Screen black for a few seconds, than slower framerate

[Crenz]

Good evening

Hoping someone can explain to me what would cause this. Has happened twice so far today (never happened before today). I am playing World of Warcraft on ultra high settings at 100+ frames, than suddenly my screen turns black for 1-2 seconds, than back on. When it comes back on, my computer is struggling with graphics, with frame rate dropping to 20 or so.

Graphics card is a GeForce 660 and operating system is Windows 7, if that helps.

Thanks,
Crenz

 

[JefferyD90]

This is a driver issue. Im going to link you the place to go for your video driver but it could be other components not working well with each other.

http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Just go there and auto detect or select it yourself. See how it turns out. If this doesn't fix it let me know.

 

[Crenz]

Thanks, it stopped acting up a few days after I made this original post. However, my Windows software fails at checking for updates cause I went to the site you recommended and it found updates! Thanks, updating now and that should solve any future issues.

 

[JefferyD90]

Windows DOES NOT update drivers. The only time you will see a Windows Update pertaining to a driver is when it actually effects how Windows operates. So don't ever depend on software to keep software up to date. Do it yourself.

 

[Crenz]

Ya I learnt that, downloaded some software from the site that will update my drivers whenever they need an update . Thanks again.

 

[JefferyD90]

And for future reference, that was just for your video drivers. Every part of your machine has a driver, and will impact performance. even a dialup modem, if its not in use, will affect performance if the driver isn't optimal. So its something you might want to take a hour out of your day sometime to update.