Is GForce Experience destroying my gpu?

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Hi everyone

i5 4460 with evo 212
gtx 960 2gb
xfx 550w
8gb ram

Seven days ago I started to mod my skyrim. Everything was going on nice but 2 days ago I noticed heavy fps drops. Suddenly game was stuttering like hell. Logically I started to remove mods but nothing helped. So I did clean install and it was same. Heavy stuttering. That is when I noticed my gpu have 99% usage with 50c and my cpu is 20-30% usage with 30-40c. I went to my experience and updated drivers, because I saw that new ones are available, and after updating, everything is smooth again.

So my question is. Can bad drivers destroy my gpu? Is Nvidia sabotaging me and forcing me to update drivers. And last question is, is everything fine? Could bad drivers actually be the problem, so new ones fixed it?
 
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If anything the video driver as much as letting the card work properly and as it should with a Fps game.
It has features in it programmed to monitor the state of the Physical gpu state as you know, when running with the card.

Typical out of the two things it does is monitor how hard the gpu is working in a percentage load.
Because not every game will utilize up to 100% of the processing power the Gpu chip on the card can provide.

Some games depending on how well they were made or coded may use up to 90% of the power the Gpu can process data at. while another game may only utilize 70% of the overall processing power the Gpu can do at maximum performance and load put on it Mirza.

It always will differ from game to game, how efficient...
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If everything is working fine, then yes everything is fine. Bad drivers will not destroy your GPU, they just won't utilize your GPU to it's fullest extent. Drivers absolutely can be an issue, and new drivers consistently fix and repair things that were not correctly working in previous drivers. Whether or not that was your issue--I'm not sure. Uninstalling + reinstalling GPU drivers often helps fix an issue, however.
 
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If you're really curious about it, you could try reinstalling the old set of drivers that you had and checking if they work versus the old install you had of them. Modded skyrim (depending on what mods you're using) can get very intensive, so I'm not exactly surpised by those FPS drops, am a bit surprised about the drops w/o them installed.
 
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If anything the video driver as much as letting the card work properly and as it should with a Fps game.
It has features in it programmed to monitor the state of the Physical gpu state as you know, when running with the card.

Typical out of the two things it does is monitor how hard the gpu is working in a percentage load.
Because not every game will utilize up to 100% of the processing power the Gpu chip on the card can provide.

Some games depending on how well they were made or coded may use up to 90% of the power the Gpu can process data at. while another game may only utilize 70% of the overall processing power the Gpu can do at maximum performance and load put on it Mirza.

It always will differ from game to game, how efficient the game was coded and optimized for a set Gpu chip branded by Nvidia or Ati in respect to the Gpu and card you have or use plus the model range you have.

The driver can do two things if the gpu gets to hot or is reaching it`s maximum TDP it will first start to reduce the core speed the Gpu is working at, lowering the speed of it. in order to cool the Gpu chip.

The second is if that fails and the Gpu is at the point of reaching physical damage due to excess heat buildup.
Is to actually force a termination of the video driver it`s self.

Where in most cases you are met with a black screen then a message saying the video driver stopped or terminated it`s self running on your system.

When a profile for a game is included. It is based on a balance of performance with chosen settings pre set as optimization for a set game title.

If the profile gets messed up then it can be the cause as to why a game runs much worse in performance or frame rate per second Mirza.

So the likely drop in frame rates, was due to the gpu getting a little bit to hot, down clocking in speed and frequency of the Gpu.

Or corrupted pre programmed profiles for skyrim.
 
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The problem is, gpu was only 50c. I have G1 GTX 960 gigabyte 2GB. 50c is not overheating. And now I have same temps with new drivers and yet it's working beautifuly
 
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