GPU underperforming yet not overheating?

[nezboppin]

My rig has a gtx 1080ti, i7 8700k, 16gb RAM. And over the last week it has been performing very weird.

It's maxing out utilization even when playing non load heavy games like Stardew Valley. I've attached the gpu monitor screenshot while running this game. It should be known I also had OBS up and capturing the game at the same time.

only getting about 50 fps in the game when it's the focused application, and the gpu utilization is the same for obs and the game on my task manager, pushing it up to 100%. Temps are normal. This makes no sense to me.

https://imgur.com/zJwDL3H


Edit: I've also tried loading up fortnite, that seems to be fine, but I do see the cpu usage go up to around 40% while the gpu is right around 40% as well. Very confusing.

 

[androbourne]

What resolution are you playing on? Have you tried using DDU to completely uninstall all drivers and then only reinstalling the most current drivers?

 

[nezboppin]

1440p, and I've played so many games with no problems at this res. This problem only began recently maybe about the last 2 weeks.

Never tried uninstalling old drivers. I'll have to give that a try when I get home. Any other things it could be?

 

[androbourne]

1440p, and I've played so many games with no problems at this res. This problem only began recently maybe about the last 2 weeks.

Never tried uninstalling old drivers. I'll have to give that a try when I get home. Any other things it could be?

Well try that first and we will go from there.

 

[nezboppin]

1440p, and I've played so many games with no problems at this res. This problem only began recently maybe about the last 2 weeks.

Never tried uninstalling old drivers. I'll have to give that a try when I get home. Any other things it could be?

Well try that first and we will go from there.

Well I downloaded DDU, uninstalled all the drivers and reinstalled the latest fresh, still same problem, no change

 

[nezboppin]

1440p, and I've played so many games with no problems at this res. This problem only began recently maybe about the last 2 weeks.

Never tried uninstalling old drivers. I'll have to give that a try when I get home. Any other things it could be?

Well try that first and we will go from there.

I've solved it, OBS was no longer auto updating. Microsoft pushed some update that messed with the way obs captures some games (DirectX9 games i think it said). Anyways, i had to manually update my obs and its performing far better now. Only problem now is Desktop Window Manager getting a little lofty with its GPU usage.