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Yeah, I'm pretty positive it has to be the driver as it was the only thing (other than BF1 itself) that changed between the time my older games were working and when they started dropping frames. The two things I'm most confused about are why it would only do it to older, and theoretically less challenging, titles but not the new ones and even more so why the toggling stuff fixes it after a few tries (but not the first!). Seems like those patterns make little sense, especially the "fix."

Ok--so I downloaded Battlefield 1 on Friday, and to play it I had to download nVidia's latest driver. Now BF1 works perfectly--but my older games that use to run flawlessly are launching with frame rates of 11 or 12. What's even weirder is how I've been fixing it--I have to go into the graphics settings and flip back and forth some indefinite number of times between 5760x1080 and 1920x1080 resolutions. Sometimes I also have to toggle between windowed, borderless, and fullscreen. But so far--that has worked on every one of the old games that are struggling. How many toggles of the settings it takes to make it do it has been inconsistent, but I'd say probably no more than 2 or 3 times on each setting so far. After that--the game jumps right back up to 60fps (all I need with 60 hz monitors) and doesn't have any further problems at all. That is, until I close it and launch it again. Then the whole process starts over. Does anybody know what could be causing this? I've got an i7 6700k, gtx1070, 32 GB of ram, plenty of hard drive space, and am using three 60hz dell s2415h monitors.

So in case this is happening to anyone else, I've gotten this issue in nearly every one of my old games now. I still don't know what's causing it or what a permanent fix would be, but on every title I've gotten the same thing to work eventually. Toggling between resolutions and windowed/fullscreen modes will eventually force it up to 60 again.

So--I downloaded the demo of Battlefield 1 that EA is offering through Origin yesterday. After downloading, it made me download a new driver from nVidia to support the game. I have a i7, 32GB RAM, gtx1070 system and the games running smoothly at 60fps now. Unfortunately--none of my other games seem to be playable anymore. Dirt 3 and Xenoverse, for instance, were running great before but are now getting about 11 FPS each. Not sure what to do from here--can anyone help?

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