Laggy Windows 10 - Hardware issue?

[PaladinGeorge]

A little while ago I had some graphics card problems from windows auto updating my drivers (luckily that isn't an issue anymore). However, after one instance of reinstalling my graphics card drivers Windows 10 became oddly laggy. For example, sometimes the Window popup animations are laggy, and the loading circle when the computer is shutting down/restarts/I log onto my computer will lag and become choppy, and even dragging windows around the screen will sometimes stutter. However, loading time for the operating system are normal, and I've even reinstalled windows since then and the problem persists. It kind of worries me, and I would like to know if maybe this is a problem with the graphics card, however I believe it might could also be the power supply unit, though I have no reason to suspect it so. (I would also be willing to accept the idea that I'm just paranoid and this isn't a problem)

Also in another note games on my computer seem to fine for the most part. I haven't noticed any addition performance drops, but setting Nvidia's power performance option from balanced to maximum performance does seem to cause some micro-stuttering, but I haven't had time to test this out thoroughly.

My specs are as follows:
- Motherboard: PCmate z97
- CPU: i5-4690k
- PSU: Seasonic s12 650w
- GPU: MSI GTX 1060 gaming x 6gb
- RAM: Kingston DDR3 8gb 1866Mhz

Thank you for any help in advance.

 

[dontlistentome]

I have an Nvidia card and Windows 10 has never upgraded my videocard drivers or even suggested to me that I update them. How do you have Windows 10 set up? To me that's a clue to your problem. I don't like having automatic anything happening on my computer, that's how you get strange issues.

The laggy performance makes me think of times when I was building computers and didn't have the drivers installed yet. I would see that kind of performance. So it sounds to me like the videocard driver and Windows aren't working together properly.

 

[PaladinGeorge]

I have an Nvidia card and Windows 10 has never upgraded my videocard drivers or even suggested to me that I update them. How do you have Windows 10 set up? To me that's a clue to your problem. I don't like having automatic anything happening on my computer, that's how you get strange issues.

The laggy performance makes me think of times when I was building computers and didn't have the drivers installed yet. I would see that kind of performance. So it sounds to me like the videocard driver and Windows aren't working together properly.

I have Windows 10 Home, however the auto-updating is no longer an issue. I have my ethernet connection set to metered through the registry keys, and I have (as far as I know) all drivers associated with my graphics card, and all up to date as well. I don't know if this is just a windows thing though, because this problem has persisted through a windows reinstall. Maybe I'll try to clean reinstall all of my drivers and programs associated with my GPU for the versions on the disc that came with it, as that combination seemed to have worked the best. Thankyou for your response.

EDIT: Unfortunately I just remembered that the MSI Gaming App version on the disc doesn't work on the latest version of Windows 10, So I'm probably not going to reinstall the drivers to the version on my disc.