- Mar 14, 2016
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Normally I scour the absolute farthest reaches of the internet to come up with a solution before I actually make a post myself, but I've finally gotten so fed up after several months that I actually made an account so I could ask my question specifically.
I consider myself pretty good with computers, both in the software and hardware departments, (although that's probably not true in relation to the users on this site) so trust me when I say I've really troubleshooted like crazy here.
Ok so now that that intro is done, I have a custom-built rig that I use almost exclusively for gaming. It's kind of a mismatch of parts, with some parts like the case and motherboard being 5+ years old, and others being newer, like the Harddrive, which is less than 3 months old.
When I bought the harddrive, it was because the previous one had become corrupt or something, and so I bought a new one and did a full system reformat, reinstalled the OS, etc. I didn't even create any backup files since it was just games on Steam mostly, so I truly had a fresh install. With Windows 10, I was having some weird framerate issues that I wasn't used to, because with the previous HD and OS I had no frame issues. I tried reinstalling drivers, CCcleaner, nothing worked. Even low-spec games like League of Legends would sporadically falter frame-wise, going from 200 frames to 20 and jumping all around. Dark Souls 1 is unplayable, same with Arkham: Origins.
Eventually, Ok, I got tired of this and so I did ANOTHER full reformat, this time installing Windows 8 and keeping it at that instead of upgrading to Windows 10. For a couple days this was fine, League of Legends ran perfectly, and while Dark Souls 1 was still pretty unplayable (I had read its optimization for PC's is completely garbage) Dark Souls 2 ran smooth as butter. I thought all was right in the world and I had fixed my problem, but just a few days later League starts to break again and I'm seeing fps issues in Dark Souls 2 now. (DS1 is completely, utterly unplayable).
My fear is that the GPU is busted, but before I go to buy a new one I'd like any input that's possible. If it's really a hardware issue, why would the games run perfectly for a few days and then not? I've been monitoring heat, and it's not a heat issue.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, and sorry for the gigantic wall of text.
Here are my specs btw:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T PRocessor 3.00 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 8.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950
I consider myself pretty good with computers, both in the software and hardware departments, (although that's probably not true in relation to the users on this site) so trust me when I say I've really troubleshooted like crazy here.
Ok so now that that intro is done, I have a custom-built rig that I use almost exclusively for gaming. It's kind of a mismatch of parts, with some parts like the case and motherboard being 5+ years old, and others being newer, like the Harddrive, which is less than 3 months old.
When I bought the harddrive, it was because the previous one had become corrupt or something, and so I bought a new one and did a full system reformat, reinstalled the OS, etc. I didn't even create any backup files since it was just games on Steam mostly, so I truly had a fresh install. With Windows 10, I was having some weird framerate issues that I wasn't used to, because with the previous HD and OS I had no frame issues. I tried reinstalling drivers, CCcleaner, nothing worked. Even low-spec games like League of Legends would sporadically falter frame-wise, going from 200 frames to 20 and jumping all around. Dark Souls 1 is unplayable, same with Arkham: Origins.
Eventually, Ok, I got tired of this and so I did ANOTHER full reformat, this time installing Windows 8 and keeping it at that instead of upgrading to Windows 10. For a couple days this was fine, League of Legends ran perfectly, and while Dark Souls 1 was still pretty unplayable (I had read its optimization for PC's is completely garbage) Dark Souls 2 ran smooth as butter. I thought all was right in the world and I had fixed my problem, but just a few days later League starts to break again and I'm seeing fps issues in Dark Souls 2 now. (DS1 is completely, utterly unplayable).
My fear is that the GPU is busted, but before I go to buy a new one I'd like any input that's possible. If it's really a hardware issue, why would the games run perfectly for a few days and then not? I've been monitoring heat, and it's not a heat issue.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, and sorry for the gigantic wall of text.
Here are my specs btw:
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1075T PRocessor 3.00 GHz
Installed memory (RAM): 8.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950
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