My Predator G3-571 is having what I can only guess are serious graphics card issues
So for a few months, maybe 2 or 3, I haven't been able to adjust the screen brightness on my laptop (SN:NHQ28AA00173707F973400). While this was annoying, I didn't really pay it any mind. But as of the start of June, I noticed that a lot of games weren't running well at all, even though they used to in the past. Final Fantasy XV, Overwatch, and a few other things were incredibly slow and choppy to the point of being unplayable on the lowest settings, while I used to be able to run them at mid to high settings. I thought the issues might be related, and so I tried updating my graphics drivers, deleting them and doing clean installs, checking registry errors, nothing. I'd occasionally get the error that "Nvidia display settings are not available" so I tried to make sure everything was alright in the Nvidia Control Panel, and that's when I realized that for whatever reason my computer didn't have the Nvidia Control Panel either. I've done multiple scans for any malware on my drives without finding anything, done clean installs of Windows on my C drive, and updated my BIOS with none of it helping. I'm working on backing everything important off of my other drive so that I can do a system wide clean reinstall, but I wanted to ask if anyone else might know of a solution.
