Ok listen up. I had some issues were my computer would get a black screen and either reboot or hang. Sometimes the drivers would recover and sometimes they would not. Now you may have a different issue compared to me but i'm anyways sharing my 2 cents. I did all sorts of testing , ran Furmark for GPU stability, ran memtest for Ram , Prime for CPU and I was checking my temperatures while doing so. I was at a loss. My other games had no issues. But when I ran TSW(The secret world) Under dx9 i would get the black screen and then the drivers would recover. Then I ran TSW in DX11 and no black screen but the game was not running fine at all. I also thought that it was hardware related. So I did a complete re-installation of Windows 8. After the last 2 test runs under TSW I thought it was either corrupted files under DX or the drivers. So i did a command prompt under windows to check the integrity of the Operating System. And corrupted files where found. Once i did a re-installation the system has been stable with no crashes any longer. In other words yes you may have hardware issues or maybe not. Because corrupted files can cause instability. Software controls the hardware therefore making different tests can help you figure this out. If you suspect is your power supply or GPU see if you have a spare and test the system agan.


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Xeonotrix