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Performance drop plus a crash: is my ForceWare Driver install half broken?

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  1. Clara F.
    @claraf686

    smth's off... a strategy game feels sluggish since the ForceWare 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 gaming desktop, ive restarted, reinstalled the game, and turned off recording, before I go back to the old driver, is there something I should check first? I would also like to understand how to measure this properly, because right now I am mostly going on feel and an FPS counter in the corner of teh screen. seriously need help here 馃槶

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  2. Pia Haddad
    @piah628

    uhh is it lower average FPS, or mainly stutter?

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  4. Pia Haddad
    @piah628

    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 sahder cache manually in the control panel / %LocalAppData% cache folder and let it rebuild once. worked for me anyway 馃し

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  5. Pia Haddad
    @piah628

    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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  6. Eamon Ziegler
    @ember_sprite

    to measure properly, use a repeatable in-game benchmark or the same route, log frame times with a tool like PresentMon or CapFrameX, and compare average and 1% lows on both drivers xD one run each isnt enough. worked for me anyway 馃し

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  7. Yara Grant
    @yara.grant56

    oh also how is this thread still going lmao

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  8. Eamon Ziegler
    @ember_sprite

    hmm idk frame time tools are great but honestly if it feels worse and teh old driver feels better, rolling back is a valid fix too. just my 2 cents

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