Display Driver Crashes Using 352.86 and 353.06

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Hi, I have a problem where some games (including Witcher 3) crash with a black screen using 352.86 and 353.06 driver and the only thing that shows up and functions is the taskbar. It always shows that the game is still running and if i try to open task manager to close the game and get rid of the black screen, the task manager in the taskbar shows up but the black screen covers it in the actual desktop so I can't use it. In the end i'm always forced to restart my computer to restore everything to normal. Sometimes I just get a frozen screen and then I could just alt+F4 back to desktop without having to restart, but without getting any errors. I also get "display driver crashed and has recovered" errors while watching Twitch on Google Chrome. I would try to reroll drivers but the thing is, I actually want to play the Witcher 3 and unfortunately these are the only 2 drivers that runs the game well. I always monitor temperatures and keep everything up to date so don't bother asking. Nothing is overclocked besides the CPU, but it has been overclocked for a very long time without any issues until recently, no temperature problems either. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver using Display Driver Uninstaller several times and it didn't help. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this or is getting a similar issue?


current rig
i7 3770k @4.2ghz
MSI Z77a GD65 motherboard
gtx 980 4gb
Corsair Vengeance 8gb memory
Corsair TX850w PSU
 
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Well, it's not just the game thats crashing. Chrome crashes too and on top of that, the older drivers before these two give me pretty awful performance for most games.
 
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I don't recall ever crashing with any other driver besides these two. Everything was smooth sailing until the following happened to me.....
Just a few days ago I ran into a problem right after I exited witcher3 because I pressed the default buttom on EVGA precision X and all of the sudden, the screen went black and said "signal out of range, please revert back to default resolution" so I was forced to use my friend's monitor to try and set it back to normal resolution, which fixed it, but I accidentally pressed that default button again then I was forced to use my TV which didn't have my monitor's resolution so I tried uninstalling display driver and that's what caused a heap of trouble because the driver refused to uninstall even after using Display Driver Uninstaller software. I then had to do a system restore and then I reinstalled drivers and used DDU again and it worked. The following day I also got a display driver crash randomly when I was watching a Twitch video while running a scan and that was the first time in a long time that I have ever had this display driver crash error "display driver crashed and has recovered".

Funny enough I actually got a display driver crash as I was typing this to you right now lol
 
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I found this post talking about crashing with the same two drivers
http://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/381ef5/35306_is_still_giving_me_crashes_when_using/
 
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I do not own another graphics card. Is there a way to reinstall windows without losing all my files? maybe from that incident that I described above, that one display driver uninstall probably didn't uninstall correctly leaving some files behind. I used DDU to uninstall then reinstall the driver a few times after that, but there may still be some files that are causing the problem.
 
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