Black Screen, GPU Fan 100% When Playing Games

Hey all,

I have had an issue for the last few months, specifically when trying to play Rocket League, where between 5-20 minutes into playing, both of my monitors will go black and my GPU fan will kick to 100%. I can't remember if this coincided with any NVIDIA driver updates, but any subsequent updates have not helped. I am currently running the latest NVIDIA driver version (441.66).

Here are some of the troubleshooting steps that I have taken for this:

• RAM
• Ran Memtest64 overnight, ensuring that 100% RAM utilization. No errors were returned.
• Reseated the RAM, blowing out the slots to ensure no blockages.
• Tested different memory slots on the board.
• Swapped out RAM with new RAM from Microcenter, no improvements.
• RAM was originally OC'd to 3200 MHz via XMP. I turned this off and the RAM is running at stock speeds listed above.
• BIOS
• Updated BIOS to the latest version
• Performed a Clean Boot and attempted to play. Game still crashed out within the first match or so.
• GPU
• Updated all drivers
• Updated drivers, including a complete DDU uninstall/reinstall.
• Swapped power cables from the PSU
• Moved GPU to lower PCI-E slot
• Reseated the GPU, blowing out the slot after reseating
• Deleted the video driver from Control Panel
• Storage
• Ran chkdsk with no errors
• Ran defragmentation on the HDD and Trim on the SSDs
• Ran sfc /scannow with no issues
• Game Files
• Ran validator on game files (as a note here, after one crash, I ran the validator and it corrected one file. However, I played a game immediately after and crashed. Running the validator after that crash had no files fixed)
• Installed the game on all three storage devices

I have attached the BSOD logs. Please assist!

Hello and welcome to TenForums

Have you tried going back to an earlier graphics driver rather than a newer one?

Thanks! And not yet. I can see where I can get those older drivers on NVIDIA. Any recommendation where to start or should I just start with the oldest?

My concern also is I play modern titles and I'm afraid rolling back will impact performance of those.

I have the impression that more and more people have problems with the latest NVIDIA (blue screen) drivers. Maybe it is worth reporting it to NVIDIA even on their forum?

Maybe. I have emailed NVIDIA's bug reporting to let them know that it has been happening at least for their latest drivers, as I have updated my drivers regularly as new releases came out.

At this point, should I be confident that it is a driver problem? I would hate to keep going through the trouble of swapping hardware.

I downgraded to 430.86 last night and had the same problem think I should keep trying each driver that is available?

That was the first thing that I replaced. I had a GTX 1080 Classified that was showing the same symptoms, but much more widespread across multiple games. I RMA'd it a few months ago and have only now had the problem in Rocket League.