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So about a week ago i got my new computer and was testing it to see how it would perform,I started playing games with medium settings,started getting a lot of frame drops and that's understandable considering that the computer isn't that powerful,so started playing with the lowest settings,i would get around 100-120 fps While playing Team Fortress 2 and that's pretty good but i would get so many frame drops from 120 to 50-20 add to that i use frames configs such as Chris's config and Kaizen's config so that should help,this is really annoying considering that i'm playing on low settings

On my old computer i had the same settings with the same configs and get 120 frame constant and barely get frame drops only during intense firefights

Specs:
Intel i3 3.30GHz cpu
Gigabyte H61M-S2P Motherboard
Radeon HD 5450 Graphics card
4GB RAM

Note:my old computer had the same specs but with a GeForce 210 Graphics card

 
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The Radeon HD 5450 is better than the Geforce 210, but barely. They are both very close apart. Now the problem is for sure the GPU. You have problems with the GPU loading the pixels during fights which...
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Your CPU is oldish yet can run games. Motherboard is fine. Graphics card though tsk tsk, big problem there brother. It is more than old. It is quite dead. Now most graphics card can live up to games when it comes to frame drops. Now I don't know what games you have tried to run apart TF. TF has very bad graphics with minimal detail therefore you can definitely run it. Now the frame drop, hmm. The thing you can easily notice is if it comes from your graphics card. Try to see at what stages the game has frame drops. If it is mostly on long distances or when a mass load of people fight then it is your GPU. I really think it is a background application that is ducking your game up. Check that you have no torrent running, no google chrome (it's heavy) and definitely no media player. If you are running just the game then there is also the processes. Go to Windows Task Manager and then go to Processes. Click on Memory for the highest value to appear. That value should be your game.exe (example). If not then it might be a virus. Copy and reply with your processes please.
 
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I tried to get a better Graphics card but i had a budget i was running with,Anyways,About the frame drops,i only get frame drops for like 2 or 3 seconds during intense fights but i get many drops and sometimes while doing nothing which is bothering me,I did check for background applications but nothing is running other than Avast,And yes The game memory is the highest
Whats annoying me is when i had the geforce 210 on the old computer the game ran with no frame drops and as far as know My current GPU is better than the geforce 210
 
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The Radeon HD 5450 is better than the Geforce 210, but barely. They are both very close apart. Now the problem is for sure the GPU. You have problems with the GPU loading the pixels during fights which is one of the easiest to spot problems in GPU's. I see that upgrading GPU is not the option wanted here. Well then I suggest a good run with Ccleaner (https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner). Clean up your registry. Also please try and take a screenshot of the processes running. That way I can see if something powerful is running together with the game which is what the case is here. Basically these are the problems: either virus or outdated GPU software (check your manufacturer's website for any automatic updates) or simply another program you have downloaded that runs alongside your game. Be aware that there are programs that can run backdoor and you won't be able to see them at all except if you dig deep. For now print screen the processes. If there is nothing there that has high Memory usage try and update your driver. If your driver is uptodate then we have two solutions. Backup important stuff and format as it would most probably be a virus or stick with what you have. Now Avast is rated the best antivirus but I have personally created viruses and intentionally let a very harmful virus pass Avast. Making it bad for non-virus friendly users. I use Bitdefender personally and never had problems.
 
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I don't think its a virus Because its only been like 2 weeks since i got this computer and i've been scanning for virus's daily with both Avast and Malwarebytes anti-malware
Anyways this a screenshot of the Processes with tf2 running:
 
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Ok now this looks quite fresh. It is definitely not a virus if you've been up to date with the cleaning pattern. Now it is definitely the drivers. (OR maybe overheating but it doesn't seem to be the case, we will get into that later). Now what you can do is go to your Device Manager and for the display adapters right click and choose the Uninstall option. Do not be scared the PC will still work. Then go to your GPU's manufacturer website and download the drivers (or best the auto-detect driver option). As I see you have CCC therefore you have AMD. They have the auto-detect option. Do that and if that does not work then we might have a problem with the fans/overheating.
 
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I've already downloaded the latest drivers but i didn't uninstall the previous one so ill do that now,Also i did download HWMonitor and there was not overheating issues or anything
 
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