Windows 10 Slow, Unusable
Windows 10 Slow, Unusable
Windows 7 performed well, but I required support from Windows 10. After a fresh install, it's now extremely slow—everything uses more CPU than necessary. Moving the mouse causes CPU spikes. Games that should run at full capacity are barely functioning. All drivers and Windows are up to date. I'm on my second fresh installation of Windows 10 Pro x64. There are no chipset drivers available for Windows 10 on the website. The CPU isn't throttling, but VRM and temperatures look normal. Memory, storage, and network usage are minimal. The issue seems to be overall slowness; it's bogging down the CPU despite all cores being used. Is there a log file I can generate? This is really frustrating. Specs: Windows 10 Pro x64, FX-8350, Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 (rev. 4), 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, GTX 1070 FE.
You looked at In --> Resource Monitor and noticed possible issues with Windows 10 performance related to memory speed or driver requirements.
It could be that your CPU is limiting the GPU's performance, but this shouldn't lead to such poor results.
I used Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and it performed well. After installing Windows 10 it became sluggish, so I reinstalled fresh and the same problems persisted. My setup includes an Intel SSD, an unknown 3TB Seagate secondary drive, and memory timings set to the recommended 2x8GB Vengeance Black DDR3 1600MHz. It shouldn’t be a bottleneck since it ran smoothly on Windows 7—Doom achieved over 60 FPS at 1080p. There are no Windows 10 chipset drivers available for this motherboard. The drivers for Windows 8 and 7 display generic errors during installation, so I opted for the default ones. Device Manager shows everything is installed, yet performance remains extremely slow. No single process consistently slows things down; instead, each task demands more CPU power than expected. It feels like I’m running a Pentium D. I’m unsure what to do next.