All (most) of the games I play, lag.

[Baconsteak]

I'll start off with my specs,
* Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40 GHz
* ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Motherboard
* GeForce GTX 660 2GB
* 8 GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
* Windows 7 Home Premium OEM
* 1 TB Seagate HDD
* Kingston 120 GB SSD (OS installed on it)
* EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750 Power Supply

I'm of course making this after searching and searching for a solution to my problem, but I can't find one.

I've had this computer since the beginning of July, a custom build, and it has worked pretty flawlessly for me. Ran games, Skype calls, Steam, and chrome all at the same time with no problems. But over the past few days, I've gotten a considerable drop in performance. This is mostly in newer games like Saints Row IV and Borderlands 2, and I even have to turn Unturned down on lower settings. Though SR4 is the worst about it. My RAM doesn't seem to be too bad with idle, but it's around 2.8 - 3 GBs. Could this mean I have a virus? I could explain more if I didn't explain enough. Thanks.

 

[Keemann]

I'll start off with my specs,
* Intel Core i5-3570K @ 3.40 GHz
* ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Motherboard
* GeForce GTX 660 2GB
* 8 GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
* Windows 7 Home Premium OEM
* 1 TB Seagate HDD
* Kingston 120 GB SSD (OS installed on it)
* EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750 Power Supply

I'm of course making this after searching and searching for a solution to my problem, but I can't find one.

I've had this computer since the beginning of July, a custom build, and it has worked pretty flawlessly for me. Ran games, Skype calls, Steam, and chrome all at the same time with no problems. But over the past few days, I've gotten a considerable drop in performance. This is mostly in newer games like Saints Row IV and Borderlands 2, and I even have to turn Unturned down on lower settings. Though SR4 is the worst about it. My RAM doesn't seem to be too bad with idle, but it's around 2.8 - 3 GBs. Could this mean I have a virus? I could explain more if I didn't explain enough. Thanks.

I would reinstall all of your graphics card drivers from the Nvidia website.

 

[Rationale]

First - It's not normal performance. My GTX 750 Ti is a bit weaker than a GTX 660, and I get about 60-70 fps in Borderlands 2 on ultra settings (yes, that includes PhysX at the highest).

I don't know how to fix your performance, I'm just reassuring you that it's not normal and therefore you can ignore any posts that say something like "lol the GTX 660 is oooold get an R9 290" or whatever.

 

[Baconsteak]

Thank you, Keemann, but that didn't seem to help any, but I've at least got a clean install! And Rationale, thank you for that. I've read some other threads saying things like that about other cards.

 

[Baconsteak]

Bump? I really want this fixed before I go back to school

 

[mlga91]

3GB of ram used on iddle sounds pretty high to me. install ccleaner and disable any unwanted crap on windows startup (google anything that you're not sure of what it is) or you can try a clean windows install if you have an dedicated OS partition.

 

[Baconsteak]

3GB of ram used on iddle sounds pretty high to me. install ccleaner and disable any unwanted crap on windows startup (google anything that you're not sure of what it is) or you can try a clean windows install if you have an dedicated OS partition.

This seemed to help with RAM at idle, so thank you! But games are still lagging like hell. Should I re-seat (reseat?) my Video Card?? I kinda want to wait on trying the clean install of Windows

 

[mlga91]

Try checking your gpu temps at load (while gaming), update drivers (download and install both gfx card drivers and physx drivers).

 

[Baconsteak]

I did that a couple of days ago, but thank you for the suggestion. I went ahead and and reseated the video card, and it worked! I'm not sure why I didn't do it as soon as I started having problems. Thank you to everyone who sent me suggestions! If you're having the same problem, just try reseating everything, seems to help.