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Solved CS:GO breaking my GPU drivers

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Hey everyone

So recently ive been playing CS:GO until one day i got a crash, the game froze, the audio was stuttering a crazy amount and alot of stuff didnt function but my display did work fine and wasnt stuttering.

I restarted my pc and everything was fine until i tried running csgo one more time, this time it ran perfectly fine and i carried on.

A day later i went to see why my gpu fans were spinning on idle, thats when i realised my GPU was on 100% on idle
A process named Windows Desktop Manager seemed to be making my gpu go to 100% on idle.

I reinstalled the driver since i knew 80% of time for me a corrupted driver was the cause for that since i dont really update any of my drivers if they work fine (i don't play many new games so I don't need to)

I ran CS:GO a day later and it crashed again. This time i couldnt exit out, nothing worked, so i signed out with CTRL+ALT+DEL and i carried on with the Windows Desktop Manager again going back at it with the 100% on idle.

I reinstalled again, the device manager does not tell me that i can roll back my drivers so i carried on playing other games.

Today, I tried running CS:GO once again with everything working fine (other games work fine for 6 hours straight without causing this problem)

as soon as i launched the game (on accident since i was putting it on performance on the Geforce Experience app)

I left and checked my task manager, GPU 100%

I reinstalled drivers again for the 3rd time and it works fine again with other games working just how a game should work (desktop window manager does not use my gpu after playing other games)

My GPU is a 3070ti and im running windows 10 so i have the requirements to play it

This is either CS:GO that is causing this issue or the driver itself.

(The GPU is 5-6 months old and its not failing when im playing a game with extreme graphics where my GPU goes 100% for a few hours)
 
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What is the brand and model name or number of the PSU.

Download then run Speccy (free) and post the resultant url for us, details here, this will provide us with information about your computer hardware + any software that you have installed that may explain the present issue/s.

To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.
 
Thank you for letting us know that you were able to get it resolved.

So others can benefit can you explain on the how you discovered this?
Fans were spinning loud enough for me to hear it so i checked in task manager if my temps were high and why, my gpu was running 100% and i checked what was doing it.

I found windows desktop manager using it and i know its a gpu driver malfunction so i knew the game had to do something with drivers.

I tried different drivers until it stopped causing the problem.
 
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