Newer Driver has worse performance?

[slender ibex]

I remember Playing fortnite at constant 180fps and minecraft with Shaders at about 100-150fps just 1 or 2 weeks ago. But suddenly my fortnite just started having abismal 1% lows and minecraft runs even without any shaders and with performance mods at only 60fps at best. I at first didnt know why, i tried reinstalling the Drivers, Updated my Bios, Lowered the settings, enabled XeSS and everything but nothing would help, i got worse performance at lower settings now, compared to before. Now im wondering, if its Possible that a driverupdate screwed my PC or something. Is it Possible to install older Drivers or do you think something else could cause a performance drop like that over night? ( my Specs are a Acer Arc OC B580, Asus Prime b550 K, 64GB of DDR4 and a ryzen 7 5700X, if that helps )

[obsidian fog]

Its possible that either the driver update broke something or something thats usually more common is the game developer did an update that the driver team needs to catch up on. Its a constant game of cat and mouse with drivers. 2 possibilities are you could try an older driver by selecting from the drip down menu an older driver here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-windows.html

Other possibility is that a developer update messed with the driver somehow and the driver needs updating to fix the issue. Never hurts to think too, did i install anything new on my computer in the meantime. (Streaming software, rgb controllers or other drivers etc...)

I hope it gets sorted out for you 🤞🙂

[paper parcel]

I'm having the same issue, however quite a bit worse. I was able to run Fortnite at 60fps, and the day after it was running at 5-10 fps. I then updated my drivers and restarted my pc, however it didn't resolve the issue. I also tried playing Stacklands (a much less graphics intensive game) and had the same issues. I am going to try to install a prevoious version of the drivers to see if that resolves the issue.
CPU: Intel i7-1185G7
RAM: 16GB
GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics

Edit: Solution did not work :/
Open to any advice! Thank you.

[full knoll]

Try doing a DDU and then install the previous driver

[slender ibex]

What is a DDU?

[opal forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzvvXUFKL88

[slender ibex]

Ok, thanks

[opal forge]

please follow the video in full, and restart your pc in safe mode through settings

and make sure you remember where you download DDU @slender ibex

so you can access it easily