New System Same Graphics Card As Before But Now Lag?

[Coplestone1992]

Hello guys,

I was wondering whether anyone else has experienced this before. I was originally running a 670 2GB, i7 3770k and 8GB DDR3 RAM.

Just today, I upgraded to an i7 6700K and 16GB DDR4 RAM. This is prep for a GTX 1080. I am still running my original 670 at the moment. An still running my original Win10 64 OS on SSD which has been transferred over to my new system. And I've just performed a clean Nvidia driver install, still no difference.

I am now completely for some reason unable to run games whatsoever. I was getting 45-70 FPS on Overwatch which is now down to unplayable frames.

This is very strange. I only put this into the graphics card section as I'm not too sure what else it could be. Possibly motherboard drivers?

Any comments appreciated.

 

[minemarcius]

can you show me your GPU usage % on MSI afterburner or ASUS GPU tweak?

 

[Coplestone1992]

can you show me your GPU usage % on MSI afterburner or ASUS GPU tweak?

Hi there,

Sure, here's the usage idling:
https://gyazo.com/9514665e97982132a33226d07de5f419

And here it is in Overwatch:
https://gyazo.com/f7a770c1ffbc80184f3e5a18f6573bec

Seems extremely high. The again in game you'd expect it to be using around that. And when I tabbed out of it I even noticed some lag in the browser. Something that never used to happen.

Thanks.

 

[minemarcius]

so when you were playing overwatch whilst the GPU was at 98% were you still experiencing lag?

 

[Coplestone1992]

so when you were playing overwatch whilst the GPU was at 98% were you still experiencing lag?

Yes I was, about 18 - 23 FPS :/

However yesterday I was playing with the same GPU, an i7 3770K and 8GB DDR3 and getting 45 - 70 frames. as I have been since the Beta and release of the game. I'ts also the same with Tomb Raider that was released in 2014. I completed that the other day achieving 37 - 70 FPS on max setting with Anti-Aliasing turned down to 2x. Upon upgrading today it seems no matter what I try, games or bench marks like heaven it seems to lag on even low settings. So Something's not quite right haha.

 

[minemarcius]

ok, I'm suspecting it might be a virus, that whenever you launch a game it starts using up your GPU to mine bitcoin or something like that. To test this Hypothesis out, lower your settings and resolution to the lowest possible go to windowed mode and send me a pic of the GPU usage

 

[Coplestone1992]

ok, I'm suspecting it might be a virus, that whenever you launch a game it starts using up your GPU to mine bitcoin or something like that. To test this Hypothesis out, lower your settings and resolution to the lowest possible go to windowed mode and send me a pic of the GPU usage

Ah, an interesting idea.

These are the lowest settings and windowed mode:

https://gyazo.com/bbbd77fda7bd716ecdce435e809a28ee

Although the frames were higher, the desktop still lagged when tabbed out too.

EDIT: After being in the game for a few minutes frames went down to 35.

 

[minemarcius]

The same was happening to me a week ago give malwarebytes, avast, roguekiller, jrt a try it might fix the problem if it's a virus that's causing this

 

[Coplestone1992]

The same was happening to me a week ago give malwarebytes, avast, roguekiller, jrt a try it might fix the problem if it's a virus that's causing this

Thanks for your time. Oh man, it definitely sucks!

I've got a subscription to MalwareBytes, no luck on the scan. What program did you use to detect it?

 

[minemarcius]

None worked for me except for jrt, it did it's magic and the GPU load went down the moment it was complete

 

[Coplestone1992]

None worked for me except for jrt, it did it's magic and the GPU load went down the moment it was complete

Literally just used JRT:

https://gyazo.com/484084fa1e85e23c1c988e4fe9dcc489

That was the result, I'll try running a game.

 

[Coplestone1992]

Hmm, unfortunately didn't work, I tried running JRT again and it found:

Successfully deleted: C:\Users\Charlie\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\gkojfkhlekighikafcpjkiklfbnlmeio (Folder)

Another one of those suspicious folders.

 

[minemarcius]

Then there's TDSS killer and roguekiller

 

[Coplestone1992]

Then there's TDSS killer and roguekiller

I'll give those a try, interestingly, look what RogueKiller found:

https://gyazo.com/a98f517f2c62eb0684f248fc40955d73

 

[Coplestone1992]

Damn, I guess a simple scan was too good to be true haha.

 

[minemarcius]

have you tried restarting your PC in between the scans? Maybe there's something more to this, how's your CPU doing when you're gaming? any programs stand out with their high usage?

 

[Coplestone1992]

have you tried restarting your PC in between the scans? Maybe there's something more to this, how's your CPU doing when you're gaming? any programs stand out with their high usage?

I've tried restarting and I played about 5 minutes albeit in what ended up being 5 FPS haha, for 5 minutes and every time I alt+tabbed out to check things here where they sat:

https://gyazo.com/1ed1434aaad61aa74da633efaafa9c25

It got to the point where alt+tabbing basically froze Windows.

 

[Coplestone1992]

It definitely must be a setting/driver. But what.. It only seems to happen when the GPU is put under stress, as Hearthstone didn't make it lag as it's not a demanding game. Every other game such as Overwatch/Tomb Raider/The Forest lag.