Performance Degredation. Help Needed!

Potato_PC

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Dec 10, 2016
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When I first built my computer it worked out great! I was running games like CS:GO in 200-250 FPS. But today on the lower demanding maps like dust and cache it can barely reach 200. And in games like H1Z1 KOTK I get under 60 fps and I've asked friends who has the same and similar specs as me and they get around 130. Overall I have been getting lower FPS than before in all games. I have been doing some basic stuff like done a fresh start and tried to keep my SSD free from stuff and keeping up with GPU drivers. If Anyone has some good tips on what I can do, it would be very much appreciated. Thank You!

Specs:
AMD FX-8350 Stock Clocked with H80i GT for cooling.
MSI GTX 970 4GB
8GB 1600 RAM
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Motherboard
120 GB SSD with Windows 7 on it. (40 GB Available)
And 2TB HDD
 
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This is what the window looks like in Windows 10. I don't remember it looking like this in XP or 7.
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In short, you never defrag an SSD unless you want to kill it right there and then, on the spot, instant death. Defragmenting an HDD is optimizing the drive to (kind of) the same tune as trimming an SSD. It's just that you can't defrag an SSD much the same way you can't trim an HDD. Two entirely different means of physically storing data, two entirely different means of physically organizing the bits and bytes on them that make up your data.

As far as I've read, Windows 7 doesn't natively support SSD...
Look through your list of installed programs, and see if there are any extraneous programs you can uninstall.
Download CCleaner, and run both the regular cleaner and the registry cleaner.
Disable all anti-virus and security programs while you game. They won't do you any good, and will hammer your already weak and underperforming CPU.
Defrag your HDD and trim your SSD. You can use Windows' built in drive optimization tool to accomplish this.
Disable Windows Aero while gaming...?
Move your Windows pagefile from your SSD to your HDD to increase your SSD's lifespan, and reduce the frequency at which you must trim the poor sucker.
Download Guru DDU or whatever it's called now (Display Driver Uninstaller) to completely and utterly wipe all display drivers from your drive. Then reinstall just the latest one to make sure there aren't driver conflicts causing the decrease in fps.
There are ways to optimize the OS by doing things like disabling services that don't do anything for the average gamer, like virtualization and server encryption. I don't know any off the top of my head, since I googled this and just tried everything out, kept what worked, and reverted what didn't. Don't go raising the priority in task manager though, it causes plenty of stability issues that are more headache and actually decrease in-game performance.

You may have to do some, I mean a lot, of UserOptions.ini editing to get higher framerates with an FX8350. You might have to limit yourself to CQB on completely potato graphics if your framerates are uncooperative. I bet, the green miasma is really hurting your fps. (I don't play H1Z1, I've seen gameplay of it though.)

Knowing that H1Z1 and Planetside 2 are derivatives based on the same engine, and being a PS2 vet myself, I know first hand how bad framerates can be with FX CPU's. With the same settings and everything except MB and CPU, the difference between an FX8320 at 5.2ghz and my current i5 4460 under similar combat conditions (250+ people with artillery firing from all sides, and Papa Vanu's ground pounding platoon flying above) was the difference between 15 fps with frequent dips into the unholy territory of 5spf, and 85+ fps stable. It's the difference between ragequitting, and being able to enjoy the farm with adaptive vsync keeping everything buttery smooth all the time. I won't even go into how bad it was back when I tried to run PS2 with an Athlon 760k, even at 4.9ghz. Oh the horror, oh the nightmares...
 


Thank you! When you say "Defrag your HDD and trim your SSD" what do you exactly mean?

 


This is what the window looks like in Windows 10. I don't remember it looking like this in XP or 7.
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In short, you never defrag an SSD unless you want to kill it right there and then, on the spot, instant death. Defragmenting an HDD is optimizing the drive to (kind of) the same tune as trimming an SSD. It's just that you can't defrag an SSD much the same way you can't trim an HDD. Two entirely different means of physically storing data, two entirely different means of physically organizing the bits and bytes on them that make up your data.

As far as I've read, Windows 7 doesn't natively support SSD trim. You either download a third party app to do it, or run command lines to enable it. Beyond that, I can't say, since I have no personal experience with SSD optimization beyond Mac OS 10.6 and newer, which requires a third party app called "Trim Enabler", and Windows 8.1 and newer, which can be done directly from the OS through the window shown above.

Optimizing the drive with the OS on it is the most important to keeping performance from degrading, second only to regularly clearing extraneous bloatware/malware/other useless crap.
 
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