Starcraft 2 monitors go black and game crash

MrShiftOwns

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When playing Starcraft 2 my monitors( all three) will start to go black for a few seconds for a couple of times. After going black for just a few seconds for about 3 or 5 times( not sure how many times this happens) my monitors will go black again but now for a longer period of time, usually about 1-2 minutes(While it's black I am able to hear in-game sounds and sounds from my browser). When my monitors return to normal my browser will usually have crashed and the same goes for Sc2, not only do things crash but my GPU will be under a 100% load, even at idle after I exit out of Sc2.

I have no idea what's causing this but I'm pretty sure that it's not hardware related since I've stress tested my cpu, gpu and ram before. Also this only happens in Starcraft 2, when I play other games lie CS:GO or LoL my PC will behave as it should.

Things that I've tried:
* Update GPU drivers
* Re-install Sc2
* Add the fps cap to the variables.txt file

I recorded a video of everything happening, hope it's at least a bit useful. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctbEi3TllGc)

Thanks in advance
 
Since I can't edit my post:
It may actually be a fault in your GPU.

My GTX770 would crash my whole computer reliably if I was watching youtube and playing a few specific games (NWN2), but it would do it at random times seemly. (Usually while talking to a shop keeper or something)

The ONLY thing that fixed this was after my Displayport port on the video card stopped working and I RMA'd it and got a replacement GPU did this stop happening.
 

MrShiftOwns

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I'm not sure if it only happens when I have youtube/twitch open i the background since I always have my browser up when I'm playing games. It's so weird that it would be a faulty GPU when it only happens in one game, guess I'll have to look into this problem more and if nothing works I'l try to TMA the card.
 

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Short update! I removed some of my monitors for a reason unrelated to the crashing of Sc2 and since I removed my two extra monitors I haven't had any crashes at all! I have no idea why that fixed my problem but it did.