Zotac GTX 1060 6GB low FPS and low CPU/GPU usage.

[erickapo133]

Hi, people. I have bought this Zotac Gtx 1060 6GB Amp! Edition a couple of weeks ago, and it has been working fine, +60 fps in all of the few modern games I've been playing (Crash N Sane Trilogy, PES 2 018, Mario Kart 8 with Cemu, and Ryse: Son of Rome). But 2 days ago I updated the Nvidia Drivers, and it has suddenly started to perform very rarely, mainly on Ryse. It just doesn't work on 60fps or similar anymore, instead, it shows very low fps (25~50) and very low cpu/gpu usage as well. I've tried something already, with no result. I went back to previous drivers version (altough I'm not sure if the older version is the same it was when everything was working fine because I don't remember the exact previous version), put Energy settings on Maximum performance in Nvidia Control Panel and Windows settings, and even put graphics on Low settings ingame, with no positive results. I will show you some images of the game with MSI Afterburner monitoring system, so you can see better how it performs. If I'm not doing something right regarding the forum please tell me, it's the first time I post here. Any piece of help or advice will be truly appreciated, as I'm not an expert on the subject and would like to be able to solve this without having to contact back with the people who sold me the video card. Also, if you want me to do a benchmark, please just tell me, I've never done it but I guess I could, if that helps you diagnose any kind of problem. Thanks in advance.

Specs:
Motherboard: Asus B350M-A Prime
Video Card: Zotac GTX 1060 6GB AMP! Edition
RAM: Corsair DDR4 1x8GB 2666Mhz Vengeance LPX Black
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
PSU: Gigabyte PB500 500w 80 Plus

PS: Crash N Sane Trilogy doesn't reach 60fps either, so it's not only a Ryse: Son of Rome's issue. Captures from Ryse are new, since I reinstalled Windows 10 64-bits 2 hours ago and tried that game again, the Crash capture is from yesterday, it's here just to picture you a bit better.

 

[dederedmi5plus]

use driver removal tool, perform full nvidia driver erase, restart, have zotac CD installation, windows will install from installation CD