Graphics Card Issue

[FiltheeLee]

I'm having issues with my GTX 970 sc edition, the card is on and functioning and is always at 82 degrees Fahrenheit, but whenever I launch any game I get horrible frame rate (15-20 fps) and the card remains at 82 degrees. I've tested with games such as Dark Souls 3, Rocket league, and Dayz all of which I have on very high to max settings and usually get 60 or more fps. This just started occurring  as of 2 days ago, before that everything worked fine. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?    

[App4that]

What's your load clock speed?

[VerticalDiscussions]

What program are you using to read these temperatures or is it an on-board sensor/heat detection pointer?

Perhaps the card fans arent working properly and need to be cleaned or replaced?

Overclocking issues perhaps? Trying to disable it entirely and creating a new profile, with more controled testing.

Trying to remove the shroud on the card and cleaning its central core and applying new layer of thermal paste?

 

If its an issue directly associated with the card in a physical way that you cannot fix trough software or light cleaning, trying to get it replaced should be easy, given the reputation from EVGA.

[Justluigie]

Clean the fan and change the thermal paste or lower your clockspeed.

[FiltheeLee]

i actually worked out the problem, all i did was use MSI Afterburner and turned up the fan speed to 40% and it started working again, its weird but i just launched dark souls 3 and frames went right back up. My card by default has the fans off because its the super silent edition, but when i turned them on it started working again. I'm going to run a few more test.

[FiltheeLee]

Thanks for the pointers though, I really appreciate the help!

[manikyath]

i love how everyone straight up goes towards suggesting the guy to repaste, without mentioning the sensible software steps first:

- reboot the system, ALWAYS reboot the system first

- DDU/reinstall drivers

- virus scan

- check the rest of the system (cpu, ram, hard drive, etc) if they have an abnormal load on them.