Display Driver Stopped Responding and has Recovered in Windows 8.1

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TzarPlatypus

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I am having this error pop up in windows 8.1. The screen will flicker for a moment then this will pop up. It seems to happen regardless of what i am doing. Browsing the internet or gaming. It either happens very rarely or can happen several times in a 10 minute period. The video card i am using is a MSI GTX780 Twin frozr oc. I got it off of ebay. I have the Serial number but it had been RMA'd previously and i don't have the old RMA number. I don't know if that means i can't RMA it or not. I have tried installing different drivers for the video card. First i tried the Driver that came off the disk and then i tried the the most recent driver from the NVidia experience program. I may be mistaken but the basic non Nvidia windows driver seems to not have the driver fail issue. The temperature of the card never goes over 40 C. I haven't overclocked it but if i understand correctly this card is factory overclocked. TL;DR Driver not work help me smart persons (caveman talk).

Update: Problem has gotten worse now had a blue screen of death. Tested 2 games skyrim and Brothers tales of two sons, both had flicker issues. Blue screen was on skyrim. Please Help I need to know if i have to RMA the Card.

Update2: I did find the old RMA info so RMA is an Option now for sure.
 
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Same thing happens to me. This is so frustrating I have to keep myself from smashing my keyboard. I spent a ton of money for an i7-4770K, R9 280X and 16GB TridentX memory to be able to play some of my favorite (EXTREMELY OLD) games like Skyrim and GTA IV at ultra high settings, finally. And now these old games keep crashing!

It's just random CTDs, hang-ups and crashes. In Skyrim it happens quite often when I open the world map. Sometimes I can play for 2 hours before it happens, but just a few minutes ago it happened after SECONDS. If I'm fast enough back on the desktop, I can see the notification in the lower right corner "display driver stopped responding and has recovered", but sometimes, more seldom, it is "application was...