Some computer games have turned unplayable.
Some computer games have turned unplayable.
I recently played Hogwarts Legacy and had around 60 hours, but it became unplayable with heavy memory usage and frequent FPS drops. I thought the issue might be with the game itself, but when I tried World of Warcraft Classic, my PC ran smoothly and it started lagging in the loading screen. I’ve performed a clean uninstall and reinstall of drivers, checked for malware, and my temperatures are normal. In Task Manager, I noticed the game was using GPU 2 copy while others were using GPU 2 3D, and it was utilizing almost no GPU power—something seems off.
I also tried enabling hardware acceleration, which switched to using the correct GPU 3D but didn’t resolve the stuttering. My system specs are: RTX 3070, 16GB RAM, Intel® Core™ i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz.
It doesn’t happen with every game—sometimes I can play Red Dead 2 at max graphics settings without any FPS drops, but it’s still smooth. I have both an SSD and an HDD; Red Dead is on the HDD, while the others are on the SSD. I moved Hogwarts Legacy to the HDD to test, but it didn’t improve performance.
Any advice would be appreciated. I suspect a driver issue might be the cause, given how suddenly it happened, but maybe a setting change affected graphics usage.
Has the GPU driver been updated? If so, revert to the previous version. A new driver release might lead to problems.