I've just recently built a new custom desktop that was designed to be able to play high-end games like Modern Warfare 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. For the first few months, gameplay was running perfectly smooth, with absolutely no errors of any kinds.
But then, just in one night, one morning I woke up to find that all of my games (along the lines of AC2 to MW2 to SC2) suddenly running abnormally slow. Some are somewhat slower, still playable but completely ruins the gaming experience, while other games are now running so painfully slow, that, in-game, the mouse cursor looks like it's on a slide show, appearing on one side of the screen then suddenly on the other. I did install a second optical drive roughly around that time, but I decided to remove just as quickly. I've done everything I can think off; I've reseated the graphics card, I defragged, I cleaned up my disk (using both the Windows default one and CCleaner), I uninstalled every unwanted program on my hard drives (I have two, one 250 GB used down to 100 GB, and one unused 1 TB), reinstalled the latest drivers, and reinstalled the latest DirectX.
I am using an XFX Radeon 5770(4770 was a typo) graphics card. I have some suspicion that the problem could possibly be due to the PSU, since the PSU is below the recommended wattage for the graphics card. But only by 50 watts. And I wouldn't expect the first few months to be godly smooth for gameplay, then all goes to hell in one night.
Any help/advice?
But then, just in one night, one morning I woke up to find that all of my games (along the lines of AC2 to MW2 to SC2) suddenly running abnormally slow. Some are somewhat slower, still playable but completely ruins the gaming experience, while other games are now running so painfully slow, that, in-game, the mouse cursor looks like it's on a slide show, appearing on one side of the screen then suddenly on the other. I did install a second optical drive roughly around that time, but I decided to remove just as quickly. I've done everything I can think off; I've reseated the graphics card, I defragged, I cleaned up my disk (using both the Windows default one and CCleaner), I uninstalled every unwanted program on my hard drives (I have two, one 250 GB used down to 100 GB, and one unused 1 TB), reinstalled the latest drivers, and reinstalled the latest DirectX.
I am using an XFX Radeon 5770(4770 was a typo) graphics card. I have some suspicion that the problem could possibly be due to the PSU, since the PSU is below the recommended wattage for the graphics card. But only by 50 watts. And I wouldn't expect the first few months to be godly smooth for gameplay, then all goes to hell in one night.
Any help/advice?
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