HELP ME AGH

[♛ ヨフォシ– L0RD ♛]

So, today I went to load into R6S, and straight away the game was super choppy, with long frame times even when just scrolling through the menu. My CPU is normally the bottleneck in this game as it's quite CPU-heavy (runs 100% usage normally), but I still have to limit the FPS to 144 to match my monitor. Today, though, the CPU seemed to be choking a bit, plus the load times were extra long. The CPU was at 100% usage, and the GPU was only at 50-60% at around only 100 FPS, sometimes dropping to 20 or below, with incredibly long frame times. It was completely unplayable. At desktop the CPU sits around 20%, but occasionally spikes to around 40. Windows explorer animations are slow and choppy too. The CPU is OC'd to 4.5GHz at 1.305V, and it has been for almost as long as I've had the build (~6 months) without any previous problems.

 

 

Possible causes:

Windows updated this morning;

AI Suite had recently been messing up a little, so I uninstalled it this morning, only noticed problems after uninstalling and attempting re-installation. AI Suite had changed the OC (I can't remember what to) and the GUI was buggy, re-uninstalled it;

ASUS Z270E UEFI auto overclocking, tried to use that to fix a maybe bad overclock, CPU crashed when trying to boot, and the blue-screened after booting in safe mode, but booted after turning off the comp and trying again;

Heat damage to CPU (?), friend suggested this, not sure about it though, hadn't heard any jet engine-like noises from the comp, but still viable. Changed thermal paste this evening, old stuff was like a salt flat :/;

Something firmware/driver /UEFI related that I don't understand. I'm still new to overclocking, and computers in general.

 

 

Things I've done to try to fix it:

Cleared CMOS;

Manually restoring OC to default;

Auto OC'd using the UEFI;

Defragged my SSD;

Reapplying thermal paste.

 

OS is Windows 10

 

Please help, I'm way out of my depth here and my computer is pretty special to me.

[Hiya!]

1.Dont overclock it ,restore it to default and see if its help

2.And dont defrag SSD, it will reduce its lifespan. SSD doesnt need to be defragted.

3.Check your CPU temp it might be too high so it throttled down the CPU to prevent overheating if this the case replace the paste with a decent paste like MX-4 or Noctua ND-h1

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2 hours ago, Hiya! said:

1.Dont overclock it ,restore it to default and see if its help

2.And dont defrag SSD, it will reduce its lifespan. SSD doesnt need to be defragted.

3.Check your CPU temp it might be too high so it throttled down the CPU to prevent overheating if this the case replace the paste with a decent paste like MX-4 or Noctua ND-h1

I've restored the overclock to default a few times, nothing seems to happen. The CPU temp also isn't rising above 71 degrees C, so it can't be a throttling issue. Thanks for the tip about defragging though, had no clue 

[Ace McPlane]

I’d say it was the windows update or a subsequent video card driver update that borked it. Maybe you have some sort of malware eating up your system resources too. Clearing out your video card driver with ddu in safe mode and then installing the latest version off the nvidia site for your specific card is what I’d try next. 

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9 hours ago, stateofpsychosis said:

I’d say it was the windows update or a subsequent video card driver update that borked it. Maybe you have some sort of malware eating up your system resources too. Clearing out your video card driver with ddu in safe mode and then installing the latest version off the nvidia site for your specific card is what I’d try next. 

I tried uninstalling the windows update, and I'm not sure whether its the graphics card just because it's not a matter of low fps, it's the long screen times that are an issue and normally that's CPU related. I'll try a new driver though

[Tsuki]

13 hours ago, Hiya! said:

2.And dont defrag SSD, it will reduce its lifespan. SSD doesnt need to be defraged.

windows 10 defrag will auto detect if its an ssd, and it will run a TRIM command instead of actually defraging

it changes the option to "optimize" or something like that

[Hiya!]

2 minutes ago, Tsuki said:

windows 10 defrag will auto detect if its an ssd, and it will run a TRIM command instead of actually defraging

it changes the option to "optimize" or something like that

The OP didnt mentioned his OS so just in case you know.

Still he didnt need to do trimming on windows 10 because its enabled by default.

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2 minutes ago, Hiya! said:

The OP didnt mentioned his OS so just in case you know.

Still he didnt need to do trimming on windows 10 because its enabled by default.

they're right, I am running Win 10. but yeah sorry, forgot to mention the OS