Question Low GPU usage after driver update

[h551]

Hello,
So I recently bought a pc that consists of:
I5 4590
GTX 960 2gb
12 gb ddr3 1333mhz
H81M-DS2 motherboard
Corsair VS450 power supply

Everything worked fine until today when I updated my drivers. I noticed way lower fps in every game I played, take PUBG for example: It was running great at 80 fps on medium before the driver update now it's barely running at 40 fps. The usage will spike sometimes to 70-90% and the game will run much better but after a few seconds it will be back at hovering around 40-60%. I used DDU to uninstall and then reinstall my drivers 2 times now with no results. I set the card to run at maximum performance from the nvidia control panel but it doesnt change anything. If I crack up the resolution scaling and turn on DSR games will run a bit better, although much worse than before the driver update. CPU usage seems to be fine and hovers around 70-90%. Average temps for the CPU is 80 degrees and 70 degrees for the GPU. I'm lost on what to do and tried everything I saw on the web with no results and reinstalling Windows seems to be my only option now.

 

[DRagor]

If all changed with GPU driver update then simple solution would be to roll back to the driver version that worked well before. Unless you mean drivers for other devices?

 

[h551]

If all changed with GPU driver update then simple solution would be to roll back to the driver version that worked well before. Unless you mean drivers for other devices?

I did roll back. I tried the driver before the update and even older ones but the problem persists.

 

[DRagor]

I did roll back. I tried the driver before the update and even older ones but the problem persists.

Anything else that was changed? Windows update maybe?

 

[h551]

Anything else that was changed? Windows update maybe?

Nothing changed besides the gpu driver update.