'display driver crashed and has recovered" with almost all games.

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So, for a VERY long time I've been getting random TDRs and I've tried at LEAST 10 different drivers and I have also switched PCI express slots and still get the same issue. I sometimes get that problem with nonblizzard games but not as often (for example i played fallout 4 for 160 hours and haven't crashed except once), I tried all the basic troubleshooting steps as well like closing background apps, using different settings in nvidia control panel, running windowed mode, even reinstalled windows once. I heard from a few sources that games like sc2 and heroes of the storm have an issue with factory overclocked cards or something but in any case, i have no clue how to fix this and it has been REALLY depressing me lately so i would appreciate it if someone could help me out.
also something maybe worth noting is that it might be a problem with opengl perhaps? how do i test to see if it is?
In addition, I have an EVGA gtx 980 SC edition and I have seen several forum posts regarding TDRs with factory overclocked gtx 980s like this one
http://forums.evga.com/GTX-980-FTW-quotDisplay-driver-n...
I've been getting this problem for SOOO long (almost a year now) and i'm still trying to figure it out. I could RMA the card, but I really don't want to do that since its a huge hassle for me and im afraid of getting another card with even more problems than this one.

error = Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. (screen suddenly turns into certain color like brown for a few seconds then the game comes back to life)

specs
EVGA gtx 980 SC
i7 3770k @4.2ghz
Corsair vengeance 8gb ram
Corsair TX850w psu
Msi z77agd65 motherboard
Samsung EVO 250gb SSD


I was told to try and downclock the card to see if the problem goes away but i don't know by how much i should downclock....this is the card i have
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NT9UT3M?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
 

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That downclock is a good advice. Try 200-400 Mhz less than normal. Also downclock the VRAM (about 400 to 500 MHz).

So far I have only seen this problem with cards that are overclocked too far or are defective, funnily all EVGA cards only.
 

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Yeah I agree with you here, only ever seen this with cards overclocked too high or corrupted drivers.
 
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EVGA tech support told me to try NVIDIA "debug mode" under "help" instead of downclocking with msi afterburner, but i'm not sure if its working at all or not. What are the stock clocks suppose to be for this card so i can check if the debug mode is setting it to stock clocks or not using msi afterburner??
 

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The stock speeds for your card:

Core Clock: 1266MHz
Boosted: 1367MHz
Memory Clock (Effective): 7010MHz

Hope this helps.
 
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so i enabled debug mode anddd.....
it isn't crashing anymore after several hours (about 7 hours nonstop) of playing the games that use to crash....so yeah, its the damn superclock...
 

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If it's crashing due to the superclock, then it may be an issue with power delivery.
 
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Well i also kinda messed up because i installed the latest driver before i tried this "trick" so i don't really know maybe the driver fixed it. Im going to run games without downclocking and see if i still crash.

But when you say "power delivery" do you mean its a problem with the psu or something?