Question PC becomes super laggy when installing nvidia graphics driver

[Noahdrake]

A couple of days ago I was messing around with amd precision boost overdrive and was overclock my gpu with after burner, my pc was having some blue screens, which I thought was from the precision overdrive so I reset my bios to get rid of any changes. When I returned to my desktop everything was super laggy/choppy and my screen would go black/freeze. I thought this may have been a windows 11 issue since I remember having to change stuff in my bios to get it in the first place. I decided to revert back to windows 10 to see if it fixed my issues but as soon as I installed the newest nvidia drivers it went being laggy/choppy. I tried putting my windows 10 on a different drive, ran windows memory diagnostic which came up with nothing so I thought it must be something wrong with my GPU. I ran 3dmark Time Spy and got around a 1500 on my graphics score which is way less the the 18,000 I would normally get. I then plugged my brothers 1070ti into my computer and ran a benchmark and got around a 7000 graphics score, that mixed with my windows blue screening I decided to get another 3080 , and after setting it up as soon as I install the newest graphics drivers from nvidia it becomes super laggy/choppy and it goes away as soon as I uninstall them, I go to run a benchmark on my new GPU and I am getting similar results to my old one which is around 7 fps

Things I have tried

• Reinstalling windows and on different drives
• Ran Windows memory diagnostic
• Reset CMOS
• Tried the graphics driver just before the newest one
• Tried multiple different GPU's
• Updated BIOS

Any help would be much appreciated

Specs

• Ryzen 7 5800x
• ASUS TUF 3080 OC v2 / EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra (Old and new)
• Asus Tuf x570 Pro Wifi
• 32 GB XPG D60G
• ASUS ROG STRIX 850G PSU
• Currently on Windows 10

 

[Lutfij]

I decided to revert back to windows 10 to see if it fixed my issues but as soon as I installed the newest nvidia drivers it went being laggy/choppy
Where did you source the installers for your OS? Did you install the OS in offline mode? You might want to use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) in safe mode, then manually reinstall with the latest GPU drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator

As for your build, how old is the PSU?

 

[Noahdrake]

I decided to revert back to windows 10 to see if it fixed my issues but as soon as I installed the newest nvidia drivers it went being laggy/choppy
Where did you source the installers for your OS? Did you install the OS in offline mode? You might want to use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) in safe mode, then manually reinstall with the latest GPU drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator

As for your build, how old is the PSU?

I think I found my issue, I’m pretty sure I had a faulty riser cable, I was unable to plug my gpu into my motherboard before because of the location of my radiator. I got it plugged directly into my motherboard now and it is performing as expected.