My screen goes black and recovers after a short while

paulg123

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Hey guys so while playing Guildwars 2 or basically any game my screen just goes black and it makes weird noises (from the gpu i think).
At the bottom left of my screen it says "display driver has stopped and has recovered" i dont know what it means but im trying to play agame on my computer and it keeps disconnecting me from the game and its really fustrating.
I have tried updating my drivers and reinstalled windows to make sure it's not caused by a virus.
What could cause it? this is a brand new gaming system so I don't really understand why it does this.
Also my connection from monitor to PC is through HDMI.
Here are my PC specs if they help:
GTX 780 Gigabyte 3 GB DDR5 (GHZ edition)
I7 4770K 3.5 GHZ
2x8 GB Kingston Hyper Blue
700W modular PSU Super flower Golden
Z87 Sniper Mobo

However I don't think it has any connection with the parts except for my video card since it says those drivers have frozen also when I first booted my PC my screen was oversacaling and I had to resize it using my Nvidia tools could that be a problem? Current res 1842x1036
 

paulg123

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It is windows 7. Should I upgrade it to 8.1?
Also would you mind explaining me real quick how to set my resolution?
Thanks
 

neon neophyte

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it is in the nvidia control panel, i use amd so i cant really look but it is in there. you want 1920x1080 i imagine (1080p)

my friend had a similar problem as you, she is using 8.1.

it might fix your problem, might not, might cause other problems. who knows.