- Jan 30, 2016
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I've got an XFX r9 380 GPU (About a year old if that has any effect) and when playing games I see some weird performance drop over time. Eg, in Smite I'll start the game at 60fps (Capped) and it'll stay smooth for maybe the first 10-15 minutes. Then after that if starts just slowly getting worse and worse. If the game goes longer than say 30 minutes I end up on around 30fps. But oddly it never seems to go lower than 30 no matter how long I have the game open. Re-launching fixes it though.
Now from that you're probably thinking 'Oh, his card is overheating and throttling'. I thought the same but it's not. It hovers around 60-65 degrees in the case of Smite. CPU is at around 40-45 so it's not that either. I'm really confused as to what's causing this since changing graphical settings in game doesn't change the effect at all. (Maybe by like 3-5 fps sometimes, but doesn't fix it at all really) and it makes gaming sessions longer than about 25 minutes pretty much unplayable. It *could* be drivers but I've already DDU'd my drivers and got the latest ones (And some beta and older versions tried too) from AMDs website. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5 6500 3.2Ghz Quad-Core
GPU: XFX AMD Radeon r9 380 (Stock)
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2133Mhz (2x4gb)
Storage: WD Blue 1tb and Samsung 850 Evo 250gb
PSU: Aerocool Intergrator 700W Bronze
Mobo: MSI Gaming M3 H170
Now from that you're probably thinking 'Oh, his card is overheating and throttling'. I thought the same but it's not. It hovers around 60-65 degrees in the case of Smite. CPU is at around 40-45 so it's not that either. I'm really confused as to what's causing this since changing graphical settings in game doesn't change the effect at all. (Maybe by like 3-5 fps sometimes, but doesn't fix it at all really) and it makes gaming sessions longer than about 25 minutes pretty much unplayable. It *could* be drivers but I've already DDU'd my drivers and got the latest ones (And some beta and older versions tried too) from AMDs website. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5 6500 3.2Ghz Quad-Core
GPU: XFX AMD Radeon r9 380 (Stock)
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2133Mhz (2x4gb)
Storage: WD Blue 1tb and Samsung 850 Evo 250gb
PSU: Aerocool Intergrator 700W Bronze
Mobo: MSI Gaming M3 H170
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