My Zotac gtx 970....

[Obdy]

So, i'm sorry if this is not the place for this Topic, feel free to move it, and i'm also sorry for the misspelled words i'll use, haven't writen a proper essay in english in like 8 years.
With that said, my precious gtx970 from Zotac is having performance drops. I used to play Dark Souls 3 and The Witcher 3 at nearly constant 60 fps at max specs at 1080p, now i get drops as low as 1fps on DS3 while W3 sometimes crashes with a glorious cinamon colored screen.
I have no idea what to do, tried looking this issue online, and drivers incompatibilities are far prior to my driver version (376.33).

 

I'm thinking of just using the 2years warranty and change it, but i'd like to know if it is actually the gpu or something else.

[WkdPaul]

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[m0k]

5 minutes ago, Obdy said:

and drivers incompatibilities are far prior to my driver version (376.33)

what do you mean by this?

[COUPER MILLAR]

have you tried rolling back to a previous driver?

edit: as in back to the last time  you didn't have issues?

[Obdy]

7 minutes ago, mok said:

what do you mean by this?

there were driver issues, but with older versions, not the current one

 

8 minutes ago, COUPER MILLAR said:

have you tried rolling back to a previous driver?

edit: as in back to the last time  you didn't have issues?

yep i tried, didn't worked 

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, Obdy said:

there were driver issues, but with older versions, not the current one

 

yep i tried, didn't worked 

I honestly don't think this is a driver issue, are the temps of the card fine? Did you overclocked it?

What PSU feeds your 970?

[Obdy]

7 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I honestly don't think this is a driver issue, are the temps of the card fine? Did you overclocked it?

What PSU feeds your 970?

First things that came into my mind, I only get past 70° on synthetic benchmarks (heavens and valley) while gaming i saty on say 62/63.
Wattage can not be a problem, it would have showed up earlyer since i had an almost yearlong flawless gaming experience (I have a 600watt modular psu from corsair)
As for OC i did apply the default 3d profile from firestorm, wich gave me 60-58 fps on The Witcher isntead of 54-50

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, Obdy said:

First things that came into my mind, I only get past 70° on synthetic benchmarks (heavens and valley) while gaming i saty on say 62/63.
Wattage can not be a problem, it would have showed up earlyer since i had an almost yearlong flawless gaming experience (I have a 600watt modular psu from corsair)
As for OC i did apply the default 3d profile from firestorm, wich gave me 60-58 fps on The Witcher isntead of 54-50

Well... if the basics seem alright the processing unit might be starting to show signals of exhaustion, don't lose this warranty time if a full clean up of drivers with DDU and reinstall of the latest not beta drivers does not fix it then you should strongly consider calling the warranty.

[Obdy]

3 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Well... if the basics seem alright the processing unit might be starting to show signals of exhaustion, don't lose this warranty time if a full clean up of drivers with DDU and reinstall of the latest not beta drivers does not fix it then you should strongly consider calling the warranty.

guess i'll give DDU a try.
Ty

[m0k]

i know Witcher is a really demanding game

Can you confirm the game isnt using more than 3.5gb of VRAM ? if it is then this could be the common GTX 970 Vram issue

The only way to address this problem would be for your to turn down the game settings so it fits within 3.5gb of vram usage

 

[Obdy]

51 minutes ago, mok said:

i know Witcher is a really demanding game

Can you confirm the game isnt using more than 3.5gb of VRAM ? if it is then this could be the common GTX 970 Vram issue

The only way to address this problem would be for your to turn down the game settings so it fits within 3.5gb of vram usage

 

I'll quote myself :"  i had an almost yearlong flawless gaming experience "
if it was Vram, it would had studdered/went fps droping from the begining. btw the only setting i keep low is AA: at x8 the 970 can only deliver about 20/30 fps in my case (#still better than console?). 

[Obdy]

8 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Well... if the basics seem alright the processing unit might be starting to show signals of exhaustion, don't lose this warranty time if a full clean up of drivers with DDU and reinstall of the latest not beta drivers does not fix it then you should strongly consider calling the warranty.

Ok so it turns out that u have to wipe off registry data in order to make it work, DDU did it and now i'm back to my good old 60fps 1080p gaming. ty for the tip, last time i manualy did it but didn't tought about the registry info.

[Princess Luna]

9 minutes ago, Obdy said:

Ok so it turns out that u have to wipe off registry data in order to make it work, DDU did it and now i'm back to my good old 60fps 1080p gaming. ty for the tip, last time i manualy did it but didn't tought about the registry info.

Glad to help [: