After Effects CC and Windows 8 not playing well together. How can I fix this?

Question

I thought the problem was a specific project file, but then it happened during another, and then another that I was building without any funky assets.  After Effects suddenly ceases to respond, it flickers uncontrollably while Windows 8 Explorer becomes semi-unresponsive as well.  When AE becomes responsive again, the same thing happens when I go to make another edit or two.
Troubleshooting: What I noticed is when I go to the Task Manager to kill Explorer, AE responds again.  Until I go to make another few edits at least, where it then starts to flicker uncontrollably again.  Does anybody else have this problem?  This is really putting a kink in my workflow.
Windows 8, 64-Bit
Intel Core i7 3930K @ 3.2-3.8 GHz
64GB RAM
EVGA GeForce GTX 780 (x2)

Answer 1

It is just After Effects that flickers.  Explorer also begins to go unresponsive.  Here is the information copied from the GPU Information window.  I updated my GPU drivers that day.
Fast Draft:
Available
Texture Memory:
1186.00 MB
Ray-tracing:
CPU
(GPU not available - incompatible device or display driver)
OpenGL
Vendor:
NVIDIA Corporation
Device:
GeForce GTX 780/PCIe/SSE2
Version:
2.1.2
Total Memory:
2.92 GB
Shader Model:
4.0 or later
CUDA
Driver Version:
Devices:
Current Usable Memory:
Maximum Usable Memory: