As the title says my desktop has suddenly started tanking in the performance department and I can't figure out why. My BIOS, GPU and MOBO drivers are all up to date and I just did a clean install of Windows 10 yesterday in the hopes it would alleviate my woes, but no such luck. I've started monitoring my CPU, GPU and RAM usage but everything looks normal from what I can tell. My specs are as follows:
i5-2300
XFX R9 290
8GB RAM
TZ68K+ Biostar Mobo
635W PSU
I've had the CPU, RAM and Mobo for around 4 years now. The GPU and PSU are both around a year old, give or take a couple months. Everything is stock, no overclocking or anything like that has ever been done. My system stability is fine for the most part; though I did have issues with my Windows 10 installation yesterday(BSOD error: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT as well as the installation getting stuck on "Getting Devices Ready" a couple times).
The first game I noticed major performance issues with was Fallout 4 on the 15th of this month Then Rust and now Hurtworld. In both Rust(25-40 FPS) and Hurtworld(16-30 FPS) the settings seem to make very little difference in performance unless I'm standing still facing away from the playable areas and then my FPS skyrocket up to 70-100 FPS. Fallout 4 seems to suffer from similar issues because interiors run beautifully at 80-110 FPS but as soon as I go outside my FPS drops down to 30-45 FPS with drops into the 20's when it loads new cells and the like.
Initially I blamed the performance issues on Fallout 4, but considering my issues with other games since then, I'm starting to think there is something going wrong in my system, but I can't for the life of me figure out what.So, here I am asking you all for some ideas, insight or help in finding out just WTF is going on with my rig!
EDIT: I also should mention that one of my friends has a very similar setup to mine(difference being he has 16GB RAM and an i5-4590, but the same GPU) and is running these same games at much better framerates at the same resolution.
i5-2300
XFX R9 290
8GB RAM
TZ68K+ Biostar Mobo
635W PSU
I've had the CPU, RAM and Mobo for around 4 years now. The GPU and PSU are both around a year old, give or take a couple months. Everything is stock, no overclocking or anything like that has ever been done. My system stability is fine for the most part; though I did have issues with my Windows 10 installation yesterday(BSOD error: CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT as well as the installation getting stuck on "Getting Devices Ready" a couple times).
The first game I noticed major performance issues with was Fallout 4 on the 15th of this month Then Rust and now Hurtworld. In both Rust(25-40 FPS) and Hurtworld(16-30 FPS) the settings seem to make very little difference in performance unless I'm standing still facing away from the playable areas and then my FPS skyrocket up to 70-100 FPS. Fallout 4 seems to suffer from similar issues because interiors run beautifully at 80-110 FPS but as soon as I go outside my FPS drops down to 30-45 FPS with drops into the 20's when it loads new cells and the like.
Initially I blamed the performance issues on Fallout 4, but considering my issues with other games since then, I'm starting to think there is something going wrong in my system, but I can't for the life of me figure out what.So, here I am asking you all for some ideas, insight or help in finding out just WTF is going on with my rig!
EDIT: I also should mention that one of my friends has a very similar setup to mine(difference being he has 16GB RAM and an i5-4590, but the same GPU) and is running these same games at much better framerates at the same resolution.