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Hey everyone, I'm completely stumped as to why I'm getting terrible fps in games like XCOM, CS:GO, and Total War: Shogun 2. XCOM runs at about 9 FPS during gameplay. I've played with the settings and it never changes. The highest settings have the same FPS as the lowest settings.

My specs are:
AMD FX-4100 Quad-core
8gb RAM
AMD Radeon HD 7770 Sapphire
Windows 7 64 bit
850W PSU

I've updated drivers, re-installed drivers, everything! I have no idea what is causing my problem.

Any help?
 
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I ran XCOM with the monitor going and my GPU was at 64% while I had it going.
 
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Other newer games also sit at the same fps.

As far as the Nvidia control panel goes, my graphics card is an AMD so I got rid of all Nvidia drivers so they didn't conflict with each other.
 
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Yeah it's the same across the board for newer games. It might be worth me mentioning that I changed out a 6670 for the 7770 because I thought it was the graphics card being poor. I then changed my 500w to an 850w. I've cleaned drivers and everything and from what I've been told by other people, it might not actually be a hardware issue but a software issue. I've been banging my head against a wall for the last 5 days without any progress :/
 
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Thats strange, you sure your not running some sort of fps limiter like dxtory or something? It has to be a software problem, did you try turning vsync off?? Something must be limiting the frames cause even under heavy load your still meant to see some variation in fps, even by 3-4.
 
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I've checked my processes and everything. It's around 2% when I've got nothing else running and gets up to 30% when I play the games. Vsync is off, yes. It's weird to me because there's no variation even when I put the settings on high or all low. It's always 10. When I scroll it does drop to 8 for a second.

Since I don't have too much on the computer as is, I've been contemplating a system restore. I've tried everything I could possibly think of and numerous people have attempted to help me, but no luck.
 
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Ah yeah that's what I meant. I actually lost my recovery disc so I was just going to install Windows 7 again. Thanks for the help though. I appreciate the time you gave me.
 
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My motherboard is a Gigabyte M68mt-S2. I recently replaced an AMD 6670 because I thought it was the graphics card causing the poor quality. So when I put in the 7770, and the same thing happened, someone told me my power supply needed upgrading. I upgraded to an 850w. Replacing that was a bit tricky so I had to pull out the card and re-insert it again haha. So all in all I've re-inserted it twice now. I'm beginning to think it's not a hardware problem but a software.
 
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I reinstalled windows and I now enjoy a whopping 12 FPS for the games. When I did the reinstall I made sure to even download CCC and put it on a flash drive and manually install it once the reinstall of windows was complete.

It's at this point I wonder if I should just take it into a computer repair because I have no idea what else it could be. Any other thoughts anyone?
 
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