Games crashing to desktop

[Aaronz0r]

Hey guys,

I'm having an unusual issue and a first for me, recently I finally built my new PC - I upgraded to Windows 10 (the upgrade was a fresh install of Windows 10) and for the time it seemed everything was running perfectly fine.

I upgraded my GPU from an ATI HD 6990 to an Asus Poseidon nVidia 980ti and again, everything looked and ran great. However I've noticed my games will randomly crash to the desktop with no error, nothing obvious in event viewer staring out at me, I've got nothing to go on here so I'm stuck.

Windows 10 Home x64bit
Motherboard: Asus Maximus VII Formula
CPU: Intel i7 4790K @ 4.6ghz
Ram: G.Skill 2400 TridentX 16gb
GPU: Asus ROG Poseidon 980 ti @ stock w/GPU Tweak II
PSU: Corsair AX860i

Installed Software (That I feel may be relevant)
AI Suite III
Corsair LInk 4.2.1.42
GPU Tweak
GPU Tweak II Monitor
Keybot
Nvidia drivers: 364.51


In addition - I've updated Motherboard bios to the latest available. (These issues were occurring prior to bios update)

If I've left information out please let me know and I'll add ASAP. My other alternative I haven't tried yet is pretty much going to Windows 7.

 

[CountMike]

Did you clean up old drivers before switching GPUs ?
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

[Aaronz0r]

Did you clean up old drivers before switching GPUs ?
http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Yeah I did do that already, Sorry - Should have mentioned that. Still getting the same issues unfortunately.

 

[CountMike]

Maybe some of that SW installed. Did you try without them ? That Ai Suite gave me a lot of trouble until I switched to Gigabyte.

 

[Aaronz0r]

Maybe some of that SW installed. Did you try without them ? That Ai Suite gave me a lot of trouble until I switched to Gigabyte.

I've tried without Ai suite only so far. My thoughts were perhaps GPU Tweak and Ai Suite weren't playing ball together, but still had the same issues, and Ai suite wasn't too keen to be uninstalled properly either, had to use a specific cleaning tool for it. I'm trying different settings with GPU tweak currently to see if that helps at all. So far no crashes but they are completely random so it's going to be a time thing =/

 

[CountMike]

I had similar troubles with Game optimizer program from AMD that came with their drivers. Before you uninstall them it's a good idea to put them to default settings otherwise settings they changed in the driver may not be changed after program uninstall.
Revo Uninstaller works good for me. Gets rid of most tails left after program uninstall, files as well as registry entries.