Games Suddenly Running Worse

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I've been using a gaming computer I built for almost a year now, it's pretty high end and has been running games very well. I have an i7 7700K, gtx 1070, 24Gb of RAM, 750W power supply, and an ASUS Prime motherboard.

In the past couple days it's suddenly started running all my games at at least 20 frames lower than before and it stutters a lot which it nearly NEVER used to do.

For reference...

Destiny 2 - Before: 80-90 After: - 60-70
Black Ops 3 - Before: 90-120 - After: 70-80 (stutters a lot)
Modded Minecraft - Before:144 - After: 100-130

Dolphin has also been stuttering a lot more and I've had to turn settings down. I'm sure this has affected more games, but these are just the games I've played since coming back to school. I have not installed any new programs, and have not changed any settings/hardware.

Does anyone know how I may be able to fix this issue? Thanks in advance.
 
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boju
It might be or may not be the cause but be mindful of it. Better than thinking its your hardware failing which that could be too. You wont know unless you reinstall/go back a restore. Would have been interesting to know though. According to benchmarks 1~5% supposedly unnoticeable but if it was the cause for you, obviously much more. Everything about PC is random and the results from tests is in a test lab mimicking or try to mimic general use pc. It's like a university surveying a topic to conclude to the masses that out of 1000 people tested that eggs are bad to eat.
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1N07

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Hard to give an answer from this information alone, but you can try some of the usual stuff:
- check task manager for anything tasking
- Run your basic malware scans
- do a clean re-install of your GPU drivers
 
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Can you do a system restore from before atleast a week back?

Look for the spectre/meltdown win10 update kb###### if you search Google will find the update number and block it.

Lately have seen a lot of slowdown posts and wouldnt be surprised if its that.
 
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i wouldnt recommend blocking that update tho. besides performance hit on the 7700K is only like 1~5%. hardly noticeable even at stock speeds. he may just need to double check his motherboards support site and download and reinstall drivers from there. starting with his chipset. BIOS update may be necessary.

 
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Agreed. Probably better to just stay on top of the updates. MS is sure to try and fix as much as possible in the next few updates.
 
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It might be or may not be the cause but be mindful of it. Better than thinking its your hardware failing which that could be too. You wont know unless you reinstall/go back a restore. Would have been interesting to know though. According to benchmarks 1~5% supposedly unnoticeable but if it was the cause for you, obviously much more. Everything about PC is random and the results from tests is in a test lab mimicking or try to mimic general use pc. It's like a university surveying a topic to conclude to the masses that out of 1000 people tested that eggs are bad to eat.
 
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