Windows 10: Frame drops in games that semi fix by setting high priority .

Hi , greetings from Dubai . I am not new to pc hardware or gaming but recently I noticed getting random lag and stuttering effect on GTA 5 online it increased overtime, at first I thought it might be an server issue , a couple of days later for some reason I was playing story mode where I found more and more fps drops . I instantly fired up MSI afterburner and started hardware monitoring and started to see frame-time graph while doing missions , the drops were low like 60-2 with 22-31ms. I set the game on high priority from task manager and after that it got a little smooth but GTA online is a different story , the fps are low and drops are still very consistent and annoyingly noticeable . It wasn't always like this ,there was a time I remember playing with pretty much all the settings on very high to high with comfortable average fps of mid to low 90s . Now in game settings are turned down totally and I see no difference but the visuals look pretty bad and all maxed out settings is unplayable .

My specs Intel core i5 4460 (haswell refresh) 8gb ddr3 1600 ram Gtx 1060 6gb graphics card Motherboard is an HP oem board as I upgraded an office pc . 650watts 80+ gold certified PSU .

Important things I thought I should mention are : Things I was monitoring were my average CPU , GPU and RAM , temps (system is properly cooled), Frame rate and finally frame-time graph. My PC is running windows 10 pro and I have optimised it for gaming through YouTube videos ,last optimised in November 2019 after clean installation of windows in a SSD . I had ran many games smoothly at 120fps or more previously but very recently have I been getting fps drops which smooths out after settings <insert game name here>.exe priority to high from task manager. Aside from GTA , other games also get similar frame drops but none are as bad as GTA and also I play more GTA so hence used above multiple times as a reference . Witcher 3 and few others either run perfectly fine when I set priority to high or atleast smooth out to a playable level .

I don't understand why it is happening like this or why now and not before ? I didn't had to set my games to 'high priority' everytime I want to play them .I didn't understand the problem and couldn't find any similar case online so I resorted to this subreddit hopping for someone to help me .

I don't know if it's a graphics driver issue or windows driver issue hence posting here .

I am very grateful for you to even considering to read my huge post , thank you .

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