I've spent a good amount of time trying to solve this problem, but unfortunately to no avail. Here's to hoping you wonderful people can help me out!
The issue is that, when I play certain games, they just absolutely freak out and crash. What'll happen is that I'll be playing, and suddenly everything on the screen will stretch and distort, while the sound makes that really loud stuttering that I can only assume is a sound being repeated over and over again. The game crashes, and when I get back o the desktop, Steam is messed up. If I have a chatbox open, all the test flashes green and pink, and the main store page is all messed up, with everything out of place and flashing. I usually can't open other programs, as they crash when I try. The only way to fix it is restarting my computer, and it goes back to normal.
The odd thing about this is the lack of consistency of this error. It can happen immediately, or an hour into playing. The issue happens extremely rarely in Skyrim (Graphics maxed), but I got it frequently when playing Terraria full-screen in multiplayer. Just to be safe, however, I'll list the games that I can remember having this issue with, and how frequently it would cause it to crash.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: even at lowest settings, I can't get through a single multiplayer map without it crashing.
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine: Varying lengths of time it takes to crash.
Just Cause 2: VERY inconsistent. Sometimes over an hour of play, sometimes immediately.
ESO: Tamriel Unlimited: Also inconsistent. I've played for hours, and other times I've logged in to crash immediately. Changing graphics settings didn't change anything.
Metro: Last Light: Surprisingly, takes a significant amount of time before crashing, most of the time.
Skyrim: Almost never suffers this crash.
Batman: Arkham Origins: Almost never suffers this crash.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Takes a significant amount of time to crash.
Mass Effect 2: Don't know if I've ever had this crash.
So, those are the examples that came to mind, but there are other games. If need be, I'll create a fuller list.
Now, I've run a lot of tests already, with no results. My driver is updated, Memtest showed no errors with four passes, Graphics is not overheating (GPU never gets over 75C), and Windows is updated.
My card is fully capable of running these games smoothly, even after I underclocked it back to the original card's settings. (It was factory overclocked.)
Here's my specs from Speccy
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/VKj13kh7dWhn670l1pkOW3l
Any ideas? Any help is appreciated. Thanks for reading!
The issue is that, when I play certain games, they just absolutely freak out and crash. What'll happen is that I'll be playing, and suddenly everything on the screen will stretch and distort, while the sound makes that really loud stuttering that I can only assume is a sound being repeated over and over again. The game crashes, and when I get back o the desktop, Steam is messed up. If I have a chatbox open, all the test flashes green and pink, and the main store page is all messed up, with everything out of place and flashing. I usually can't open other programs, as they crash when I try. The only way to fix it is restarting my computer, and it goes back to normal.
The odd thing about this is the lack of consistency of this error. It can happen immediately, or an hour into playing. The issue happens extremely rarely in Skyrim (Graphics maxed), but I got it frequently when playing Terraria full-screen in multiplayer. Just to be safe, however, I'll list the games that I can remember having this issue with, and how frequently it would cause it to crash.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: even at lowest settings, I can't get through a single multiplayer map without it crashing.
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine: Varying lengths of time it takes to crash.
Just Cause 2: VERY inconsistent. Sometimes over an hour of play, sometimes immediately.
ESO: Tamriel Unlimited: Also inconsistent. I've played for hours, and other times I've logged in to crash immediately. Changing graphics settings didn't change anything.
Metro: Last Light: Surprisingly, takes a significant amount of time before crashing, most of the time.
Skyrim: Almost never suffers this crash.
Batman: Arkham Origins: Almost never suffers this crash.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Takes a significant amount of time to crash.
Mass Effect 2: Don't know if I've ever had this crash.
So, those are the examples that came to mind, but there are other games. If need be, I'll create a fuller list.
Now, I've run a lot of tests already, with no results. My driver is updated, Memtest showed no errors with four passes, Graphics is not overheating (GPU never gets over 75C), and Windows is updated.
My card is fully capable of running these games smoothly, even after I underclocked it back to the original card's settings. (It was factory overclocked.)
Here's my specs from Speccy
http://speccy.piriform.com/results/VKj13kh7dWhn670l1pkOW3l
Any ideas? Any help is appreciated. Thanks for reading!