950 Performance Goes Down By A Lot

[arielbeje]

Yesterday, I helped my friend to buy and install an EVGA 950 SC. It worked fine, ran NUNS4(for example) perfectly.

Today it lags all the time. Fps just drops(on all of the games). I checked the temperatures and even made a higher fan curve to try and fix it(it wasn't that good but I fixed it).

Any ideas?

 

Edit:

His build:

i5-6400

Generic Case+500W PSU(Case Hero 30?)

MSI H170M pro-vdh

1x8GB 2400Mhz Patriot RAM

1TB Toshiba 7200RPM HDD

+EVGA 950 SC

Edited March 11, 2016 by arielbeje
Forgot his build.

[Shantanu_PC]

Are the drivers updated?
Nvidia drivers were known to be awesome until recently. They've been shying away from the driver development team and are focusing on the lagging Pascal lineup of GPUs.

 

[Shantanu_PC]

It may even be the VRAM limitation.
Check for the benchmarks online of the game.

[arielbeje]

Just now, Shantanu_PC said:

Are the drivers updated?
Nvidia drivers were known to be awesome until recently. They've been shying away from the driver development team and are focusing on the lagging Pascal lineup of GPUs.

 

Well, I guess since he just got a dGPU and we downloaded the drivers from the Nvidia site

[arielbeje]

2 minutes ago, Shantanu_PC said:

It may even be the VRAM limitation.
Check for the benchmarks online of the game.

What do you mean by VRAM limitation?

It worked fine on my GPU(980ti).

[Vercii]

Check drivers and power options. 

[arielbeje]

Just now, Vercii said:

Check drivers and power options. 

The drivers are updated. What do you mean by power options?

[Vercii]

Windows has these settings that will either help you conserve power and reduce your PC performance or make it go max performance without limits. Go to start, search for power options, and then make sure it's set to high performance. 

[arielbeje]

1 hour ago, Vercii said:

Windows has these settings that will either help you conserve power and reduce your PC performance or make it go max performance without limits. Go to start, search for power options, and then make sure it's set to high performance. 

OK, I tried that, I'll mark it solved if it worked.

Edit:

Thanks! It worked.

Edited March 11, 2016 by arielbeje
It worked.