Extremely slow on first boot

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Jayzaa

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Nov 15, 2014
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I bought a PC about 7 months ago, and everything is great, apart from the fact I need to reboot sometimes several times for it to run at full speed. For example, if I just got in from work and I booted my PC up, if I launched a game straight away, fps would be very low, unplayable low, ~5fps. My PC, when running at full speed can handle most games high-ultra with ease, and it usually achieves this after being rebooted a couple of times, so it definitely isn't the fact that my hardware isn't good enough, I believe more to the fact something isn't working properly.

So to just clear things up, on my PCs first boot, I get extremely low FPS in games, yet when I restart it once or twice, FPS suddenly jumps up to the high 50s. Do you have any ideas what could cause this, and whether there are some remedies I can try at home as preferably I don't really want to have to send it back and wait a good month for them to do some work on it to find the issue.

Cheers!
 


Is there no way to have a non-destructive reinstall, I have over 500gb of data on here and I really dont want to have to reinstall it all.
 
Jayzaa, I think I have the sam problem: On some boots, FPS just arent what they should be, just aswell as everything else just not being smooth...It really freakin annoys me and I wanted to know whether you solved it and if you did, how you did it...Thanks in advance!