Massive loss in gaming performance! Please help!

[vengefulpony]

Hello, so this is my first time posting to a forum but I'm in serious need of some help, if I'm doing anything wrong by posting this here (maybe on the wrong page or something, please alert me, I never really paid much attention to forums).


So this is what happened,
My pc quite some time ago just loss alot of performance, mainly in gaming, its not a gaming rig, its not anything massive, its just a pc I bought some years ago for work and then I added a graphics card, but it played what I wanted at reasonable fps.

System:
AMD x2 245 2.9ghz (not overclocked)
Gigabyte Ati Radeon 6670 2gb ddr3 (not overclocked, brand new)
4gb 1066 ram
500gb Seagate hdd
Eurotech 420w PSU (I had an old one that died but didn't take any components with it, I already had problems back when I purchased my old one that eventually died, I just thought of posting it to a forum now after 2 years of living with it and trying to find the solution by myself)
(and i'm going to buy the cx430, this one was just because I needed something till I had the money, and for a system with this low of a power consuption, I thought it would be okay)
Windows 8.1

I played DmC at 70+ fps all high at 1360x768
Dead Space 1/2 maxed out 70+ fps at 1360x768
WoW at 80 fps, tweaked high settings at 1360x768
Path of Exile, maxed out 60+ fps constant at 1360x768

And other games like league of legends, smite and counter strike, which these 3 are the games I play the most, being counter strike my nº1 and all of these I used to play with great fps (league 100+, smite 60+ and cs 130+) I now have 35,40 on smite, 100 on cs, and the same on league on low, but if I increase the graphics to as they were (highs) it comes down to 30, 40.  And, on most if not, all games, increase or decreasing the resolution doesn't impact performance, it just adds or takes 1fps, from 1024x7680 to 1360x768, what does that mean?
But suddently, I dont know what happened, I just lost performance in ALL games, every single game. Now, I can't play path of exile at 60fps without it freezing every 5 seconds after a mob appears, when more than 5 appear and I use skills it just goes down to 20, when I drop my settings, same thing happens, it doesn't matter what I do, same with DmC, 35 fps now, Dead space, same thing, WoW, mate, WoW, I had to remove the skybox so I could play the game now.

I did everything, I formated, I defragged, I installed new drivers, old drivers, removed them with driver sweeper, ran prime95 (no errors), graphics card is running correctly in x16 according to gpuz
Nothing worked, I dont know what to do, in 2 weeks or so, i'm going to purchase a new cpu, mobo and ram, and i'm going to use this graphics card since its pretty much 1 month old (I bought it on a budget, I know its a low end card but its good enough for me).
If anyone could help me i'd really appreciate it, I really do not know what to do, is it something in windows? catalyst? my directx? I dont know, any help would be appreciated!

I might have skipped on some info, if I did, please ask me and i'll show everything needed.
Here are some prints of hwmonitor, cpuz and gpuz.
(I downloaded cpu z, and when I opened it, it gave me and error and then there was missing information on the program, can someone tell me what it means?)

[SkilledRebuilds]

I think you need to re-install your Motherboard Chipset drivers, having those CPUZ blank fields leaves with this conclusion that the required information isn't getting read properly.

 

Which could also translate to why things are underperforming if the hardware itself isn't seen properly by windows.

[vengefulpony]

I'm pretty sure I already did that too, but i'm going to reinstall them and see what happens, thank you.

[vengefulpony]

The stability got a bit better, I have 60/50's on path of exile now, and DmC is at 70 doing nothing and 60's fighting, 50's in really intense scenes.
But, how can a friend of mine play swtor with high graphics at 30 to 40fps on 1440x900 with a a4 apu, and I can't with a dedicated graphics card and a cpu equivalent to his?
I still have 15 fps on mine with no shadows at 1360x768.

I did some tests on some more games that i've been playing:
Singularity's fps increased from 65 dipping to 45 to 75/80 dipping to 55/58
Super Street Fighter 4, completely maxed out, I have 98 fps on the benchmark (I had 100+) sometimes, but it runs pretty much the same
Skyrim I used to have 55/60 fps all on highs now I have 40/45, before I installed the chipset driver I had 30/35

It has improved, but there's still something here thats making me have less performance than what I had
Mainly in mmo's or open world games (games that render large distance landscapes)

(cpu'z already updated and now all the readings are normal)

[LogicalDrm]

Did you clean all dust from system when you changed GPU? Second thing is ram. While gaming, check what other software are running and taking ram. Lack of it may cause FPS dips.

[vengefulpony]

Yes, my computer was cleaned entirely, I did recently cleaned it too, with a anti-static vacum.
Thank you, I will do a rem test now, is there any software that I can test if my ram is working normally? According to cpu z, all the clocks and voltages are fine.

[vengefulpony]

In most games, ram only gets to 45/55% usage so I doubt ram is the problem.
It can on the heavier games peak to 60%

[LogicalDrm]

In most games, ram only gets to 45/55% usage so I doubt ram is the problem.

It can on the heavier games peak to 60%

 

Memtest86. It doesn't need to be maxed if there's something wrong. In worst case you would get BSODs while on desktop.

[vengefulpony]

Memtest86. It doesn't need to be maxed if there's something wrong. In worst case you would get BSODs while on desktop.

I'll do that now, thank you.

I never got a BSOD so, hopefull its not the ram, but I kinda wish it is, atleast I would've found my problem

[vengefulpony]

Memtest86. It doesn't need to be maxed if there's something wrong. In worst case you would get BSODs while on desktop.

Ram is perfectly fine, any other ideias?

[LogicalDrm]

Ram is perfectly fine, any other ideias?

 

Not really. You could increase pagefile but I don't really understand how that would create such lag.