Suddenly game frames per second going down everywhere?
Suddenly game frames per second going down everywhere?
Hey, I have a weird problem that I can't figure out why it's happening. A long time ago I updated my BIOS and then games started acting bad because of that. Later, Windows 10 had some updates that made things worse so I decided to make a fresh install of Windows and update my BIOS one more time to the newest version. After all those changes, my game FPS went back up to normal and I didn't have any performance issues at first. For example, Valorant would drop down to 140 frames per second, but after the BIOS upgrade and the new Windows install, it went back up to about 200 just like before. But here is the problem: a couple of weeks later, even though everything was fine again, FPS started dropping in some games. It used to go way down to 140 for a while but then it stayed okay until suddenly losing frames again. I'm seeing this drop between 30 and 50 FPS on many games I play like Valorant. Even though the GPU isn't running at 100% and the CPU is also never hot or getting stuck, my temps are normal so that's not causing it either. It feels really strange because losing a lot of frames after being fine for weeks. My specs include an R5 1600 processor with a RX580 card (which I think is an 8G Ripjaws 2x4GB card) on an Asus B350-f motherboard, and I use a Seasonic s12II PSU that can handle my power needs.
Did you see if your RAM is full? I can think that after installing all those programs, 8GB might run out fast with modern games and apps, especially when you start a new Windows install. Then you'll use way less memory than later on, depending on how many other apps are running in the background. Have you looked at the priority settings for your games?