Gaming PC suddenly lagging on every game.

[rise2967]

Hey guys

I built this PC around a year ago, and every game I've played (Battlefield 1, Battlefront 2, Squad, Fortnite, PUBG) Runs smooth, until around a week ago and now every game I've played has super low frames. Even Fortnite which I played on all ultra with 100+ FPS is only getting around 30 FPS on low.


Heres my setup:
Geforce GTX 1060 3GB
Intel i5-6600
8GB Ram
EVGA 600 B1, 80+ BRONZE 600W Power supply


I've done EVERYTHING I can think of, including:
Updating drivers
Dusting PC case and components
Replacing thermal paste
Reseating RAM and GPU

I've monitered my CPU and GPU temps which are both fine.

Idk man, I'm losing my mind here lol, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[jankerson]

Are you sure the monitor is plugged into the graphics card and NOT the MB graphics?

 

[rise2967]

Are you sure the monitor is plugged into the graphics card and NOT the MB graphics?

No its definitely plugged into the graphics card and not MB. As the problem started without me unplugging or moving anything.

 

[Karadjgne]

Recent windows update has affected Lan drivers. So much so MSI released a patch for my msi z77 mpower Lan, the last update being in 2017 for audio/Lan after CE was dropped.

Check the chipset drivers. You may need to update the gpu drivers after as there are many reports of vga not loading : error 43.

 

[rise2967]

Recent windows update has affected Lan drivers. So much so MSI released a patch for my msi z77 mpower Lan, the last update being in 2017 for audio/Lan after CE was dropped.

Check the chipset drivers. You may need to update the gpu drivers after as there are many reports of vga not loading : error 43.

I have all the drivers up to date.

 

[jesse13williamson]

You should check for driver updates, if it's not that try running this and please tell me if it says that anything is under-performing. http://www.userbenchmark.com/. It may be a reach but you should make sure that your power settings in Windows settings are on 'high performance' as it may have reverted to that after the update although it won't make enough of a difference to have been the primary problem.. Hope this helps.

 

[rise2967]

You should check for driver updates, if it's not that try running this and please tell me if it says that anything is under-performing. http://www.userbenchmark.com/. It may be a reach but you should make sure that your power settings in Windows settings are on 'high performance' as it may have reverted to that after the update although it won't make enough of a difference to have been the primary problem.. Hope this helps.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8852711 Here are my results. As you can see my RAM performed very poorly. I think I just found my issue.

 

[jesse13williamson]

You should check for driver updates, if it's not that try running this and please tell me if it says that anything is under-performing. http://www.userbenchmark.com/. It may be a reach but you should make sure that your power settings in Windows settings are on 'high performance' as it may have reverted to that after the update although it won't make enough of a difference to have been the primary problem.. Hope this helps.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8852711 Here are my results. As you can see my RAM performed very poorly. I think I just found my issue.

Thanks for reply. It sounds like you have XMP into your BIOS and make sure that XMP is turned on, as it is a feature that allows your RAM to reach it's maximum frequency, as opposed to it being limited by default. If you have any more questions or if this doesn't work I'd be glad to help further.

 

[rise2967]

You should check for driver updates, if it's not that try running this and please tell me if it says that anything is under-performing. http://www.userbenchmark.com/. It may be a reach but you should make sure that your power settings in Windows settings are on 'high performance' as it may have reverted to that after the update although it won't make enough of a difference to have been the primary problem.. Hope this helps.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8852711 Here are my results. As you can see my RAM performed very poorly. I think I just found my issue.

Thanks for reply. It sounds like you have XMP into your BIOS and make sure that XMP is turned on, as it is a feature that allows your RAM to reach it's maximum frequency, as opposed to it being limited by default. If you have any more questions or if this doesn't work I'd be glad to help further.

Dude you did it! I took out my RAM to dust it and being the bonehead I am I didnt put it back in the correct slots, which I didnt notice till now. I had done other tests and nothing said my RAM was bad until the benchmark you linked to.

Thanks so much man! I spent HOURS trying to figure this out, and without you would have spent more lol.

 

[Karadjgne]

Oh, so you were in single channel mode. That's @20% drop off in performance vrs dual channel.