My Budget Build Lost A Big Chunk Of Performance In An Open-World RPG Overnight

hmmm laptop or desktop? If laptop, is teh game definitely using teh dedicated GPU? ??

15 tabs open and chrome ate all 32GB of ram again

ahh right its a budget build. I checked Graphics settings and the game wasnt in teh list aynmore. hope thats enough info 😅

RAM prices doing their own thing again smh

@cachefox works on paper, not in real life

ok so honestly just reset teh cable and save yourself the pain

ahh classic to measure properly, use a repeatable in-game benchmark or teh same route, log frame times with a tool like PresentMon or CapFrameX, and compare average and 1% lows on both drivers. One run each isnt enough.

spent my entire lunch break on 416.94 and im still not done

oof honestly just reset the extension and save yourself teh pain. +1 same here

oof first rule out the obvious: on lapotps, check that teh game actulaly uses the dedicated GPU 😅 Settings > System > Display > Graphics, add the game's .exe, set it to High performance. driver updates can reset per-app GPU preferences.

exact same thing happened to my homelab box last month

printer saw i was in a hurry and chose violence

lol same thing happened to me check that the driver install didn't reset ur control panel settings (power management mode, low latency mode, V-Sync, frame caps). A clean install resets everything to defaults, which can feel like a performance change.

idk man that sounds like bad advice tbh

oof try turning off the router first, fixed it for me fingers crossed 🤞

check Power Options: a Windows update or driver installer can switch to Balanced or a battery saver profile. on laptops, also check teh manufacutrer's performance mode app.

reading release notes like its a horror novel

hmmmm quick q is gpu even worth btohering with or should i just leave it. lol this thread is gold

hmmm after a driver udpate, games often rebuild their shader cache, which causes stutter for the first sessions. Give it a couple of runs, or clear the driver shader cache manually in teh control panel / %LocalAppData% cache folder and let it rebuild once.

uhh wait does this also apply to geforce?? ?

for me it was the power plan. swapped it and boom, fixed. my old thinkpad is officially haunted

if measurement confirms a regression, roll back with DDU to teh previous driver, and report it to NVIDIA with your GPU, game and settings. hope that helps :)