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Hello, for the past 9 days, my PC has been disconnecting me from game servers and running certain games slower than usually. My PC is a CyberpowerPC with Windows 10.
It has 8GB of memory, 1TB Hard drive, Intel Core i5, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics.

I got this PC in May and set it up in June. It’s worked fine ever since up until 9 days ago. I run it off a Linksys Wirless adapter model AC1200 also purchased at the time of the PC.

Yesterday (26th) my mom had called our ISP in order to see what the problem was. We ended up getting an updated Modem and setting it up.

I’ve done basically everything in order to fix this issue such as:

- Uninstalling the linksys three times
- Reverting my PC to a previous date
- Updating drivers
- Restarting the PC multiple times
- Uninstalling certain gaming programs and reinstalling


Like I said before, the PC and Linksys have been working perfectly fine for 3 months until 9 days ago.

Anyone have any solutions or possible fixes?
 
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I would still suggest following up on MSI Afterburner and Task Manager just to eliminate potential PC hardware issues.

As it is, it does sound like an internet connection issue. I don't know much about that area, but from what I've seen in other posts some games are sensitive to which ports are used and sometimes the anti-virus can be the problem as they could block ports and such. It may be worthwhile searching for the game and ports to see if other users have made guides about connections (I've seen those for a few games).
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As it is there is little certainty as to what could be causing the slowdown.

Assuming it is the PC, rather than your internet connection, there are a couple of starting points.

(1) Check your CPU temperatures.

(2) Use MSI Afterburner (or similar) and monitor what happens to your hardware when you try to play a game. Specifically things like CPU, GPU frequencies, usage, temperatures; RAM usage; frames per second, frame times. When the fps drops (and frame times peak), see what happens to the CPU, GPU and RAM.

(3) Other housekeeping things like virus scan and malware scan just to be on the safe side.

(4) Check Task Manager to see if there are any processes taking up a lot of resources.

Oh, and making sure you haven't connected the monitor cable to the motherboard instead of the graphics card. (That's happened before...)
 
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The temps are good and the cable is in the right spot. I just ran a scan with Norton, nothing was found.

This problem really only started happening 9 days ago. Other than that, my PC was running games fine for the past 3 months up until recently. I tested out some more games today, which I can run better than others randomly. Some just completely disconnect me from servers or wont connect me at all, others work fine. It's a very random thing to happen all of a sudden.
 
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I would still suggest following up on MSI Afterburner and Task Manager just to eliminate potential PC hardware issues.

As it is, it does sound like an internet connection issue. I don't know much about that area, but from what I've seen in other posts some games are sensitive to which ports are used and sometimes the anti-virus can be the problem as they could block ports and such. It may be worthwhile searching for the game and ports to see if other users have made guides about connections (I've seen those for a few games).
 
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