- Jul 17, 2016
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[GPU had in fact been knocked loose during transport]
Essentially, I co-own a gaming rig with my sister and she purchased us a new desk to play with. While I was at work one day, she and my dad had managed to assemble the new desk and get my rig fitted into it nicely so that it worked. However, immediately afterwards, my sister went to play skyrim (which previously ran at a consistent 60 fps) and it would play around 8 frames. It also automatically turned all of our settings to low when she tried to play again. I was away in Cuba while all of this was happening, so there has been 2 weeks in between the first incident and my entrance into the mayhem. Because of this mishap, I decided I had to try out my other games to make sure they were working as well. DayZ ran awfully, and Insurgency ran slightly worse. I used Steam to uninstall skyrim, then redownloaded it and opened the launcher for the first time, which automatically set my game to low settings based off of hardware (which is incorrect, as the game had been automatically set to maximum graphical settings before the incident.) The issue here is that I do not know what happened while they unplugged my computer and moved it around, so in the diagnoses, anything is possible. It was not moved from one point to another as the title suggested (lack of better term) but it was unplugged and shifted around. I have opened the case to check for loose components, but to no avail. Now, I'm just stressing over what could be a brand new rig I just put all my money into being trash.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Upon checking my skyrim settings, I saw that my graphics adapter is set to 'intel hd graphics 4600' which should not be as i have an amd radeon r9 280x gpu, is this a sign that my gpu has been knocked loose?
[GPU had in fact been knocked loose during transport]
Essentially, I co-own a gaming rig with my sister and she purchased us a new desk to play with. While I was at work one day, she and my dad had managed to assemble the new desk and get my rig fitted into it nicely so that it worked. However, immediately afterwards, my sister went to play skyrim (which previously ran at a consistent 60 fps) and it would play around 8 frames. It also automatically turned all of our settings to low when she tried to play again. I was away in Cuba while all of this was happening, so there has been 2 weeks in between the first incident and my entrance into the mayhem. Because of this mishap, I decided I had to try out my other games to make sure they were working as well. DayZ ran awfully, and Insurgency ran slightly worse. I used Steam to uninstall skyrim, then redownloaded it and opened the launcher for the first time, which automatically set my game to low settings based off of hardware (which is incorrect, as the game had been automatically set to maximum graphical settings before the incident.) The issue here is that I do not know what happened while they unplugged my computer and moved it around, so in the diagnoses, anything is possible. It was not moved from one point to another as the title suggested (lack of better term) but it was unplugged and shifted around. I have opened the case to check for loose components, but to no avail. Now, I'm just stressing over what could be a brand new rig I just put all my money into being trash.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Upon checking my skyrim settings, I saw that my graphics adapter is set to 'intel hd graphics 4600' which should not be as i have an amd radeon r9 280x gpu, is this a sign that my gpu has been knocked loose?
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