Graphics Card Fried?

[HolographicMeatloaf]

A month ago my friend left GTA 5 running for about 16 hours. When I launched my PC again after I closed GTA, every single game ran slower than usual. It still ran a lot of games, but GTA couldn't run at all and rocket league had to be on low settings. I turned off my PC (gaming laptop)
for a couple days and didn't use it, and stuff ran better, but its still iffy, Recently those problems came back and I cant run GTA anymore. When I launch it says failed to recognize DX 9 and I have DX 11. So is my graphics processor friend? Recent I installed Intel drivers so its possible that maybe my games are launching of my intel graphics and not my NVIDIA 860? I considered that and I went into the Nvidia control setting and changed GTA to run off my High Powered Nvidia Grpahics Card but same problem. I'm really bad with computers and don't know this stuff, so please tell me my problem. I know I put this under graphics card because I think its something to do with that but maybe its not so please be friendly and help me fix my PC.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

What are your temps? What is GPU usage? What is CPU usage of each core? What are your specs?

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

Specs: Intel i7 4710hq @2.5 GHz 8 CPUS 4 cores 16 GB of Ram Nvidia GeForce 860m 2 gb
Would I go into task manager to find the other stuff? Like I said don't know much about PC's just got a prebuilt one

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Computers don't just work the way you are describing. Using it for 16 hours does not "wear it out". In fact, using it for 10 years technically will not affect performance at all. The only way the performance of a physical piece of computer hardware can decrease is if it gets so dusty or too hot that regulating software lowers the clock rates (and decreases performance) to cope with the high temperatures and protect the card. 95% of the time, bad performance is due to a software problem, not hardware. It's an electronic - it works or it doesn't generally. There are some exceptions, but in general hardware like graphics cards and processors will never have different performance after 100 years (though by then they won't probably be alive).

Open task manager, go to the CPU graph, right-click it, and change the graph to logical cores. This will show you the CPU usage of each core. Keep that open while gaming, and alt-tab out to see if any core hits 100%. Also, go into processes and see what programs and software are using what hardware power.

For the graphics card, download MSI Afterburner which will actually have a full-blown page of graphs with everything you need - GPU and CPU temperature and usage.

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

Playing BF4, on task manager it says utilization over 60 seconds 100% but the utilization is hanging around the 50% range

 

[turkey3_scratch]

There is no "utilization over 60 seconds". The graph shows data from 60 seconds, and the top-right corner that says "100%" just means that the top of the graph is 100% utilization. Could you screenshot for me?

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

https://imageshack.us/i/pb4TkYxap

 

[turkey3_scratch]

That is not 100% ever.

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

what do you mean

 

[turkey3_scratch]

No where does it reach 100% utilization. I don't know why you're downvoting me either. There is no "utilization over 60 seconds" value, and over 60 seconds not one core ever reached 100%. So that's fine.

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

Sorry downvote was accident. it never hit 100% utilization

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Now download MSI Afterburner if you don't already have GPU management software.

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

https://imageshack.us/i/paJhwoVwp GPU levels at 95% to 100%. That seems quite concerning

 

[turkey3_scratch]

No it's not, GPU should be using its maximum power. You want the GPU at 100%, especially if Vsync is off.

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

so the picture I linked, is everything normal?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Ya, scroll down to the temperatures.

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

https://imageshack.us/i/paqrRl37p
https://imageshack.us/i/p7m8mDClp

 

[HolographicMeatloaf]

Hello?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

What about GPU temps?