computer slow after GPU driver update

[Flyingsloth]

system specs:

CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x

RAM: Trident z neo 16gb ddr4 3600mhz

GPU: 1080 ti founders edition

PSU: corsair rm850x

Motherboard: Asus ROG strix b450-f

 

I am having trouble updating the drivers of my 1080 ti. every time I attempt to update to the latest version my pc slows to a crawl (I got about a frame every few seconds on my desktop just moving my mouse around and no matter how long I wait it does not fix itself) and have to revert the changes in windows safe mode to roll back the driver version to 456.71 and it will work completely fine again. This happens regardless of if I do a clean install or even use DDU to uninstall drivers first. I have even completely wiped everything on my pc and freshly installed windows. If I swap in my old 1050 ti the driver update will work perfectly fine, but when swapping the 1080 ti back as soon as the drivers kick in it will slow back to a crawl. This happens with all drivers past 456.71 now. I'm afraid my GPU may be dying in some way, but I'm out of ideas on what to try to get any new versions of drivers. I have been ignoring this problem for the most part for the last year or so until today when I now get visual artifacts in Elden ring and I assume its because I'm on stuck such an old driver version. What else can I do? swapping the 1080 ti into a completely different computer yields these same results.

 

 

[Bingus_Bongus]

It's the card, if it's doing it in multiple systems it's the hardware itself. That would be good news to me because you know the point of failure. How old is the card?

[191x7]

You could try separating the power, using one 8-pin from one cable and the 6-pin from another if you're running both the 8-pin and 6-pin from the same cable.

And lowering the GPU/VRAM clocks.

[Flyingsloth]

52 minutes ago, Bingus_Bongus said:

It's the card, if it's doing it in multiple systems it's the hardware itself. That would be good news to me because you know the point of failure. How old is the card?

The card is going on 4 years old now. I'm hoping it's not the card because I don't want to have to replace a gpu in this market.

[Flyingsloth]

49 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

You could try separating the power, using one 8-pin from one cable and the 6-pin from another if you're running both the 8-pin and 6-pin from the same cable.

And lowering the GPU/VRAM clocks.

I switched it to use one 8 pin and one 6 pin from different slots on the PSU and nothing has changed. Unfortunately I think it is just the card.

[Vishera]

56 minutes ago, Bingus_Bongus said:

It's the card, if it's doing it in multiple systems it's the hardware itself. That would be good news to me because you know the point of failure. How old is the card?

 

51 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

You could try separating the power, using one 8-pin from one cable and the 6-pin from another if you're running both the 8-pin and 6-pin from the same cable.

And lowering the GPU/VRAM clocks.

 

If the card works fine with older driver versions,how can it be a hardware issue?

Why outright rule out the software as the cause?

 

EDIT:

It seems like you are not the only one with that issue:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/402344/games-stuttering-since-45671-/?topicPage=2

 

It seems to affect only Pascal GPUs,but it doesn't necessarily mean that all Pascal cards out there are affected.

[Flyingsloth]

16 minutes ago, Vishera said:

 

 

If the card works fine with older driver versions,how can it be a hardware issue?

Why outright rule out the software as the cause?

 

EDIT:

It seems like you are not the only one with that issue:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/402344/games-stuttering-since-45671-/?topicPage=2

 

It seems to affect only Pascal GPUs,but it doesn't necessarily mean that all Pascal cards out there are affected.

Those problems are very similar, but for me it starts as soon as I boot into windows and refuses to launch basically any application. That's why I did a clean install of windows because I thought maybe it was an OS issue. Unfortunately, that did not fix it.

[191x7]

Just a quick question, using the latest chipset drivers and board bios?

[Flyingsloth]

13 hours ago, 191x7 said:

Just a quick question, using the latest chipset drivers and board bios?

I just updated them both to be sure and after using ddu and trying to install the new drivers, it is still behaving the same as before. No luck there.

[Flyingsloth]

A minor update: I was able to update from driver version 456.71 which was released in October 2020 to 472.12 which released September 2021. Everything functions normally, however, I still cannot update to anywhere near the latest drivers.

[AlBear]

Any more updates on this? I'm struggling with the exact same problem on a 1070 card. I don't mind rolling back for now but I'm sure the inevitable will happen, and a game will require the latest updates to function normally. It also kick started something in my PC to go to a black screen (audio still plays for a couple of seconds), before completely locking up and fans going at max. Some diagnostics has seemed to help this, but having the latest drivers would surely fix all.

Have not had a problem before the driver update (one from November/December), and rolling back sorts the lag/freezing issue.

[Flyingsloth]

On 3/21/2022 at 10:11 AM, AlBear said:

Any more updates on this? I'm struggling with the exact same problem on a 1070 card. I don't mind rolling back for now but I'm sure the inevitable will happen, and a game will require the latest updates to function normally. It also kick started something in my PC to go to a black screen (audio still plays for a couple of seconds), before completely locking up and fans going at max. Some diagnostics has seemed to help this, but having the latest drivers would surely fix all.

Have not had a problem before the driver update (one from November/December), and rolling back sorts the lag/freezing issue.

No, I was never able to fix it. I plan on buying a new graphics card pretty soon to replace this one that isn't functioning properly.