Game looks beautiful, but flickering screen

[vonahisec]

Ever since I played GTA V Online for the first time yesterday on my PC, my screen has been flickering maybe once every 4-5 minutes. It's quite annoying. I'd be in the middle of something and everything will just come to a complete pause for a good 5-10 seconds, and then it'll flicker and everything goes back to normal. It's to the point now to where it happens even outside of the game.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Up until today, I hadn't updated my video driver over the last year just because Nvidia driver updates always broke something. However, today I updated it and it's still happening.

Obviously with issues stemming from the graphics card, the system hiccups every now and again while waiting for the recover itself. I get no errors, just the occasional pause, flicker, and then back to normal.

Few details about my system:

GPU: GeForce GTX 980
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770k CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 16GB
Disk storage: 256GB SSD / 3TB HD / 1TB SSD
Driver version: 365.19
Monitors: 2 28" 4K monitors
OS: Windows 10 Pro

Here's a video of the same thing happening. Leading up to this flicker is about a 4-5 second freeze (can't move mouse, type, nothing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pam2RH8wEQU

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Buck]

I can't see how GTA V has anything directly to do with this, but that looks like a driver crash and recovery. Typically Windows will throw a popup telling you that's what happened though.

Try simply rebooting the PC, reinstall the drivers, or downgrade to the last most recent version.
while you're a it shut any other open programs you don't need.
You can try simply disabling the 2nd monitor to see if that alleviates it too, though I don't expect it will.

[vonahisec]

Originally posted by Buck:

I can't see how GTA V has anything directly to do with this, but that looks like a driver crash and recovery. Typically Windows will throw a popup telling you that's what happened though.

Try simply rebooting the PC, reinstall the drivers, or downgrade to the last most recent version.
while you're a it shut any other open programs you don't need.
You can try simply disabling the 2nd monitor to see if that alleviates it too, though I don't expect it will.

Thanks. Well, once I started playing GTA V yesterday, that's when it started happening. I was running an outdated driver and decided to update it today. I rebooted after updating it and it still happened. Tried going in task manager to see if there were any processes that may have been contributing, but nothing really looked suspicious. Going to keep trying a few random things and see what happens.

[Talkie Toaster]

Have you checked event viewer?

[RaÿTHeoN:]

They aren't by chance the Samsung UD590 4k monitors are they?

The factory displayport cables that come with the monitors have issues change out the displayport cables and this should go away.

[vonahisec]

Originally posted by BuRgLaR:

They aren't by chance the Samsung UD590 4k monitors are they?

The factory displayport cables that come with the monitors have issues change out the displayport cables and this should go away.

They are the ASUS XB280HK monitors. Thanks!

Originally posted by Talky Toaster:

Have you checked event viewer?

Haven't checked it but so far I haven't had the issue as of a few hours ago, and I haven't done anything differently since then. Very strange. I'll check here though once it happens again. Thanks for the suggestion.