Strange Performance Issue Since Windows 10 Upgrade

kickapoo5

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Ever since I upgraded my Windows from 7 to 10 I've been having a strange problem with running games on my PC. First of all I know for a fact my specs are fully capable of running the games in question at max settings 60fps, they did it all the time on Windows 7. However now I find that whenever I open the same games the frame rate goes up and down dramatically and generally delivers seriously poor performance, something which should not be happening. I found that a temporary solution to the issue is rebooting the PC, and should I go straight onto the game from start up most of the time it runs at a stable 60fps once again.

I also find putting it into sleep mode and turning it back on causes the game which was open to become laggy and run at low fps once again.

As you can imagine I'm rather confused by this as nowhere on the internet seems to shed any light on what it could be, and rather annoyed all the same. I can only blame Windows 10 for the time being as that was what started this issue, but again I cannot find anyone else having this same issue.
Please help!
 
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Then again, you never said what games you were playing, or that they were mostly older ones. Plus those are symptoms of a RAM refresh fixing the problem.

It could be a bad install of W10, or PSU failing, or even malware.

kickapoo5

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So what you are saying is that people wanting to use Windows 10 for games need to upgrade to 16GB of RAM? I don't think that's right.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64bit
Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586
System Manufacturer MSI
System Model MS-7846
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
1TB Seagate HDD
 


Do a bit of research and you will find 12GB RAM is recommended for gaming on W10, because it uses more RAM.

Since 16GB is a more logical choice on most systems, and more future ready, I recommended that.



 

kickapoo5

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kickapoo5

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That wouldn't solve my issue though as I want Windows 10, and because I seem to be alone in this issue there has to be another way around it.
 


Then again, you never said what games you were playing, or that they were mostly older ones. Plus those are symptoms of a RAM refresh fixing the problem.

It could be a bad install of W10, or PSU failing, or even malware.
 
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