Random Black Screens while Gaming

[YellowMenace]

Whenever I play certain games, my computer locks up, screen goes black, lose signal to screen occasionally, screen goes back to normal, game continues.

The games this mostly happens to are Skyrim, Tribes, PlanetSide 2, Fallout New Vegas, LA Noire, and a few others that I can't remeber at the moment.

And there is no flat out crashing, it always comes back.

[PlenumRated]

Try playing the games in a window and run it as administrator.

[nj4ck]

I'm guessing you tried upgrading drivers..? What are your temps? Does GPU-Z give you a VRM reading?

[Volbet]

Is the graphics card overclocked in any way (Even factory overclocks)? If so, scale it back a bit

[Ryan Leech]

Does it do this while running any stress testing software?

[YellowMenace]

Try playing the games in a window and run it as administrator.

Windowed mode on some games brings a whole new bushel of problems and the game do this whether or not it's in admin mode.

I'm guessing you tried upgrading drivers..? What are your temps? Does GPU-Z give you a VRM reading?

Drivers are up to date and the hottest it's been was after a long session of BF3, it reached 70°c and that game has no problems.

Is the graphics card overclocked in any way (Even factory overclocks)? If so, scale it back a bit

Nope, stock 951MHz.

Does it do this while running any stress testing software?

Only in these games in specific.

[Volbet]

Drivers are up to date and the hottest it's been was after a long session of BF3, it reached 70°c and that game has no problems.

Nope, stock 951MHz.

Only in these games in specific.

You can try to do a clean install of the NVidia driver. If you reinstall the driver, you just have to choose ´Custom Install´ and then check the box that says ´Perform Clean Install´ (or something similar).

Other then that, you can try reseating the card in the PCIe slot, but I dounbt this will help, since it's game specific. 

[YellowMenace]

You can try to do a clean install of the NVidia driver. If you reinstall the driver, you just have to choose ´Custom Install´ and then check the box that says ´Perform Clean Install´ (or something similar).

Other then that, you can try reseating the card in the PCIe slot, but I dounbt this will help, since it's game specific.

That's how I always install the drivers. I don't know why, I just do it like that for some reason.

[Volbet]

That's how I always install the drivers. I don't know why, I just do it like that for some reason.

It is also the recommended way to install the drivers- Atleast I recommend it.

 

There is a couple of things that you can still try:

• Try reinstalling the games, if you haven't already
• Try underclocking the GPU with 10-20MHz. It might just be that the silicone is degrade so much, it can't run at full speed anymore.
• Check the and see is the power cables are plugged in securely.