GTX 970 was great, now is running slow

[Gravilux]

I recently purchased an MSi GTX 970, and for a couple weeks it was working great - 60 fps minimum in most games, no overheat, etc. However, recently, I've been getting really low frames in games. When I did a Heaven Benchmark, I had an average of about 50 fps, but now I have an average of 15, and I have no idea why.

 

[Joshua Martin]

Have you checked your temps to make sure it isn't overheating? Posting system specs would also help out.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

Any chance it auto-updated itself with crap drivers?
Is this Windows 10, and it upgraded the drivers on you automatically and hosed itself up?

I have heard that with W10, lots of time the base drivers work best, then W10 goes out and hoses you when it auto-updates with the latest vendor drivers.

 

[Non-Euclidean]

Dup/Ignore

 

[king3pj]

Any chance it auto-updated itself with crap drivers?
Is this Windows 10, and it upgraded the drivers on you automatically and hosed itself up?

This is what I was thinking too. For a while there was a pretty widely reported problem that Windows 10 was overwriting Nvidia GPU drivers with generic Windows drivers during Windows Update. I would install the Geforce Experience software. That program will tell you whenever you aren't on the latest Nvidia drivers and you can use it to update your drivers when it's not.

As someone who doesn't constantly look for new drivers I like getting the notification when there is one. If you don't want the GeForce Experience software you can always download the latest driver directly from Nvidia's website on your own.

 

[Joshua Martin]

Honestly, If you did the free upgrade from Win7/8 to 10, I would clean install Windows 10.
If you clean installed Windows 10 and are having this issue, use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in safe mode and uninstall whatever Win10 installed and download the drivers straight from Nvidias website.