Windows 10: Graphics card GTX 980 possibly incompatible with current Windows version?

Hi,I've been getting lots of program crashes / BSODs lately surrounding corrupt files/drivers/etc, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, CACHE_MANAGER, SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NOPAGED_AREA, many othersI have run countless SFC scans and DISM image repairs, all of which have either found no issues or have fixed any issues on their own, even preventing some of the above mentioned BSOD errors from occurring since. I eventually ended up mounting another current ISO file which did not seem to fix much at all. I looked into it further and discovered that certain older graphics cards may end up be

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Low FPS with new GTX 980 graphics card


Hi,

In October I bought the MSI GTX 980 graphics card as an upgrade for my Radeon R9 280x. I presumed that I would be getting a lot better performance in games since the 980 is a much more powerful card, this was the case in some games like GTA 5 where I can run the game at much higher settings. However I have found that in a lot of other games my performance seems to have gone down, as an example I will use Borderlands 2 as I have been playing this a lot recently.

Using my old card I was getting pretty much a constant 90+FPS when playing Borderlands 2 but with my current card I am currently getting less than 60 at most times and during combat it can drop to 20's. This doesn't make any sense to me as I have not changed any other hardware other than the graphics card and somehow It is performing worse than my old card.

I am open to any suggestions and willing to try pretty much any solution. I understand that the CPU is one of the biggest FPS factors and know that an upgrade to that would be needed for a lot higher FPS but surely an upgrade shouldn't cause an FPS decrease.

My system specs are listed below.

 

Windows 10 and GTX 980 problems


Hi,


Big Problem





Upgraded from GA-Z97X SOC to GA-Z97X Gaming G1 BK to enjoy more PCI lane with PLX chip.




It has been a nightmare.




Keep getting graphic card error with my 2 GTX 980 in SLI. Error 43, BSOD, ....




Tried everything. New NVDIA drivers, Older NVDIA drivers, DDU, even a clean install of Windows 10. Nothing works! Andeven after the clean install, machine is super unstable, its not usable because keeps freezing, crashing or going BSOD: always related to graphic cards




More info for you guys,


Followed the basic steps for clean install.

1-Installed on SSD array using usb windows 10 install

2-installed latest mobo drivers for windows 10 x64 (pulled from gigabyte website)

3-Installed latest drivers fron NVDIA web site




after that all its hell....




Tried to troubleshoot,

1- like mentionned above, change NVDIA drivers using DDU in safe mode: fails, (redid this with dofferent version of drivers with same results

2- Tried new clean install with disabling automatic driver update in windows prior to installing GTX 980 and using NVDIA drivers: same tesults. So retried step 2 with all version of NVDIA drivers: fails





Everything was fine before mobo upgrade.




Beside the new mobo, kept everythingelsethe same (same hardware see list at bottom of post). Same CPU, same Dual GTX 980, Same SSD, HD, ...




Only difference,my old rig was a Windows 10 upgrade. Initially was windows 7 that was upgraded through win upgrade abour a year ago.




Going insane with this. Please help!












GA-Z97x-Gaming G1 BK edition latest bios F8

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2x EVGA GTX 980 Hydro Copper in SLI

LSI Megaraid 9280-16i4e with 8 Samsung Pro 850 1tb in Raid 0 (os drive)

4x 6Tb WD Drive set up as a Microsoft Storage Space for Backup

EVGA Supernova P2 1000 watt

 

Please welcome,the GTX 980

Since we aint gettin',any "9" Windows,we sure could use,a "niner" GPU!
Most anticipated graphics card,of at least the year,here comes the GeForce GTX 980 NVidia

GeForce GTX 980 Graphics Card | GeForce

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