Skype Causes Certain Games to Crash

The past few months, I have been pulling my hair out as to why some of my games have been experiencing Timeout Detection and Recovery issues related to my graphics drivers. I've done a lot of research into this Windows failsafe and I used a couple of tools to see what was going on.
During this period, I was running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.
Each time, the crash occurred on the display driver itself (I changed Windows TDR registy keys to bluescreen on each occurrence).
At first, I thought it was my graphics card (XFX Radeon HD7970) failing. I had noticed graphical artifacts during gameplay and horizontal lines flickering on my desktop during boot-up and shut down. I sent it out for warranty and the technicians concluded nothing was wrong with it and sent it back to me. In the meantime, I borrowed a friend's spare GTX 560. I performed a complete driver clean-up to remove my old ATI drivers and installed the proper nVidia drivers for the card.
Again, system crash on the display driver (this time, the nVidia one).
Today, I performed a fresh installation of Windows 8 Pro. As I was installing my apps again, everything was fine until I installed the desktop version of Skype. As soon as I log into Skype, I get horizontal lines that briefly flicker accross my screen. This happens EVERY time, without exception. Afterwards, Skype itself runs perfectly. I have zero issues with Skype once it's up and running.
However, after seeing this flickering occur, I decided to try something. I quit Skype and loaded up a game that was prone to TDR errors before (Metro 2033). I cranked its settings to the max and played for about 1.5hrs before quitting the game. I then loaded up Skype, and started the game again. Within 10 minutes, I got my first TDR. Tried it again. This time 5 minutes. Quit Skype once again, and played for another 2 hours without incident.
This test worked across 5 different games that were known to crash before on my Windows 7 install. After discovering the horizontal line flickers upon booting up Skype on Windows 8, I've since tried all these games with Skype turned off and nary a problem.
I looked around for issues related to mine, but all I could find were 4 year old posts about people experiencing lag issues in online gaming caused by Skype, or other graphical issues to do with Skype itself. As I experienced, it's far too easy to suspect a hardware or driver issue that's causing game crashes, so I wonder if others are having issues with their games crashing and thinking it's their hardware/drivers.
The one thing I haven't tried yet is installing an older version of Skype to see if the issue persists. I will try that out tomorrow.
Wondering if anyone else has been experiencing these issues, and if the Skype PR have anything to comment on it. I should note that all my games ran perfectly until roughly a month or two ago, probably after Skype was updated.
System Specs:
AMD FX-8150 CPU
Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 motherboard
8GB DDR3 1866MHz RAM
Windows 8.1 Pro on a Samsung 250GB SSD
XFX Radeon HD 7970 graphics
Latest drivers, fresh install, etc etc.

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