Graphical glitches while watching youtube or playing games only, started suddenly from one day to the next

[ender6574]

I have a custom built PC with custom built case that I bought from an enthusiast about 4 or 5 years ago. It boots on a 10000 RPM raptor drive and I store media on a 1 tb striped raid composed of two 500gb seagate drives. When I moved a year or so ago there was an issue that required me to replace the Mobo, CPU fan and RAM. I've got an i5 with a good mobo and enough ram, 800W power supply that's new and more than enough. Good airflow.

There are a ton of specs below, I don't like troubleshooting hardware on my main computer (like wrenching on a car that you need to get to work) so I'll get to the point.

A week or so ago I went to play Divinity: Original Sin, which had played the day before with no issues. Nearly immediately I started seeing graphical artifacts and within minutes the screen glitched out and locked, held for a bit, I saw the "graphics crash and just recovered" blip while I was hitting cntl alt etc locked up and had to hard cold boot.

This was repeated. I tried a different game (new one I got on sale through Steam, both are through Steam which might but probably won't matter) and it started glitching and locked within seconds.

I should note that neither of these games are in any way graphically intensive. Anyway, I immediately assumed that my old Geforce 8800GT is finally demanding to be upgraded. I immediately suspected the video card.

Troubleshooting I realized this: My CPU and GPU temps were not noticeably high (I tested a week ago ago and have been slammed at work, but I paid attention, nothing extreme).

Youtube videos will start to artifact and glitch almost immediately, games same way. I can stream 1080P vid from Amazon Prime instant video or Netflix, and can play anything I bittorrent from the public domain. But Youtube kills it quick.

Youtube can play as long as I'm not on that tab. The PC can run run for days on end with no youtube and no video. I did the recommended stress test on the GPU (forgot the name) and it didn't crash until halfway through the second time, which surprised me.

I did a clean install of my video driver and that seemed like it worked but turned out shortly it didn't.
I checked dxdiag at the urging of a coworker.

As it stands I cant' watch youtube or play games, so it's almost like the will of God being exerted on me or something, because I'm way more productive.

Basically I don't want to upgrade the video card if I'm going to still have the same issue.

Flash, shockwave and everything else Sicunia's set to check are all up to date. Everything's up to date.

I think I need to get off my butt and dust out the big green box this weekend, and plan too, just wanted to get this post up to fish for ideas

Any help is appreciated, thank you.


Specs:

NVIDIA System Information report created on: 08/30/2014 16:06:45
System name: OWNER-PC

[Display]
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 11.0
GPU processor: GeForce 8800 GT
Driver version: 340.52
Direct3D API version: 10
CUDA Cores: 112
Core clock: 660 MHz
Shader clock: 1600 MHz
Memory data rate: 1800 MHz
Memory interface: 256-bit
Total available graphics memory: 4095 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB GDDR3
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 3583 MB
Video BIOS version: 62.92.24.00.00
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen2
Device Id: 10DE 0611 104019DA

[Components]

NvGFTrayPluginr.dll 15.3.33.0 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
NvGFTrayPlugin.dll 15.3.33.0 NVIDIA GeForce Experience
nvui.dll 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdsync.exe 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdplcy.dll 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdbat.dll 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvxdapix.dll 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
NVCPL.DLL 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA User Experience Driver Component
nvCplUIR.dll 2.8.260.03 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvCplUI.exe 7.8.760.0 NVIDIA Control Panel
nvWSS.dll 6.14.13.4052 NVIDIA Workstation Server
nvViTvS.dll 6.14.13.4052 NVIDIA Video Server
NVSTVIEW.EXE 7.17.13.4052 NVIDIA 3D Vision Photo Viewer
NVSTTEST.EXE 7.17.13.4052 NVIDIA 3D Vision Test Application
NVSTRES.DLL 7.17.13.4052 NVIDIA 3D Vision Module
NVMCTRAY.DLL 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA Media Center Library
nvDispS.dll 6.14.13.4052 NVIDIA Display Server
PhysX 09.13.1220 NVIDIA PhysX
NVCUDA.DLL 8.17.13.4052 NVIDIA CUDA 6.5.12 driver
nvGameS.dll 6.14.13.4052 NVIDIA 3D Settings Server

System Information
------------------
Time of this report: 9/11/2014, 19:12:02
Machine name: OWNER-PC
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.140303-2144)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: To be filled by O.E.M.
BIOS: BIOS Date: 08/22/12 20:32:54 Ver: 04.06.05
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.8GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8152MB RAM
Page File: 3417MB used, 12885MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 64bit Unicode

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DxDiag Notes
------------
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Sound Tab 3: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.

--------------------
DirectX Debug Levels
--------------------
Direct3D: 0/4 (retail)
DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail)
DirectInput: 0/5 (retail)
DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail)
DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail)
DirectSound: 0/5 (retail)
DirectShow: 0/6 (retail)

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 8800 GT
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0611&SUBSYS_104019DA&REV_A2
Display Memory: 4071 MB
Dedicated Memory: 487 MB
Shared Memory: 3583 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor Name: SyncMaster P2370(G)/P23700(G),Magic P2370G(Digital)
Monitor Model: SyncMaster
Monitor Id: SAM052A
Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (60.000Hz)
Output Type: DVI
Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver File Version: 9.18.0013.4052 (English)
Driver Version: 9.18.13.4052
DDI Version: 10
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 7/2/2014 15:48:32, 17555104 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp:
Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4551-11CF-BE75-4D301FC2C435}
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x0611
SubSys ID: 0x104019DA
Revision ID: 0x00A2
Driver Strong Name: oem104.inf:NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.1:Section014:9.18.13.4052ci\ven_10de&dev_0611
Rank Of Driver: 00E02001
Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C ModeVC1_C ModeWMV9_C

 

[ender6574]

UPDATE: I cleaned all of the dust and gunk out of my system and updated my OpenGL libraries (if that's in fact what I did, if that makes sense, I might've just downloaded them in case I was programming, the info wasn't clear); anyway the problem persists.

It might be worth noting that I start up Divinity and right when it starts to glitch hit Alt Tab and close the window, if the screen is all pixelated funny from the glitch, it stays that way until I restart.

Any thoughts, anyone?