Visual Artifacts and then Game Crash

After looking around online there seems to be a known issue with "pink lines" that is related to the Intel Cards... I am thinking that maybe this is the same issue that I am having just with an Nvidia GTX690? 

Also I have tried re-installing the drivers for the GPU and this has not helped our hurt the issue. 

Ok, so I am not sure if this is a bug or technical issue, but I figured that this was just as good as any other place to post my problem....

I am currently running the Sims 4 (standard install from Origin) on an Nvidia GTX690 with the most current drivers from Nvidia. However I am finding that after about 1 to 2 hours of game play the screen instantly fills with "visual artifacts" and locks up my entire computer at which point I must do a hard shut down to recover. 

Initially I thought that my GPU was bad... However I wanted to make sure that it was not the game so I went and played BF4 for about 4 hours and had no issues at all. I then ran a GPU burn in test (one hour in duration) using OCCT and had no issues as well as running the FireStrike GPU test from 3DMark for one hour with no issues. Given that the my system was able to handle BF4 and the subsequent tests I feel that this is not a GPU issue and rather an issue with the game, is anyone else having any kind of issues like this? 

After looking around online there seems to be a known issue with "pink lines" that is related to the Intel Cards... I am thinking that maybe this is the same issue that I am having just with an Nvidia GTX690? 

Also I have tried re-installing the drivers for the GPU and this has not helped our hurt the issue. 

Note: I tried disabling SLI and this does not seem to help or hurt the issue. Also worth noting that I did not have this issue until after the recent update was released and installed for the game. 

@EliteAssassin07 Had moved your thread to tech yesterday. Sorry for not tagging you.

I am experiencing an identical problem with a similar setup.

The game runs for 1-2 hours of in-game time and then locks up.  Blue artifacts fill the screen and a hard lockup happens, requiring a hard reboot.

System specs are:

Intel i5-3570

16GB DDR3 RAM

Nvidia 760 GTX 2GB

480 GB SSD

No other game causes any kind of crash or lockup (any more than games might normally do so).

I have tried:

Complete wipe and reinstall of game.

Complete wipe and reinstall of Nvidia drivers.

Deletion of save game

A complete pass with MemTest86

A scan of the SSD with chkdsk

Logging CPU and GPU temps (all within normal)

I am at my wit's end.  The other computer in the house has absolutely no problems running this game on a nearly identical configuration (very slightly different video card).

Here is a link to a photo I took (I obviously can't do a screen capture since the computer is hard locked the instant it happens).

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn351/InspectorFowler/20140910_171301_zps39piyrsp.jpg

Edit - I should probably add that I was able to play the game for about 5 hours over 3-4 days before this started happening.  No system changes or driver updates occurred to start this shenaniganry.  

Wow!!! glad to see that I am not the only one with this issue... I work in IT (fixing computers amongst other things) and I cant solve this issue for the life of me! I do not have this issue in any other game or in any stress tests... I am going to un-install the game and re-install it and see if that works. 

I have done pretty much everything that you have listed as well and it has done nothing... to add to that the Windows Event Viewer gives no information regarding the error. 

Thanks for that solution. It's best if you accept that as solution to help the next person. @EliteAssassin07 

@SteenShell Can I use your pic should I make a post about this in my blog (not sure yet, depends on the amount of people that have this issue)