FPS Drops 436.02 Nvidia

[ThreePeenSoup]

Since I downloaded 436.02 for my 1080 I've had massive fps drops across all games. 

I've tried:
 

Resetting BIOS to check if it's the OC settings
Rolled back every win 1803 update since July

Used DDU to uninstall nvidia drivers and installed: 431.60, 431.36, 431.70 The further back I went the worse it got.
Manually installed win 1903 with zero issues

I've used HCI memtest + memtest86 no issues
I can run benchmarks all day but in game it stutters and drops MASSIVELY.  Using the witcher 3, gta v, and bfv to test these drops.  After 1903 update the drops were worse.

I'm at a loss.  It's either a problem with windows or a problem with the nvidia driver but at this point I can't even use my PC for its purpose.  Pretty stupid.  Low latency was set to off by default in nvidia control panel, but I think it's bugged.

 

Anyone having similar issues?  I do a google search and there are a few people having issues reported on the nvidia site.  Problem is their search results show you the title of relevant posts but when you click the link it takes you to a post from 4 years ago.  I currently have both win 10 and nvidia drivers up to date. 

[Skiiwee29]

Full system specs? All the games you listed are Heavily CPU bound games. 

[ThreePeenSoup]

Yea I know they do, that's why I used them to test this problem thinking it was the super hardcore 4.5ghz OC I was testing, but it wasn't.

 

8700k 4.4ghz 1.26v

Maximus X formula

EVGA 1080 FTW 2

EVGA GQ 1000w

16gb (8x2) gskill tridentz 3000mhz 16-18-18-38

Samsung 970 evo 500gb 

Toshiba whatever it is 1tb HDD + 16gb intel optane

 

I don't know how much more troubleshooting I can do on my hardware. Everything checks out fine.

[jones177]

GTX 1080s are driver sensitive. Mine was anyway.

I rolled back drivers all the time with it. When I upgraded to a 1080 ti I never had to roll back drivers.

[ThreePeenSoup]

20 minutes ago, alatron978 said:

Benchmark the performance of each individual component. (ram, cpu, gpu)

 

I don't know how much more troubleshooting I can do on my hardware. Everything checks out fine.

 

I'm also not the only one having this issue.  Google it if you have to, there's a few posts on nvidia forums with no information about a fix.

Changing low latency mode from off to on/ultra didn't do anything.

[ThreePeenSoup]

22 minutes ago, jones177 said:

GTX 1080s are driver sensitive. Mine was anyway.

I rolled back drivers all the time with it. When I upgraded to a 1080 ti I never had to roll back drivers.

Never had an issue until about Aug 20th 2019.

[jones177]

28 minutes ago, TheNoid said:

Never had an issue until about Aug 20th 2019.

I bought 2 GTX 1080s in August 2016.

One was EVGA 1080 SC and the other was a Gigabyte Xtreme. 

 

I rolled back the drivers 3 times in the first year owning the EVGA card.  All the roll backs were to remove stutter. I replaced it in May 2018 with a 1080 ti.

The Gigabyte had to be rolled back once but suffered from driver crashes. I replaced it in August 2018 with a 1080 ti.

 

Since I have more than one gaming computer, switching out cards for testing is easy. So the EVGA card started having driver crashes and the Gigabyte would stutter if I updated drivers after switching them out.  My conclusion was that the type of issues I got were motherboard related since both computers had different motherboards.

 

The problems went away with the 1080 ti upgrades so I basically threw money at the problam to get rid of it.

 

 

 

[ThreePeenSoup]

21 minutes ago, jones177 said:

I bought 2 GTX 1080s in August 2016.

One was EVGA 1080 SC and the other was a Gigabyte Xtreme. 

 

I rolled back the drivers 3 times in the first year owning the EVGA card.  All the roll backs were to remove stutter. I replaced it in May 2018 with a 1080 ti.

The Gigabyte had to be rolled back once but suffered from driver crashes. I replaced it in August 2018 with a 1080 ti.

 

Since I have more than one gaming computer, switching out cards for testing is easy. So the EVGA card started having driver crashes and the Gigabyte would stutter if I updated drivers after switching them out.  My conclusion was that the type of issues I got were motherboard related since both computers had different motherboards.

 

The problems went away with the 1080 ti upgrades so I basically threw money at the problam to get rid of it.

 

 

 

Ok.