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88% even though it should be idle

k then youve got a mining virus or some program that did not close properly

this is why your fps is so bad in games

 

 

run malwarebytes and an antivirus like AVG or avast, see if they find anything

also check your CPU usage, what is it at? Is there a process that is using up your CPU a lot?

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Hey guys, major problem here. Recently my GTX 970 has been having major performance problems. Normally I get about 80 - 100 fps in BF4 on ultra, but since two days ago I only get 45 - 50fps. I haven't changed anything on my PC in the last few days and have no idea why this is happening. My cpu is the FX 8320. That can't be the problem though as it was working great just a few days ago. I'm really confused and have tried everything I can think of, including rebooting, uninstalling recent installs, driver uninstalls and re-installs etc. MSI Afterburner also says gpu is at 100% which can't be right... Anyone else have a similar problem? I'm seriously worried here :(

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Hey guys, major problem here. Recently my GTX 970 has been having major performance problems. Normally I get about 80 - 100 fps in BF4 on ultra, but since two days ago I only get 45 - 50fps. I haven't changed anything on my PC in the last few days and have no idea why this is happening. My cpu is the FX 8320. That can't be the problem though as it was working great just a few days ago. I'm really confused and have tried everything I can think of, including rebooting, uninstalling recent installs, driver uninstalls and re-installs etc. MSI Afterburner also says gpu is at 100% which can't be right... Anyone else have a similar problem? I'm seriously worried here :(

Any idea what the temps are?

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Also, what are the temps at?

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Any idea what the temps are?

In the 60's when playing for the GPU, and 40's for the cpu 

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Hey guys, major problem here. Recently my GTX 970 has been having major performance problems. Normally I get about 80 - 100 fps in BF4 on ultra, but since two days ago I only get 45 - 50fps. I haven't changed anything on my PC in the last few days and have no idea why this is happening. My cpu is the FX 8320. That can't be the problem though as it was working great just a few days ago. I'm really confused and have tried everything I can think of, including rebooting, uninstalling recent installs, driver uninstalls and re-installs etc. MSI Afterburner also says gpu is at 100% which can't be right... Anyone else have a similar problem? I'm seriously worried here :(

Could it have been the recent patch? BF4 had a huge patch recently.

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Could it have been the recent patch? BF4 had a huge patch recently.

 

 

And it ruined BF4

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what is your GPU load at when youre not playing games?

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Could it have been the recent patch? BF4 had a huge patch recently.

It's not only BF4 though, it happens in Shadow of Mordor too and AC Rogue :/

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what is your GPU load at when youre not playing games?

I just noticed it's at 88 now on idle and 60 degrees even though i'm doing nothing...

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DRIVERS?

 

I don't think so as I haven't installed updates in the past few days and there are no new geforce drivers as of right now...

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I just noticed it's at 88 now on idle and 60 degrees even though i'm doing nothing...

what is the GPU usage

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what is the GPU usage

88% even though it should be idle

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background tasks?

 

Nothing just chrome and msi afterburner. 

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88% even though it should be idle

k then youve got a mining virus or some program that did not close properly

this is why your fps is so bad in games

 

 

run malwarebytes and an antivirus like AVG or avast, see if they find anything

also check your CPU usage, what is it at? Is there a process that is using up your CPU a lot?

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k then youve got a mining virus or some program that did not close properly

this is why your fps is so bad in games

 

 

run malwarebytes and an antivirus like AVG or avast, see if they find anything

also check your CPU usage, what is it at? Is there a process that is using up your CPU a lot?

 

That sounds possible. I'll try that. CPU Usage is low, so it's just gpu.

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I heard utorrent installed a miner in its client or something, doing any torrenting lately?

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That sounds possible. I'll try that. CPU Usage is low, so it's just gpu.

k

idk how to find GPU processes...but obviously some program is using your GPU when its not supposed to

hopefully malwarebytes finds it

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I heard utorrent installed a miner in its client or something, doing any torrenting lately?

 

Not a lot, but I did a bit. I've since uninstalled utorrent but maybe it's still active somehow?

 

k

idk how to find GPU processes...but obviously some program is using your GPU when its not supposed to

hopefully malwarebytes finds it

 

Yeah I hope so too, it's not fun having low fps when you should have much higher. Scan will take a few mins anyways. Hopefully it will help :)

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idk how to find GPU processes...but obviously some program is using your GPU when its not supposed to

hopefully malwarebytes finds it

 I'm not sure what it was but malwarebytes seems to have cleared it. It's working for now at any rate. Thanks so much mate :D

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 I'm not sure what it was but malwarebytes seems to have cleared it. It's working for now at any rate. Thanks so much mate :D

yay!

you're welcome :)

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