FPS Slowly Dying

[flatline_]

Hey,

So recently I've been having some problems with my FPS inside of online games. It seems like my fps is dying a slow, slow death - ever since I installed a radeon 6770 + new PSU in my system back in late March my fps jumped up and it's dying now. For example, about a month ago I was averaging about ~120 fps in TF2, and now that number is down to a solid 100 (55 in large firefights), which is nowhere near the power that that card had before. I was wondering if it could possibly be a problem with my CPU, graphics card, PSU, or motherboard (which I recently installed a new one of). In addition to this I'm getting general system instability and massive input lag which leads me to believe it's not a GPU issue.

Temps are fine and drivers are updated. I recently wiped my hard drive with a DBAN so I'm pretty sure it's not a software issue.

System specs:
http://puu.sh/585GR.png

 

[Kari]

System specs:
http://puu.sh/585GR.png

are those idle temps? They seem a bit warm... How hot does everything get when you're playing? cause it sure sounds like you're gathering dust and overheating as a result (which leads to throttling and lowered performance...)

 

[flatline_]

System specs:
http://puu.sh/585GR.png

are those idle temps? They seem a bit warm... How hot does everything get when you're playing? cause it sure sounds like you're gathering dust and overheating as a result (which leads to throttling and lowered performance...)

Nope, that is with TF2 running in the background. I do that often. Those temps are usually as hot as it gets.

Could probably take a screenie without it if youd give me a couple minutes
EDIT:
http://puu.sh/586Jg.png

 

[Kari]

Nope, that is with TF2 running in the background. I do that often. Those temps are usually as hot as it gets.

Could probably take a screenie without it if youd give me a couple minutes
EDIT:
http://puu.sh/586Jg.png

oh, right it's not the temps then...
hmm you said you changed the mobo, did the problems start before that or after? Windows usually freaks out a bit when the mobo changes and often a fresh install is needed to get things running smoothly...

edit just googled that DBAN and you must be on a fresh windows by the sound of it...

 

[flatline_]

The order things went is that I started having issues ---> I DBANd my HDD ----> still had issues ---> replaced mobo ----> still had issues.

Windows never gave me any popups or warnings about it, but then again it is windows

 

[flatline_]

Bumppp

 

[potpolima]

1.games are patching and adding more graphical data..
2. computers degrade overtime
3. fps will surely drop overtime and its happening to all of us

 

[huilun02]

PSU? It could be the culprit making your PC suffer.

 

[smeezekitty]

My guess is the game might be modified over time.
Slow framerate drops over time is not a typical failure mode.

 

[flatline_]

1.games are patching and adding more graphical data..
2. computers degrade overtime
3. fps will surely drop overtime and its happening to all of us

Along with the FPS drops I've been noticing programs taking a lot longer to open up and more crashes/stalls on my system than usual, not just inside games. In addition to that I'm having encoding/decoding issues with videos which is certainly a video card issue along with massive stuttering and freezing.

This computer isn't even a year old yet, it should be fine.

 

[Kari]

hard drive problems?
Check the SMART statistics of the drive and run hd-tach or some other performance test on it. Speedfan will show at least some of the SMART things...

 

[flatline_]

hard drive problems?
Check the SMART statistics of the drive and run hd-tach or some other performance test on it. Speedfan will show at least some of the SMART things...

I've done previous tests that have shown no damage to the HDD, but I just rechecked the smart data and everything is fine.

 

[huilun02]

... You sure it's not the PSU?

If it's not software, then it's hardware... you got to single out the problematic component.
Try things for yourself, don't just ask us like its a quiz show.

 

[flatline_]

... You sure it's not the PSU?

If it's not software, then it's hardware... you got to single out the problematic component.
Try things for yourself, don't just ask us like its a quiz show.

Yeah I know. The thing is that I've tested most, if not all, of my components before and the only thing I haven't tested is the PSU. I don't have any other systems to test it in, though, and I don't want to drop $60 on something that might not be the problem.

 

[flatline_]

Bump.