Latest win10 update has broken my graphics card

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After being forced to install the Anniversary update, my graphics card (Sapphire Fury Nitro) seems to have run into some major issues - namely, the drivers don't seem to be working at all anymore no matter what I do. I've reinstalled several times (with uninstalling via DDU and the AMD Cleanup Utility), but each time, I've been getting the following error 50% through the installation: "Default Radeon WattMan settings have been restored due to unexpected system failure", which then seems to do something to the drivers because they no longer work well (or, rather, at all) after that. Concerningly, they don't seem to be recovering, as no amount of restarts appear to be fixing the issue, and as a result most of my games (such as Dirt Rally) are running at over 100 FPS less than what they did before. In DR in particular, I've noticed during the benchmark that the CPU usage is now at 40+%, which, given my CPU (i5 6500) and GPU (aforementioned Sapphire Fury Nitro), is clearly an indication that something has gone horribly wrong.

Everything in general is much choppier, which seems to indicate that the drivers are not recovering at all. My last remaining idea would be to completely reinstall Windows, but according to this thread the issue likely won't be fixed by that. I've also rolled back the Anniversary update, but to no avail.

Can anyone help me out on this?
 
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This is an evolving issue around the Win 10 Anniversary update (1607) and OpenGL used in some games. The only solution so far is to roll back Win 10 to the previous (pre-Anniversary) version and block Windows from forcing it back to 1607. I'm running a new nVidia GTX-1080 with 372.90 drivers and there is a problem with X-Plane which uses OpenGL. Other games are unaffected unless they are OpenGL. Supposedly Microsoft and nVidia are aware of this are are working on a solution if they can quit arguing on whose fault it is.
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Most likely it had nothing to do with Win 10 update in general and everything to do with a glitch isolated to your system. If rolling back didn't help there's a high possibility of hardware issues, but first thing to do is boot into safe mode and try reinstalling drivers again just to verify it's not software. After that it's time to remove the GPU and test gaming with the integrated graphics to see if that is also out of whack.

If it's a hardware issue it might be hard to pinpoint without a full reinstall and slowly stress testing each component.
 
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Following a bit more testing, it turns out the issue is solely restricted to that one game. The performance drop is still insane (90 FPS lost), but that probably means I'm better off asking in a more specialized place, as the issue doesn't seem to be with the card or the drivers at this point.
 
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Are you running it in windowed mode by any chance?
 
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This is an evolving issue around the Win 10 Anniversary update (1607) and OpenGL used in some games. The only solution so far is to roll back Win 10 to the previous (pre-Anniversary) version and block Windows from forcing it back to 1607. I'm running a new nVidia GTX-1080 with 372.90 drivers and there is a problem with X-Plane which uses OpenGL. Other games are unaffected unless they are OpenGL. Supposedly Microsoft and nVidia are aware of this are are working on a solution if they can quit arguing on whose fault it is.
 
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