"Random" Games all of a sudden went from 60-144 FPS to 12-24 fps for no apparent reason.

[Lanfear45]

For some reason both Borderlands 2 and Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen have both more than quartered their frames, and i have no idea why. Ive not done anything other than update drivers recently, but ive now had this problem for a month with Borderlands 2, and now with DDDA... I was able to fix borderlands 2 one time, i verified the files and used nividas settings for the in game graphics and it worked that time, but now even trying that or different versions of that i cant get max frames anymore. i dont have this problem with any other games but i fear it could spread, because DDDA didnt have this problem before. reinstalling didnt work, i turned off steam overlay, and ive done other things as well, but nothing. i do have Riva tuner and MSi Afterburner, but these games worked after i installed Riva tuner, and ive turned it off and it still does the same thing, im bout ready to reset my computer, but id much rather not unless i have too.

Any help would be great.

Specs:
CPU: Intel i5-4690k
RAM: 8GB, nothing special, dont even remember the name
OS:Windows 10 OEM
GPU: MSI Twin Frozr 980
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
I have my OS on a Samsung SSD and mostly everything else on a 1TB HDD That i cant remember the name of

 

[elbert]

That is an oddly low amount of RAM. Maybe upgrade to 16GB's. Now on the issue have you tested your gpu using furmark or CPU using prime95 version 26.6? Use speedfan to see if the temps are ok.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15504
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

 

[Lanfear45]

That is an oddly low amount of RAM. Maybe upgrade to 16GB's. Now on the issue have you tested your gpu using furmark or CPU using prime95 version 26.6? Use speedfan to see if the temps are ok.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=15504
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Nothing out of the ordinary, all of my heat levels out at a pretty reasonable level for both CPU and GPU, and the stress tests were fairly in line with how my system usually runs. Just to elaborate this isn't a degradation of performance or anything, i start the game and it just rarely goes above 12.5 or 24 frames, and when they do its only like .5-2 fps for half a second, sometimes in the loading screens it will be higher, but its just like that, from the second it starts, but then i go and run another game and its fine.