PC Performance Issue with Nvidia Driver.

[sgtDiggle]

I have a strange issue that i have resolved, but am not happy how i resolved it. I am wondering if anyone has seen this before and maybe knows how i can fix it for good. 

 

PC Specs:

Ryzen 7 7800X3D

ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI

Corsair DDR 5 6000mhz

Gigabyte AORUS RTX 4080 SUPER Master

SeaSonic Prime 1000W Platinum Power supply. 

Windows 11 Home x64

 

The Problem that I'm having is that with the Full version of the NVIDIA driver install (downloaded from their website) with the  NVIDIA App installed, windows and games display to my monitor as if its only 10FPS. Its really the only way i can explain it. The mouse hitches across the screen, things take forever to display when i click on them etc. While running a game, dosnt matter which game, the Steam FPS counter says 120FPS, but the game feels like 10. After rebooting and using the NVIDIA stats, it to says the game is running at 120FPS, but it feels like 10fps. 

 

I don't have another system to test the card in, however I have done the following:

 

Fresh install

New NVM-E drive

Bios and firmware are all up to date for motherboard and GPU

Factory defaulted my Bios and ran no EXPO

 

Nothing worked. 

 

HOWEVER, i noticed that when i booted my Ubuntu drive, i had zero issues. Games ran better than in windows (Proton is really doing well these days) and it was 100% solid. 

 

This lead me to my current solution. I discovered NVCleanstall. I used DDU to remove any trace of the drivers from my system, then using NVCleanstall i installed just the BASE needs for my GPU to work. The Driver, Physics, and the Control Panel (Classic). It also disables MPO. This fixed EVERYTHING. I have zero issues. But i cant run the new NVIDIA APP. I cant take advantage of injecting the latest version of DLSS into the games i play etc. I am not mad about this solution.. but annoyed. This was an expensive build, and i feel i should get everything i can from it. 

 

for more Context, the issue arose after Driver Version 550, or roughly around the launch of the 50 Series cards. I do try to install it completely every driver release, but so far it just reverts back to my issue and i need to use DDU and NVCleanstall to install the bare version of the update. 

 

I guess my question is, has anyone seen this before and have a fix that i can try? Am I stuck just running the bare version of the drivers? Or should i be contacting Gigabyte about RMA for the GPU? I am starting to wonder if the GPU may have an issue that is only seen with the full install of the driver. 

 

I have attached a screen shot of the only components i am able to install. 

 

[porina]

Not experienced it myself, and I'm running latest drivers on 30, 40 and 50 series GPUs.

 

I do recall early on there were some reports of performance drop when Nvidia App was running, and the workaround for that was to disable some features in it. Think it was related to filters being enabled even if not used. They made it default disabled as workaround and I don't know if they've made any further fixes since then since I've not heard any more about it. Lack of noise doesn't mean no problem now, but certainly I'm not hearing masses scream about it.

 

That wouldn't necessarily explain your experience either. It's hard to comment further without at least seeing it. If you want to put your system in that state again, which I know will be a pain, I'd also run some monitoring and task manger and see what else the system is doing at the time in case that gives a clue what is going on. Maybe it is something else interacting with it.

[GuiltySpark_]

13 minutes ago, porina said:

I do recall early on there were some reports of performance drop when Nvidia App was running, and the workaround for that was to disable some features in it.

Yeah that was the Overlay and Filters options and IIRC that was fixed quite a while ago at this point.

 

42 minutes ago, sgtDiggle said:

I guess my question is, has anyone seen this before and have a fix that i can try?

Unfortunately no, and I've been someone who jumps on every new driver and NVApp release day one. We went through a really rough patch early in the year but the last few releases have been fine in my experience. 

 

In situations like this I find i'm able to discern more and more inforamtion about what might be causing a problem by putting myself back into the same situation and experimenting with different things. If i believed it was NVapp related i'd play with settings in it and try to see if anything changes. Just things like enabling/disabling GSync, switching from 8 to 10 bit mode and back, etc..