Sudden low performance

[Nuclearius]

it's been around 1 or 2 weeks by now, i suddenly started having low performance in games, Rainbow six siege is the best example, i used to play around 130+ FPS, but suddenly i went to 45-60 FPS, forcing me to play windowed to be able to play; reinstalling geforce experience and the driver improved the performance, R6 was running 80 FPS but not stable, I tried setting to prefer max performance, didn't work too, reducing graphics didn't help too; I believe it's the graphics card because i noticed the GPU is being a lot less used on fullscreen, the temps seem to be normal.

my setup:
windows 10 pro
cpu: i7 6700k
gpu: ASUS GTX 1080 ti
Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A
the setup is pretty new, got it this year

i tried:
reinstalling geforce experience and the driver
setting power management to max performance
reducing graphics quality in the games

thanks

 

[Nuclearius]

your CPU's are half loaded there, what's running?

GTA V, steam, discord, shareX (what i use to take these screenshots), YouTube open with a podcast, open hardware monitor and probably some small background stuff

 

[Mark RM]

that's great actually if you have all that going.

I'm still at a total loss here, because of the inability to quantify exactly what the decrease in performance is when everything looks perfectly OK.

 

[Nuclearius]

that's great actually if you have all that going.

I'm still at a total loss here, because of the inability to quantify exactly what the decrease in performance is when everything looks perfectly OK.

What could it be? Not CPU, apparently not GPU, I don't believe monitor can be anything, the games are in different drives, hard to be both

Maybe RAM or power supply?

 

[Mark RM]

It's not acting like any PSU issue I've ever seen. I guess potentially you could be choking on feeding data to or from your disks. When I set up my kids systems I use an SSD for boot and then I stripe (RAID 0) a couple spinning disks for game storage (I mean with steam/origin etc you can just download again if your drives die so no real risk

How full is your primary SSD?

 

[Nuclearius]

It's not acting like any PSU issue I've ever seen. I guess potentially you could be choking on feeding data to or from your disks. When I set up my kids systems I use an SSD for boot and then I stripe (RAID 0) a couple spinning disks for game storage (I mean with steam/origin etc you can just download again if your drives die so no real risk

How full is your primary SSD?

I still have 59 GB out of 232

 

[Nuclearius]

Well I'm not good at explaining things and I really didn't understand most of what you wrote

 

[Nuclearius]

could it be a virus that the malware thing didn't find?

 

[Mark RM]

That would be really unusual. Malwarebytes is fantastic at this.

I have no more ideas though, everything you've shown me here is normal. You can try reinstalling windows from scratch and see if you get an improvement, but other than that, I have no other ideas at all.

 

[Nuclearius]

That would be really unusual. Malwarebytes is fantastic at this.

I have no more ideas though, everything you've shown me here is normal. You can try reinstalling windows from scratch and see if you get an improvement, but other than that, I have no other ideas at all.

I use the free version of Windows 10, how do I reinstall?

 

[Nuclearius]

I know how to install, but reinstall?

 

[Mark RM]

I know how to install, but reinstall?

back up your data.
when the option comes to put windows on a drive choose advanced and delete the partitions is easy enough.

https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10/

 

[Nuclearius]

I know how to install, but reinstall?

back up your data.
when the option comes to put windows on a drive choose advanced and delete the partitions is easy enough.

https://www.howtogeek.com/244678/you-dont-need-a-product-key-to-install-and-use-windows-10/

Is the uninstall part on the tutorial?

 

[Nuclearius]

and other thing: my surge protector (i believe that's how it is called in english) heats up alot, at the point of smelling like burned rubber in the end of the day, my computer and monitor are connected to it, could it be affecting something? it is really old

 

[Mark RM]

That could cause PSU damage and start a fire, but it's not likely to be the cause of your problem here.

 

[Nuclearius]

That could cause PSU damage and start a fire, but it's not likely to be the cause of your problem here.

And there is a loose power cable but as long as it stays still it isn't a problem, but sometimes people messing around my computer makes the cable get loose causing random restarts so I have to open the PC and force it in again. Could this cause the problem? It's the big cable on the motherboard

 

[Mark RM]

Yes, that could cause all kinds of problems with everything, forever.

I think you need some pro hands on help, I'm advising you to get it.

 

[Nuclearius]

Yes, that could cause all kinds of problems with everything, forever.

I think you need some pro hands on help, I'm advising you to get it.

Is there any way to buy a new cable or fix this one?

 

[Nuclearius]

and could this be causing the problem?

 

[Nuclearius]

it was not getting attached and i didn't want to push it too hard because i was scared to damage the motherboard, is it safe to force it in?

 

[Mark RM]

Yes it's safe to force it in, it's supposed to click into place!

Again, I'm advising you to get some help from someone hands on knowledgeable near you.

 

[Nuclearius]

Yes it's safe to force it in, it's supposed to click into place!

Again, I'm advising you to get some help from someone hands on knowledgeable near you.

that's not the problem anymore, i was just too scared to force it in because the other cables didn't need to be forced, i believe it is properly attached now

but i still didn't understand how to reinstall windows, do i just install one over mine?

 

[Nuclearius]

Should I try the "reset this PC" thing? It says it is as effective and easier

 

[Mark RM]

It does work at resetting windows, back up your data just in case.

 

[Nuclearius]

i don't have much thing i care to lose, just my Unity work

 

[Nuclearius]

if that doesn't work, what should i do?
i'm planning to format everything