GTX 980 having issues

[KrayKaz]

Recently I have been experiencing a problem with my system in relation to graphics. I have been getting the "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped working and has successfully recovered." 

However, this is not true. While playing games, my screens (dual monitor setup at 1080 res) will go black and my monitors will enter a state that implies I do not have anything plugged in to them. At the same time, the system is running normally as I can still hear people talking / I can talk to people in discord, my game sounds is running as if nothing happened, and I can even play the game with input controls, but I don't have a picture.... I have to force restart my system everything works again. Checking the event viewer in windows, I get a double event of the same thing stating the above message, but as I also said, this isn't the case. 

I have my Precision XOC running, and when the event occurs, nothing is happening on there that is telling me my card is starting to / has freaked out. 

I have installed several different drivers using the DDU software to remove old drivers cleanly and in safe mode. I have physically gone in after the DDU and removed anything left over that the DDU program does not get. 

But this issue keeps happening everyday / every time I play. It mostly happens when I am playing Guild Wars 2 (not an overly demanding game in terms of graphics), it has happened a few times during Rocket League games (usually the screen just flashes, the sound gets all crazy for a min and the drivers actually do recover and the screen returns), and in CSGO, I get an insane amount of frame instability for a short bit before it levels itself out (the same in other similarly engined games).

At this point I am at a loss for how to fix this issue aside from either buying a new card or reinstalling Windows.

I am open to suggestions at this point.