Question Dying fps' for some reason

[Brian_278]

Okay, I play wow, like a few others.

But within the last 4 days, my usual 175fps has dropped to 23-60 max.

-I have bench tested the cpu, gpu, fine, temps are good, under 55 degrees for each. Forza 5 also only hits 88fps, BUT wow classic runs at 175 as does ATS, so for whatever reason it seems hit and miss.
-I have checked the memory, good.
-Checked all the hard drives, zero bad sectors.
-The gpu tests well, in "Heaven" 175-209fps. I have tried lowering the settings from 10 to 6, that does improve the fps a bit to 115. Tried level 1, still sits at 115.
-I have changed nothing on my pc in quite a while and can run at 175fps without any issues even in crowed cities of course there is some lag, but when I am all alone I usually hover at or very close to 175.
-I have also tried an AW3420DW set at 120fps and same thing, can't get much over 75-80 fps.

I hope I am missing something so dumb it's gonna be a duh moment for me.

Any suggestions, thoughts, ideas, I have even done a fresh Windows 11 install and had very little other then wow on and still not hitting what I was getting since the gpu was installed.

Thanks.

Here are my specs;
Intel i7-10700K
MSI Suprim X 3080
2x Samsung 1TB Evos
2x Samsung 1TB SSDs
MAG Z490 Tomahawk
64gigs GSkill Elite 4266mhz DDR4
EVGA 1200P2 psu
6 LL P28s, 4 LL 140s
Lancool 3 RGB Case
Alienware AW3423DW.

 

[Lutfij]

I have even done a fresh Windows 11 install and had very little other then wow on and still not hitting what I was getting since the gpu was installed
Did you recreate the bootable USB installer for you OS to rule out a corrupt installer? Along those lines, did you install the OS in an offline mode?

EVGA 1200P2 psu
How old is the PSU in your build?

But within the last 4 days, my usual 175fps has dropped to 23-60 max.
Might want to use DDU to remove all GPU drivers, then manually reinstall with the latest driver from Nvidia's support site, in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

Mod note;
I've shoehorned the specs to your build lifting them from your sig space. Sig space specs can and will change over time, rendering this thread and it's relevant solutions moot tot he person in the same person as you're in now.

 

[Brian_278]

Yes ruled out corrupt installer, yes it was offline mode, it actually was a Windows 10 setup that I have used a few times, legit registered, official and expensive original. Then upgraded to 11 when I saw the same thing happening in 10.

I am gonna guess the PSU is approx 2 years old or less.

I did a wipe and installed the driver BEFORE the latest one, same result but I can and will try what you suggested and cross my fingers.

 

[Brian_278]

Tried the DDU, removed everything, reinstalled from the downloaded file as Admin, same result

The one thing I did notice is that whenever I do something with Nvidia the drivers, etc.
When I go back into WOW, the Max Foreground is always at 0 of 175 and extremely laggy, so I just slide the slider across to 175 and continue, but it only hits maybe 53-63fps

Just weird that one setting in the WOW graphics always kicks down to zero, no other settings in WOW change at all, which probably means nothing, just grasping at straws now I guess.

For whatever it's worth just hopped into classic wow and even that now is only getting 135-145 and like the retail version, it used to be 175 pretty much bang on all the time.

And internet speed has nothing to do with fps correct? I am getting 96Mbps download, which I think is decent.

 

[Brian_278]

I just checked on MSI AB the gpu usage which used to be pretty much 100% in wow on ultra
Now it's sitting at 80%, doesn't really go above that.

When I used to run Heaven benchmark, 100% usage.
Just tried it now, 93% after five minutes, again, used to be 100% continuous.