Sudden and random extremely low framerate in games

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Dec 5, 2015
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So i started noticing something rather weird on my gaming computer. My fps suddenly dip down to unplayable levels, for no apparent reason. No RAM/VRAM insufficiency as i'm not running any programs in the background, no overheating (CPU around 45 celcius, GPU around 50-55), nothing.

What's more is that this problem appears to occur randomly, sometimes after alt-tabbing or after changing resolution while in-game. I should mention that it has never happened in games in which i don't use Nvidia's DSR. After it happens, alt-tabbing or changing res again doesn't work, nothing helps really, only restarting the game fixes the problem. Restarting every once in a while doesn't bother me, it's not really time consuming, but still i'd like to know why it happens and if i can fix it. Using Nvidia's 359.06 clean installed drivers.

Specs are:

i5 4590
GTX 970 G1
8GB corsair vengeance
Running on windows 10

Thanks.
 
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BlackHawkBurns

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Jan 12, 2016
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Have you updated your drivers?
Windows 10 has a lot of problems with outdated drivers.
My old drivers made windows 10 freeze and crash plus making me unable to run some games.

So if you want to try that you can use driver booster 3 to look for and update any old drivers.
 
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