Swapping out different GPUs for different games

[bldude]

Hi folks,

I recently upgraded to a GTX 1080 ti from a GTX 960, and while it has been fantastic upgrade in most games I've tried, there is one game called World of Warships where I've seen a drastic decrease in performance- presumably due to driver issues, windows bugs, optimization or w/e.

For a temporary solution, could I just swap back to my old GTX 960 whenever I want to play that one game? Do I need to worry about drivers, or just leave them alone and assume they'll work out fine?

Or is this an incredibly stupid idea and I'm missing something obvious? :lol:

Thoughts?

 

[getochkn]

Everytime you take it out and put it back in, you risk damaging the cards, slots, static, all kinds of things that would be a pain and potentially screw it up. There is no reason a ti should be slower than a 960 at anything, ever. lol. did you reinstall drivers when you did the upgrade?

 

[USAFRet]

Or is this an incredibly stupid idea and I'm missing something obvious?

1. Wear and tear on the slot

2. The 1080ti should not be doing this.

 

[bldude]

Yes, the 1080 ti should not be doing this- though its abnormal performance is only in this one game. After five days of trying to solve it, including four separate driver reinstalls (Admittedly, I only tried two different driver versions), and seeing others with the same or similar problem, I chalked it up to a specific issue with the 1080 ti, drivers or something.

Specifically, FPS with the 1080 ti would jump all over the place, often with 50-100 FPS stutters every few seconds, which makes it quite challenging to play. It doesn't seem to be a limitation of hardware- the same issue happens regardless of what graphics settings I choose, from bare minimum to 4K DSR everything maxed out.

Aside from this "solution", all I could hope is that a future update fixes this issue or that someone else with this problem figures out an answer.

 

[bldude]

Never mind, managed a fix at the source.

The fix was to disable HPET.

...Not exactly the first thing I thought to be the problem, but after trying so many things, eventually one would stick!

Thanks all!