The other day I downloaded Star Wars Knights of the Republic for the first time. Normally when I play any other games at the highest possible graphics everything runs smoothly with zero lag at all no matter what I'm doing in the game and I usually run around 60 fps.
When I finished installing the game after a good 4 hours putting 15GB on my 1TB HDD, which this computer is less than a year old, I have a lot of space, I went to run the game. When I first got into the game on detected performance which it set as highest it was lagging badly, 5 fps badly.
I exited the game and checked to see if any of my other games were now acting like this, in which they were. Diablo 3, Saints Row 3, Skyrim, Counter Strike Global, even Portal 2 was running slow, no matter what display settings I changed it ran the exact same.
I went to re-install the drivers for my video card and my motherboard. Once I restarted my computer, everything went to hell. I have two monitors setup but It was only detecting one of t hem yet had duplicate display. It wouldn't get out of 800x600 resolution in which it is normally 1920x1080. I have a Razer Anasi keyboard and it wouldn't even detect it so I couldn't type and I'm lucky my mouse worked.
I re-installed the MOBO drivers and the keyboard was working again and re-installed the GPU drivers and it was working normally again with the resolution so it is not running as bad as it was but to avoid lag I now have to run medium or low graphics on my games, even older ones, but when it comes to YouTube videos, they load at 1080 just as well as they did before the big crash.
I have 8GB ram, 7850 sapphire GPU, i5 3470, 750W PSU, Corsair 500R and an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4. I'm wondering if the motherboard is not processing the GPU and the CPU correctly, if the CPU is dying because apparently SWTOR is a CPU heavy game, or if my GPU is dying. Before I take it into an electronic store to be fixed ot have anything sent back for warranty, I was hoping if anyone knew what could be causing the problem and if I could possibly fix this at home.
When I finished installing the game after a good 4 hours putting 15GB on my 1TB HDD, which this computer is less than a year old, I have a lot of space, I went to run the game. When I first got into the game on detected performance which it set as highest it was lagging badly, 5 fps badly.
I exited the game and checked to see if any of my other games were now acting like this, in which they were. Diablo 3, Saints Row 3, Skyrim, Counter Strike Global, even Portal 2 was running slow, no matter what display settings I changed it ran the exact same.
I went to re-install the drivers for my video card and my motherboard. Once I restarted my computer, everything went to hell. I have two monitors setup but It was only detecting one of t hem yet had duplicate display. It wouldn't get out of 800x600 resolution in which it is normally 1920x1080. I have a Razer Anasi keyboard and it wouldn't even detect it so I couldn't type and I'm lucky my mouse worked.
I re-installed the MOBO drivers and the keyboard was working again and re-installed the GPU drivers and it was working normally again with the resolution so it is not running as bad as it was but to avoid lag I now have to run medium or low graphics on my games, even older ones, but when it comes to YouTube videos, they load at 1080 just as well as they did before the big crash.
I have 8GB ram, 7850 sapphire GPU, i5 3470, 750W PSU, Corsair 500R and an ASRock Z77 Extreme 4. I'm wondering if the motherboard is not processing the GPU and the CPU correctly, if the CPU is dying because apparently SWTOR is a CPU heavy game, or if my GPU is dying. Before I take it into an electronic store to be fixed ot have anything sent back for warranty, I was hoping if anyone knew what could be causing the problem and if I could possibly fix this at home.
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