Great Gaming PC Running Slowly After a Year

Jack Tobin · Oct 20, 2014

I have had a really nice gaming PC for over a year now. I always get around 60 fps on most of my games on max settings. Now whenever I try to play a game (Battlefield 4, Payday 2, Need for Speed Rivals) I am getting only 10-20 fps even on the lowest settings! I have checked the temps while i'm playing(all fine)I have Defragged my HDD(no help) And I have run multiple system scans and have not found any malware/viruses. My HDD still has over 250 GB of storage so that couldn't be it. Can anyone help me? Also, I pre-ordered Far Cry 4 for the PC, and I'm hoping this is answered in time, thanks!

Specs
EVGA GTX 670 FTW Edition
i5-3570k at 3.4 ghz
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
ASUS DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS Black SATA 24X DVD Burner
ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional-M LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Cooler Master Silent Pro M - 1000W Power Supply with 80 PLUS Bronze Certification
Seagate Hybrid Drive ST1000DX001 1TB MLC/8GB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s NCQ 3.5" Desktop SSHD
IN WIN GRone White 0.8mm SECC Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Bobtheblowfish · Oct 20, 2014

Your components are fairly older however I'm surprised that it's only hitting 20fps on low.

update your drivers, allocate RAM, And make sure your parts are working properly.

Kohwali · Oct 20, 2014

Maybe your GPU derped on you? Have you tried using a separate GPU or your GPU in a separate rig to see if you get the same results?

Jack Tobin · Oct 20, 2014

No wait sorry guys Kohwali isn't the best answer I accidentally clicked on it :/

Jack Tobin · Oct 20, 2014

Kohwali :

No I've run a couple gpu stress tests and they all turned out with about the same scores as when I got it

Kohwali · Oct 20, 2014

Lol, I'll unselect it.

Kohwali · Oct 20, 2014

The only other thing I can think of that would affect FPS is your CPU. How do benchmarks look on that?

Icaraeus · Oct 21, 2014

There wouldn't be a problem with the CPU unless it was faulty by some chance which is unlikely. I would check to make sure the temperatures are good. Otherwise, I would completely reinstall Windows and install the latest stable drivers for all your components.

Kohwali · Oct 21, 2014

Jack Tobin :

I have had a really nice gaming PC for over a year now. I always get around 60 fps on most of my games on max settings. Now whenever I try to play a game (Battlefield 4, Payday 2, Need for Speed Rivals) I am getting only 10-20 fps even on the lowest settings! I have checked the temps while i'm playing(all fine)I have Defragged my HDD(no help) And I have run multiple system scans and have not found any malware/viruses. My HDD still has over 250 GB of storage so that couldn't be it. Can anyone help me? Also, I pre-ordered Far Cry 4 for the PC, and I'm hoping this is answered in time, thanks!

Jack Tobin · Oct 21, 2014

Kohwali :

Well first of all, the temps on my cpu are fine, and all 4 cores seem to be working fine so, is my computer possessed by some scary computer demon that has never been seen before? Or what is going on?

Kohwali · Oct 21, 2014

You could do hard drive benchmarks, but I don't know much about them. Come to EncodingTalk.com and make the same post and ask about benchmarking hard drives.

Jack Tobin · Oct 21, 2014

Kohwali :

I would much rather keep the discussion on 1 site, but if worst comes to worst, I will add it there. So here is a few things I forgot to add. First of all, when I cleaned my cpu for the install of it, I used 70% iso alcohol instead of 99% or whatever it was. Second, I have not ever opened up my PC and cleaned it. I never thought that I would need to because all of my temps are fine, but could either of those things have anything to do with it?

Kohwali · Oct 21, 2014

Dust could slow your stuff down, but you told me the benchmarks and everything were fine so I assumed it wasn't a problem. No idea on the alcohol.

Jack Tobin · Oct 21, 2014

Kohwali :

Ok I just want to clarify, is a 6.3 out of 7.9 a good benchmark score for my specs?

Jack Tobin · Oct 21, 2014

Kohwali :

Ok I just want to clarify, is a 6.3 out of 7.9 a good benchmark score for my specs?

Kohwali · Oct 21, 2014

What engine? And you're better off Googling whether that's a good score or not.

Jack Tobin · Oct 22, 2014

Kohwali :

On the performance Information and tools in the control panel of windows 7

Kohwali · Oct 22, 2014

Those benchmarks are not in depth!

Jack Tobin · Oct 22, 2014

Kohwali :

What program would you recommend I use? Sorry I'm still new to the whole benchmarks thing :/

Kohwali · Oct 23, 2014

I don't know. That's why I suggested that you post onto EncodingTalk unless we can attract somebody's attention on here.

Jack Tobin · Oct 23, 2014

Kohwali :

UPDATE: I just noticed while looking at my gpuz when playing, my gpu load is staying at 98-99% the whole time! Does that mean my graphics card is failing? I am almost 99% sure that the problem is the card now

Kohwali · Oct 23, 2014

What temps are you getting from HWID?

Jack Tobin · Oct 23, 2014

Kohwali :

HWID?

Kohwali · Oct 23, 2014

The program for monitoring your system temps.

EDIT: I meant to say the program that you use to monitor your GPU temps.

Jack Tobin · Oct 23, 2014

Kohwali :

I use both speedfan and gpu-z just to make sure and yes my idiotic self just pressed best answer by accident again :/

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