Flickers. Crashes. Tried Everything

[samus1225]

OK.ive had skyrim installed since launch. i can play the game for about 15 minutes straight without problems. at about 15 minutes, the game begins flickering. it's as if the gpu is not sending out a signal. in fact, on my monitor, when it flickers it states "no signal." same thing on my tv.

 

the flickerings are about 15 seconds, and I can play for another minute after the 15 seconds. then it flickers again. after about five times, the game crashes and windows states "display driver has stopped driving and has recovered."

 

I have the latest driver. the driver i have was released 11-10-11. It even did it on the old driver. so both the old and new drivers crash skyrim.

 

the game runs smoothly at both low settings and high settinggs. the game crashes at both low settings and high settings. i have disabled v-sync. my audio settings are fine (a common problem with pc skyrim). i have tried windowed mode. skyrim still crashes. ive even completely turned off anti-aliasing and antialitrope

 

The problem only happens in skyrim. not even crysis does this.

 

Computer specs:

AMD quad core 3ghz

4gigs ram

nvidia 9800gtx+ (latest drivers)

windows 7 64 home premium 64bit

direct x 11

 

 

**one important note**

while in window mode, the monitor doesnt flicker, but skyrim blacks out. since in window mode i can see the task bar the error comes up "display driver has recovered." it says this even if the game hasnt crashed yet