Sudden Drop in Gaming Proformance

[Dietrick_K]

Computer Hardware:

CPU: Intel i7-4790k no overclock

Water cooled- Kraken X95

Mother Board ASRock Z97 extreme6 P2.50 BIos

16 Gb G.skill Ripjaw x 1333 2x8 RAM

GeForce GTX 1070 *up to date* v385.28

256 Gb SSD for Operating system

4 Tb HDD Data storage

Corsair 750 80+ Bronze

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit *up to date*

running single 1080p monitor

 

So recently after having a rather hefty download to my  computers data drive I saw a serious lack in performance from my computer wile gaming. When playing Doom on absolute max settings I was able to get an easy 60 fps, And 57 in Titanfall 2 during the Campain. None of the gaming i do is online so my internet connection has no effect, But i am running an Asus AC3100 Wifi card. After my recent download i saw my FPS drom in Doom on the same settings from 60 FPS to a crawling 25 FPS. after dropping quality of game play to hopefully increase frame rate I get....no benifital factors. the gameplay is almost unaffected and still only huvers around 30- 35 FPS. the other day when playing HellBlade I did see that I could hit 60 FPS when no movement was on the screen but as soon as any movement occurred, the FPS dropped back to 30.

 

I have recently uninstalled a audio card that was installed but due to incompatibility's I hade to remove it. it is currently disabled and the driver/ control programs have since been deleted. but the hardware is still installed into my computer. currently the 4 tb drive is 750 gb filled.

 

An additional note is if anyone knows why my computer partitioned my 4TB drive into a 400mb partition and 2 2tb partitions. I assume it is because the drive is to large for the CPU but I am unsure.

 

Currently have no photos but am willing to provide them if necessary.

 

[Jurrunio]

Try defrag your hard drive partitions. Also, monitor CPU usage, GPU usage, clock speed and temps when you play these games.

[Dietrick_K]

Ill take a reading using the computer software and post that to give some number reference. I just removed the sound card and deleted about 200 gigs of games that were just taking up space in the computer. Can defragging the hard drive put the 3 partitions together or is this a completely different set up I would need to undergo?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 hour ago, Dietrick_K said:

Can defragging the hard drive put the 3 partitions together or is this a completely different set up I would need to undergo?

It's a different thing. Defragging will put the different pieces of a same file physically together, improving read speeds in mechanical drives. Merging the 2TB partitions would require using the disk manager (probably best to leave the 400MB alone). Not sure about Win 10, but previous versions needed additional software /drivers to allow for larger than 2TB partitions, or use them as dynamic volumes instead (don't remember exactly). Motherboards' CDs used to come with some utility /driver to enable larger partitions in at least win 7.

Again, I don't know if win 10 finally got rid of this restriction or not. 

[Dietrick_K]

5 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

It's a different thing. Defragging will put the different pieces of a same file physically together, improving read speeds in mechanical drives. Merging the 2TB partitions would require using the disk manager (probably best to leave the 400MB alone). Not sure about Win 10, but previous versions needed additional software /drivers to allow for larger than 2TB partitions, or use them as dynamic volumes instead (don't remember exactly). Motherboards' CDs used to come with some utility /driver to enable larger partitions in at least win 7.

Again, I don't know if win 10 finally got rid of this restriction or not. 

I have tried merging the partitions with the built in partition wizard but did nothing, since it is in 3 partitions I may be able to access them separately but haven't tried yet to do so.