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a competitive shooter used to be smooth. then i updated geforce graphics driver

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  1. Maya Quintero
    @mayaq873

    something's off. a competitive shooter feels sluggish since the GeForce Graphics Driver update and the FPS counter agrees with me.

    Fatal error

    Fatal error
The game has crashed and will now close.

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
The GPU device instance has been suspended.

    that crash happened once too 🤦 im on a budget build. ive restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off recording, before I go back to teh old driver, is there something I should check first? I would also like to understand how to measure this properly, cuz right now I am mostly going on feel and an FPS counter in teh corner of teh screen. what am i doing wrong??

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  2. Malik Garcia
    @malikg555

    after a driver update, games often rebuild their shader cache, which causes stutter for teh 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.

    thinking

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  4. Ruben Wolfe
    @lambdawrangler

    To measure properly, use a repeatable in-game becnhmark or the 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. good luck man!

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  5. Greta L.
    @gretal195

    try turning off the cable first, fixed it for me

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  8. Greta L.
    @gretal195

    yeahhh check that the driver install didn't reset your 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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