Greetings everyone,
So I have a long winding story that I'm going to try and spit out quickly to hopefully get some help with my issues.
Issue:
Almost all my games that are at all graphically intensive are causing huge FPS drops when I move around the game world. Wildstar, heck even Dota 2 or Sim City now are going through the same thing.
The History:
I have a AMD Phenom II X6 1090T CPU with a Radeon XD6870 card running on windows 7. 16GB of ram, 600 watt power supply. Dual monitors 1920x1200 on one and the other is 1600x something I think. I only use the second monitor for browsing as I'm gaming.
I was running windows 7 fine but I hadn't reformatted in a long time. I was also starting to get into Wildstar and was only hitting about 20-30FPS. I figured it was about time to just reformat and start fresh. I went to Windows 8.1.
After the new install every time I played graphically intense games my PC would blue screen (Windows 8 does that again). I went back to Windows 7 and the same thing happened. My machine would just turn off.
I went out and bought a new video card (GTX 770). I have wanted a new one for a long time anyway. I put this baby in and my machine stopped locking up and rebooting. I thought everything was fixed now! Except as I started to put more and more games back on I found out that things were choppy. I finally got into a game that checked FPS (Wildstar) and noticed I would sit at about 20FPS and droped to 10 while moving. I even installed Guild wars 2 (which I played with no issues last year) and now when I move I get about 1-5 FPS.
Did I get a bad GPU? Do I need to RMA it? Why did my performance go down so much!? The Geforce game profile thing keeps telling me I need to up all my graphics but I have had to turn almost every game to low! Even Diablo 3 I had to adjust down which I never had to before.
What the heck is going on? Is my CPU limiting my GPU that bad that it's worse than my old Radeon 6870?
Thanks for the help!
So I have a long winding story that I'm going to try and spit out quickly to hopefully get some help with my issues.
Issue:
Almost all my games that are at all graphically intensive are causing huge FPS drops when I move around the game world. Wildstar, heck even Dota 2 or Sim City now are going through the same thing.
The History:
I have a AMD Phenom II X6 1090T CPU with a Radeon XD6870 card running on windows 7. 16GB of ram, 600 watt power supply. Dual monitors 1920x1200 on one and the other is 1600x something I think. I only use the second monitor for browsing as I'm gaming.
I was running windows 7 fine but I hadn't reformatted in a long time. I was also starting to get into Wildstar and was only hitting about 20-30FPS. I figured it was about time to just reformat and start fresh. I went to Windows 8.1.
After the new install every time I played graphically intense games my PC would blue screen (Windows 8 does that again). I went back to Windows 7 and the same thing happened. My machine would just turn off.
I went out and bought a new video card (GTX 770). I have wanted a new one for a long time anyway. I put this baby in and my machine stopped locking up and rebooting. I thought everything was fixed now! Except as I started to put more and more games back on I found out that things were choppy. I finally got into a game that checked FPS (Wildstar) and noticed I would sit at about 20FPS and droped to 10 while moving. I even installed Guild wars 2 (which I played with no issues last year) and now when I move I get about 1-5 FPS.
Did I get a bad GPU? Do I need to RMA it? Why did my performance go down so much!? The Geforce game profile thing keeps telling me I need to up all my graphics but I have had to turn almost every game to low! Even Diablo 3 I had to adjust down which I never had to before.
What the heck is going on? Is my CPU limiting my GPU that bad that it's worse than my old Radeon 6870?
Thanks for the help!
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