Performance issues only in games and FPS drastic drop after moving computer.

seeker_42

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As the question says, I moved my computer around yesterday, and now I'm having issues. In all of my games I'm experiencing massive FPS drops- as in, consistent low- and the graphics is being recommended at very low. Normally I play games like TF2, Injustice or SWTOR at very high graphics with little issues, 40-60 FPS, which I'm more than happy with. Now I'm getting 10-20 FPS on low settings.

I would regularly think of software but it seems such a coincidence it happened after I moved my comp and then got problematic. I've opened up, cleaned out- no evidence of dust build up, it would seem- checked for loose cables and found nothing. Comp seems to be detecting everything fine as well. I've updated all of my drivers and they all appear to be up to date.

Net wise, my internet is otherwise fine, plugged in as usual, and games like Injustice I can play when offline and experience the same issues anyway.

The FPS counter in SWTOR seems to indicate through its colour changing system that the GPU is what's holding back the frames, as it goes and flickers red. All the same, the odds that just a day ago everything was fine and the GPU is indeed one of the best parts of my system suddenly changes to this seems astronomical, particularly when no updates for the game were had and it spans across multiple games.

Could anyone suggest any solutions for this, or diagnosis? I'm really, really confused. :??:
 

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Just across the room. It sits in a hole in my desk, well ventilated and clean etc. All of the wires seem to be completely hooked up, but I'm by no means an expert. I built it with the help of a friend, and know a fair bit of tech stuff, so I could see a missing wire or mismatched thing, but the little hard to notice things could have gone unnoticed. That said, everything DID seem in order.

I've posted extended specs on other forums, with spoiler tags. Don't seem to work here. What sort of thing are you looking for? (Sorry, new to Tom's Hardware solving online.) Appreciate the help.
 
Okay, that explains just a bit. Is there a door to the hole, and/or wood in the back of the hole?

And I want name of the CPU, motherboard, GPU brand (NVidia or AMD only, please, I dont need MSI, etc.) and model (e.g.: GTX 760 or R9 280X, I don't need EVGA-PARKEROC-A00 or whatever ), HDD brand, PSU brand, CPU fan brand and model ( if using stock, just say stock fan), and case brand and model. Thanks!
 

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SOLVED: Stupid mistake I made when resetting up. The monitor was plugged directly into the motherboard attachment rather than the GPU slot, thus running off the Intel graphics with the CPU rather than the AMD card. All the same, appreciate the help!