GTX970 questions - MSI Apps and drivers

Question

Hey
So... I bought an MSI Gaming 970 4g and installed it.
I unninstalled the old nvidia drivers that I had, since I had a Gigabyte 660ti OC. But everytime I unnistalled the graphics driver through the control panel, windows automatically installed some video driver. I installed the latest nvidia driver after that. I dont know why, but geForce Experience's Shadownplay wont work after that (I also reinstalled GE).
I'm not sure if I did everything correctly. I did everything again (uninstall and reinstall) yesterday, iinstalling the drivers through GE, but it got stuck after installing PhysX drivers.
The card seems to be working propperly, except for the fact that it doesnt seem to stress at all. I was playing Witcher 3 on Ultra and it never went above 60C even though I had arount 40 ~ 50 fps (shouldnt it stress more and try to run with 60 fps or something?) everything I read about the card shows that it should be around 70C on load.
So there's that too.
Also... that MSI gamming ap. Everytime I try to set it to OC mode (tryed just to see if I could stress the card enought to see the fans turning on) the driver crashes. Same goes if I try to OC it through Afterburner.
And that Auto Update 6 thing wont work. It says that my platform is not supported.
Another thing. I also cant minimize the game after the VGA change.
So the question is: did I reinstall the drivers properly ? how to I know?
Why are shadowplay and GE all buggy?
Why is my VGA not using 100% of its capacity?
What's all that with the MSI apps?

Answer 1

Hey!  So...I did everything accodingly.
Unninstalled all the drivers, reboot (cuz it didnt let me reinstall them without rebooting). Windows then installed automatically a generic video driver I guess. I then unninstalled that said driver and installed Nvidia's.
I have nice performance gamming as long as dont mess with MSI's Gamming App. I open Afterburner and set the Gamming App profile and then the game gets unstable and the driver crashes after some time. I read some stuff as to Gamming App being unstable. Maybe the fact that I have both the gamming app and afterburner open is causing conflicts (like the gamming app trying to set the clock or power limit at the same time that afterburner sets them to be stock values). Is it possible?
Anyway, as to the fans not turning on and the board being constantly at 60C I saw that I was reading the wrong graphs all along. I was reading something right above fan speed that is something like fan tachometer or whatever. What happens is that the fan really turns on when the board reaches 61 and the temps get back to 60. I guess that's normal behavior.
Anyway, stresstesting it went ok with kombustor and the one you suggested. No crashes. All the problems start with this specific game and only when I use gamming app and afterburner.
darkhawk
My only fear is not diagnosing any eventual problem now that I just bought the VGA and find out in the future when I actually want to OC it that I cant because of something that I missed today. Yes, I'm a little paranoid lol, hardware prices are a bit high where I live. And warrantry is something that doesnt work always as it should too sometimes.
Any opinions on my PSU? I bought it recently and I spent a along time chosing a good one. Read everywhere that this model was one of the best and it had some awesome reviews. I dont think that it's not delivering or it's falty, but who knows. Maybe the model doesnt have that feature of delivering more power on demmand and then stuff crashes when the VGA asks for more power.
Anyway everything could still be a problem with the game itself.
EDIT: Here's the link to the model I have
http://www.seasonicusa.com/S12G.htm