game performance "very low" out of a sudden | Linus Tech Tips | Page 1

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 9:19 AM

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From one day to the next I have noticed that I get significantly less FPS in games with just 40% GPU Usage. I have started to look for the problem but have not found it yet.
I have tried with the help of DDU to completely remove my graphics drivers and reinstall them. I have checked the temperatures and tried synthetic benchmarks but I still have good results in these synthetic benchmarks. I also checked my system for viruses with malwarebytes.

What should i try next? Do any of you have an idea what could be the cause?

SPECS:
Ryzen 9 7950X3D (Air Cooled with Dark Rock Pro 4)
Zotac RTX 3070
G.Skill Ripjaws S5 6000 CL30
1TB M.2 SSD

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:46 AM

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is there anything you've changed yesterday?

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any configurations?

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does this only happen with 1 game or in any games?

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@void fulcrum

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 10:48 AM

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nothing changed, within all games i have lower fps than previous and micro lags

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e.g. valorant from 800 to 300 with dips down to 150

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:49 AM

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did you do an update (on a driver/windows)?

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:49 AM

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void fulcrum e.g. valorant from 800 to 300 with dips down to 150

aight valorant is valorant, the same happens still with me since release 6.07

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 10:49 AM

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i updated windows, but it occurred like one day after the update

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 10:50 AM

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supple nacelle aight valorant is valorant, the same happens still with me since release 6.07

minecraft 150-300, before up to 2k+

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:50 AM

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Did you try to reinstall graphics driver?

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maybe you have raytracing enabled?

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 10:50 AM

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yeah, uninstalled with ddu and reinstalled with the regular offline installer of nvidia

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:51 AM

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did you try an older/more stable gpu driver?

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 10:52 AM

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not yet, might try that later

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:52 AM

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do that, updated drivers can really suck

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thats why i dont trust amd anymore with driver updates and dont update

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:53 AM

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void fulcrum not yet, might try that later

it may be that you have enabled: auto update

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and bc of that you didnt notice there was a gpu update

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which causes those troubles

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if you have that enabled, you will want to deactivate it

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 10:56 AM

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might be actually the problem, newest game ready driver is from 2 days ago

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if not i‘ll swap to my old 5700xt to check if its actually the gpu

supple nacelle Apr 15, 2023, 10:56 AM

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well then, try to downgrade your gpu driver to the version before the latest came out

void fulcrum Apr 15, 2023, 12:09 PM

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seems like the issue is not the latest driver, got the previous version and still got the same problem

cursive panther Apr 15, 2023, 10:58 PM

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Yeah might want to check something can you run crystaldiskmark

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And check the rand4k speeds?

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Windows has been messing with random lookup speeds for some time and really messing up some systems

void fulcrum Apr 16, 2023, 9:57 PM

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rand4k is 300MB/s, shouldnt cause lags ig but isnt that good either

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might need to change m.2 in future but its so much pain with my build xd i need to remove the cpu cooler in order to get the m.2 heatsink off x)

cursive panther Apr 16, 2023, 9:59 PM

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and the rest?

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which ssd you got?

void fulcrum Apr 16, 2023, 10:00 PM

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its a SanDisk Ultra 3D NVMe

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wanted to get a samsung one but they didnt find it in their storage 💀

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manufactured by kioxia so should be fine though

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