I'm going to try and be as specific as possible, if anyone has any questions please let me know. Apologies in advance for my limited computer knowledge.
I recently purchased a brand new Skytech Shadow 3.0 off of Amazon and I believe it came here on September 11th. When I first booted it up, everything was fine, all of my games from Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Total War Warhammer 3, Battlefield 1, etc were all playing at around 50 to 60 FPS on all max settings with no hitching or stuttering whatsoever. A couple of days ago, I woke up and discovered that all of my games have been running at a far lower FPS than they should on this card, hitting at max 30~ FPS and never crawling over or around 60. This started the morning after a very long session of gaming, around 12 hours with my friends on Total War Warhammer 3.
Elden Ring is probably my most graphically intensive game that I have, so I did a little experimenting. If I look towards the horizon, my FPS runs at around 25 to 30 on Max settings, but when I look at the ground where there is quite literally nothing to look at, my FPS goes back up to around 60, only to drop back down to 30. If I turn all of my graphics to the lowest settings possible, everything runs at 60 FPS and almost never dips underneath. Cyberpunk is another story, and it does not go above 30 with close to 100% of my GPU being used according to the Nvidia overlay on Max settings. I have not tried turning the graphics down for that game yet, but I could assume it would have a similar effect.
I've seen multiple posts with similar issues but none of the solutions work. I sincerely hope I don’t have to RMA my computer, but could it be possible that after playing for so long I may have fried my CPU or GPU? None of my games crash or freeze and my computer does not randomly restart or hitch whatsoever except for this one instance where I put it to sleep and everything slowed to a crawl, causing me to do a hard reset. I've read that doing a hard reboot of your system can help but I only want to do that as an absolute last resort.
Information is readily available from my Dxdiag, I simply ask for anyone helping me to supply me with specifics and I will get you what you're looking for in a timely fashion.
Thank you for your help.
Methods already used to fix this
Full system virus scan via Windows Defender AND Malwarebytes Premium
SFC and DISM commands (SFC found corrupted files and fixed them)
Tried messing with the Voltage on my GPU to no avail
Reinstalling drivers via Geforce Experience
A light stress test on OCCT with no issues
Changed my power options to Performance Mode
Everything in Task Manager is working fine
Specs:
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060 /// Driver Version: 516.94
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
RAM: 16 GB
I recently purchased a brand new Skytech Shadow 3.0 off of Amazon and I believe it came here on September 11th. When I first booted it up, everything was fine, all of my games from Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Total War Warhammer 3, Battlefield 1, etc were all playing at around 50 to 60 FPS on all max settings with no hitching or stuttering whatsoever. A couple of days ago, I woke up and discovered that all of my games have been running at a far lower FPS than they should on this card, hitting at max 30~ FPS and never crawling over or around 60. This started the morning after a very long session of gaming, around 12 hours with my friends on Total War Warhammer 3.
Elden Ring is probably my most graphically intensive game that I have, so I did a little experimenting. If I look towards the horizon, my FPS runs at around 25 to 30 on Max settings, but when I look at the ground where there is quite literally nothing to look at, my FPS goes back up to around 60, only to drop back down to 30. If I turn all of my graphics to the lowest settings possible, everything runs at 60 FPS and almost never dips underneath. Cyberpunk is another story, and it does not go above 30 with close to 100% of my GPU being used according to the Nvidia overlay on Max settings. I have not tried turning the graphics down for that game yet, but I could assume it would have a similar effect.
I've seen multiple posts with similar issues but none of the solutions work. I sincerely hope I don’t have to RMA my computer, but could it be possible that after playing for so long I may have fried my CPU or GPU? None of my games crash or freeze and my computer does not randomly restart or hitch whatsoever except for this one instance where I put it to sleep and everything slowed to a crawl, causing me to do a hard reset. I've read that doing a hard reboot of your system can help but I only want to do that as an absolute last resort.
Information is readily available from my Dxdiag, I simply ask for anyone helping me to supply me with specifics and I will get you what you're looking for in a timely fashion.
Thank you for your help.
Methods already used to fix this
Full system virus scan via Windows Defender AND Malwarebytes Premium
SFC and DISM commands (SFC found corrupted files and fixed them)
Tried messing with the Voltage on my GPU to no avail
Reinstalling drivers via Geforce Experience
A light stress test on OCCT with no issues
Changed my power options to Performance Mode
Everything in Task Manager is working fine
Specs:
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3060 /// Driver Version: 516.94
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
RAM: 16 GB