So my gtx 980ti is acting up

[zelollarn]

So, I've had this card since march (had my last one replaced cause it was not performing well, ran lower clocks than it should etc, got a new one from EVGA) and it's been doing it's job, up until nvidia started doing some shit with their drivers and fucked everything up, ever since then, no other drivers than 362.00 has been performing well for me. Every time I try to update the drivers (with a clean install, using a driver install/uninstall program) all my game starts having fps issues. My latest issue being the bf1 beta. It forced me to update my drivers. At first it worked, was pulling 80 - 110 fps on 1440p with high/ultra settings. But the day after it was doing about 20 - 30. And fyi I did not touch the scaling option that's apparently bugged, it's set at 42 as it should.

This is not the only example of this, it's literally been every gpu intensive games.

And I tried running Furmark, which told me that my gpu was running at 400 clock speed during the entire test, so what's causing this? why is my gpu not being fully utilized during furmark?



Specs

Asus z97-a
2x Samsung SSDs
EVGA Gtx 980ti (stock cooler)
i7 4790k @ 4.5ghz (water cooled)
EVGA G2 750w PSU

 

[Shaun o]

Very strange indeed.

Honestly if your 100% sure the cause of it is driver related, I would ask around to see if anyone else who has a EVGA Gtx 980 Ti card is having any of the same problems as you are Zelollarn.

See if there are a few more examples where the same thing is happening.

If the answer comes back as no.
Then you would have to presume something is not quite right with just your card it`s self.
I can suggest little more that will or could help you.

Short of some sort of lack of power being fed to the card and holding back clock speeds.
Or checking that the Gpu is not getting too hot while running games, but I guess you have already tested, and checked these with your 980 Ti card.

The only thing I would ask is do you have more than one bit of overclocking software running at the same time on your system, if so try removing one to make sure there is not some conflict between the two bits of software running at the same time.

Also when it comes to windows OS, it`s self depending on what version you are running.
Go to the power profiles of windows, and set or select the high performance power setting.

It has been known to effect things like that, and turned out to be windows Os as the culprit.

 

[zelollarn]

Okey so updating this.

It's definitely the drivers. As soon as I download a driver, it works fine, until I reboot my PC. It works for maybe an hour or two, then I get 2 error messages saying my drivers crashed and restored, then fps has gone down the shitter (Despite wow saying I have fine fps, it's still lagging, like really choppy) So I'm 100% it's the drivers. I honestly don't know what to do.

 

[zelollarn]

Very strange indeed.

Honestly if your 100% sure the cause of it is driver related, I would ask around to see if anyone else who has a EVGA Gtx 980 Ti card is having any of the same problems as you are Zelollarn.

See if there are a few more examples where the same thing is happening.

If the answer comes back as no.
Then you would have to presume something is not quite right with just your card it`s self.
I can suggest little more that will or could help you.

Short of some sort of lack of power being fed to the card and holding back clock speeds.
Or checking that the Gpu is not getting too hot while running games, but I guess you have already tested, and checked these with your 980 Ti card.

The only thing I would ask is do you have more than one bit of overclocking software running at the same time on your system, if so try removing one to make sure there is not some conflict between the two bits of software running at the same time.

Also when it comes to windows OS, it`s self depending on what version you are running.
Go to the power profiles of windows, and set or select the high performance power setting.

It has been known to effect things like that, and turned out to be windows Os as the culprit.

Okey so I found what was happening. Old files from EVGA PrecisionX was still on my PC and messing with the overclock settings and actually underclocked the card everytime my PC booted up. Making the card run at 409ish clock speeds. Figured I'd update if someone else is as dumb as me to not completely remove all precisionx files.

And I thought it was the drivers cause I always reboot my PC into safe mode to uninstall drivers, and then when I boot it up precisionX can't find any graphic card it supports, thus not activating the clocks, but once I reboot it recognized the card and underclockeed the card.