Weird Lag Issues After Installing New Driver

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So the latest driver for my gpu came out recently (I think it was 16.12.2). My gpu is the rx480, my mobo is the b150 pcmate, i also have an i5-6500 along with 16gb of ram. So amd has this radeon installer thing to check for new drivers and it had recommended me one. I installed that with no problems whatsoever but after the installation I had noticed some very weird things occur that had never occurred before. Such things include when I open my browser, there is this black rectangle on the corner (is no longer there), my mouse cursor being extremely laggy and seeming like it is being dragged (more present when I start my computer up for the first time but recedes as I use it more) and the most annoying of all is the lag I have during games like skyrim and overwatch. I have had no lag from these games before but I guess now I do. Also, MSI has this thing called live app or something like that where it checks for any new updates for anything such as the bios. I scanned for a bios update and it said how I had a vga bios update available. Now I trust liveapp but people recommend me not to update my bios from it. How do I update my vga bios? I assume it's different from updating regular bios because yesterday I went to techpowerup to look for a vga bios update and I installed the latest version (maybe) and I flashed my bios using amd's atiwinflash. However after doing so, msi's live app still showed that i had a vga bios update available so I am really confused. I think this is where my problems are coming from, any ideas ya'll?

p.s sorry for the bad grammar.
 
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I would first try going back to your previous drivers using Windows System Restore. Select the most recent restore point prior to the driver installation, which should put your drivers back the way they were before. A restore point may have been automatically made right before the installation of the driver.

Having a quick look at the 16.12.2 release notes, I see there is a known issue that might be related to what your mouse cursor is doing...
Mouse cursor corruption may be intermittently experienced on Radeon RX 480.
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It might be worth skipping this version of the driver and waiting for the next one to come out, if this is what's affecting you.

The VGA bios would be the bios for your graphics card, not the motherboard. You...
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First things first u need to know about motherboard. Update a bios is like you program back your coding inside the circuit board.

Do not ever try to installed bios update version motherboard. Let it be remain on factory edition. It will occur problem after you update once. Update a bios is not necessary. It is not like you update software. BIOS is Basic Input Output System. Not every update is compatible with your current hardware and spec.

Before update or restore to factory setting, please check your motherboard version. Restore it to default. If this problem solve, please tick this thread to answered. There are two rules for motherboard:

Rule 1: Don't update motherboard bios if your system is currently stable
Rule 2: Don't forget rule no. 1

Updating motherboard will not make your computer get more powerful but it always get worst. That is why motherboard update is not necessary and the update release once in a 3 years or 5.

Please read your manual motherboard instruction before using your computer. You will get what I mean in a clear picture.
 
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Well I wouldn't of done it if I had been told otherwise. Lot of others do update their bios and many recommended me to when I first built my pc. So how do I revert my mobo to default?
 
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Try to seek to the manufacturer website if got any solution to find the default programming coding back. It is clearly that you got problem after update bios but you stated that before it there was no problem. If you read the manual bios, flashy is a quite risk. Do it with your own result when flashy as state at the manual.
 
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I would first try going back to your previous drivers using Windows System Restore. Select the most recent restore point prior to the driver installation, which should put your drivers back the way they were before. A restore point may have been automatically made right before the installation of the driver.

Having a quick look at the 16.12.2 release notes, I see there is a known issue that might be related to what your mouse cursor is doing...
Mouse cursor corruption may be intermittently experienced on Radeon RX 480.
Click to expand...
It might be worth skipping this version of the driver and waiting for the next one to come out, if this is what's affecting you.

The VGA bios would be the bios for your graphics card, not the motherboard. You probably wouldn't want to replace that with a random one off some unrelated site, as it could be for an RX480 from a different vendor than yours, and your card's clocks, fans, amount of memory and so on could be different from what that particular video BIOS is designed for. If you already flashed your video BIOS with a BIOS for another card, you would probably want to get it back to a proper one. You didn't say which vendor your RX480 is from, but I'm assuming its MSI, since you mentioned their update utility. If so, you would want to get the proper video BIOS from them, otherwise, you would want to get it from whatever company your card was made by.
 
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He doesn't want to update his mobo BIOS.

Try rolling back the driver. If it is a driver issue, their next release may fix it.

Check that the Crimson software hasn't changed your game settings.

If you were running low settings for high fps, it may have assumed you'd prefered high settings and lowered your frame rates.

 
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Yes. He did mention updating his video BIOS using one that he found on a site that has a big list of video BIOS files though, so it's possible that he changed that to an incompatible one. If that were the case, he would probably also want to get that back to whatever BIOS his graphics card vendor currently provides for his RX480.
 
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Thank you all for the detailed responses. Cryoburner, I did not flash my vga bios because I did not know how to. When I went to techpowerup I made sure everything was correct before I installed it but I do believe that could've been the issue. I rolled my driver back to the old one and it seems like all the lagging and such is gone however I did notice that the mouse problem was still present (for some reason I do not know why) though it is gone as of now. Do you still recommend me to do a system restore (so far restoring has solved almost all my problems i have had related to my gpu drivers)? Right now everything seems okay but I am still scared I did something with the bios. Will restoring bring my bios to what it was before?
 
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I don't believe a system restore should affect the video bios, as it's written to the video card itself, rather than within the operating system. I'm not sure what exactly the problem affecting your mouse cursor is, but it might be worth trying a system restore to a recent restore point before the problem appeared, which should put any other affected drivers and configurations back the way they were before. It's also possible that the mouse cursor issue could be unrelated to the video driver, and perhaps a mouse driver update could be at fault, if it's a mouse that uses special software.
 
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Okay I will do a restore if I see any more problems. I know that when I updated my drivers and such I did it because I was experiencing some unusual lag in my games. Just randomly I would experience stutters and in games like skyrim, it was even more evident. I'll just wait for a new driver update and I will see if that solves any issues, what do you think? Also I do not know if any of this is related but in games I experience very slight flickering from my monitor. Usually when I am on a darker screen the flickering is more visible but could it be because of my gpu or just my monitor?

 
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Open world games like Skyrim tend to load things in the background while you're playing, so stutters could potentially be related to hard disk performance, particularly if you've installed mods that increase the amount of data that needs to load. I've also heard of stutters occurring in that game if your frame-rate gets too high, as its physics engine doesn't like that, though I don't have the game myself to say for sure.

As for the flicking, it could be any number of things, but it might be monitor-related. It could just be that your screen has some feature activated that automatically adjusts its backlight to either improve contrast or adjust for ambient light, and that might not be behaving in an ideal way.
 
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