Game FPS getting low suddenly!

[raunak62]

All the games are giving low fps suddenly. Prior to the problem the game Injustice God Among US: Ultimate Edition used to give 60 fps, now it is running at only 15-20 fps. The problem occurred while playing this game. Suddenly the fps dropped to 20 fps from 60 fps. The menu is not lagging, but the loading and gameplay is laggy. I'm using amd catalyst control Center 14.3 Beta. The beta drivers improved my fps earlier. I tried re installing the drivers which fixed the problem temporarily, but again the problem appeared after 10 minutes. My card can run COD: Ghosts at ultra @ 1600 X 900. A strange thing is also occurring. NFS Rivals is running smoothly at 30 fps even after the problem while all other games have gone haywire. I have tried everything that I could possibly think of. I have completely cleaned the CPU heatsink and applied fresh thermal paste, cleaned the cabinet, installed a new fan. My graphics card is quite new too!
The CPU temp. is about 48C under load and GPU temp. is 67C under heavy load.
My PC specs in short-
Processor- AMD Phenom II X2 550
RAM - Corsair 6 GB(4+2) DDR3
GPU- Sapphire Radeon R7 260X OC Edition
SMPS- Frontech 600W
Monitor- Samsung SyncMaster B2030

 

[TechCIDLC]

Install the latest stable drivers, not the beta ones. Also, your CPU might have started bottlenecking your card.

 

[raunak62]

Install the latest stable drivers, not the beta ones. Also, your CPU might have started bottlenecking your card.

Thanks. I too was thinking of it and I thought CCC 13.9 was the latest stable driver until I checked AMD's website recently and found that CCC 14.4 have been released. Installing that fixed the problem.

 

[davehype8]

Hi I know this thread is pretty old and I don't really have a solution but I've got the same problem. All games started having fps issues. However, when it comes to problems like this, I just do a system system restore. Unfortunately, it happened to me again and what's even worse is oldest system restore point is on the same day the problem happened. Practically useless to do it. I seriously don't know what to do now other than reformatting which is my last resort. Can anybody please help? My laptop doesn't have "high-end" specs though. The games I play are pretty old, like SC2, Tomb Raider, XCOM EU/EW, and Mass Effect Series. I would gladly appreciate any helpful advice. Thanks!

Dell Inspiron 7447
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel core i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
8GB RAM

 

[raunak62]

Hi I know this thread is pretty old and I don't really have a solution but I've got the same problem. All games started having fps issues. However, when it comes to problems like this, I just do a system system restore. Unfortunately, it happened to me again and what's even worse is oldest system restore point is on the same day the problem happened. Practically useless to do it. I seriously don't know what to do now other than reformatting which is my last resort. Can anybody please help? My laptop doesn't have "high-end" specs though. The games I play are pretty old, like SC2, Tomb Raider, XCOM EU/EW, and Mass Effect Series. I would gladly appreciate any helpful advice. Thanks!

Dell Inspiron 7447
Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel core i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
8GB RAM

As I think you might already have done, check for latest compatible driver at nvidia's website. In my case latest stable release fixed the problem. Also before installing the driver, uninstall the previous driver and double check to see that every file of that driver is removed ( I remove traces of driver after uninstalling by deleting AMD folder in program files, program data, app data- local,roaming...I don't remove from other folders since I don't know what impact that may have. ) Just make sure your driver is not storing any configuration files as backup.
If these methods doesn't work, I have got another method to at least pinpoint the problem. Using Nvidia's driver panel (whatever it may be called. It's Radeon settings for AMD), open the tab from where you can monitor GPU clock settings and then run a highly GPU demanding game. Switch to Nvidia driver panel in between gameplay and see if the clock speed is same as the clock speed when your gpu is idle. If you are having trouble getting instantaneous clock speed (maybe the clock speed drops on alt tabbing ) , try MSI afterburner. It shows a graphical analysis of the clock speed. So you should be able to monitor the clock speed while playing highly demanding games by running MSI afterburner in the background. If there is no spike in GPU clock speed from idle speed while playing, then it's most certainly a problem with your GPU's driver or the GPU itself. See if a hotfix for the driver exists.
Maybe your Intel HD graphics and your GPU are conflicting while rendering to your display. Maybe Intel HD graphics is taking over. I don't know much about Intel and Nvidia system, so I guess you will have to search the internet for that.