- 1/4/21 - Noticed that Nvidia had released a new driver about a month ago and decided to update everything
- Updated, rebooted, relaunched Cold War to get the shaders reinstalled
- Saw my frames drop from 144 fps down to 5-12 fps, and then ultimately the game crashed
- Launched Warzone/Modern Warfare, same thing.
- After multiple 'Safe Mode' launches of both games, the shaders finally finished installing
- Menus and images are not fully populating, simply moving the mouse cause the frames to dip completely
- If you don't navigate the menus, showing anywhere from 20-30 fps (Still incredibly low)
- Once you start clicking and moving the mouse, frames drop entirely until the game ultimately crashes
- Ran 'Scan and Repair' via Blizzard client on both game files, nothing was found
- Uninstalled and reinstalled both games, same frame drops and crashing
- Ran DDU and installed consecutive Nvidia drivers dating back to a year ago, and testing each time to see if any were successful, same results with each
- Completely tanked all graphic settings in both games to as low as you can go, same frame drops and eventual software crash
- Monitoring software shows 0% - 1% GPU usage when running Cold War / Warzone / Modern Warfare (GPU is set to default graphics processor for both games, inside and outside of the software)
- Running other games, 90%+ GPU usage, which leads me to believe this is specific to Blizzard/COD communicating with the GPU
- Checked forums, Nvidia support sites, Reddit, no one else is having this specific issue
- Lots of people complained about losing frames but they were all losing maybe 10-20 fps, not all of the frames
- People recommended rolling back the drivers, which I detailed above with no success
- System: i5-9600K 3.7GHz / 16 GB RAM / MSi Twin Frozr 7 GEFORCE RTX 2070 Super
