High ram, Low FPS

[ESFAimbot]

Hey, I got a pretty good gaming rig, and it was running 60+ FPS on every game, max setting, but recently, and I do not know why, my FPS on games has been going down, the PC isn't even a year old. I have 8 GB of ram, which is questionably good and was more than enough to run any good quality game flawlessly. Any answer would help, cause Watch_Dogs is coming and I'm afraid I'll have to return it because it's running too slow

 

[Deleted member 1300495]

What is your build?

 

[ESFAimbot]

By build you mean specs? Well if you asked for specs, here they are: Intel Core i5 CPU 750 2.57 GHz 8Gb of ram and 64 bit Windows 7.

 

[Deleted member 1300495]

What gpu do you have and what games do you play. Could be an outdated gpu and outdated games. Or, an outdated cpu

 

[Tradesman1]

Things were good and now bad? Right? Check for Malware, virus's, things that have been added to startup that aren't needed, defrag the drive(s) basically clean all up, then if things are still lagging, might check and see if you could try/borrow a different PSU

 

[ESFAimbot]

The games I play are definitely not out dated, I played Max Payne 3 really fine, Deus Ex HR finely, Tomb Raider and Minecraft really nicely. My GPU is a AMD Radeon HD 5800 Series. And the games I mentioned ran 60+ FPS on pretty much max settings.

 

[ESFAimbot]

Things were good and now bad? Right? Check for Malware, virus's, things that have been added to startup that aren't needed, defrag the drive(s) basically clean all up, then if things are still lagging, might check and see if you could try/borrow a different PSU

Well, I tried many anti-virus softwares, and none of them told me that I had any viruses, malware or any worms or trojan. I never tried Defragmenting my drives (I have 2) so I could try that, and may I ask what is a PSU?

 

[Tradesman1]

PSU is your Power Supply, try running MalwareBytes (they have a free version)....also try going to command prompt as Administrator and run the command CHKDSK /R that will check your HD for errors and fix them if it can.....also at Command Prompt run the command SFC /SCANNOW that's your System File Checker

 

[ESFAimbot]

Hmmm, I tried both commands, and it only appears for a split second and closes by itself.

 

[Tradesman1]

Did you go in as Administrator go Start, Accessories, then put the cursor on COMMAND LINE and right click your mouse and select Run as Administrator

 

[ESFAimbot]

So how do you know it will work? Have you ever encountered my problem before?

 

[Tradesman1]

Was just explaining how to run the two commands from the command line, both are ways to fix things that may be the root of your problem...will it fix the problem for sure...no way to know, we are basically taking and going through troubleshooting steps to try and get the problems resolved.

 

[ESFAimbot]

Looks like this did not fix my problem. I am still lagging on the games I play.