LostCoast707

Sorry. No, that's not what I meant. It quit working at full utilization. As in games that used to run at good frame rates at a given setting that also was taking full advantage of my GPU, now are running horrible frame rates and my GPU utilization is running at 33% or less. The only exception is in cut scenes, it will run at 100% or near utilization. But as soon as the game play starts, utilization drops way off and frame rates stutter terribly.

My laptop has a GTX 980m and just recently the GPU quit working at its full capacity. For the last couple weeks, the GPU usage has been showing 20-70% usage in games that previously used to push the GPU much harder. Temps are running in the 60's to high 70's and frame rates that used to be in 50-60+ fps range are now running in the teens to low 20's. It is doing this across several games. The only games that would let the GPU run lightly previously were ones with capped frame rates and older titles that weren't stressful on the GPU. Newer titles and games that let it run as hard as it could go, would have the GPU usage pegged at high 90% range. I've updated drivers but can't think of any other reason that would be causing this. If my frame rates weren't such horribly low numbers, it wouldnt be a problem. But running frame rates in the teens isnt working. Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks.