Sudden FPS loss

[dirtybongwater1]

pc specs:

gtx 1080 ti

i7 8700k

32 ram

500 gb ssd, 1tb hd

 

I was running 90-120 fps consistently with rudy enb and 60 mods focused on graphics.After doing some windows, intel, and NVIDIA driver updates I've dumped down to the 40-70 fps range. I've kept my game the exact same for nearly 6 months, and haven't touched any of my files.

 

I've narrowed down the problem to rudy enb, but I don't understand what could have caused this sudden drop. I was using rudy before with perfect frames, and none of my other games are affected. I haven't installed any new mods, or even touched my skyrim folders. Sadly I don't have a restore point from before the updates. I tried rolling back my nvidia drivers and that didn't work, but I am not sure how to rollback my intel updates, or if I even should. I've also tried reworking my settings on the nvidia control panel for both performance and quality, neither had any change whatsoever. To ensure that an enb was the problem I did a fresh skyrim install and only added the rudy enb, and my frames were the exact same.

 

also I am using vortex to install mods, and I have skyrim legendary edition, I run it all off of SKSE, but the results are the same running from the regular launcher

 

Here's a screenshot of the updates that went through

https://imgur.com/a/XnPwsAi

 

any help would be appreciated!

[Hannibal139]

Sometimes updating Nvidia drivers does that. I had this problem for months without me even realising until i had to do a fresh install of windows for some reason and update my Nvidia drivers accordingly. Before that my gpu usage would go almost 100% while my character was wearing 4k based outfit sets especially in gomapero land and i thought it was normal but after going through above said changes my gpu never goes above 80% in usage with the same setup and mods i had before and fps has also improved.

What you can do is observe other games you may have installed in your pc for such problem. If they too are having this problem then just roll back your gpu to old drivers or simply reupdate Nvidia drivers, it is most likely a driver corruption issue and Nvidia is notorious for that as long as i can tell and if other games are playing normally as they were before then forget about my technical expertise as i have no clue beyond that lol