Display issues when gaming

[miniclausen1995]

I have suddenly experienced that my screen goes black when playing Fortnite or World of Warcraft. Sound is still running in the background, however once the screen has gone black, it wont come back before I restart the PC. This doesn't happen all the time, and seems unpredictable.

After the screen goes black the computer makes a sound as if a USB is being disconnected, however no USB devices seems to power off. I can still talk to someone on Discord after it has happened.

No changed were made to the computer before it happened first. After the first instance I updated my GPU driver but the problem remained

These are my specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
8 GB RAM
GeForce GTX 960 2GB RAM

 

[JalYt_Justin]

Sounds like you might have a dying GPU then. Do some GPU stress testing using Cinbench or AIDA64 or any other benching software and see if it the screen goes black during the tests. If it does then it's very likely that you have a failing GPU.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Are you overclocking? If so bring the GPU back to factory settings.

You may have a corrupted driver. Even though you updated the drivers, some of the drivers stay in your PC. Use this DDU tool to remove all of the old drivers and do a clean install of the current drivers for the 960.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

[rgd1101]

What your psu make and model?

 

[miniclausen1995]

I am not overclocking no.

I will try and run a benchmark

 

[miniclausen1995]

What your psu make and model?

My power supply is this
FSP 500W 80 Plus Bronze ATX 12V PC Power Supply

 

[miniclausen1995]

Sounds like you might have a dying GPU then. Do some GPU stress testing using Cinbench or AIDA64 or any other benching software and see if it the screen goes black during the tests. If it does then it's very likely that you have a failing GPU.

I just ran the test GPGPU using AIDA64 and CINEBENCH with no problems. But could that be related to that is doesn't happen every time when playing other games either?