Performance issues and Stuttering after latest Nvidia Driver Update 436.48

[Slayer Seraph]

Anyone else encountering big random fps drops and stutters - especially in cutscenes - where there weren't that many/heavy drops before - right after installing the latest Nvidia Driver?
In some scenes like M18 when Vergil picks up the book - my FPS even dropped to 30 and looks stuttery.
I didn't have these issues before the latest patch, for all I know.
I tried DDU + reinstalling the latest driver but still not sure if it helped.

I'm on 1000 series cards. I hope Nvidia aren't busting their older series.

(obviously there's still room for optimization - just waiting for Capcom to remove drm denuvo and optimize this game since April's performance and loading time issues).

Anyway, did you guys noticed these issues as well?

[DeadPhoenix]

I'm on a RTX GPU. And yes the latest drivers cause stuttering for me too. I had to roll back to an earlier driver.

[Slayer Seraph]

İlk olarak DeadPhoenix tarafından gönderildi:

I'm on a RTX GPU. And yes the latest drivers cause stuttering for me too. I had to roll back to an earlier driver.

Thank you for this. Which driver are you using now?

Just a question, how exactly did you roll back- Did you just Install it on top of the other? Or used DDU or something to remove the latest?
Thanks.

[DeadPhoenix]

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İlk olarak DeadPhoenix tarafından gönderildi:

I'm on a RTX GPU. And yes the latest drivers cause stuttering for me too. I had to roll back to an earlier driver.

Thank you for this. Which driver are you using now?

Just a question, how exactly did you roll back- Did you just Install it on top of the other? Or used DDU or something to remove the latest?
Thanks.

Yes always use DDU. I went to launch driver for the RTX 2080 SUPER. Which seemed to fix the stuttering issue. That's: 431.60

[Slayer Seraph]

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Thank you for this. Which driver are you using now?

Just a question, how exactly did you roll back- Did you just Install it on top of the other? Or used DDU or something to remove the latest?
Thanks.

Yes always use DDU. I went to launch driver for the RTX 2080 SUPER. Which seemed to fix the stuttering issue. That's: 431.60

Thank you. I did just like you, and DDU then installed 431.60. I think it's better now.
Only problem is now Geforce is Nagging me to update to the latest driver (I know I can turn notifacitons off) - and I wouldn't know exactly when to update to a newer driver, and if it's safe to update without screwing up performance again.
I hope it's a one-time thing, because I prefer to stay with the latest Nvidia Driver at all times.

[DeadPhoenix]

If you have geforce now installed. You can disable that in the settings. But Geforce now will also update if you restart it.

[Slayer Seraph]

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Thank you for this. Which driver are you using now?

Just a question, how exactly did you roll back- Did you just Install it on top of the other? Or used DDU or something to remove the latest?
Thanks.

Yes always use DDU. I went to launch driver for the RTX 2080 SUPER. Which seemed to fix the stuttering issue. That's: 431.60

Btw I seem to have some strange over-heating issues lately. I don't know if it's driver related. I can't explain it.
I thought about trying a different driver, like the one before last. Why did you pick 431.60 specifically? And not the September driver?

As for Geforce Experience- I only use Experience for recording gameplay for my channel (Ransom Seraph) - especially for my DMC5 series.

I don't mind if it's updating Experience itself.

Between the stuttering, fps drops and over-heating issues - I don't know which driver to use.

Btw about DDU - I don't always use it, I usually just download the driver with Experience and do custom clean install, or download from Nvidia and do the same. Only use DDU if I have issues - because there are too many updates and using DDU is a major hassle and a lot of time and work...

[DeadPhoenix]

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İlk olarak DeadPhoenix tarafından gönderildi:

Yes always use DDU. I went to launch driver for the RTX 2080 SUPER. Which seemed to fix the stuttering issue. That's: 431.60

Btw I seem to have some strange over-heating issues lately. I don't know if it's driver related. I can't explain it.
I thought about trying a different driver, like the one before last. Why did you pick 431.60 specifically? And not the September driver?

As for Geforce Experience- I only use Experience for recording gameplay for my channel (Ransom Seraph) - especially for my DMC5 series.

I don't mind if it's updating Experience itself.

Between the stuttering, fps drops and over-heating issues - I don't know which driver to use.

Btw about DDU - I don't always use it, I usually just download the driver with Experience and do custom clean install, or download from Nvidia and do the same. Only use DDU if I have issues - because there are too many updates and using DDU is a major hassle and a lot of time and work...

I have no overheating issue's when i use this Driver. And its the launch Driver of the RTX 2080 Super. And it seems to be the most stable driver of them all. Newer drivers cause stuttering and game crashes. What model are you using???

[Slayer Seraph]

İlk olarak DeadPhoenix tarafından gönderildi:

İlk olarak Ransom Seraph tarafından gönderildi:

Btw I seem to have some strange over-heating issues lately. I don't know if it's driver related. I can't explain it.
I thought about trying a different driver, like the one before last. Why did you pick 431.60 specifically? And not the September driver?

As for Geforce Experience- I only use Experience for recording gameplay for my channel (Ransom Seraph) - especially for my DMC5 series.

I don't mind if it's updating Experience itself.

Between the stuttering, fps drops and over-heating issues - I don't know which driver to use.

Btw about DDU - I don't always use it, I usually just download the driver with Experience and do custom clean install, or download from Nvidia and do the same. Only use DDU if I have issues - because there are too many updates and using DDU is a major hassle and a lot of time and work...

