- Feb 18, 2014
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Here it's my problem. I'll try to keep it as short as possible:
It all started when i restored my system to a previous date for some reason i cant remember (btw the date which i chose to restore to, my pc was running fine). After a few days and while in the meantime i had installed some new gpu drivers, i noticed a serious fps drop to NBA 2K. I used to run it maxed out at a steady 60 fps but at that point i could hardly get 35 fps (the drop incurred right from the launch, it didnt went gradually from 60 to 35). I tested some other games and i saw a fps drop to them too, ranging from 8-20 fps depending on the game. Also a little clue, although i dont really know if its important. While NBA2k lost more that 30-35 fps Witcher 3 lost less than 10 fps,despite being a much more resource-hungry game. I dont know if you can make something out of this.
After getting frustrated due to not being able to figure out the problem i decided to restore my system again to a date when my games were running fine. And voila! The games were running well again! And then bad luck happened. I wanted to unistall Avast and it required to create a restore point. And while it was being created, BAM power outage. When i booted again, after the windows splash screen i got a blue screen with error and my pc restarted. The only way i found to fix that was to restore my pc to a previous date AGAIN -_- . And yeah although that fixed my blue screen error and everything seemed to work, my games again had fps issues. At that point i had tried everything in my knowledge:
-Checked GPU and CPU temps for thermal throttling while gaming. All good
-Installed a wide array of driver versions for my GPU to no avail.
-Checked my Ram with the windows diagnostic tool and memtest. Good
-Run a virus scan. Nothing found.
-Unplugged my GPU, plugged it in again to check if it got loose.
-Tried a small OC for my CPU, to no good
-Completely reseted my BIOS settings
At that point i got so desperate that i decided to do a clean reinstallation of Windows. I thought that if the problem was software related it would go away. BUT NO. Even after the reinstallation the problem persisted. I lost more than 3 TB of games for nothing. At that point i started to think that somehow it was a faulty hardware. The problem persisted for over a month until recently when i installed and played Hitman Absolution. In the beggining it was laggy like usually, but then.... i got an error (dont remember what exactly) and the game crashed. When i tried to play again i saw an increase to my fps. I tried other games and they had all regained their former performance. I was like WTF?!?. Performance was good for some days, and today ...here we go again. Fps drop again on all games out of sudden. Can somebody explain wtf is happening?
Some things to point out:
-The problem cant be hardware related since more than once, my performance was fixed. I guess that if it were hardware related, be it GPU CPU RAM HDD etc etc the problem would be permanent.
-While benchmarking TW Warhammer, when my performance was ok, the CPU usage was about 70-75%. When benchmarking with bad fps CPU never got past 55%. In both cases GPU usage was 99%. What could possibly limit the CPU usage in games? Also im leaning towards something CPU related cause both TW Warhammer and NBA2K are quite CPU bound, and they are the ones to get the greatest fps hit. Witcher 3, although generally a more demanding game, its more GPU bound and it lost less than 10 fps (about 7-8).
So does anybody got an idea? Im getting really desperated...
Sorry for the long post
My specs are in my signature
It all started when i restored my system to a previous date for some reason i cant remember (btw the date which i chose to restore to, my pc was running fine). After a few days and while in the meantime i had installed some new gpu drivers, i noticed a serious fps drop to NBA 2K. I used to run it maxed out at a steady 60 fps but at that point i could hardly get 35 fps (the drop incurred right from the launch, it didnt went gradually from 60 to 35). I tested some other games and i saw a fps drop to them too, ranging from 8-20 fps depending on the game. Also a little clue, although i dont really know if its important. While NBA2k lost more that 30-35 fps Witcher 3 lost less than 10 fps,despite being a much more resource-hungry game. I dont know if you can make something out of this.
After getting frustrated due to not being able to figure out the problem i decided to restore my system again to a date when my games were running fine. And voila! The games were running well again! And then bad luck happened. I wanted to unistall Avast and it required to create a restore point. And while it was being created, BAM power outage. When i booted again, after the windows splash screen i got a blue screen with error and my pc restarted. The only way i found to fix that was to restore my pc to a previous date AGAIN -_- . And yeah although that fixed my blue screen error and everything seemed to work, my games again had fps issues. At that point i had tried everything in my knowledge:
-Checked GPU and CPU temps for thermal throttling while gaming. All good
-Installed a wide array of driver versions for my GPU to no avail.
-Checked my Ram with the windows diagnostic tool and memtest. Good
-Run a virus scan. Nothing found.
-Unplugged my GPU, plugged it in again to check if it got loose.
-Tried a small OC for my CPU, to no good
-Completely reseted my BIOS settings
At that point i got so desperate that i decided to do a clean reinstallation of Windows. I thought that if the problem was software related it would go away. BUT NO. Even after the reinstallation the problem persisted. I lost more than 3 TB of games for nothing. At that point i started to think that somehow it was a faulty hardware. The problem persisted for over a month until recently when i installed and played Hitman Absolution. In the beggining it was laggy like usually, but then.... i got an error (dont remember what exactly) and the game crashed. When i tried to play again i saw an increase to my fps. I tried other games and they had all regained their former performance. I was like WTF?!?. Performance was good for some days, and today ...here we go again. Fps drop again on all games out of sudden. Can somebody explain wtf is happening?
Some things to point out:
-The problem cant be hardware related since more than once, my performance was fixed. I guess that if it were hardware related, be it GPU CPU RAM HDD etc etc the problem would be permanent.
-While benchmarking TW Warhammer, when my performance was ok, the CPU usage was about 70-75%. When benchmarking with bad fps CPU never got past 55%. In both cases GPU usage was 99%. What could possibly limit the CPU usage in games? Also im leaning towards something CPU related cause both TW Warhammer and NBA2K are quite CPU bound, and they are the ones to get the greatest fps hit. Witcher 3, although generally a more demanding game, its more GPU bound and it lost less than 10 fps (about 7-8).
So does anybody got an idea? Im getting really desperated...
Sorry for the long post
My specs are in my signature
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