HOW you name me a single program found ANY-WARE the exact process of how software can cause screen corruption(that starts one day out of the blue) or app crashes among completely unrelated processes and I will quit TPU
always start WITH THE HARDWARE and then once the hardware is confirmed to be functioning correctly THEN you move onto testing drivers and software because having a probability of hardware issues makes all the software testing flawed
I am sick of arguing with you on this point mailman every-time you post in a support thread its either
1. its gotta be a bios issue update the bios
2. its gotta be a driver issues try different drivers
3.o its gotta be mspaint causing the gpu drivers to crash
4. naa its a virus inursystemfilesdeleting ur video drivers causing your blackscreen of doom when you power on
/back on topic
you're card is not officially supported on windows 8 its not fully WDM 1.2 complaint
you have two Options(assuming the rest of the stability issues are resolved)
1. hope Nvidia corrects some of the issues on windows 8
2. upgrade to a more recent gpu a 9500Gt is bloody old