Absurd FPS drops after updating to 1809

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  1. GPz

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    Update 27-10-2018: The performance penalty WAS manifesting itself in all games after all, but was not always very obvious. It almost looked like my GPU shader units got cut in half. In the end, I tried doing a clean install of 1803 and... the problem PERSISTED. Thus, it couldn't have been related to 1809, but must've been a hardware bug, no? - YES! I removed my graphics card, cleaned the PCIe fingers on it with WD-40, as well as the slot on my motherboard... and voila! No more problems. So the GPU probably didn't get all the PCIe lanes because of a faulty contact and probably got choked by being degraded to a 1x or 2x PCIe interface. Weird as f.

    Update:
    After a lot more hours of research and testing, I've conclusively isolated the problem to IDtech6 games (so, Doom 2016 and Wolfenstein 2). Absolutely all other games run just fine after I've disabled spectre and meltdown protection via inSpectre. Also, it's not Vulkan per se, as vkQuake runs as usual, between 480 and 500 fps. Any thoughts?

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    Hello! I turn to you good and smart people, for guidance, for I'm a fellow gamer in need...

    Ever since my system auto-updated to this Win10 October update, my games have been experiencing severe fps dips, far worse than I ever had on my system. I've observed such behaviour in Overwatch, SOTTR and CS:GO. But the worst offender, by far, is Doom (2016) - when all in-game statistics are showing, the GPU graph periodically shows a 3-5 second red lagspike that tanks fps to the high 20s (before the win update, fps never dipped below 80). These don't seem to be caused by anything on screen in particular - like particle effects or many monsters / geometry - they're random. The numerical ms display for CPU also periodically shows random very long red number stings instead of the XX.XX ms value. Never seen that. Resource monitor, windows task manager and MSI afterburner all show the GPU being pegged to 100% (tested it with vsync off) and the CPU being utilised pretty much like normal while playing DOOM (40-70% for my CPU). The framerate dips are real though - it's not only the numbers showing, you can really feel your mouse lag pretty hard - just like when playing at below 30 fps!

    My hardware: Asrock P67 Pro, non-oc 2500k, 8 GB 1333 DDR3, MSI GTX970, Samusng 830 SATA SSD, Sound BlasterX AE-5.

    What I tried:
    - cleaning dust out of my case, removing the GPU, cleaning dust and such...
    - tweaking and tuning windows - disabling unneeded functionality, including group policy-ing win defender, disabling telemetry via OOSU10 and such
    - uninstalling all metro apps, including the store
    - installing the latest intel chipset drivers (actually noticeably improved my network performance!)
    - uninstalling my video drivers via DDU in safe mode, clean installing v416.16
    - doing the same for 416.34
    - trying out pretty much every nvidia control panel setting.
    - enabling and disabling "game mode" in windows settings
    - in DOOM, switching to OpenGL (even worse performance)

    The very dubious part of the whole story is that at one point (3 days ago), without me having any apparent influence on it, the problem was suddenly gone... and then, today, windows auto-installed the patch tuesday cummulative update for 1809... and the problems returned.

    I am quite baffled by this phenomena. Never seen anything like it. And... to make it even more troubling - windows itself and pretty much everything except games works even better / snappier than before! /facepalm

    Does anyone have an inking about what the hell is going on? Any constructive thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
     
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  2. Strange Times

    Strange Times Master Guru

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    every windows update has stutters in games for me after release. just wait for cumulative updates and new drivers
     
  3. GPz

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    I get what you're trying to convey. I also had similar issues in the past. This time it's radically different, and that's why I'm seeking help; I'm experiencing 0 stutters, at least not more than usual and the fps tanks - like I periodically have only 25% of my GPUs power available. It's VERY bizzare.

    But in the end, if waiting for more updates is the only cure, oh well, so be it.

    I still did have a random miracle happen for it to go away for like almost 4 days... then this cursed cumulative update landed...
     
  4. Agent-A01

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    Have you tried disabling game-mode?

    I've seen it cause hitches in several games, but I don't recall if it was before or after they changed the way it works.
     

  5. tsunami231

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    you know i am confused by this gamemode thing in recent build there is NO on/off in settings/gaming other then "record game clips, screenshots and broadcasts with gamebar" off which supposed to turn it off? or does one have have that enabled and window key + g and turn it off in each game before doing the above?
     
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    It's missing?

    I have a submenu with Game mode where you can toggle it on/off in settings app.
     
  7. jbmcmillan

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    I do as well.
     
  8. GPz

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    I forgot to mention this in my opening post - yes, game mode on and off - makes no discernible difference.
     
  9. tsunami231

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    I mean when I go in to "Settings>Gaming" settings where windows update, I not talking about in the actual game by using the windows key + g

    in the "setting> gaming there is no option to "turn it on or off" just an option to turn the bar off

    I did do this
    https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-and-remove-game-bar-windows-10-creators-update

    it was set to 4 in reg i set it to 3 and i not sure i really see any diffrence, i mean it been set 4 this whole time i had 1803 build installed, I just disable the gamebar in settings>gaming and all games ran like the should it was all nice and smooth
     
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    Settings>Gaming>Game Mode It's on the left.
     

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    You can suffer doing numerous little what-ifs, but instead you can go pro and suffer doing one big clean install of Windows.
     
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    im on 1803 build there is no such option in it that or i really blind

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    I think you are right and that they added it back in 1809.
     
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    like said it it acutal is on and has been all this time, then dont mater to me cause they all play silky smooth for me, only games that stutter for me still are games that game engines issues that cause it
     

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    I also don't have it, and I'm on 1709.
     
  17. GPz

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    I am aware of this, an doing a clean install, complete through a boot-up usb, will be my final resort. I'm still not diving into it because a) there is no guarantee that it will alleviate the problem, and b) I somehow accidentally solved the problem before without a clean install, but unfortunately haven't got the foggiest what I did.
     
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    Good. Operating System is a mystery.
     
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    Bumping for visibility of the update I made to the opening post.
     
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    I have an older setup with a GTX 970 and I have also noticed this in the new windows update. Most things play fine but Diablo III now has really low GPU usage creating a stutterfest and idtech games are also really low like the op. On previous versions of windows 10 and on windows 7, the gpu usage would always go to 99% and I would have smooth gameplay ( I play with vsync off).

    I'm going to try a lot more of my games and see if there are any other issues I'll report back. Will also give feedback to Nvidia and Microsoft.
     

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