Question Is my theory correct?

[Crazyy8]

[Moderator note: Moving post from Graphics Cards to PC Gaming. More applicable category.]

2 years ago I was playing Satisfactory by myself. I had a GTX 670, i7 940, 24GB RAM, etc. One day I logged back in to discover the performance was horrible. I got around 40-50 FPS medium settings before I had logged in, but now I was getting 15-20 FPS low settings. I had no idea what had changed. I tried windowed mode, full screen, lowering settings, but nothing was working. I wasn't very tech smart then but now that I have learned more, I think I know what the problem was. My FPS would increase if I went far away from my main factory, but lowered as soon as I came near. The GTX 670 only has 2GB of VRAM, and I think all the machines in my factory exceeded the VRAM limit and thus performance crashed. It didn't help that my factory was a spaghetti mess. I then upgraded to a GTX 1650 and performance improved, but back then I couldn't figure out what had happened. Does my theory sound plausible? I don't play satisfactory anymore, so I don't have much info besides what had happened.

 

[Lutfij]

Run DDU and remove all GPU drovers from your platform, then manually reinstall with the latest version sourced from Nvidia's support site, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
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include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.