Why am i getting fps drops ??

[Alban Shala]

Hi! so i bought a gaming pc for like 7 months ago and it was fine untill couple of weeks ago i kept getting fps drops i usually had 250-300 on counter strike global offensive and now i get drops to 50-60 and laggs me alot :S
My specs
Model AMD Radeon R9 280X
Memory 3072 MB, GDDR5
Connections HDMI, DVI
processor
Model AMD FX-8350
Speed 4.2GHz - Max Turbo
Number of Cores 8 pcs - Octa Core
RAM
Model Corsair Vengeance 8192MB (8GB)
Memory type DDR3 1600MHz
Hard Drive
Size 1000 GB
Connection 7200RPM - 6Gb / s - SATA
Motherboard
Gigabyte Model 970A-DS3P
Sound Card 8-Channel High Definition Audio
Internet 10/100/1000/Mbit Gigabit LAN
USB 2.0 / USB 3.0 6 & 2
Other
Chassis Cooler Master HAF912 - Infinity Edition
Power Supply XFX Core Edition 550W - 85% efficiency - 80PLUS
DVD Burner DVD ± RW Dual-Layer
SSD: 180gb samsung
Cpu cooler: H60 corsair
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bits

 

[IInuyasha74]

Several possibilities.

You could have changed and enabled higher harder graphics settings which is the reason for the drop.

You could of enabled V-sync which you should honestly keep on as it will lock the refresh rate at 60FPS so your system doesn't use too much power and heat doing work for no reason.

If neither of these are changed, the next likely event is that you have more programs running in the background slowing down your computer.

Finally it could be heating issue and your PC is getting too hot and slowing down as a result, likely the graphics card is what is overheating if something is. Given its summer, its quite likely to be the problem.

All of this is easy to check by looking at your settings, task-manager, and installing MSI Afterburner for monitoring your temps.

 

[Alban Shala]

V-sync isnt on and my pc shud handle high on csgo idk abt heatings.

 

[Alban Shala]

i just downloaded msi afterburner, it showed gpu temp min 55 max 58, and gpu usage is min 0 max 87 and this is all while playing the game csgo. idk abt cpu it said like 7 others.

 

[IInuyasha74]

I don't doubt you could handle maxed out settings on that game, but 300FPS maxed out seems a bit extreme. Also remember that unless you have a high refresh rate monitor anything past 60FPS won't be shown on screen and have no effect on performance. So if you are getting 60FPS maxed out settings you are handling the game fine.

Not sure where you are in the world, but if it is currently summer for you heat is a likely problem. You can get Openhardware monitor and leave it running while you play for a while, then check it after and it will say your max temp the GPU hit, but its a little inaccurate, just easier to use. For best results get MSI Afterburner and use it to monitor your GPU usage and temps while playing games.

 

[Alban Shala]

I'm in sweden its pretty cold here 😛 and ive got 144 hz monitor 😛 and i did monitor just now, and idk if anything is bad or good in that temp 😛 i was hoping u'd tell me xD? Nice pic btw 😀

 

[IInuyasha74]

Ah lol yea im in the USA but from what we hear its pretty cold there. My car was made in Sweden and it has wipers on the headlights for snow, only care ever that I have seen that has them lol. Thanks for the pic btw,

As for temps, what did it read? Temps below 80C aren't dangerous but lower is better. Around 60C is an average that is really good but most will run hotter than that.

 

[Alban Shala]

Gpu min 52 max 64 and gpu usage max 94%

 

[IInuyasha74]

Well yea those temps are perfect so that shouldn't be an issue. Did you check task manager and see if you have a lot of things running in the back ground?

 

[Alban Shala]

Well i got like 4 pages on chrome and game thats it and skype etc

 

[IInuyasha74]

Yea that also shouldn't do it. Well unless your OS is becoming corrupt or your settings were increased without you realizing I can't think of anything else that might cause it.

On the off chance its acting up you could try uninstalling your graphics driver and re-installing it, but its hard to say if that will help or do nothing. Its just the last idea I can think of short of a re-installing Windows completely.

 

[Alban Shala]

well i did get a new ssd like 2 months ago and installed windows etc on it.

 

[IInuyasha74]

Well I wasn't so thinking if data was corrupt it was from time, could be a slightly defective hard drive lost the files, or a crash. I'm more just throwing out all the possibilities at this point, the likely reasons for your problems have already been checked.