I recently upgraded almost everything in my PC except the hard drives and decided to clean install Windows 11 afterwards. Initially, I tested out Cyberpunk 2077 in benchmark mode and got a decent FPS around 144. However, after the clean install and updating all the drivers, I noticed a significant drop in performance. The FPS starts fine but plummets below 50 during heavy computational moments. Restarting the PC temporarily fixes it, but the issue comes back right away. I tried different drivers and updated the BIOS, but it's still problematic. The specs are as follows: POWERCOLOR Red Devil Radeon RX 9070 XT, AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 1000W PSU, MSI B850 GAMING PLUS WIFI, and G.Skill 32 GB DDR5 RAM with a Samsung 990 EVO 2TB NVMe drive.
2 Answers
Have you checked your temperatures while gaming? Sometimes overheating can cause performance drops. I had a similar issue, but my temps were normal, sitting in the double digits with 99% GPU usage and power draw around 300W.
This could be an issue with your GPU, drive performance, or perhaps a driver problem. When I upgraded to AMD, I found that the Adrenaline software was a bit clunky for my setup. I had to use the clean uninstaller to remove it and then just install the driver version. What kind of drives are you using? They might be affecting your performance since they're the only old component left.
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