Weird Precision X16 & GeForce Experience problems

[Ryan Kazzy]

So I have an EVGA gtx 970 ftw and I used EVGA Precision X16 5.3.11 and I was trying to overclock my GPU, power target at 110%, GPU Clock Offset at +100 MHz, Mem Clock Offset +400 and voltage is untouched, some games it works fine but I was Playing Wolfenstein (Luke's tweet made me want to play it again haha) and my screen went like a military green and then the game crashed, so I went to check my Precision x and this appeared...

 

I restarted my PC and it went back to normal but then I checked the GeForce Experience and it showed this *note I wasnt able to get a pic of my PC doing it but this is close*

 

Just replace the things with GeForce 970 Ftw, Intel Core i5 4670 3.4Ghz, 16Gb Ram and Windows 10 64 bit.

 

I fixed the nvidia geforce experience by checking for a driver update, saw that tip on a forum post, but idk if its a sign of something else wrong with my pc...

 

Anyone know if I need to remove and re install my Nvidia Drivers or could this be a hardware issue?

[Enderman]

it might be an OS issue if you upgraded to windows 10 instead of doing a clean install

 

otherwise its probably just an unstable GPU

[MMKing]

I suspect the voltage setting is too low. Increase it and try again.

 

If not, the usual. Uninstall drivers and reinstall them, use the repair tool on the game in steam and try to run it at stock settings.

[Ryan Kazzy]

*EDIT: so I turned on my PC this morning and precision x still lookes like the above picture, even after turning it off and on again...*

 

@Enderman Yeah I got windows 10 two months after microsoft offered it for free, it replaced my windows 8.1 OS. I have done some overclocking on my GPU before, heard someone managed to get a 970 like mine to 1550 MHz and I wanted to see how close I could get, in unigine Heaven I was able to run my gpu overclocked at 1540 for a full half hour, went into a game and my GPU instantly crashed, dialed it back to an overclock that always ran great for me and it was having trouble playing games at that setting too, idk if all this is a side effect of that but hopefully its just the drivers needing to be re installed like @MMKing said.

[Ryan Kazzy]

So I reinstalled my drivers and the precision x16 and I overclocked, it went fine, but then a small glitch happened, both my screens went black for a second but the game didnt crash, my Precisionx16 returned to the same way as in the picture above, should I just use msi afterburner?