I’ve been gaming for almost 3 decades now and i’ve seen this time and time again, where i will run a graphically intensive program and suddenly it’s just choppy as shit and running bad. Sure enough though no matter which brand of card i’m using or how new it is, if i go to the gpu program theres a driver update. So clearly this is too much to be a coincidence, so what’s happening here? Surely AMD and Nvidia aren’t both throttling your performance to get you to update right? That’s ridiculous. Can someone smarter than me explain what might be going on? Perhaps the games themselves are updated with new libraries for the cards and those need to stay in sync or something

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’ve never had that happen on Linux. There can be issues if you install a new driver and don’t reboot though.

  • OrderedChaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Sometimes updates are partially installed before you see the notification. That breaks functionality sometimes because they’re trying to make the updates go faster with less down time. It’s really annoying.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Are you sure it’s not throttling because of a thermal issue? Make sure the fans and heatsink are clean.

    It could also be that the factory-applied thermal paste might have degraded over time and reapplying new thermal paste might solve the problem.

    • yokonzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 months ago

      My man, no offense, but it doesn’t seem like you read the whole thing. This has been a thing I’ve noticed for like decades, on different cards and computers, this isn’t a tech support post

      • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Honestly I haven’t noticed that, so yeah this sounds like a tech support issue on your end.

        But yeah, drivers are often updated to fix quirks in newly released games all the time. Drivers updates targets everyone and won’t be suggested based on which game you currently have installed.

        • yokonzo@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Well I just updated and it went away like it ways does. If this was an issue its a very consistent issue spanning every windows PC I’ve ever used , so I don’t know what to tell you

          • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Did you reboot as part of updating? If so, the reboot could have fixed it.

            Also, how often do you check for updates when you’re not having problems? How long have the updates been out before you have performance issues and look for them?