Massive FPS drops outta nowhere...

daz40

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Mar 27, 2012
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Wasn't sure what category to put this under.

I'm having FPS problems while gaming.

I'll give 2 examples of what happens. I can be playing SWTOR just fine and when i get into a conversation with an NPC it can dip into single digit frames. It doesn't always happen just here and there. Also While playing Skyrim I can just drop to very low FPS for no reason and I mean like nothing going on. No massive battles or anything like that.

Now the strange thing is it's always fixed by alt+tabbing out and going back into the game. Doing that puts me right back to 60 fps. But until I alt+tab out, my frames take a massive drop and stay there.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

P.S. | EVGA X58mobo | i7 930 3.8ghz| GTX 570 | 6gb RAM |750w psu