100% gpu usage, but temps are lowering and low fps

[DonkeyChainsaw]

Hi everyone,

 

At the moment i have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 (1,5GB 192-bit OEM).

I already have it for about 1 and a half years now and it was working fine untill today.

In the moring i was playing a few games of World of Tanks and some Assassin's Creed and everything was working at a solid 60 and 40 fps.
But this afternoon when i started up World of Tanks again it was working at only 10 fps (even the mouse was jumping across the screen) after about 2-3 minutes it went back to 60 for about 30 seconds, just to drop back to 10 after that.

I thought that this might had to do with the update that was released the same day, but when i tested Assassin's Creed Black Flag the same thing happened.

So i started up MSI afterburner and monitored the gpu. And then i noticed that something weird was going on. The gpu usage in game was going up to 100% but the gpu temps were dropping and the fan did not get any louder as it should normally. What is going on? Yesterday i downloaded the new Nvidia driver but i also played that evening and this morning and i did not had any problems then. What should i do? (By the way: The cpu is running normal as it should)

 

PC specs:

 

CPU: Intel i5 4460 3,2 Ghz (not overclocked)

GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 (1,5GB 192-bit OEM)

RAM: 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz
MOBO: MS-7848 (don't bother to look for this thing because no info can be found)

PSU: FSP group 450 watt

OS: Windows 10 home

Nvidia driver: 364.51

 

 

[Dabasepc]

you might have a bitcoin miner or similar idk. run a Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan. it's free. https://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

[don_svetlio]

Roll back drivers. The last one is bloody terrible

[jjohnthedon1]

15 minutes ago, Dabasepc said:

you might have a bitcoin miner or similar idk. run a Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan. it's free. https://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

This happened to me no joke

[DonkeyChainsaw]

10 minutes ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

This happened to me no joke

Really, but where can you find the programme? Or even better, how do you get rid of it?

[DonkeyChainsaw]

48 minutes ago, Dabasepc said:

you might have a bitcoin miner or similar idk. run a Malwarebytes Anti-Malware scan. it's free. https://www.malwarebytes.org/

 

Status update:

 

I have been running the scan and it detected 144 potential dangerous files. I have removed those and for now everything is running normal again.
I am still scanning with AVG at this point and i am deleting some files that are old or that i don't remember installing. 

I'll let you know if it stays the same.

Thanks for now!

[Dabasepc]

On 3/10/2016 at 1:34 PM, DonkeyChainsaw said:

Status update:

 

I have been running the scan and it detected 144 potential dangerous files. I have removed those and for now everything is running normal again.
I am still scanning with AVG at this point and i am deleting some files that are old or that i don't remember installing. 

I'll let you know if it stays the same.

Thanks for now!

Welcome!