Computer slowing down.

[Toxiic]

Hey guys, I've been having this issue recently where my computer just seems really slow to respond to anything i do. Moving chrome tabs around is very choppy and slow, changing tabs in chrome can be slow, every so often in Photoshop there's a large delay between me clicking and it appearing on screen and it struggles to even open, in games like Rust, CSGO and Dota i've noticed significant FPS drop to where I can barely turn around on some Rust servers. Yet i have no idea what is causing this, it began happening around 5 days ago and updating my drivers has done sod all for it and clearing out space on my SSDs. 

 

I honestly don't know where to begin with troubleshooting this system wide slowdown. My specs: i7 6700K @ base, GTX 970, Sandisk ultra ssd (system drive), Samsung Evo 850 ssd (storage).

I have run some benchmarks using AS SSD benchmark which i'll include below. During these tests my system became fully unresponsive during the 4k-64Thrd test for both drives and using task manager, the response time for all tests varied between 0.1ms to around 800ms. 

 

If anyone can help me It'd be greatly appreciated and feel free to ask any questions if needed.

[Sack]

Do you use geforce experience?

[Toxiic]

Just now, Sack said:

Do you use geforce experience?

Yes i do.

 

[Sack]

1 minute ago, Toxiic said:

Yes i do.

 

 

Then that's where I'd take a look at the settings it's applying to your games, when I was using it (pre 3.0 because fuck you nVidia I ain't signing up and giving you anything!) it would apply settings sometimes that would make just about any game lag, I was getting like 24 fps on world of warcraft at some point even, and it's hard to find the setting that is causing it.

[Toxiic]

Just now, Sack said:

Then that's where I'd take a look at the settings it's applying to your games, when I was using it (pre 3.0 because fuck you nVidia I ain't signing up and giving you anything!) it would apply settings sometimes that would make just about any game lag, I was getting like 24 fps on world of warcraft at some point even, and it's hard to find the setting that is causing it.

I'll have a look through it now and check but it's the fact that even when i'm not playing games my system is incredibly slow to respond to anything. For example right now I have 5 chrome tabs open and photoshop (using 8gb ram out of 16gb) and Photoshop keeps becoming unresponsive to my inputs. 

[Sack]

That seem CPU related though, check your resource manager to check what's hogging all the speed.

[The Asian Invasion©]

Have you checked if you have any malware or viruses 

[Toxiic]

8 minutes ago, Sack said:

That seem CPU related though, check your resource manager to check what's hogging all the speed.

I've looked through Hardware Monitor and nothing is hogging any resources, looks perfectly normal to me.

 

2 minutes ago, The Asian Invasion© said:

Have you checked if you have any malware or viruses 

I have done a couple of scans using Malwarebytes as It's what I initially thought it was and it turned up no results. However I'll try it again.

[Anghammarad]

Windows 10 Creators update?

 

Deactivate the gaming modus and try again.

[The Asian Invasion©]

Maybe go into task manager to see where are your PCs power is being utilised?

[Toxiic]

3 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

Windows 10 Creators update?

 

Deactivate the gaming modus and try again.

The creators update isn't installed as far as i'm aware - No 'Gaming' option in the settings menu.

[Toxiic]

5 minutes ago, The Asian Invasion© said:

Maybe go into task manager to see where are your PCs power is being utilised?

I have been doing this for the past couple of days and nothing seems out of the ordinary, normally have about 6-7 chrome tags open and some other programs and it fluctuates between 30-40% CPU usage and 8gb ram with little disk usage. The only thing not normal is in Resource monitor during my darwing on Photoshop, it'll become unresponsive and show up red whilst my cpu usage stays low. 

[Toxiic]

9 minutes ago, The Asian Invasion© said:

Maybe go into task manager to see where are your PCs power is being utilised?

Example of what I mean.