GTX 970 poor performance

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I've owned my 970 for about a month now, and I can say that I'm impressed, except for a few exceptions. Team Fortress 2, which ran great (>300fps) on my old blower 570, and now that I've upgraded, I am getting 200-40. Yes, 40, and I don't know why. The card's temperatures are great, it's a FTW with ACX cooling. I've got an 8350, 8gb ram, and decent cooling. The card doesn't peak over 70 with stock fan profile. It only does this with less demanding games, but it kicks butt at newer more demanding games. Does anyone know why this is?
 
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i have the same one and I think ive read it has that issue because with the easier to run games, it kinda goes into almost a power saving mode during the game because it doesn't have to run as hard. I think the one way to test it would be to go into the NVidia control panel and change the 3d settings for that game to performance in the power management mode. that should keep it fully clocked the whole time. I THINK. not positive but couldn't hurt
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i have the same one and I think ive read it has that issue because with the easier to run games, it kinda goes into almost a power saving mode during the game because it doesn't have to run as hard. I think the one way to test it would be to go into the NVidia control panel and change the 3d settings for that game to performance in the power management mode. that should keep it fully clocked the whole time. I THINK. not positive but couldn't hurt
 
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did that solve the issue? again, not sure it will, but I knew when I was playing league of legends, the card kept going from like 400mhz to 1400 back and forth. past that... I mean if it was locked lower v-sync. if not, maybe just poorly optimized for the newer card?
 
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I actually fixed it! What you want to do is to download DDU (Display driver uninstaller) and run it for ALL drivers. It will get rid of any old drivers, and make sure that they don't interfere with the new ones. Then, download the 970/80 driver, run it,- but make sure that you disable or un-check GeForce Experience. It does something that reduces load on older or lower end games. It worked for me and now I get 400+ FPS in TF2, and Minecraft I get 500. I also overclocked it to 1476 and now it's getting more FPS. Thank you guys for your support!

 
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Unfortunately It didn't seem to fix the issue. I SAW 240fps in TF2, but it didn't last. It dipped down to 40 a few seconds later. I wish I knew a fool proof way to fix this besides going to the RED side. AMD never did this to me.
I love how when I benchmark it it performs fantastic, but games it is just lazy. Literally, it doesn't want to work as hard. I didn't pay $300 for a slacker!

 
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