Can't figure out why my GPU is being so bad..

[PampaZiya]

GTX 860M: I tried everything.. Re-installing drivers and everything, watching temps (But the GPU temps lately are fine, my CPU temps get a lil high) but I lost SO much performance lately.. I used to play BF4 on high with no AA.. I'm playing it on medium/ low now.. Even Geforce experience optimal settings is now EVERYTHING low !

[AlTech]

PLEASE TAKE NOTE

 

It's called PLANED OBSOLESCENCE. It's when a company downgrades your performance of a device or component over time in order for you to buy a new one. 

[KraftDinner]

GTX 860M: I tried everything.. Re-installing drivers and everything, watching temps (But the GPU temps lately are fine, my CPU temps get a lil high) but I lost SO much performance lately.. I used to play BF4 on high with no AA.. I'm playing it on medium/ low now.. Even Geforce experience optimal settings is now EVERYTHING low !

Have you taken a look at the performance monitor? close down all applications and run performance monitor on your GPU, if usage looks higher than it should be there are a couple possibilities but I would say one of the biggest possibilities is malware. It's not rare to find malware that uses your GPU's processing power for things such as bitcoin mining etc.. this could have been caused by a download too so just check the performance and run an antivirus scan (AVG, malwarebytes, or anything else you would trust). Sorry but that's all I got, hope this helps!

 

-KD

[Gale]

Try installing an older driver.

[PampaZiya]

Try installing an older driver.

 

Know what, I'll install the driver for BF4 and try that out. I installed an older driver before but didn't work.. But now I'll roll back to the Bf4 one

[Enderman]

PLEASE TAKE NOTE

 

It's called PLANED OBSOLESCENCE. It's when a company downgrades your performance of a device or component over time in order for you to buy a new one. 

1) nvidia does not purposefully degrade performance on older GPUs

2) drivers almost always improve performance even for older generations of GPUs

3) there are people using 200 and 400 series GPUs with no performance issues, and even older nvidia GPUs too

4) the 860m is ONE generation old only

5) you cannot replace a laptop GPU because its soldered onto the motherboard

6) OP's issue is not that the 860m is bad, something is wrong with his hardware and driver configuration

[AlTech]

1) nvidia does not purposefully degrade performance on older GPUs

2) drivers almost always improve performance even for older generations of GPUs

3) there are people using 200 and 400 series GPUs with no performance issues, and even older nvidia GPUs too

4) the 860m is ONE generation old only

5) you cannot replace a laptop GPU because its soldered onto the motherboard

6) OP's issue is not that the 860m is bad, something is wrong with his hardware and driver configuration

Great job my 770 performs worse than when i bought it. So did my friends 680. And so did another friend's 650

[PampaZiya]

1) nvidia does not purposefully degrade performance on older GPUs

2) drivers almost always improve performance even for older generations of GPUs

3) there are people using 200 and 400 series GPUs with no performance issues, and even older nvidia GPUs too

4) the 860m is ONE generation old only

5) you cannot replace a laptop GPU because its soldered onto the motherboard

6) OP's issue is not that the 860m is bad, something is wrong with his hardware and driver configuration

 

I'm not sure if it's hardware problem or not. I'm trying an older driver maybe the one I have now (even though i reinstalled it like 5 times and same problems) is not good. 

 

Like seriously, I'm watching other people on youtube with 860M getting wayyyy higher fps than me on higher settings and I'm here playing on Low on BF4 to get 60fps. 

[Enderman]

Great job my 770 performs worse than when i bought it. So did my friends 680. And so did another friend's 650

That's probably because you either don't clean and replace the thermal paste properly or because you don't do a clean install every year or two

My 770 performs the same and so does my 460SE since day 1

[don_svetlio]

Great job my 770 performs worse than when i bought it. So did my friends 680. And so did another friend's 650

My 280 is performing quite a bit better than when it launched as a 7950 in 2011/2012.

[asker509]

1) nvidia does not purposefully degrade performance on older GPUs

2) drivers almost always improve performance even for older generations of GPUs

3) there are people using 200 and 400 series GPUs with no performance issues, and even older nvidia GPUs too

4) the 860m is ONE generation old only

5) you cannot replace a laptop GPU because its soldered onto the motherboard

6) OP's issue is not that the 860m is bad, something is wrong with his hardware and driver configuration

This is for mobile gpus tho I know several people who had worse performance over time with mobile gpus in cases very similar to this

I'm not sure what it is tho I would try older drivers