GPU Performance Issue // Crashing

[Nighlex]

TLDR: games crash and have lower frames than normal, why?

 

So I updated my drivers last night, ever since my 2060's performance has been at best half what it was in Forza Horizon 5 and Spider-Man at 100% GPU utilization. Spider-Man will still run but crashes occasionally, but Forza can't get past the autoshow menu before crashing. Haven't tried any other games yet.

Never had any issue like this before, or any issue with this GPU actually. Bought in November 2020. 

Wondering what the most common causes of this might be? 

 

Full specs:

Ryzen 7 3700x w/ Stock Cooler

Gigabyte Aorus B550 Wifi

32gb 3200mhz Corsair Vengence RGB

Gigabyte Aorus 2060 

Corsair RM650x Gold PSU

1tb Samsung 970 Evo

1tb Kingston m.2

4tb Seagate Barracuda HDD

All from Nov 2020 except the Kingston m.2 and the RAM bought Dec 2023.

 

[SkilledRebuilds]

Have you considered uninstalling the drivers, and using a different set/prior version than the current one.

 

https://www.nvidia.com/download/find.aspx (select Desktop RTX 2060)

Their site allows you to seek out older drivers.

They occasionally run into new issues on new drivers, rolling back can help.

I'd also get familiar with DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) AFTER ALREADY uninstalling the normal way to remove junk leftovers from the uninstall.
 

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