Windows 10: Low performance in games - WIN10

Didn't go back to older video drivers yet, possibly may tomorrow if time to do that, testing out Defender one more time today....decided to since it's built into Windows 10, probably less issues if Kernel updates come out still for the operating system, probably less issues with future Cumulative updates (I might be wrong on that) but was my thinking this morning when woke up.

As for Gaming issue haven't felt sluggish as yet or low frame rate as yet, so hopefully it's fixed for a bit lol

 

Hello guys,
Which video driver do you reccomend for GTX970m with win10? I tryed several of them (including driver version provided by laptop manufacturer) but most games still runs like crap, mainly Assassins creed 4, AC rogue and skyrim - all of them should run in 1920x1080 and full settings on my hardware, but I have problems to run them smoothly even in much lower resolutions and settings. I dont know if these older games are optimised for win10 either, but neither newer games runs as I expected them to run. In all of these games I have visible FPS drops in certain areas and stuttering when moving.
I already did:
- turned off "privacy features"
- turned off notifications
- disabled dynamic tick
- uninstalled unnecessary win10 applications like sport, food&restarurants, solitaire and simmilar junk *chuckle
- played with paging file - no difference so I let it in the hands of the system management
- uninstalled Geforce experience as someone suggested on other forum
- used utitily to unpark CPU cores (two variables was really "parked")
- tryed several Vsync/prerendered frames combinations
- tryed to play without internet connection
- disabled antivirus and firewall
When idle, task manager shows 0% processor, 22-26%RAM and 0-2% disk, so there is certainly not problem with background processes.
Any more suggestions? Or should I rather take back win 8.1*Smile

 

Some people are saying on nVidia Forums that 368.xx or 369.09 are fine. I have a GTX 970 and 369.09 are running fine for me.
We need this wddm 2.1 fiasco fixed asap. It's been three different nVidia driver releases and still no fix.
And BTW: Fallout 3 and New Vegas don't work anymore with anything higher that 36x.xx
The new wddm 2.1 introduced some sort of "not expected string" somewhere and those Bugthesda games were not prepared for that (they would not think that string would change ever).

 

I know Bethesda games are terribly optimised, but I see people on youtube with the same GPU and simmilar hardware playing skyrim with hunder of mods and several overhauls installed.
I have problem even with vanilla skyrim (with official HD textures only).
Tearing and unsmoothly experience starts under +-50 FPS. Tryed both in-game and NVidia Vsync, also Vsync turned off with FPS limiter, but all with with the same results.
I will try driver you recommended, now Im using 353.74.

 

Keep 353.74 at hand just to be on the safe side.