Computer excessively slow, games failing to load, textures popping in over 10 seconds after game starts.

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joplrw10

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Having an issue with my current computer. It has been getting progressively slower over the last month. It has finally gotten to the point that it takes 5-10 minutes to load a game, games will not load, or explorer.exe will crash when right clicking on the desktop.

Specs are as follows

i7- 4790K processor
16 GB HyperX RAM
Sapphire Nitro 390 8GB
250GB SSD drive for OS (This has 13GB left of free space)
3TB 7200 rmp drive for evevrything else
650W PSU (I know this is on the low end)

I have defragged everything, used MalwareBytes, started to clean up programs that don't need to be on it.

Looking for anything else that might be the culprit.

Any suggestions are appreciated.
 
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king3pj
Try running HWInfo while you play and see if your CPU and GPU are maintaining their full clock speeds under load. Also keep an eye on temperatures.
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whitemanwii

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I had this issue with my computer along time ago, to the point where games actually became very unplayable, I thought my GPU was dying, coming to find out it was because my CPU was overheating, not even on full boot, it was at 80C+, as a computer gets hotter, it gets slower to compensate for the heat building up, so I'd check your temperatures to make sure everythings running cool.

I've also seen this sort of stuff happen due to faulty hardware... having Windows installed on a bad hard drive would cause a lot of problems. if you have your windows disc or flash drive or w/e you got Windows from, you could always try running a repair just to make sure windows installed everything okay.

at the time of Explorer.exe crashing you could check the even viewer to see what error comes up, I'd also check the event viewer to see if any major errors are showing up there, check device manager as well, for anything that might have a yellow explanation mark and see if it anything serious.
 
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