Every game I run runs slow, even on the lowest settings possible.

ramdomstuff101 · Nov 14, 2016

I do not understand this at all, forgive my ranting, but I tried to play Call of Duty Ghosts, unplayable framerate, then I tried running various Source games, unplayable framerate, then I went even further down, I tried running Minecraft. Minecraft is a game that I could have played on my Windows XP laptop and get a playable framerate. And no, that is not an exaggeration. IT'S NOT PLAYABLE! I don't understand what's going on. I've tried everything. I've tried closing all background applications, didn't work. I tried disabling XBox GameDVR, minimal improvement, I've tried the old fashioned way and raised the priority of the programs using tax manager. Did. Not. Work. And this is only with games, my computer runs fine in all other areas.

My specs are:
AMD FX 6300
MSI 970A-G46
16 GB of DDR3 RAM running at 1600
AMD Radeon 7950
An 80+ Gold rated 620w PSU

I know I don't have the best computer in the world, but these results should not be happening. Before I installed Windows 10 I was maxing out games just fine, now I can barely play anything.

Thank you for the help in advance.

Tim

Will_49 · Nov 14, 2016

This sounds like a tricky situation as Windows 10 uses a lot more CPU then windows 7. Is a downgrade possible?

ramdomstuff101 · Nov 14, 2016

Will_49 :

I'm afraid I can't do that sir.

ClubSpade12 · Nov 14, 2016

Hmmmm... Well Windows 10 is pretty awful. Try, when running the game, alt+tab out, and in task manager, change the process priority to high
(Task Manager>Processes>Show Processes from all users>right click game process>change priority)

James Mason · Nov 14, 2016

Did you do a CLEAN install of windows 10 or an UPGRADE from 7, keeping all your current programs and ect. If you did an upgrade, that could very well be why the games don't work good.

Did you install windows 10 versions of drivers for your motherboard? for your graphics card?

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

ramdomstuff101 · Nov 14, 2016

James Mason :

Did you do a CLEAN install of windows 10 or an UPGRADE from 7, keeping all your current programs and ect. If you did an upgrade, that could very well be why the games don't work good.

Did you install windows 10 versions of drivers for your motherboard? for your graphics card?

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

This was a clean install of Windows 10. So I will try your option of reinstalling the display drivers and I'll get back to you.

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