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

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  1. Greta Mendes
    @cachefox

    so annoyed rn i play an open-world RPG every evening on my budget build and know exactly how it should feel. after installing NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Driver 416.94, its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even crashed once:

    Fatal error

    Fatal error
The game has crashed and will now close.

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
The GPU device instance has been suspended.

    I havent changed any in-game settings... temps look normal... is it possible a driver update makes things this much worse, or am I imagining it? thx in advance!!

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  2. Ivan Grant
    @ivan.grant

    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

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  3. Greta Mendes
    @cachefox
    in reply to @ivan.grant

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

    RAM prices doing their own thing again smh

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  4. Bram
    @bram.walsh76

    @cachefox works on paper, not in real life

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  5. Ivan Grant
    @ivan.grant

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

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  6. Kofi Tanaka
    @ktanaka

    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.

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  7. Ivan Grant
    @ivan.grant

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

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  8. Kira
    @kferreira_45

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

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  9. Bram
    @bram.walsh76

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

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  10. Kofi Tanaka
    @ktanaka

    exact same thing happened to my homelab box last month

    printer saw i was in a hurry and chose violence

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  11. Kofi Tanaka
    @ktanaka
    in reply to @ktanaka

    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.

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  12. Ivan Grant
    @ivan.grant

    idk man that sounds like bad advice tbh

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  13. Bram
    @bram.walsh76

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

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  14. Kira
    @kferreira_45

    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

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  15. Kira
    @kferreira_45

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

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  16. Ivan Grant
    @ivan.grant

    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.

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  17. Ivan Grant
    @ivan.grant

    uhh wait does this also apply to geforce?? ?

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  18. Bram
    @bram.walsh76

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

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  19. Ivan Grant
    @ivan.grant

    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 :)

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