GTX 970 Low Uage

[Silent Assassin]

So I have had my GTX 970 for about 9 months and when I first got it it was fine at playing games such as TF2, CSGO, Minecraft but over the last few months these games which once used to run fine now run like s***. The odd thing is that more demanding games such as GTA V will run perfectly fine with no usage spikes but the less demanding games will spike in GPU usage.

 

I will post some solutions which I have tried so far so that you don't waste your time posting solutions I have tried:

.I have set nvidia control panel so that power management is set to max performance

.I have tried running in safe mode 

.I have tried manually uninstalling the drivers as well as using DDU

.I have tried using both vsync on and off

 

I'm running out of ideas on what to do and this is driving me crazy since it seems to make no logical sense to me. Any help is much appreciated.

 

Minecraft Usage: https://gyazo.com/04d9aeea470188892d319962b6542242

 

Specs:

CPU: i7 4790K

CPU Cooler: H100i

Mobo: AsRock Z97 Extreme 4

Ram:16GB Corsair Pro 1866 (2X8GB)

HDD:2TB Seagate 7200RPM

SSD:Samsung 120GB

GPU:Asus Strix GTX 970

Case:NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition

PSU:EVGA 850W Gold

 

OS:Windows 10 Home

[AlexisWiiu]

I know some of the latest versions of MC have been pretty bad in terms of performance. Have you tried running earlier versions and seen if the issue still persists? Also make sure you have Java 8, not 7.

[Silent Assassin]

I know some of the latest versions of MC have been pretty bad in terms of performance. Have you tried running earlier versions and seen if the issue still persists? Also make sure you have Java 8, not 7.

 

Thanks for the reply. By running on the last known version which I knew worked it has fixed minecraft but obviously not CSGO or TF2. Almost seems like its only with source games but it used to work fine which suggests some kind of update has caused it. But then I could just be trying to think in a logical way

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