Mystical FPS drop

[Faunzy]

Hi guys,

I have a very strange case of fps drop. Basically when I play WoW with mid-high settings I have around 100FPS and it stays that way for like 2-3minutes and without doing anything that could exhaust system resources the game suddenly minimizes, lags for a bit, then maximizes again and the FPS fall down to 20~. Restarting the game does not help after that, all other games become low fps as well and overall the fps does not come back until I restart the computer. It doesn't seem to be triggered as far as I've noticed so far by any other game, but affects every games fps once triggered. I have no clue what the heck.. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Specs:

MB: MSI Z170-A PRO(MS-7971)
CPU: i5-6600K
8GB RAM
GPU: GeForce GTX 960 2GB

 

[RobCrezz]

Have you overclocked the 960 at all? as a bad oc can sometimes cause that

If not, try going into the Nvidia control panel and under power options, select maximum performance. It might be incorrectly going into the low power state.

 

[13thmonkey]

sounds thermal to me.

 

[Faunzy]

Have you overclocked the 960 at all? as a bad oc can sometimes cause that

If not, try going into the Nvidia control panel and under power options, select maximum performance. It might be incorrectly going into the low power state.

I had oc'ed it, but just barely as I'm not knowledgeable enough to risk it. I've done the second part, set it to max perfomance and well.. it's official I am an idiot. Issue resolved. I've done that for individual games not as "default" option for all aplications.. I'll give you guys a shout out once I need helping to find start button, seems I'm going down that road.. haha

Thanks for the help!

 

[Faunzy]

sounds thermal to me.

Thermal wouldn't have made sense. Only triggered by one game and affecting others.

 

[RobCrezz]

Have you overclocked the 960 at all? as a bad oc can sometimes cause that

If not, try going into the Nvidia control panel and under power options, select maximum performance. It might be incorrectly going into the low power state.

I had oc'ed it, but just barely as I'm not knowledgeable enough to risk it. I've done the second part, set it to max perfomance and well.. it's official I am an idiot. Issue resolved. I've done that for individual games not as "default" option for all aplications.. I'll give you guys a shout out once I need helping to find start button, seems I'm going down that road.. haha

Thanks for the help!

Dropping to low power state is a symptom of a bad overclock on the gpu, so revert to settings.

What settings were you using?

 

[Faunzy]

Have you overclocked the 960 at all? as a bad oc can sometimes cause that

If not, try going into the Nvidia control panel and under power options, select maximum performance. It might be incorrectly going into the low power state.

I had oc'ed it, but just barely as I'm not knowledgeable enough to risk it. I've done the second part, set it to max perfomance and well.. it's official I am an idiot. Issue resolved. I've done that for individual games not as "default" option for all aplications.. I'll give you guys a shout out once I need helping to find start button, seems I'm going down that road.. haha

Thanks for the help!

Dropping to low power state is a symptom of a bad overclock on the gpu, so revert to settings.

What settings were you using?

And the problem is back again, it just didn't appear for a little while.The OC settings I've edited were memory and core clocks +200MHz. I did use hardware monitor during the last trigger maybe it is thermal? the CPU is reaching quite high temps. Hardware monitor screenshots here

PS how do I mark the subject as unsolved? ^^

 

[RobCrezz]

Ive removed it. Disable your memory overclock, put it back to standard settings and try again.