5-20 FPS on Borderlands 2 after upgrade to GTX 1060

douhua1999 · Nov 4, 2016

Hi everyone,

A few months ago I upgraded my GTX 660 to an ASUS GTX 1060 STRIX. Recently some friends and I decided to play some Borderlands 2, and everything worked fine for a few minutes. Then all of a sudden my game dropped to 5 FPS and it was unplayable.

I tried turning off PhysX in-game, lowering all graphic options, switching back to my old GTX 660, only getting a maximum of 20FPS.

I know it isn't straining my graphics card because the fans on the graphics card didn't turn on at all (GPU fans turn on automatically when under heavy load/high temperature).

The weird thing is that when I alt tab (game running in windowed borderless), I can see that the game is running fine at 60FPS in the background. But when I re-enter the game, it goes back down to 5FPS.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, PC specs below:

-Windows 10
-Intel I5 4670k (OC to 4.12GHz)
-Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
-ASUS Z87 Pro
-8GB RAM (2 x 4GB)
-ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1060 6GB
-Corsair CX750M

Quixit · Nov 4, 2016

Totally remove the Nvidia drivers from your system, restart and reinstall them.

elbert · Nov 4, 2016

Can you run the game in windows mode? See if that fixes the issue.

douhua1999 · Nov 4, 2016

elbert :

It still runs at 5 FPS, tried full screen, full screen windowed, and windowed.

douhua1999 · Nov 4, 2016

Quixit :

Are you sure? Because every other game runs fine, just specifically Borderlands 2.

elbert · Nov 4, 2016

douhua1999 :

Check Nvidia's game profile for the game. May be a bad setting.

James Mason · Nov 5, 2016

douhua1999 :

Do it.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

douhua1999 · Nov 5, 2016

James Mason :

douhua1999 :

Do it.

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Thanks! The software you linked worked great and Borderlands 2 runs great now

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