PC Laggy thinking its my GPU? please help...

cwescrab

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Feb 13, 2014
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Out of no where my games started running laggy. Even in single player. Best way I can describe it is it's like playing an online game when you get lag. Just stuttering and stuff. I am running Windows 7 64-bit with 16 gigs, Intel 2500, AMD 7950 not overclocked. I tried removing the newest AMD beta drivers, the mantle one, completely uninstalled removed all folders, registry, everything. Installed the latest NON beta drivers. Same issue. By the way the mantle ones were working fine so I didn't know if it may have been the problem just thought I would reinstall just in case. Windows flies, its when I get in games everything starts going CHOPPY. I checked dumb stuff like making sure I had my monitor plugged in my Video card and not my integrated video card. I don't know what it could be, I am using Avast anti virus.
 

festerovic

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Run a monitoring software like GPUz and see what the temps are like for the gpu, while you are playing games. See if the fan speed is default for the GPU. I would test this by setting the fan at 100% and then seeing if you could game, while catching the temps with GPUz running in the background.