Recently, while playing Overwatch, my screen suddenly started flickering for a few seconds and then crashed (froze briefly then went the Windows 10 crash screen with the big sad face) to so that I was forced to hard-power down an restart. When I restarted Overwatch and got back into a game, it was fine for a few seconds and then flickered similarly to how it did before, but it didn't crash. After a couple seconds of this flickering, it stopped, but the screen had been shifted horizontally 50% so that the right and left edges of the screen were now in the center. It stayed that way until I finished the game, closed the program, and was then still continuing at the desktop. I restarted my computer and the screen shift was gone.
After that, whenever I tried to open Overwatch, I'd get a few seconds into the main screen, then I'd get the same graphical flickering followed either by an immediate crash, or a brief period where it would run with the screen shifted shortly followed by a crash. After that, I just stopped playing Overwatch and instead shifted to League of Legends for a few days. However the issue eventually started happening when playing this game, and then just today, my computer took 3 or 4 tries to boot up, with most of those boot attempts plagued by the same graphical issues before a crash.
I've since updated my video drivers through the AMD Radeon Settings program, but that is about the only thing I've thought of doing. There was an error message on the crash screen that I didn't note exactly at the time, but it was something referring to an error in a device driver thread, or something like that. I'm going to try to get that screen again and see what information I can pull from it.
After that, whenever I tried to open Overwatch, I'd get a few seconds into the main screen, then I'd get the same graphical flickering followed either by an immediate crash, or a brief period where it would run with the screen shifted shortly followed by a crash. After that, I just stopped playing Overwatch and instead shifted to League of Legends for a few days. However the issue eventually started happening when playing this game, and then just today, my computer took 3 or 4 tries to boot up, with most of those boot attempts plagued by the same graphical issues before a crash.
I've since updated my video drivers through the AMD Radeon Settings program, but that is about the only thing I've thought of doing. There was an error message on the crash screen that I didn't note exactly at the time, but it was something referring to an error in a device driver thread, or something like that. I'm going to try to get that screen again and see what information I can pull from it.
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