

Updating all drivers, reinstalling Windows, etc. Have tried adjusting power / fan / OC settings in Wattman, unplugging and plugging in HDMI cable, enabling / disabling FreeSync on the TV and on the GC, enabling / disabling HDMI link assurance, and lots of other things too. I bought the graphics card on Amazon and the last day to return it is May 20th, so I am trying to solve this ASAP or see if I should just forget it and return it. I have looked on every forum and spent hours researching this issue and I am at a loss. Tried watching a video on YouTube as well and it worked perfectly. But I decided to try watching Netflix through Chrome and it worked perfectly! No black screen, no audio cut out (or audio delay), anything.
AMD HDMI LINK ASSURANCE ON OR OFF PC
I thought maybe it's just an issue with video / games, as just browsing and doing other things on the PC works great. I've done a ton of testing and found a couple weird things - audio and video seem to cut out when trying to load / play the game and when trying to watch any Netflix program via the Win10 Netflix app. Also good to note that when the flickering occurs, I am losing both audio and video to the TV. The exact same thing happens no matter how low I take the resolution. I assumed that taking it back down to 1920x1080 would fix it, but this is not the case. I should mention that I did set the game to 3840x2160 resolution (since it had that option, I figured why not) and this is when I first saw the issue. Now the problem is that whenever I load Cities: Skylines, it will flicker on the loading screen and then when the game loads the black screen flickering gets so bad that I just have to Alt+F4 the program and close it entirely or I can't do anything at all. Fast forward with the new cable and Windows loaded into 3840x2160 automatically and looks great. The "4K" cable I purchased on Amazon wasn't true 18Gbps 4K, so it didn't work. I had the hardest time getting it to change, and eventually figured out it was a cable issue. However, I noticed that my Windows display settings were set to 1920x1080 and since my TV and graphics card support 4K, I obviously wanted that resolution. Highest detail on everything and it loaded perfectly and looked awesome. Anyways, after I first built the PC I was playing the game at 1920x1080 no problem.
AMD HDMI LINK ASSURANCE ON OR OFF PRO
I had been playing on my MacBook Pro but it just wasn't a great experience. One of the main reasons I built this PC was to play my favorite game, Cities: Skylines. I believe you can see my machine specs in my profile. I recently built my first PC and the actual build went great, no issues and I really enjoyed it.
