Drastic FPS drop when playing games on Windows 10

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Kevin_137

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Greetings

I upgraded my computer 4 months ago and have a GTX 970, i5 6600k with 8gb ddr4 ram
Windows 10 pro.

For months the system has run flawlessly, yesterday when playing any game, the system
will slow to a crawl after 5 minutes of play. Dropping from 100fps to 30 or less. I have scanned
for viruses, rolled back the GEFORCE drivers to a previous version, all the temperatures of the
GPU and CPU seem to be normal, maxing out at 50 deg celcius for the CPU and 57 deg celcius
for the GPU. I tried different games, same result. I cleaned inside the case even!

I'm stumped.

Any suggestions?

Cheers!
 
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Seems pretty unusual concidering you tried almost every solution. If it's really happening on every game there has to be something wrong with the system.

- Update GPU drivers. You can try and download that over on GeForce's website if you haven't yet.

- You said you scanned for viruses but you might want to go to programs and features and check the latest downloads. Try and uninstall a program that you installed recently.

These are pretty much all the possible reasons, if none of this works there has to be something wrong with either CPU or GPU. By that I mean that one of them is simply not working properly. In worst case scenario you might have to replace them with new ones. If you have a warranty you might want to use it.


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Borbp

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Seems pretty unusual concidering you tried almost every solution. If it's really happening on every game there has to be something wrong with the system.

- Update GPU drivers. You can try and download that over on GeForce's website if you haven't yet.

- You said you scanned for viruses but you might want to go to programs and features and check the latest downloads. Try and uninstall a program that you installed recently.

These are pretty much all the possible reasons, if none of this works there has to be something wrong with either CPU or GPU. By that I mean that one of them is simply not working properly. In worst case scenario you might have to replace them with new ones. If you have a warranty you might want to use it.


To be honest, there is no reason to worry yet if it happend "yesterday". Try and restart the PC and wait a couple minutes. If the problem is still happening try and reinstall or change windows.

:)
 
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Have you 'clean' installed W10? Or is this the upgrade? The upgrade had some issues where it was hogging disk resources, leaking memory etc.

It's strange this occurs after a while of playing, no matter how short. If you have a driver issue, it would be evident the first second you started playing.

Your CPU & GPU temps seem a bit low if truly 'maxed out'. You might want to run some CPU/GPU stress tests and see how the numbers look.
 
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Kevin_137

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Well turns out my realtec audio driver was freaking out for some reason and using 40% of my resources
all of a sudden. I uninstalled it and then updated it and it hasn't happened again. Thanks for your input
guys
 
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