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I’ve recently upgraded my graphics card from a asus r7 250x to a 1660ti, in few games for example mechanic simulator 2018, the fps has greatly increased, however in other games like fortnite, ark and gta, the frame rate has dropped to around 8fps where it was previously around 50. I’ve uninstalled previous amd drivers and installed new nvidia drivers. When installing nvidia drivers I did not choose to install the GeForce experience. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (I have a i3-7100 cpu)
 

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Maybe some games are CPU bound or you are running the games at higher settings?
 
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Download DDU and the latest driver.
disconnect from the internet (pull out your lan cable)
hold shift while pressing reboot, press troubleshooting, start options, restart.
when it asks what to do press 4 to boot into safe mode and open DDU.

run the GPU driver uninstall (and select uninstall and do nothing, NOT shutdown or restart.) for Nvidia and AMD.

after that reboot the PC, install the driver and plug your lan cable back in.
 

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Did you uninstall the amd display drivers ? as they need to be removed.

So if he did not will he need to run DDU twice ?, not used it for a while.
 

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Did you uninstall the amd display drivers ? as they need to be removed.

So if he did not will he need to run DDU twice ?, not used it for a while.
I did remove the amd drivers yes

Download DDU and the latest driver.
disconnect from the internet (pull out your lan cable)
hold shift while pressing reboot, press troubleshooting, start options, restart.
when it asks what to do press 4 to boot into safe mode and open DDU.

run the GPU driver uninstall (and select uninstall and do nothing, NOT shutdown or restart.) for Nvidia and AMD.

after that reboot the PC, install the driver and plug your lan cable back in.
I’ve just tried this and it hasn’t worked, thanks for the help though, do you have any other ideas? (Just in case this is helpful on fortnite, whether I’m on high or low settings I’m stuck on 7-8 fps)
 
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I did remove the amd drivers yes


I’ve just tried this and it hasn’t worked, thanks for the help though, do you have any other ideas? (Just in case this is helpful on fortnite, whether I’m on high or low settings I’m stuck on 7-8 fps)
beside that you are running a dual core CPU which is beyond obsolete.
i'd reinstall windows.
 

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beside that you are running a dual core CPU which is beyond obsolete.
i'd reinstall windows.
I don’t think the cpu is the problem as games were running fine before and I have not done anything to my cpu. Just wondering how I go about reinstalling windows?
 
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I don’t think the cpu is the problem as games were running fine before and I have not done anything to my cpu. Just wondering how I go about reinstalling windows?
download the media creation tool from microsoft and install windows to a USB Stick.
save relevant data, boot from the USB Stick and install it.
btw. nvidia has a pretty huge driver overhead when it comes to playing CPU bound games. and you still run a dual core.
 

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How much system ram do you have? can you list your full system specs?
 

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You can try to enable "hardware accelerated gpu scheduling" in windows under Graphic settings, that should help your CPU. Did you check if your video card is clocking to the right speeds while gaming? You should test with an benchmark like Superposition Benchmark and see if your card works at the right speed.

Edit: You should post a picture from GPU-Z and you can try to reset your bios maybe that will help. (and check if you have installed your GPU correctly in the slot and the power cable)
 
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I don’t think the cpu is the problem as games were running fine before and I have not done anything to my cpu. Just wondering how I go about reinstalling windows?
Ok fill out your system specs, dont assume the cpu is not the problem here

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How much system ram do you have? can you list your full system specs?
Cpu : i3 7100
Gpu : EVGA 1660to
RAM : 16gb
Motherboard : h110m-r
1tb ssd
Is there anything I’m missing (I don’t know my power supply)

You can try to enable "hardware accelerated gpu scheduling" in windows under Graphic settings, that should help your CPU. Did you check if your video card is clocking to the right speeds while gaming? You should test with an benchmark like Superposition Benchmark and see if your card works at the right speed.

Edit: You should post a picture from GPU-Z and you can try to reset your bios maybe that will help. (and check if you have installed your GPU correctly in the slot and the power cable)
In benchmark my fps ranged from 7 - 7.7 at medium settings, with a max Gpu utilization of 45%. I’ll do the other things later. Thanks
 

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Cpu : i3 7100
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Is there anything I’m missing (I don’t know my power supply)


In benchmark my fps ranged from 7 - 7.7 at medium settings, with a max Gpu utilization of 45%. I’ll do the other things later. Thanks
One more thing you might have to check are the temps during benchmark , maybe one of your fans is broken. Good luck
 

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Is there anything I’m missing (I don’t know my power supply)


In benchmark my fps ranged from 7 - 7.7 at medium settings, with a max Gpu utilization of 45%. I’ll do the other things later. Thanks

how do you have your ram set up? is it one stick or two?
 

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In benchmark my fps ranged from 7 - 7.7 at medium settings, with a max Gpu utilization of 45%. I’ll do the other things later. Thanks
Open the case, look at the power supply take a picture of its label, then use hwinfi64 with sensor data for power supply values

And 16GB of ram is too vague.

