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forceware driver update: smoother for some, stutter city for me??

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Accepted solution by Yara — hmmm to measure properly, use a repeatable in game benchmark or teh same route, log frame times with a tool like PresentMon or CapFrameX,…
  1. Ava S.
    @avas405

    so annoyed rn my small form factor PC is performing like it lost a generation... a strategy game stutters in places that used to be smooth, all after the NVIDIA driver update.

    Fatal error

    Fatal error
The game has crashed and will now close.

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
The GPU device instance has been suspended.

    Id like to measure this properly instead of going on feel. Whats teh right way to compare two drivers? i have both driver packages downloaded alerady. i just do not want to run a dozen random tests and end up with numbers i cannot interpret. A simple, repeatable method would be perfect. im about to throw this thing out the window lol

    facepalm

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  2. Rowan Brandt
    @cachepilot

    hmmmm quick q is it lower average FPS, or mainly stutter??

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  3. Ava S.
    @avas405
    in reply to @cachepilot

    ahh right its a small form factor PC... i checked Graphics settings and the game wasnt in teh list anymore. sorry for the wall of text lol

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  7. Bram N.
    @pingfox

    ok so first rule out the obvious: on laptops, check that teh game acutally uses the dedicated GPU. Settings > System > Display > Graphics, add the games .exe, set it to High performance... driver updates can reset per-app GPU preferences.

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  8. Yara Varga
    @yarav408

    yeahhh if measurement confirms a regression, roll back with DDU to the previous driver, and report it to NVIDIA with your GPU, game and settings.

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  9. Yara
    @yara_pixel

    ahh classic for me it was teh cable.. 😂 swapped it and boom, fixed good luck man!

    it works on my machine™

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  10. Quinn
    @quinnp547

    spent 20 minutes on forceware and im still not done

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  11. Quinn
    @quinnp547

    lol same thing happened to me check that the driver isntall didnt reset your control panel settings (power management mode, low latency mode, V-Sync, frame caps). A clean install rseets everything to defaults, which can feel like a performance change. fingers crossed 🤞

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  12. Vik
    @vike840
    in reply to @quinnp547

    after a driver update, 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 the control panel / %LocalAppData% cache folder and let it rebuild once.

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  14. Bram N.
    @pingfox

    been there man +1 same here

    day one patch is bigger than the actual game, classic

    lol

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  15. Yara
    @yara_pixel
    Accepted solution

    hmmm 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 isn't enough.

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  16. Ava S.
    @avas405
    in reply to @yara_pixel

    @yara_pixel The game had dropped back to the integrated GPU. Set it to High perfromance and a strategy game runs better than before. Wow.

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