I have no overheating issue's when i use this Driver. And its the launch Driver of the RTX 2080 Super. And it seems to be the most stable driver of them all. Newer drivers cause stuttering and game crashes. What model are you using???

I'm using the GTX 1080 Ti (Asus ROG Strix OC).
Could just be the freaking climate and hot, humid, weather in my country. It's been hotter than normal even for October.
I am hitting 80+C almost instantly when watching a cutscene (testing on the heavy Mission 18 cutscene with the 3 characters and many close-ups, dof and particles).
Sometimes goes as high as 83-85 which is when it starts to throttle.
It didn't do that in the past, at least not that quickly. It's. Just a sudden overheating issue that may or may not be normal.
(Although I often neee to turn on Air Conditioning unit in the PC room to cool it up a bit. These temps are without AC.
Temps in the room are around 28-30 Celsius. Feels like 33-34 though.

My PC is rather old (i5-3570k) but super clean. I cleaned it up again today to be safe. The case is as clean as a plate out of a royal dishwasher.

I use to default automatic fan setting of thr GPU though (not using MSI curve or anything).

I think the driver before last had very good performance, but for whatever reason I can't download it now (too slow a download).

What's your GPU and system?

[DeadPhoenix]

I would suggest to use a custom curve fan speed. Weather can also affect PC hardware. When it was 30c+ here my GPU ran hotter too. Just raise the fan speed to keep the card cool.

[Slayer Seraph]

İlk olarak DeadPhoenix tarafından gönderildi:

I would suggest to use a custom curve fan speed. Weather can also affect PC hardware. When it was 30c+ here my GPU ran hotter too. Just raise the fan speed to keep the card cool.

Are you using the Default manual fan curve of MSI? Or have you set something different.
I like the factory automatic dynamic fan that doesn't spin at all under 30 or 40c (don't remember).

Also you didn't tell me, what GPU are you using exactly? And on what system.

Have you tried the September driver btw? In terms of performance. (One before last).

[DeadPhoenix]

I'm using the auto fan. Which kicks in more aggressively than the default fan.
My Specs are on my Profile. GPU temps sits around 65c max with the auto fan.

I tried the latest drivers. But as i said, peformance was worse, and i had a lot of stuttering. Not to mention Gears 5 and GTA V were both crashing, even with the september driver. After i reverted back to July drivers, everything was nice and smooth.

[Slayer Seraph]

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I'm using the auto fan. Which kicks in more aggressively than the default fan.
My Specs are on my Profile. GPU temps sits around 65c max with the auto fan.

I tried the latest drivers. But as i said, peformance was worse, and i had a lot of stuttering. Not to mention Gears 5 and GTA V were both crashing, even with the september driver. After i reverted back to July drivers, everything was nice and smooth.

Not sure I understand, what the difference between Auto fan and Default fan?
The "Auto" is basically the GPU factory default of the GPU it seems.
Like right now- opened MSI Afterburner. It says "auto" in the main UI, and at 41c the fan is still at 0 % and not spinning. I assume it will only start spinning at around 50c. Meaning that's how 1080Ti is set up by factory design.

If I go to the cog-wheel Settings and "Fan" tab - "enable user defined software automatic fan control" is un-ticked (switched off). So no curve.

If I switch it on, it has a default fan curve that starts from 40c : 40% speed and onward linearly. But also 40% up to 40c. So it is always on.

Can you be more specific, perhaps I am missing something or we aren't talking about the same thing?

EDIT: for reference: I think the automatic default factory fan is also around 20points less than the temp, so 80C is 60% speed.
Whilst the automatic fan curve nby MSI Afterburner starts at 40% speed regardless of temp. And goes linear from 40 up, so 60c will have 60% speed, 70c will have 70% etc.

[DeadPhoenix]

With default fan i meant the fan will only spin if it reach a certain temperature. Yes the defaullt fan will not spin here as well. But auto fan seems to do a better job keeping the temps down.

So what is the room temp???

[Slayer Seraph]

İlk olarak DeadPhoenix tarafından gönderildi:

With default fan i meant the fan will only spin if it reach a certain temperature. Yes the defaullt fan will not spin here as well. But auto fan seems to do a better job keeping the temps down.

So what is the room temp???

Okay so by "auto" you mean MSI Afterburner "enable user defined software automatic..." right?
I assume you use this option and fan curve?
https://i.imgur.com/lA4CWY5.png

(this is the default auto software msi fan control). As I said it starts to spin at 40% regardless of temps from the get go.
Or did you customize it differently?
Can you verify this is the same auto fan curve that you use? You have no problems with the fans spinning at all times and the noise at higher temps?


Now it's evening. Room temps are now around 27-28c. (according to some thermometer). Feels a hotter. It's VERY humid. Been a crazy tropical-like weather lately. Hot, humid, cloudy with strange occasional rain. (I'm from Israel btw). Humidity around 73% now according to the app. 30-33C during the day, and worse indoors since the house gets steaming and unbearably hot.

[DeadPhoenix]

Auto fan means the fan will always spin at 40%. So yes i have setup the same way as you shown in the picture. But every GPU fan is tweaked differently. Mine tops at 65%, which is still very quiet. Its currently 18c inside my room. So yes if you want to lower the temps, raise the fan manually. And if you're back in Windows just turn it off.

But i'll repeat it again. Default fan is 0% when idle, and auto fan at 40%.