[SOLVED] Very low FPS on Steam games but not other, non-steam games.

[Squky]

Hi,
I recently started getting extremely low FPS in games which were running fine a day or 2 ago.
I noticed this (seemingly) is only happening on games which I have installed through steam but not on a game like Star wars Jedi: Fallen order which I run through Origin.

I've added my computer specs down below.

What I have tried:

• Checking to see if the right graphics card is being used and not the integrated one.
• Checked my power- plan to make sure I'm not on some low performance mode
• Changed power management in both 'Advanced power settings -> PCI -> link state power management' and the NVIDIA control panel.
• Used DDU to uninstall graphics drivers in safe mode and then clean install using NvCleaninstall.exe as well as NVIDIA's own driver installer
• Used DDU to uninstall again and this time install an older driver for my card
• Checked to see if I'm getting bottle necked due to my CPU (this wasn't an issue at all before but checked anyway)
• Monitored CPU/GPU usage through Afterburner, HWMonitor etc
• Went through every windows update that was available to me one by one (checking after each one if it was resolved)
• disabled malwarebytes and any other possible firewall that may be in the way - didn't make a difference

None of these things made any difference to the frame rate on the steam games.

SPECS:
Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 19043) (19041.vb_release.191206-1406)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
System Model: GS73VR 7RF
BIOS: E17B1IMS.318 (type: UEFI)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16272MB RAM
Page File: 9603MB used, 9612MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Available, with HDCP
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Supported
DirectX Database Version: 1.2.8

Graphics:
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Type: Full Device
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C20&SUBSYS_11AC1462&REV_A1
Device Status: 0180200A [DN_DRIVER_LOADED|DN_STARTED|DN_DISABLEABLE|DN_NT_ENUMERATOR|DN_NT_DRIVER]
Device Problem Code: No Problem
Driver Problem Code: Unknown
Display Memory: 14187 MB
Dedicated Memory: 6052 MB
Shared Memory: 8135 MB
Current Mode: Unknown
HDR Support: Unknown
Display Topology: Unknown
Display Color Space: Unknown
Color Primaries: Unknown
Display Luminance: Unknown
Driver Name: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_986ea73f9a47a2c2\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_986ea73f9a47a2c2\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_986ea73f9a47a2c2\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvmii.inf_amd64_986ea73f9a47a2c2\nvldumdx.dll
Driver File Version: 30.00.0014.7212 (English)
Driver Version: 30.0.14.7212
DDI Version: 12
Feature Levels: 12_1,12_0,11_1,11_0,10_1,10_0,9_3,9_2,9_1
Driver Model: WDDM 2.7
Hardware Scheduling: Supported:True Enabled:False
Graphics Preemption: Pixel
Compute Preemption: Dispatch
Miracast: Not Supported by Graphics driver
Detachable GPU: No
Hybrid Graphics GPU: Discrete
Power P-states: Not Supported
Virtualization: Paravirtualization
Block List: No Blocks
Catalog Attributes: Universal:False Declarative:True
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 13/09/2021 01:00:00, 1056296 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes
WHQL Date Stamp: Unknown
Device Identifier: Unknown
Vendor ID: 0x10DE
Device ID: 0x1C20
SubSys ID: 0x11AC1462
Revision ID: 0x00A1
Driver Strong Name: oem116.inf:0f066de36c3b89c0:Section053:30.0.14.7212ci\ven_10de&dev_1c20&subsys_11ac1462
Rank Of Driver: 00CF0001
Video Accel: Unknown
DXVA2 Modes: {86695F12-340E-4F04-9FD3-9253DD327460} DXVA2_ModeMPEG2_VLD {6F3EC719-3735-42CC-8063-65CC3CB36616} DXVA2_ModeVC1_D2010 DXVA2_ModeVC1_VLD {32FCFE3F-DE46-4A49-861B-AC71110649D5} DXVA2_ModeH264_VLD_Stereo_Progressive_NoFGT DXVA2_ModeH264_VLD_Stereo_NoFGT DXVA2_ModeH264_VLD_NoFGT DXVA2_ModeHEVC_VLD_Main DXVA2_ModeHEVC_VLD_Main10 {20BB8B0A-97AA-4571-8E99-64E60606C1A6} {15DF9B21-06C4-47F1-841E-A67C97D7F312} DXVA2_ModeMPEG4pt2_VLD_Simple DXVA2_ModeMPEG4pt2_VLD_AdvSimple_NoGMC {9947EC6F-689B-11DC-A320-0019DBBC4184} {33FCFE41-DE46-4A49-861B-AC71110649D5} DXVA2_ModeVP9_VLD_Profile0 {6AFFD11E-1D96-42B1-A215-93A31F09A53D} {914C84A3-4078-4FA9-984C-E2F262CB5C9C}
Deinterlace Caps: n/a
D3D9 Overlay: Unknown
DXVA-HD: Unknown
DDraw Status: Enabled
D3D Status: Enabled
AGP Status: Enabled
MPO MaxPlanes: 0
MPO Caps: Not Supported
MPO Stretch: Not Supported
MPO Media Hints: Not Supported
MPO Formats: Not Supported
PanelFitter Caps: Not Supported
PanelFitter Stretch: Not Supported

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[iTRiP]

Format your computer, reinstall OS, games and drivers only, leave the bloatware and start playing...If you got problems after this method, your issue is: it's hardware related.