Question FPS drops through the floor if I don't manually select my GPU type in Windows Gaming

[ScarsNStripes]

PC Specs:

OS -- 64 Bit -- WIN 11 PRO

AMD Ryzen 5 7600 - Ryzen 5 7000 Series Zen 4 6-Core 3.8 GHz - Socket AM5 65W - AMD Radeon Graphics Processor - 100-100001015

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7800 XT GAMING OC 16G Graphics Card, 3x WINDFORCE Fans 16GB 256-bit GDDR6, GV-R78XTGAMING OC-16GD Video Card

Team T-Force Delta RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model FF4D532G6000HC30DC01

Silicon Power 1TB - NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD

ASRock B650M Pro RS WiFi AM5 AMD B650 SATA 6Gb/s Micro ATX Motherboard

CORSAIR RM750e Fully Modular Low-Noise ATX Power Supply - ATX 3.0 & PCIe 5.0 Compliant - 105°C-Rated Capacitors - 80 PLUS Gold Efficiency - Modern Standby Support

DeepCool AG400 WH ARGB Single-Tower CPU Cooler, 120mm Static ARGB Fan, Direct-Touch Copper Heat Pipes, Intel/AMD Support

Acer Nitro 27" WQHD 2560 x 1440 PC Gaming Monitor | AMD FreeSync Premium | Up to 180Hz Refresh | Up to 0.5ms | HDR400 | DCI-P3 95% | 1 x Display Port 1.2 & 2 x HDMI 2.0 | XV272U V3bmiiprx


Hello TH Crew! Its been a minute since I've visited since my first PC build, but I built my second PC about 6 months ago following hardware and software recommendations from one of Jason's builds at PC builder over on YouTube. So far it has been a great PC and its really overkill for the old game titles I enjoy but over the past few months the frame rate has become insufferably slow on titles the really use more of the GPU. All my games are on STEAM too FYI.

I don't know if it is related, but it seems like it started happening after I launched CIV 5 and the launcher came up with the DirectX versions and when I picked 12, it froze during launch. Rebooted, came back and picked 11 and I was in, just fine. But I noticed after that that all my other games were running really slow. Mind you it isn't as noticeable when you're not playing titles like Cyberpunk or anything - I'm just talking old Legacy games like COH2 and XCOM2. Still - FPS lower than 10 becomes unbearable. That's where it gets odd too, because after experiencing this launching issue with CIV5, I figured I'd try UBOAT again since I could never get that game to launch properly - always would boot and then at the home game menu just a black screen with the gold mouse pointer. It suddenly started working / launching correctly but the FPS was terrible / basically unplayable.

I stumbled on a "cure" though which was to go into Windows Gaming in settings and then I can select my specific GPU model on any game in my library. This seems to be working fine for all my titles and I have fantastic FPS again but if I do this with UBOAT it is back to that black screen at the home menu of the game.

Though I could technically go and manually select my GPU in this stupid Windows Gaming thing, it seems like a band aid. I have gone to the AMD site and updated / validated the newest AMD drivers for the CPU & GPU. I have not updated the mobo however. Windows update version is current also.

Is this something with Direct X or MS Visual? I don't know squat about those programs - simply whatever STEAM or any game decides to load for you when you add a game here or there is all I've ever done.

EDIT - I do have the Steam Overlay option turned off as well..
EDIT - Updated PC System Specs

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You forgot to mention the make and model of your PSU. If it's been in service for a while, please mention it's age. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time?

Maybe you can try and do this;
Go into BIOS, disable the iGPU. Once in the OS, use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(intel, Nvidia and AMD) in Safe Mode, then manually install the latest GPU driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator. You will need to download the latest GPU driver for your GPU from here.

 

[ScarsNStripes]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You forgot to mention the make and model of your PSU. If it's been in service for a while, please mention it's age. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time?

Maybe you can try and do this;
Go into BIOS, disable the iGPU. Once in the OS, use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(intel, Nvidia and AMD) in Safe Mode, then manually install the latest GPU driver in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator. You will need to download the latest GPU driver for your GPU from here.

Thanks Titan! I had previously had an account here about 10 years ago when I built my first PC but lost that account name.

The PC and all its components are new - just built it all in April. Updated the specs now in the original post too.

The BIOS version is now 3.10, I just updated it successfully. I think I'm going to see if I can grab that AMD graphics driver update for the mobo too - looks like there's a recent one from August posted on Asrock's page - AMD graphics driver ver:24.10.24.240625a