Why are my games flickering in full-screen mode?

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Many of my games flicker or crash in full-screen mode. Some of the examples of the flickering include Crayon Physics, Super Hexagon, and a few others that aren't graphically demanding at all. It isn't tearing, the screen is flashing frames of black for some reason. Other games, such as Batman Arkham City don't do this. Crysis 2 also crashes on the first mission, when my rig should be capable of running it. I have deleted the nvidia folder, and reinstalled the drivers and this didn't help. It does this whether I am using 1 video card or SLI, and I have used a program called DriverPack Solution to update all of my drivers. Does this sound like a hardware problem or software? I am connected to my TV via an HDMI cable but both the TV and the cable work perfectly in most cases. I just am tired of crashing games and flashing screens. Any help is appreciated.

Update: I ended up getting the flashing games to work by going to the properties of the .exe files for the games and disabling dpi scaling. It was causing this TV in particular to freak out. Many thanks to those who helped!
 

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I just tried doing that and it didn't help unfortunately. Thanks for the idea though. Any other thoughts?
 

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I tried that too earlier, just forgot to mention it. I didn't have the program installed on my pc, it was on my external hard drive and I ran it from there. I had the problem before I ever used the program though. Not sure what is causing it. Thanks for trying though.
 

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That was a smart move, I wouldn't have thought of the video. Recording with fraps actually doesn't show the flashing screen in super hexagon (not demanding at all) but it is showing me having 15-20 fps and you can tell the frames are skipping pretty bad. Any ideas based on that? As for the OS install, I wouldn't know how to check.
 

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I put my CPU at stock clock and monitored it. Temps are good, clock is showing correct speed, but games are still not running right. I was getting a fairly large amount of blue screens after I upgraded to windows 8. Any way to tell if the OS is stable?

 

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This error occured many times when I upgraded from Windows 7. Any ideas? By many times, it literally shows it thousands of times in a row.

The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}
and APPID
{316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}
to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.