I've started to have huge frame drops on League of Legends, Lethal Company, etc - all the way down to 1 FPS. I am mostly sure this is because of my GPU. This happens with League constantly, but barely ever with Valorant and I've heard that's more CPU heavy. This mainly happened after I reverted to windows 10 from 11.
When I upgraded to Win11 to try to fix a different issue (my monitors turning off since my GPU would get disconnected - I just had to re-seat my GPU), I had a bad experience with Win11 and then I reverted. After I reverted, the FPS drop issue would happen and sometimes when ALT + TABing, my screen would go black for a couple seconds before showing any other programs. “Lockdown Protocol” is another game I played today that was also unplayable at times due to the drop to almost a frozen screen. . I also started noticing that during my large frame drops, my GPU usage in task manager spikes downwards from about 30-40% to 5 - 10%. This is a list of things I've tried:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz
RAM: 32.0 GB
Storage (3): SSD - 465.8 GB,SSD - 931.5 GB,+1 more
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Motherboard: MSI Z490 PLUS
When I upgraded to Win11 to try to fix a different issue (my monitors turning off since my GPU would get disconnected - I just had to re-seat my GPU), I had a bad experience with Win11 and then I reverted. After I reverted, the FPS drop issue would happen and sometimes when ALT + TABing, my screen would go black for a couple seconds before showing any other programs. “Lockdown Protocol” is another game I played today that was also unplayable at times due to the drop to almost a frozen screen. . I also started noticing that during my large frame drops, my GPU usage in task manager spikes downwards from about 30-40% to 5 - 10%. This is a list of things I've tried:
- Updating BIOS to latest MSI build
- DDU to completely re-install graphics drivers (except I opted to not delete GeForce experience so I could easily re-install the drivers after restart)
- This one was an attempt to fix the prior disconnection problem, but I had overclocked my GPU using MSI afterburner, then once re-seating fixed it, I set it back
- Reset settings in NVIDIA control panel
- Reinstalling drivers inside GeForce experience
- Tried a new display port cord
- Re-installing windows 11 (went back again after as I saw it didn’t fix it)
- Disabling the 'FreeSync' setting on my sceptre monitor
- I had minimal testing with an hdmi cord at 60 fps, and it seemed slightly more stable than with the display port at 144fps, but still had drops
- Change NVIDIA settings to maximize performance and increase shader cache size.
- Checked temperatures and all temperatures were normal
- Resetting my PC and only keeping personal files
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz
RAM: 32.0 GB
Storage (3): SSD - 465.8 GB,SSD - 931.5 GB,+1 more
GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Motherboard: MSI Z490 PLUS
