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No, CCC is not necessary at all for the a working driver. Version of Win 7 does not matter.
What happens with this black screen? If you leave your pc alone for say 5 minutes, is it still there? Only a black screen? Do you hear anything upon bootup like the Windows start sound? Do you have any HDMI connected to the card? Remove it if so and even remove a 2nd monitor if you have that.
It seems to me from here that the driver and monitor are working correct. Something else is throwing it off. On this black screen, does Win+P do anything good for you?