Huge drop in performance out of nowhere (?)

[kickhead13]

I've been gaming on gentoo for a few months getting really good performance for my preference. But just a few days out of nowhere games started running at very low FPS.

For example, CS2 used to run at about 80-90 FPS (with FPS varying within that frame) but now when i open it is stuck at 15 FPS. Geometry Dash also, used to run at about 800 FPS now its as low as 200 FPS on average and lag spikes into FPS less than 20.

I booted CS2 and ran nvtop to see what the graphics card was doing: about 90% GPU usage, 60 *C tempreture, and 3 processes for CS 2 out of which only 2 were running on the GPU.

I updated Gentoo since I haven't updated it this week, but this problem keeps happening. I boot up a game and the performance is really bad.

I have a GTX 1050 graphics card.

Any idea why this could happen?

If any other info is needed I'll provide it.

Thanks in advance,
kick.

[krumpf]

Was there a nvidia driver update ? A few years back, when I had a nv card, I was playing a game that worked flawlessly. Then, after a driver upgrade, that game would just crash randomly. I went back to previous working driver, problem got solved... until a kernel update forced the nv driver update :s
(Sometimes I tend to believe nvidia purposely break their drivers on older hardware so people are tempted to buy their newer cards)
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[psycho]

Hi Kickhead.

In your situation, if you haven't done this already, I'd be testing the card with a known working OS environment first (either an old Gentoo backup or a Windows install or whatever) to rule out the possibility of hardware issues, before investing too much time into looking for software issues. The 1050 is an ancient card: RTX graphics cards can die within 2 or 3 years if they're thrashed, though normally they'll last at least 4 or 5 if they're well treated. Obviously they can last much longer than that if they spend a lot of time just sitting in a drawer doing nothing, but if you've been using that 1050 card since you bought it (or if you bought it second hand in the first place), it's long past the date at which it wouldn't be surprising if physical components were starting to burn out, so be sure it's actually working properly physically before sinking lots of time into software troubleshooting.