Having an extremely strange problem... Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
To be clear, this problem has happened on my brand new EVGA 1070 FTW and EVGA 1080 FTW (So its probably not the card)
On a clean install of the system, Battlefield 1 will run fine. GPU usage around 100%, CPU usage hovering between 60-75%. FPS is steady, no real drops. If I use DDU to clean the drivers and either reinstall, downgrade or upgrade drivers It will essentially break Battlefield 1. CPU usage will now often hover around 90-100%, GPU usage will experience drops. 10% up to 50% drops. It will cause my FPS to go from 95 down to 75 or down to even like 60.
This will happen even if I'm reinstalling the same driver version. This will also happen if I upgrade. Even if after upgrading I reinstall the old version, it will happen. Seems like I need to reinstall the Operating System to fix the problem.
It seems to only affect Battlefield 1.
Running 3DMark Firestrike produces a completely normal result. Running other games I get no drops, steady usage.
Why is this happening? I know DDU is safe to use, I know I'm using it correctly in safe mode. I haven't heard of anyone else with this problem.


Pictures: (Each grid square represents 10% usage)
CPU usage example:(GTX 1080 @1440P 144hz)
http://s86.photobucket.com/user/Wooohah/media/CPU_zps4i1uqlvr.png.html
GPU Usage example: 
http://s86.photobucket.com/user/Wooohah/media/GPU3_zpsnog1ebbj.png.html
Specs: i7 6700k (No OC)
EVGA 1080 FTW (Prev. EVGA 1070 FTW)
ASUS Z170 PRO (latest BIOS)
16GB Gskill TridentZ
EVGA 750W G2
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
ASUS pg279q (Prev 1080P 60hz w/ GTX 1070)

Ah thank you! I appreciate that! 

And for greyed out drivers, for my purposes, I'll just look for anything Nvidia related and leave everything else alone for the time being. 

Unfortunately I've already reset my system, so I might have to go recreate the issue. You don't think there's a possibility of a hardware issue anywhere do you? 

Gotcha! Thank you man.

So every time even after running DDU I need to run that command and make sure its all cleaned out before installing new drivers.

If its already cleaned and its exhibiting the same problems... what would you suspect there?

It is odd. I... believe I may have reinstalled the game once when this problem occurred, although I do not remember. I need to start writing down all the problems I get and all the troubleshooting steps so I can reference them later on.
I think the problem is only affecting Battlefield 1, but I'm slightly uncertain. Last night before I went ahead and reinstalled the OS, I noticed some very large spikes in CPU usage when I was in Chrome. Usage usually stays around 5-20% but it spiked to 80-90. They were like slightly steep waves not a small spike.
I remember back a while ago (we spoke about this too I think) CPU usage for whatever reason jumped to 100% and was staying there. Noticed it when the youtube video I was watching started lagging and freezing. Thought it was a virus, all scans came back clean.

Not sure if I can connect those honestly.

I'm about to do a motherboard swap, just gotta figure out which one to switch to. Believe some of my problems may be related to a faulty motherboard, and or some sort of weird compatibility issue with the drivers or something in there. 

DX11.

Don't know why, but if the game is set to DX12, it will become slow and crash within about a minute. Then will not start back up. Have to edit the config file back to DX11 to get the game to launch.

Unfortunately that was one of the first things I tried in troubleshooting :( I deleted the entire config folder, turned off Origin cloud sync and repaired the game.
Game loaded up into essentially exactly what it looked like the first time I booted it up.

Wooohah
are there known issues with DDU?

Not that I know of.

Im dreding going to Win10 on my new build!

Windows 10 is usually ok, I just think they include too much bloatware, Id like a more simple OS with less stuff I don't need.

Got my old PC working as a backup, Windows 10 wouldn't work so It had to go back to 7, oh well lol

I used DDU on my old computer and on other computers before as well. Seems to work fine. I always run it in safe mode of course. But I don't usually press rest to default installation, doesn't that just turn back on Windows automatic GPU driver updates? 

Ah! Oh I thought it did that automatically. Ill have to do that then.