All Steam games have suddenly become

[HP.Lovehandles]

I have an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop, which up until a few weeks ago could play Cyberpunk at pretty high settings. I went a few weeks without playing any PC games, and something happened in the interim that's causing all Steam games to have so much lag that they're completely unplayable. I've tried everything from Valheim to Among Us to Pathologic.

I'm confident that this problem is specific to Steam because I've been able to run Gwent and the Witcher 3 in GOG no problem.

I've tried forcing the .exe files for specific Steam games to use my NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with no success.

Hopefully there's something really simple that I'm overlooking cause I'm about at my whit's end with this.



EDIT: I'm such a ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ idiot. The AMD display adapter was disabled. I didn't even notice the disabled icon when I was checking the drivers before, but I did this time. Problem solved!

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Here are my specs:

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model: ROG Zephyrus G14 GA401IV_GA401IV
Form Factor: Laptop
Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS with Radeon Graphics 
CPU Family: 0x17
CPU Model: 0x60
CPU Stepping: 0x1
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2994 Mhz
16 logical processors
8 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported

Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0

Video Card:
Driver: AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 27.20.1020.2002
DirectX Driver Version: 27.21.14.6647
Driver Date: 6 16 2020
OpenGL Version: 1.1
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with Max-Q Design
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1f12
Revision: 0xa1
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 12.17" x 6.85" (13.94" diag)
30.9cm x 17.4cm (35.4cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x
Primary VRAM: 512 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x

Sound card:
Audio device: Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)

Memory:
RAM: 15789 Mb

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 957914 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 571818 Mb
OS Install Date: Dec 31 1969
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash: 8089a2ddeb73fe2bc42ba4986e5b048bdc6eac4a

Storage:
Disk serial number hash: 397d87bb
Number of SSDs: 1
SSD sizes: 1024G
Number of HDDs: 0
HDD sizes: %s1

[Yasahi]

Check your Windows update history. What are the updates you've received recently?

[HP.Lovehandles]

Originally posted by Yasahi:

Check your Windows update history. What are the updates you've received recently?

No features updates since March, but quite a few in all the other categories. Is there something specific I should be looking out for?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Ensure your game using GPU, and not igpu.

Visit Nvidia control panel, set your globe, or the game profile to high performance mode.

Depending on the laptop bios by the manufacturer if need to plug in power to use high performance mode, or even OS settings, ensure to use high performance mode in your battery settings.

If you by chance did GPU driver update, you would need make sure that not the cause of issue, if it is just means bad install, or just bad driver not to use, which you use DDU to help remove driver, to do a clean install of your GPU driver.

Ensure your system not overheating, as that can happen easily with laptops.

Lastly ensure 3rd party anti virus, or 3rd party apps not causing issues with the game, or etc...

[wuddih]

those amd drivers look out of date. take care of that, even when it probably has nothing to do with the issue.

the only thing steam does is to add an overlay, which may impact performance in certain cases. disable it, try again. if so ... there is mostly likely a driver/scaling related issue.

[HP.Lovehandles]

I'm such a ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ idiot. The AMD display adapter was disabled. I didn't even notice the disabled icon when I was checking the drivers before, but I did this time. Problem solved!