Micro Stutters, Screen Tearing and Flickering?

[sadab0]

I'm noticing a lot of screen tearing on Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition even with Adaptive V-Sync on in Nvidia Control Panel and unlocked FPS. The micro stutters/normal stutters and flickering happens in Metro 2033 Redux, I heard the game had problems but that the Redux Version had fixed them. It's not even small flickering in some corner, it's whole parts of the scene like rails, platforms and trains.

EVGA GTX 970 FTW
FX-8350

My card was not overclocked at the time these problems were happening but it is overclocked now and I haven't played the games yet with my OC because I'm not finished with the process yet. My CPU is running at stock speeds with stock cooler.

I managed to record some of the flickering that was happening in Metro with Shadowplay. This was taken at Stock speeds.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3b2oiusdi3g7eyr/Metro%20LL%20Redux%20Flickering.mp4?dl=0

 

[MasterDell]

Try some other games

 

[sadab0]

Try some other games

Tried Far Cry 4 and Shadow of Mordor, both of them had some edges of game world objects shimmering and glittering, I'm guessing that's probably because I used Nvidia DSR (~1440p) on a 720p screen and Anti-Aliasing together and it somehow messed up the picture but other than that Shadow of Mordor had an occasional stutter and there was still tearing visible, very minor though, probably normal. Far Cry 4 though had horrible tearing, very noticeable and frequent, I was playing at 2720x1536 DSR too with an 8350 too so the FPS should've stayed below 60 most of the time.

 

[MasterDell]

What about with DSR disabled?

 

[sadab0]

What about with DSR disabled?

Just played with Far Cry 4 and it still has issues with DSR off.

 

[MasterDell]

Sounds to me like your GPU is faulty. Could be something weird with your monitor. Try a different one before RMAing

 

[sadab0]

Don't have another GPU or monitor to test with and I use a TV.

 

[MasterDell]

I suggest RMAing your GPU at this point. It's hard to diagnose issues without an extensive amount of other hardware unfortunately. 🙁