Question After windows fresh reinstall my PC has worse performance,

[SirCountLordPeasant]

After i fresh reinstalled windows 10, about 2 months ago my PC performance dropped significantly.

Problems -

Clicking on the windows tool bar applications often resulted in a freeze for a few seconds, windows applications no longer ran properly and sometimes froze.

Very obvious performance issues in Valorant starting out as running the game 40-60 frames lower on average and dropping MUCH lower than usual frequently.(used to never drop below like 220, now i drop to 130's)
There was a stutterback at the start of the trouble but i dont really see it often anymore.

The issues carry over to other games with obvious performance issues as well.


the windows applications freezing is also a bit more rare now. But the drastic frame loss is still there

My system specs -

1080 ti, 8700k, 16gb's of ram, and i run my windows from an M.2 drive.

,Things i've tried to fix it -
Update chipset,
Update drivers,
Change windows start up tasks,
change power settings
change nvidia 3d settings
Changed system clock settings
Reinstalled windows from a USB drive multiple times
disabling fullscreen optimizations
various valorant settings
Xbox game DVR recording disabled
and probably more but i cant remember it all

Im open to anything, its getting ridiculous now, i bought a new PC but its been 8 weeks and its not even being built yet thanks to the crappy market.

I really appreciate your time thanks so much

 

[jay32267]

List the rest of your specs....PSU mode....MB.....
I'm leaning that it's not software related at this point....not with a clean install and everything else you have done.

 

[NiallUK]

Can you run a userbenchmark please and post a link to the result?

 

[SirCountLordPeasant]

List the rest of your specs....PSU mode....MB.....
I'm leaning that it's not software related at this point....not with a clean install and everything else you have done.

ASUS ROG Z370 STRIX-E ATX


Corsair CX750M Semi-Modular Power Supply

 

[SirCountLordPeasant]

Can you run a userbenchmark please and post a link to the result?

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/44702785

 

[SirCountLordPeasant]

List the rest of your specs....PSU mode....MB.....
I'm leaning that it's not software related at this point....not with a clean install and everything else you have done.

If its not software why would it only show after i reinstalled windows a few months ago, im not sure if i said it correctly, but i had literally no issues with my PC before i reinstalled, then after i did the problems arose.

Could problems really just not show until something like that happens or could something in the hardware of malfunctioned because of the reinstall?

 

[Unolocogringo]

Your benchmark shows 21% background usage.
That is almost 1 core doing something besides bench marking.
What all do you have running?
Check windows start up in task manager and disable everything except Audio and windows security and try again.

 

[SirCountLordPeasant]

Your benchmark shows 21% background usage.
That is almost 1 core doing something besides bench marking.
What all do you have running?
Check windows start up in task manager and disable everything except Audio and windows security and try again.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/44703371

 

[NiallUK]

With the above suggestion, have you seen an increase in FPS since disabling background apps?

 

[jay32267]

I'd also be checking temps and voltages if you haven't already.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Your benchmark shows 21% background usage.
That is almost 1 core doing something besides bench marking.
What all do you have running?
Check windows start up in task manager and disable everything except Audio and windows security and try again.

Where does it show 21% usage? I'm seeing 2% background for the CPU or maybe i'm looking at the wrong part of the page.

 

[eye4bear]

If I remember correctly, didn't Intel say they would be putting out new risk-mitigation patches for older CPUs to fight some of the new exploits that have been found? I wonder if that could be some of this?

 

[jay32267]

If its not software why would it only show after i reinstalled windows a few months ago, im not sure if i said it correctly, but i had literally no issues with my PC before i reinstalled, then after i did the problems arose.

Could problems really just not show until something like that happens or could something in the hardware of malfunctioned because of the reinstall?

I'm sorry, I misread.

 

[revodo]

I've run into this issue a few times when reinstalling Windows. It's usually a bad GPU driver update (that didn't affect you since you didn't update before you reset) Try downgrading a few versions. Make sure to either reinstall Windows beforehand, or use the DDU method if you don't want to reinstall.

 

[SirCountLordPeasant]

I've run into this issue a few times when reinstalling Windows. It's usually a bad GPU driver update (that didn't affect you since you didn't update before you reset) Try downgrading a few versions. Make sure to either reinstall Windows beforehand, or use the DDU method if you don't want to reinstall.

im actually running on the oldest driver update from the geforce website, is there a way to go back even further than what htey show in the initial search?

 

[SirCountLordPeasant]

With the above suggestion, have you seen an increase in FPS since disabling background apps?

unfortunately not

 

[revodo]

im actually running on the oldest driver update from the geforce website, is there a way to go back even further than what htey show in the initial search?

There is, but if you've gone that far back, it's really not worth it to keep downgrading. It isn't a driver issue. If Valorant is the only game you're seeing this massive drop in FPS, it's probably the game itself. Something updated and broke. If it's all games, I would assume hardware. Possible that the PSU has degraded in power output so the video card is underclocking itself to keep going?