GPU usage drops while playing PUBG ?!

[LaurX]

First of all - hello guys!

So as you can see in the title I have some issues with GPU that I can't fix... When I play PUBG I get GPU Usage drops. Usually it uses 80% - 99% of GPU but sometimes the usage drops to 50% or lower. It doesn't happen always, I mean - it can happen 0 times per game and it can happen 10 times per game.
When the usage is dropping I also have FPS drops. For example, I usually have 80+ FPS but when the usage drops I get around 30 FPS and after 10 second or 1 minute it goes back to normal.
Also I have to mention that I am not facing these issues in other games.

Things I have tried:
- Reinstalling OS
- Reinstalling game
- Updating drivers
- Clean install of drivers using DDU
- Installing older drivers
- Set the power options to 'High Performance' (In control panel and NVIDIA control panel)

Also I can say that I have no issues with my hardware:
- GPU temps are not over 65°C
- CPU temps not over 55°C ... So no thermal issues.

Does anyone knows how to fix this? Any reply will be appreciated! =)

My system spec's:
- Motherboard: MSI B350 PC MATE
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600x
- GPU: MSI GTX 1060 GAMING X 3 GB
- PSU: Corsair 650W
- HDD: WD 7200 RPM
- RAM: 2400 MHz, DDR4, 8 GB (2x4), Crucial Ballistix Sport

 

[The Paladin]

I suppose you got the latest NVidia drivers? ddu them and reinstall previous version, do you get the same result ?

 

[LaurX]

I suppose you got the latest NVidia drivers? ddu them and reinstall previous version, do you get the same result ?

I had the newest drivers available from NVIDIA and I had the issue. Then I run DDU (safe mode etc.) and deleted everything. Then I read some more about NVIDIA drivers and came to a conclusion 382.33 drivers is most stable so I downloaded it and installed (clean install etc.) and played one game without any issues and usage drops. Then I restarted the game and some DX11 error occurred saying "DX11 feature level 10.0 is required to run the engine". So I updated DirectX and run the game. I got usage drops again. After DirectX update I checked the driver version and it was 388.xx... I don't know, maybe I could resolve this by running it on the 382.33 driver but it doesn't allow me to do that because the driver is updating along with DirectX ...

 

[The Paladin]

it sounds like you having a dirext x issue not a video driver issue, why don't you uninstall and reinstall a fresh copy of direct x?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

 

[LaurX]

it sounds like you having a dirext x issue not a video driver issue, why don't you uninstall and reinstall a fresh copy of direct x?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

Isn't the newest DirectX installed with NVIDIA drivers already?
But okay, I am going to try this when I'm home, I will post how it goes!
Thank you for your reply!