Helios 500, gtx 1070 seriously underperforming

After I installed windows and all of the drivers, I tried running some games.
Imagine my shock after seeing 10-20 fps everywhere. After checking everything I
did a benchmark test and the results explained the issue. GPU.
Of course I uninstalled my drivers using a DDU in safe mode, and installed the latest
version manually in offline mode (to avoid windows messing with setup).
NOTHING helped, gpu is still seriously underperforming.

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Im honestly running out of the ideas, anyone had a similar issue or has an idea ?
I couldnt find anything on the forums or using google either, except everyone being super
satisfied with helios 500 performances.

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tobimaru

The 417.22 drivers are your issue. Contrary to popular belief, running the 'latest' drivers is often the cause of most performance loss. You need to revert back to your original OEM driver to regain performance.

Since their release 417.22 has caused many performance issues. There are tons of threads here documenting this since release.

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tobimaru

The 417.22 drivers are your issue. Contrary to popular belief, running the 'latest' drivers is often the cause of most performance loss. You need to revert back to your original OEM driver to regain performance.

Since their release 417.22 has caused many performance issues. There are tons of threads here documenting this since release.

dekzz

I have just downloaded 417.01 and doing a test right now, will let you know.

dekzz

You were right indeed, it was a driver, wish i tried that first before reinstalling the latest one 20 times.
Thank you !!
Cheers

tobimaru

Glad a roll-back fixed your performance issues! It's really confusing to get a driver update notification, install it, and then experience worse performance! This has been common lately though and hopefully nVidia improves their driver package.

dekzz

Yeah worst thing is, im aware of that issue. Tho this time it just didnt cross my mind since i didnt update anything, i just literaly installed my OS and the latest driver YESTERDAY. As it turns out latest update came out yesterday or the day before. Talk about bad timing haha

xapim

tobimaru said:

Glad a roll-back fixed your performance issues! It's really confusing to get a driver update notification, install it, and then experience worse performance! This has been common lately though and hopefully nVidia improves their driver package.

Nvidia devs are acting same way as game devs they just release it for everyone to test it for them we (the guinea pigs) and if we have issues they will fix it in the next release this is why if you don't have issues do not update the gpu driver ever unless one of the latest games requires it to be able to play it and disable GE auto updates

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