Just got my 1080 FTW a few days ago...just hit this problem for the first time today, and has been happening every 20 minutes in WoW now. REALLY frustrating. 

For those of you still experiencing this, try running the SFC scanner described here. It's built into windows so the short version is that you run command prompt as administrator and enter "sfc /scannow" and it searches for corrupted windows files.
 
After nearly pulling my hair out the past few days thinking my card was a dud because of this very problem with black screen crashing, this actually seems to have helped a lot. I first had to run it after sweeping my drivers right after my windows 10 upgrade installation because they were so jacked that even a clean nvidia install wasn't working. Now driver sweeping again when upgrading cards seems to have messed things up for me again. But after scanning I was able to put in a decent length overclocked shift in doom without any crashes for the first time since I got my new card.

Brutal

Sajin
Just a FYI to everyone monitoring this thread... the OP's issue was resolved by rma'ing the card.

It certainly was. Had a great weekend playing hours of Just Cause 3. Such a great game with everything maxed.

FWIW - The new drivers came out with just enough time for me to test with before I returned the old card. I used the anniversary version and experienced the same crashes.

What I will say from following this thread is this. If you are experiencing any issues then start with the basics before going down rabbit holes of crazy troubleshooting ideas. Read and follow Sajin's stickied thread.

My RMA replacement is being prepared to be shipped. I will update with the results once it gets delivered. Hoping for same results as the OP with this new one!

FTW1080
My RMA replacement is being prepared to be shipped. I will update with the results once it gets delivered. Hoping for same results as the OP with this new one!

I predict that you have a 1 in 10 chance of the replacement working. The fact that EVGA had to create a whole new category of cards called the FTW DT that proves that many of their sample cards failed at their Factory overclock. So now the question is how many cards did they not test? So if this replacement fails as well make sure that your retailer gives you a refund or store credit. Personally I have given up on EVGA all together and purchased a different card. I was lucky enough to have Newegg give me a store credit.

BranC85
For those of you still experiencing this, try running the SFC scanner described . It's built into windows so the short version is that you run command prompt as administrator and enter "sfc /scannow" and it searches for corrupted windows files.
 
After nearly pulling my hair out the past few days thinking my card was a dud because of this very problem with black screen crashing, this actually seems to have helped a lot. I first had to run it after sweeping my drivers right after my windows 10 upgrade installation because they were so jacked that even a clean nvidia install wasn't working. Now driver sweeping again when upgrading cards seems to have messed things up for me again. But after scanning I was able to put in a decent length overclocked shift in doom without any crashes for the first time since I got my new card.

 
I wish this were the case for mine, tried running a scan windows did not find any integrity violations.  Mine still crashes even when underclocking , going to wait for my RMA.  Hopefully it works.

chrisalee

BranC85
For those of you still experiencing this, try running the SFC scanner described . It's built into windows so the short version is that you run command prompt as administrator and enter "sfc /scannow" and it searches for corrupted windows files.
 
After nearly pulling my hair out the past few days thinking my card was a dud because of this very problem with black screen crashing, this actually seems to have helped a lot. I first had to run it after sweeping my drivers right after my windows 10 upgrade installation because they were so jacked that even a clean nvidia install wasn't working. Now driver sweeping again when upgrading cards seems to have messed things up for me again. But after scanning I was able to put in a decent length overclocked shift in doom without any crashes for the first time since I got my new card.

 
I wish this were the case for mine, tried running a scan windows did not find any integrity violations.  Mine still crashes even when underclocking , going to wait for my RMA.  Hopefully it works.

That really sucks, when the scan finished for me it gave me a message saying that it found and corrected corrupted files. I still have some more testing to do before I can say with total certainty that it fixed my crashing but I am hopeful since I was able to play an hour or two at 2080mhz

landerx74

FTW1080
My RMA replacement is being prepared to be shipped. I will update with the results once it gets delivered. Hoping for same results as the OP with this new one!

I predict that you have a 1 in 10 chance of the replacement working. The fact that EVGA had to create a whole new category of cards called the FTW DT that proves that many of their sample cards failed at their Factory overclock. So now the question is how many cards did they not test? So if this replacement fails as well make sure that your retailer gives you a refund or store credit. Personally I have given up on EVGA all together and purchased a different card. I was lucky enough to have Newegg give me a store credit.

I hope the odds are a little more in my favor than that lol but we will see. My friend has one that works perfectly fine which is what gave me hope to try another one.

I personnally think the 1 in 10 chance is a bit OTT,i totally understand that Landerx74 must be absolutely cheesed off with his experiences,i certainly would be but..
If this was a major issue then this and other forums would be in meltdown and EVGA would HAVE to recall the cards. Im also a member on the ocuk forums and i have,nt (to my Knowledge) seen anybody report this issue. Not for one minute am i saying it does,nt exist just not to the extent that Lander says. In a earlier post he quotes "So out of a hundred cards manufactured they took a sample of 10 cards to test for overclocking stability. So 7 out of these 10 cards failed". I dont believe that for one moment,what so only 30 out of 100 FTW cards work properly? like i said if that was the case ALL forums (Scan,Ocuk,EVGA,Overclockers) and others would be in meltdown and EVGA would have to respond. TBH though guys id like to see a EVGA rep on here to explain these possible issues with some FTW 1080,s.
 
I sincerely hope that all of you that have had to RMA get a great card this time round

Hi Everyone. Having the same issue with my EVGA GTX 1080 FTW that i received yesterday. non GPU demanding games run great without any issues what so ever (Overwatch and Fallout 4 just to name a couple) but more demanding games that require the GPU clock rate to boost such as Total War: Warhammer cause black screen and 100% fan after 5-10 minutes. Contacting EVGA as i type this to try and get a RMA.
 
ran the SFC scanner as BranC85 suggested but my windows seems clean
 
Card seems to run fine with Debug mode enabled but it would be annoying to turn it on every time i boot the pc. debug mode also seems to cause issues with windows booting properly after a shutdown and when i finally boot causes the keyboard to act strange
 
Hopefully have more luck with the next card.