Look if you really want help here you need to give detailed info.

What cpu cooling, what case, what specific 1660?
 

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Is your card new or pre-owned?
 

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Thanks for the suggestions, Gpu reaches 33°c is that high?


1 stick
Not at all, those are idle temps.
Some other problem might be that you are using the gpu insde your CPU instead of the 1660ti, did you check that your games are using the right GPU? Did you connect your monitor to the motherboard video output port or the GPU port?
 
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Open the case, look at the power supply take a picture of its label, then use hwinfi64 with sensor data for power supply values

And 16GB of ram is too vague.

Look if you really want help here you need to give detailed info.

What cpu cooling, what case,
Open the case, look at the power supply take a picture of its label, then use hwinfi64 with sensor data for power supply values

And 16GB of ram is too vague.

Look if you really want help here you need to give detailed info.

What cpu cooling, what case, what specific 1660?
sorry I don’t know a huge amount about computers as I am new to it and only bought it recently.
I can’t find my power supply in hwinfo64 , my ram is 16gb of ddr4 SDRAM Samsung. It’s speed is 1200MHz. The cpu cooler is a intel e97379-003, I don’t know what case I have and the Gpu is a EVGA GTX 1660 Ti XC

Theres part of your problem.... Youre losing anywhere between 20-35% of performance by just having a single 16GB stick.
Thank you I didn’t know that

You can try to enable "hardware accelerated gpu scheduling" in windows under Graphic settings, that should help your CPU. Did you check if your video card is clocking to the right speeds while gaming? You should test with an benchmark like Superposition Benchmark and see if your card works at the right speed.

Edit: You should post a picture from GPU-Z and you can try to reset your bios maybe that will help. (and check if you have installed your GPU correctly in the slot and the power cable)
I have now enabled hardware accelerated Gpu scheduling, and I just ran a benchmark on 1080p medium, the first time I ran it at 50-90 fps, I then ran it again and got 7 again? Any ideas

Not at all, those are idle temps.
Some other problem might be that you are using the gpu insde your CPU instead of the 1660ti, did you check that your games are using the right GPU? Did you connect your monitor to the motherboard video output port or the GPU port?
I have made sure to disable my cpu Gpu so I assume games are running off of my 1660ti and my monitor is connect to the only possible port

You can try to enable "hardware accelerated gpu scheduling" in windows under Graphic settings, that should help your CPU. Did you check if your video card is clocking to the right speeds while gaming? You should test with an benchmark like Superposition Benchmark and see if your card works at the right speed.

Edit: You should post a picture from GPU-Z and you can try to reset your bios maybe that will help. (and check if you have installed your GPU correctly in the slot and the power cable)
Here’s what Gpu-z says
 

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I think all motherboards nowdays have an display output , i am not sure what motherboard you have but if you say you disabled it in bios then the problem is somewhere else.
Just in case , check this picture: https://support.cyberpowerpc.com/hc/article_attachments/360028079213/Display_Outputs.jpg , your monitor should be connected to the Video Card.

You should check CPU / GPU usage during some game or benchmark and check the load and frequency on them , your GPU had way too low temp in a benchmark, like it wasnt even used. You should post a picture from CPU-Z and one from GPU-Z so we can have all the info about your computer maybe someone can figure it out , did yo try a bios reset?
 

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I think all motherboards nowdays have an display output , i am not sure what motherboard you have but if you say you disabled it in bios then the problem is somewhere else.
Just in case , check this picture: https://support.cyberpowerpc.com/hc/article_attachments/360028079213/Display_Outputs.jpg , your monitor should be connected to the Video Card.

You should check CPU / GPU usage during some game or benchmark and check the load and frequency on them , your GPU had way too low temp in a benchmark. You should post a picture from CPU-Z and one from GPU-Z so we can have all the info about your computer maybe someone can figure it out , did yo try a bios reset?
When the I was getting 7 fps the temperature was 33 but when it worked for one watch through the temperature was up around 70

I think all motherboards nowdays have an display output , i am not sure what motherboard you have but if you say you disabled it in bios then the problem is somewhere else.
Just in case , check this picture: https://support.cyberpowerpc.com/hc/article_attachments/360028079213/Display_Outputs.jpg , your monitor should be connected to the Video Card.

You should check CPU / GPU usage during some game or benchmark and check the load and frequency on them , your GPU had way too low temp in a benchmark, like it wasnt even used. You should post a picture from CPU-Z and one from GPU-Z so we can have all the info about your computer maybe someone can figure it out , did yo try a bios reset?
With the monitor connection I do have that video card slot however my monitors connection cable end is to small to use that slot
 

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Well i think thats the problem , you need an adapter because you are using the onboard GPU. What type of cable does your monitor have and where did you connect it? On the Onboard Graphics output (from the picture)?
Edit: if im right then u need something like this: https://vectro.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/adaptor-dvi-d-241-tata-vga-mama-600x600.jpg , VGA TO DVI ADAPTER , its pretty cheap and then connect your monitor to the video card and not on the Onboard Graphics output.
 
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