GTX 760 and DirectX 11 conflict

[KRKATANAKID]

The other day I bought a Zotac GTX GeForce 760 (and I must say the performance is out of this world), but I have noticed a pattern. Everytime I would start up a DirectX game, it would work for a few seconds, and then my screens would go black with no signal, my fans would go completely bezerk on the GPU, followed by a reboot. Upon rebooting, I am greeted with a screen talking about the blue screen I am recovering from.

After I narrowed it down to DirectX games only, I wanted to know which version. So I went into Max Payne 3, and tried DirectX 9, 10, 10.1, and 11.

I tried DirectX 9, worked great, same for 10/10.1.

But then I tried 11, black screens, fans full speed, bluescreen. So this has to either be a DirectX 11, or Drivers issue.

I am running latest greatest on drivers (v355.82) on Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64.

Is there anything I can do to reinstall, or configure DirectX? Would upgrading to Windows 10 Pro help? Has anyone else with any NVidia card ran into this?

 

[KRKATANAKID]

So yesterday I experienced one crash in minecraft after about 4 hours... I've had better success in Borderlands 2. It would crash after about 10 minutes, and now I played over an hour just fine. Max Payne 3 still massively crashes immediately if I run it with DirectX 11. I wondered if it was a heat issue with either my CPU or GPU, so I took some of the overclock out of my CPU. I got it's temps down to about 155 degrees (Which is good considering that it runs at 180+ just fine lol), and my GPU only hit 130-140 degrees in hours of Minecraft and Borderlands, while crashing immediately in Max Payne at just over 100 degrees.

I complete Passmark entirely so I know I can max both out and have enough power from my 680w psu. I can play basically every game I have tried at this point (with a few odd crashes here and there), yet Max Payne (and I'd assume any other DX11 game) crash on the spot. When I freeze, no bluescreen is shown, but when I boot it says one happened, but I can't find the f-ing thing in Event Viewer.

Please note I also downgraded my drivers to v353.62. I'm not sure if this is making a difference, but no... I have not overclocked my 760 (not sure if the previous owner did).

 

[KRKATANAKID]

So I just ran the Windows Experience Index test in Windows 7, and during Direct3D 10 (Yes great mixed results on versions) Assessments my screens went black, and came back on with an error down below that said "Display Driver NVIDIA Windows Kernal Mode Driver, Version 353.62 stopped responding and successfully recovered."

So now I have some sort of usable error message, and fixes?

 

[KRKATANAKID]

I disabled most of the visual addons in Windows 7, and I finished Experience index with a maxed out score. I am still having issues with ACIII, and Max Payne 3. Though Borderlands 2 seems to be fixed *knocks on wood*. I am wondering if it may be an anti-aliasing setting, because if I turn down all of the settings in ACIII I have no issues with stability. Let's find out.

 

[KRKATANAKID]

So in ACIII I turn all settings up... crashes.... turn down Anti Aliasing all the way... works fine. Runs Minecraft on max.... crashes.... turns back down to what I had before.... crashes anyway. Runs Furmark..... instant bsod. I'm having fun with this.