Hi, I have a massive problem that is stopping me from playing the games that I used to. I've tried most things that I could find on the internet and still nothing is working.
So my problem is that when I play games literally any game on a full screen my game will work fine for the first few minutes of playing and then suddenly both of my monitors will start turining on/off / flickering black in kind of weird intervals every few second one monitor will go off and then the other one a sec after and constantly until I turn the game off. What is weird is that it makes a sound as if something is disconecting and connecting back in because it makes the annoying windows sounds.
So far I have tried games like fallout 4, diablo 3, fortnite, cs:go and many others and the problem appears on all of them. What is weird - I can play league of legends normally without this problem but that's the only game that seems to be working.
What is also weird is that I never had that problem few months ago, I did not change anything in my setup, all my drivers are updated, same cables eveything and one day suddenly it started going crazy. I opened my pc and cleaned it properly, everything seems to be working fine and as it was when the games were working so I don't know what the problem is.
Things I tried:
TLDR:
Both my monitors flicker on and off after a certain amount of time, only when playing certain games. It doesn't do it when I am browsing the internet etc. Cables seem to be fine and all the drivers are updated.
So my problem is that when I play games literally any game on a full screen my game will work fine for the first few minutes of playing and then suddenly both of my monitors will start turining on/off / flickering black in kind of weird intervals every few second one monitor will go off and then the other one a sec after and constantly until I turn the game off. What is weird is that it makes a sound as if something is disconecting and connecting back in because it makes the annoying windows sounds.
So far I have tried games like fallout 4, diablo 3, fortnite, cs:go and many others and the problem appears on all of them. What is weird - I can play league of legends normally without this problem but that's the only game that seems to be working.
What is also weird is that I never had that problem few months ago, I did not change anything in my setup, all my drivers are updated, same cables eveything and one day suddenly it started going crazy. I opened my pc and cleaned it properly, everything seems to be working fine and as it was when the games were working so I don't know what the problem is.
Things I tried:
- Formatted my pc completely and installed everything back again
- Tried all the possible nvidia settings solutions that I could find
- All the drivers are updated, even tried going back to older versions of them and still not working
- All the cables are correctly plugged in
- Tried all the games in windowed mode and still the same thing
- my main monitor is a SAMSUNG SMS22A100 which is connected through a DVI to VGA (?) pretty sure
- my second monitor is a ACER S220HQL which is connected from DVI (the blue one) to HDMI
- I'm using GeForce GTX 960 everything updated
- windows 10
TLDR:
Both my monitors flicker on and off after a certain amount of time, only when playing certain games. It doesn't do it when I am browsing the internet etc. Cables seem to be fine and all the drivers are updated.