Screen Flickering - Ubuntu 20.04 and Nvidia 470 drivers

Hello,

I have Ubuntu 20.04 installed and Nvidia Titan V GPU card, my system was working fine for a few months but since the past 3 days, there has been a sudden screen flickering issue.
There are multiple 8 dots in a group that appear randomly on the screen and sometimes the screen also tears.
I have tried to enable Wayland, upgraded Nvidia drivers to 470, and also played with the fractional scaling part but none of these have helped in getting rid of the flickering.
I do not get black screen at the time of log in but still tried out the things mentioned here:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/black-screen-on-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-mobile-with-nvidia-driver-470/189029
it didn’t help.

Wed Sep 29 19:16:15 2021
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.57.02 Driver Version: 470.57.02 CUDA Version: 11.4 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA TITAN V On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| 28% 34C P2 31W / 250W | 811MiB / 12058MiB | 2% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1275 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 35MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1694 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 157MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 1823 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 38MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 2770 G …AAAAAAAAA= --shared-files 95MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 3468 C …h/test_dev/env/bin/python 461MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

and running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS focal

Please help me fix this, it is a relatively new set up and I haven’t used the GPU much so just hoping the GPU isn’t a problem.

Thank you for your time, appreciate it!

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