- Feb 27, 2016
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Hello! I'll get straight to the point. My pc has been functioning incredibly poorly all of a sudden when it comes to gaming. While I used to be able to play The Witcher 3 on ultra settings without problems, now I can't even play a game as simple as runescape smoothly anymore.
I believe the problems might have started occurring about a week ago. That week I had my first crash ever. The kind of crash that makes your screen turn black and asking you to reboot. This happened while playing The Witcher 3, doing nothing out of the ordinary. Then, 2 days later my computer crashed again, but this time while watching youtube, without anything else open. 2 more days passed and I started noticing that I started having incredibly low fps while gaming, compared to how it was before.
Naturally, I started googling my problems and started trying all of the possible solutions, however nothing seemed to help so far. So now I ask you to help me out!
The things I have tried so far:
- running ccleaner - it came up with about 200 problems, fixed all of them
- running malwarebytes - came up with about 500 problems, fixed all of them
- ran a virus scan with AVG - no viruses detected
- ran a "performance boost" with AVG tuneUp - fixed about 200 problems
- used CPUID to check on my temperatures - GPU never even went above 60 degrees C
- tried to use MSI afterburner to overclock my GPU. Only tried pretty safe changes as I'm unexperienced with this. No result
- deleted old programs that I didn't use anymore, made some more space on my computer
- updated my GPU drivers to the latest version
This is the setup I use:
- Windows 7
- Cooler Master K-380 Advanced 3.0
- intel® Core™ i5 4460 3.2 GHz,
- MSI H81M-E34
- Crucial Ballistix Sport 12GB DDR3-1600
- Nvidia GTX 960 2GB
- SSD Crucial BX100 120GB
- 500 Watt Cooler Master voeding
I may have forgotten to add a few things that don't come to mind right now. Thanks in advance! Feel free to ask questions if I need to provide more details or something.
I believe the problems might have started occurring about a week ago. That week I had my first crash ever. The kind of crash that makes your screen turn black and asking you to reboot. This happened while playing The Witcher 3, doing nothing out of the ordinary. Then, 2 days later my computer crashed again, but this time while watching youtube, without anything else open. 2 more days passed and I started noticing that I started having incredibly low fps while gaming, compared to how it was before.
Naturally, I started googling my problems and started trying all of the possible solutions, however nothing seemed to help so far. So now I ask you to help me out!
The things I have tried so far:
- running ccleaner - it came up with about 200 problems, fixed all of them
- running malwarebytes - came up with about 500 problems, fixed all of them
- ran a virus scan with AVG - no viruses detected
- ran a "performance boost" with AVG tuneUp - fixed about 200 problems
- used CPUID to check on my temperatures - GPU never even went above 60 degrees C
- tried to use MSI afterburner to overclock my GPU. Only tried pretty safe changes as I'm unexperienced with this. No result
- deleted old programs that I didn't use anymore, made some more space on my computer
- updated my GPU drivers to the latest version
This is the setup I use:
- Windows 7
- Cooler Master K-380 Advanced 3.0
- intel® Core™ i5 4460 3.2 GHz,
- MSI H81M-E34
- Crucial Ballistix Sport 12GB DDR3-1600
- Nvidia GTX 960 2GB
- SSD Crucial BX100 120GB
- 500 Watt Cooler Master voeding
I may have forgotten to add a few things that don't come to mind right now. Thanks in advance! Feel free to ask questions if I need to provide more details or something.
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