NVidia GTX 960 GPU usage reaches 100% and PC crashes while playing games/watching Netflix

yavvee

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Apr 19, 2016
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So i have a peculiar problem. I started facing problems while playing games a year back. I sent the graphic card to service center to get it repaired, but I don't think they fixed anything. I reinstalled windows and I didn't face any lag or crashing for a cople of weeks. But after then same problem of GPU usage reaching 100% while playing games. And it gets progressively worse, as even watching Netflix crashes the PC. The peculiar part is that each time I reformat the PC, the problem disappears, albeit for a couple of weeks. And the cycle repeats. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

--update--
I tried some fixes suggested in other forums, and stumbled upon debug mode option. I enabled it, and the performance seems to be much better without any crash for now. I'll update if I face crashes in future.

PC config:
Intel i5 4690k
MSI GAMING 2G GTX 960
2x4GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance
MSI Z97 PC MATE
Antec VP500PC 500W PSU