about year and a half old or so,) and it is having a litany of issues as of recent.
It is a 2700 cpu, 2070gpu, B450-fMOBO, and a 650W gold rated 80+ PSU, 32bg RAM. I do not overclock anything.

Here is where the issue is interesting --- I can still play games... well, some of them. I can load into Apex, Splitgate, Siege, Ready or Not, etc no problem. However, certain games just make my PC entirely black screen, and the only way to fix it is to fully restart my computer. I have tried logging into event viewer only to be told that (paraphrasing) 'the PC shutdown for an unknown/unexpected reason' and that 'it rebooted without being cleanly shutdown first'.

For example, I played about three hours on the PC port of God of War, absolutely no issues. Then I went to reload a game I have been actively playing for a few hours, and suddenly it crashes on start up every time. Sometimes it crashes ten seconds into loading the game, other times I load into the level and start moving, other times it drops at the menu. GoW isn't the only game this happens with either. For some reason this has happened in the past with Apex Legends, but it doesn't seem to frequent that game as I play it every day with no issues 99% of the time. However, I cannot load into GoW now at all. I have tried updating my drivers, I have tried verifying the install of the game(s)
Other games I have seen the issue with: World War Z, Apex Legends (although this one seems to have resolved itself?), and now God of War. 

So my issue is:
PC black screens --- the lights stay on, my keyboard is lit up, but the monitor will say that there is no connection. I can verify it isn't the cable because I have checked that as well. Additionally, the way the error is occurring would rule that out since it only happens when launching games/loading into some of them. Most importantly its that no commands work so its as if the PC is turned off (although it is clearly running --- fans spinning, RGB lit etc). So if I try to  ctrl + alt + del      nothing happens, same with windows + p and many other commands. It just goes black, and says that there is no media connection. This makes me think the issue would be a GPU problem, but then why can I run all of these other games no issue? Also, why would I be having issues with my GPU on a mostly new GPU that isn't OC'd or had any crazy wear and tear? 


This is strange because just as a test I just loaded into: Halo (new one), Splitgate, Apex, Ender Lillies, Super Meat Boy, and Siege. 
All of these games loaded no issue. However, the moment I go to boot GoW or WWZ it crashes without fail. 
I am at my wits end because I cannot buy games on a gamble that they will work anymore.... particularly since it seems to happen almost randomly in the sense that I played multiple hours of GoW before being met with the issue. Lastly, I have been checking the CPU usage/ Power usage and it is entirely normal. Nothing spiking like crazy, and the heat is well within the high thirties low 40s region....


Please, if anyone has any level of advice I do not know what to do. I have checked a myriad of 'solutions' and haven't found one that fixes the issue, or is something that I have already done....

Edited January 23, 2022 by spoopywook

[bmx6454]

try ddu'ing the drivers, and installing the lastest fresh drivers, might just be a a driver issue/ settings issue. ddu: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

it has to be run in windows safe mode.