Yeah, I also tried the older drivers, same black screen fan issue after 20min on heaven.

The only game I'm having problems with now is COD Advanced warfare.  I can play my other games for hours without any problems.  Thing is all I did was set the power target and temp target to max and cranked up the fan profile .  Both cards sit at 2025mhz under 64c.  But advanced warfare still hard locks, way less so when debug mode is on but still does.  So I just play that game on my other rig.  At least it runs perfectly with it..
 
Once I can get the battlefield 1 beta we will see how that game works.

I've had the same issue .... gotta be something with the drivers / OS / software since it only happens in some games randomly
 
I hope anywayz!

bryanernster
I've had the same issue .... gotta be something with the drivers / OS / software since it only happens in some games randomly
 
I hope anywayz!

As I mentioned above, my previous rma card had no issue with the black screen fan problem ..it took about a week and a half for the new card to come. The only thing I can remember that has changed on my system since then is the Windows 10 Anniversary Update maybe, and ofc the recent Nvidia driver.  Maybe the most recent batch of 1080's are just faulty, and if that the case than getting an rma will more than likely get me another faulty one.

I got my first black screen+100% fan speed today when playing rocket league... ROCKET LEAGUE! Not the most demanding game. Albeit I had the card overclocked +75mzh on the core and +175mhz on the vram. Full power and everything. I have dialed down the overclock a bit now and tested with heaven and it has not crashed again. It would be nice if you could overclock the card without being stressed out about this crash. We'll see what the future holds I guess...
 
Would be nice, like somebody else mentioned, if EVGA could replicate the crash in their labs and see if there's a solution to the problem. 

tekanna
I got my first black screen+100% fan speed today when playing rocket league... ROCKET LEAGUE! Not the most demanding game. Albeit I had the card overclocked +75mzh on the core and +175mhz on the vram. Full power and everything. I have dialed down the overclock a bit now and tested with heaven and it has not crashed again. It would be nice if you could overclock the card without being stressed out about this crash. We'll see what the future holds I guess...
 
Would be nice, like somebody else mentioned, if EVGA could replicate the crash in their labs and see if there's a solution to the problem. 

If I was you I would return the card to the place you purchased it and see if you can get a store credit. Get a 1080 that does not have "FTW" in the name. I hope that EVGA now sees this as a big enough problem to issue a BIOS update/work in progress report etc.etc. something to tell the scores of users that this problem is being addressed and that a fix is coming soon.

I exchanged my 1080 FTW at the store I purchased it at for the same card. So far zero crashes at stock speeds *Knocking on Wood* in Fallout 4 or Heroes of the Storm, the two games I had the most trouble with. Sajin was right from day one. If this is happening to you, you should return or RTM the card.
 
Thanks Sajin, wish I listened to you, would have saved a lot of time.

ziethriel
I exchanged my 1080 FTW at the store I purchased it at for the same card. So far zero crashes at stock speeds *Knocking on Wood* in Fallout 4 or Heroes of the Storm, the two games I had the most trouble with. Sajin was right from day one. If this is happening to you, you should return or RTM the card.
 
Thanks Sajin, wish I listened to you, would have saved a lot of time.

Nice! Be sure to test your card at different resolutions and also for a good length of time and then please let us know how everything turns out after that. You just might have won the Silicon Lottery with the new card. 😀

ziethriel
I exchanged my 1080 FTW at the store I purchased it at for the same card. So far zero crashes at stock speeds *Knocking on Wood* in Fallout 4 or Heroes of the Storm, the two games I had the most trouble with. Sajin was right from day one. If this is happening to you, you should return or RTM the card.
 
Thanks Sajin, wish I listened to you, would have saved a lot of time.

No problem. 

Well, I received my new gtx 1080 ftw yesterday from Amazon and it looks like I'm in the same boat as you guys unfortunetly.I did a uninstall and shut down using DDU, removed my EVGA GTX 980ti and seated my new 1080 ftw, plugged in the power cables, hooked up the monitor and fired my rig up. I then installed the new driver from NVIDIA 372.54, I installed the MSI Afterburner Beta 4 and set up my fan curve and osd and began to play Overwatch. The card performed wonderfully, no problems at all. This morning I fired up my rig and noticed white, horizontal lines running across the screen every time I opened a new window. So I rebooted and they went away, everything seemed back to normal. I left for a bit, when I came back and woke the computer from sleep mode, the white lines were back. I rebooted, and once again they were gone and everything was normal. I played Overwatch for about an hour... No problems, then I decided to play some Battlefront and after about 15 minutes I noticed that my framerates had dropped from an average of 130 to about 85. I was looking at the osd and the gpu temp was 68 Celsius, and the core clock was at 1936 and just then my display went black and the fans ramped up. I just don't understand what happened, nothing was hot or being pushed hard and it just lost the signal and my monitor went into power saving mode. After I got shut down and restarted, I checked windows event viewer and low and behold, there were no errors concerning the video card or drivers, what the heck? The one thing I forgot to do when I installed my new driver was to change the power setting in the NVIDIA control panel, It was on optimal, so I changed it to maximum performance and haven't had a problem the rest of the day. Keeping my fingers crossed, if it happens again Ill be calling EVGATech Chris I guess.