Limited PC Performance with Good Specs / Random Freezing in Games

mrluigiconnor

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Jan 9, 2017
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Hello,
I'm not sure what has been going on but ever since I've had my medium-high end pc it hasn't been running games nearly as well as it should be, and only recently (past 6 months-year) I have had issues with games randomly freezing for a second and tabbing out then unfreezing.

My Specs:
AMD FX-8350 Eight Core
Nvidia GTX 970
14GB ddr3 RAM
ATA 7200 500GB Hard drive
ATA 7200 500 gb Hard drive
SATA 7200 1 tb Hard drive
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P
725W Power supply

The freezing issue occurs frequently in games like Rust, No Man's Sky, and GTA 5, but does not happen at all in games such as arma 3. Rust crashes when this happens, but the other games just tab out. I have disabled background apps and Fixed it for No Man's Sky, but it doesn't fix the freezing in GTA or the crashing in Rust. My not up to par performance persists amongst all games, but in arma i get 18 fps at lowest settings, which is a little way too low. These could be two separate problems but I combined them because they might have the same fix. I run two monitors btw, one 1360x768 and 1920x1080, both plugged in to gpu.

Things I've Tried:
Memory Diagnostic
Cancel startup processes and background services
Reinstall games to new hard drives
reinstall graphics drivers
Unpark Cores
Nvidia control panel optimization
Temperture Monitoring (CPU is 45 degrees, gpu is 54 degrees, and i have 6 fans)

I'm not sure what the problem is if there is a problem but the biggest problems I want to fix is GTA freezing and Rust crashing. Thanks in advance.
 
Solution
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...
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
 
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