Graphics Issues and Whole Comp. Seizing

[Kitsuni]

A couple weeks ago I started playing Arma3 again, I don't remember if I noticed the artifacts then but a day or so after I started I updated to latest Nvidia drivers. After, I noticed a LOT of black and white flickering artifacts, not huge ones but like small clusters of pixels and a lot of them. It only happens some of the time and areas like dense forest and on some objects like trees and clouds. Changing the settings haven't helped at all. Then I noticed it in runescape, but only in the games cutscenes. Another issue is Black Desert Online will now randomly make my entire computer seize up. No ctd, no bsod, just completely freeze the monitors. If I have a youtube video playing on the other screen the audio will keep going up to how far the buffer was then it will stop as well, can't move the mouse or anything and have to hard reset. Then on the other hand Skyrim SE has both the flickering artifacts and comp seize (which had zero issues before).

I figured at first oh it's the driver. So I updated it again as soon as the next one was out. Didn't fix. Then I rolled back to the one I had previously before I went to Arma3 (372.70) and the issues remain. I tried nuking it from my system and reinstalling, that too did not help.

It's not overheating, it's factory overclocked. I've tried looking to see if anyone else has my exact issues and I can't find anything, though my googlefu isn't the greatest.

(I'm extremely tired while typing this so please excuse any incoherent rambling...)

Update: Tried nuking driver again with guru3d's DDU in safe mode. Still getting some artifacting but not as bad so far and I haven't crashed 'yet'...

 

The card is an ASUS GTX780 DirectCUIIoc.

Edited December 11, 2016 by Kitsuni

[BryceAC]

You could try completely uninstalling the drivers and applications for your card and try starting from scratch.

[Kitsuni]

Just now, BryceAC said:

You could try completely uninstalling the drivers and applications for your card and try starting from scratch.

I did, that's what I meant by 'nuking it'.

[BryceAC]

Just now, Kitsuni said:

I did, that's what I meant by 'nuking it'.

Ah my apologies..

If you have another system, try putting the GPU in that to see if the issue reoccurs, or if you have another GPU lying around, install that to determine the it's definitely the card that's faulty.

Not sure what else you could try. 

Good luck.

[Kitsuni]

Yeah I do have an old gtx570 lying around but not another system to try the 780 in.