Sudden Low FPS All Games, 1070 FTW i5-6600k

King Beardius

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Hello everyone!

My rig ran beautifully for about half a year (80's in BF1 and 80-90 in Witcher 3 on the lowest video and resolution settings) , but now all of the sudden it struggles to run any game no matter what the graphics and resolution settings are (30-55 in BF1 and 34-58 in Witcher 3) . I've worked on this for WEEKS and I'm just about to give up here. Here's what I've got:

EVGA 1070 FTW in pcie slot x16
i5-6600k oc'd to 4.3
Hyper 212 EVO cooler
16gb 2133ghz ram (slow I know, but as I said I had no issues with it before)
500gb SSD
2tb HDD
EVGA z170xp-SLI motherboard
650w gold PSU

Here's what I've tried:
- Checking temps and usage of CPU and GPU while playing (cpu around 45c at 70% on most games, gpu at around 70c at 60-70% most games)
- Using DDU to uninstall NVIDIA drivers and preformed clean install
- Uninstalled GeForce Experience
- Deleted all unnecessary programs
- Defragged HHD
- Cleaned registry
- Updated all system drivers
- Ran boot virus scan, malware scan, spyware scan, etc.
- Reseated GPU and RAM
- Turned off VSYNC and triple buffering in NVIDIA control
- Set performance to max power and selected single display mode in NVIDIA control
- Checked to see if any programs were hogging CPU, disk, or memory in task manager
- Tried removing overclocks, lowering them, raising them
- Cleaned all dust out of PC, especially in the CPU cooler


Every game now runs like junk. Even BioShock Remastered runs at 30 fps on the lowest resolution setting! In all games I've turned settings and resolution all the way to the bottom, but it doesn't change the frames whatsoever.

Any tips or other possible fixes I haven't tried would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!




 
Solution
You already tried so many things it's hard to suggest anything else. The only thing i can come up with is testing the gpu in another system,since not going the full 100% in your system.The other thing is reinstalling windows,maybe this got somehow corrupted during an update or something like that. Not something i easily advice,but see little else to try.

Vic 40

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Also tried the other pciex16 slot,just for testing?
Which 650watt gold psu? =maker+model.
The 2133mhz ram is which one? If it can use lower cas latency for instance should you enable XMP in the uefi/bios.
Looked for the latest uefi/bios? With system drivers you mean motherboard too?
 

King Beardius

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May 22, 2017
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I just slapped it into the other slot, no difference in frames at all. PSU is an EVGA 650w GQ 80+ Gold. My ram is two 8gb sticks of PNY Anarchy 2133 MHz. Checking motherboard and bios updates now.


It was strange as I was monitoring the GPU and CPU in Witcher 3: the frames were going anywhere from 40-60 on 1080p with the GPU running at 97%. It never went beyond 60 fps (vsync turned off everywhere), but when I went into a small village the frames dropped from 60 to 40's and the GPU usage went down to about 63%.

Anyways, I'll check on the BIOS and motherboard and report back.
 

King Beardius

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May 22, 2017
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No motherboard drivers needed updates. Updated my BIOS, it has a prettier interface now, but no changes to my performance.

In Witcher 3, even looking up directly at the sky it will not go above 60 fps with vsync off everywhere in my pc and in game, as well at the frame cap set to unlimited.

 

Vic 40

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You already tried so many things it's hard to suggest anything else. The only thing i can come up with is testing the gpu in another system,since not going the full 100% in your system.The other thing is reinstalling windows,maybe this got somehow corrupted during an update or something like that. Not something i easily advice,but see little else to try.
 
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King Beardius

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May 22, 2017
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SOLVED:

It wasn't a quick solution, but here's what I did:

- Completely wiped and reformatted all hard drives
- Reinstalled Windows 10 and optimized it for gaming
- Rolled NVIDIA driver back to one in Jan 2017

Thanks Vic 40 for all of your help, man.