Computer slowed down

sztill3 · 9 Jul 2023 at 19:54

That's what comes up when I'll go into it - https://snipboard.io/B56I8D.jpg

That's how it looks like with the game on - https://snipboard.io/8zqavw.jpg

sztill3 · 9 Jul 2023 at 22:32

That's how it looks like after 15 minutes of playing Hell let loose for 15 minutes on Ultra settings.

For some reason my computer was on power saver mode. Now on the Maximum Performance it's running much better!!!

sztill3 said:
What's also a bit funny is that when the computer starts up and I'm using it for about 30-45 secs it works fine without any lags. Then it decreases its performance.

Forgot to mention it before, sorry.

Here's the screenshot of the results from the benchmark - https://snipboard.io/cedLtu.jpg

Here is the same benchmark done with the Maximum Performance on (from 6613 to 9392) -

sztill3 · 10 Jul 2023 at 15:22

OliverQueen said:
One thing stands out drastically to me in that screenshot & that is the CPU is running at 1600MHz instead of 3600Mhz base clock, so it is throttling somehow.

Can you try setting your power plan to Maximum Performance (I just took screen grab of mine set as Balanced as is), setting both drop downs for the Processor Power Management to 100% & then check the temps again with AIDA or HWINFO.

That might explain the low temperatures that AIDA is reporting as 29C in the temperatures we have been having would be very low even with custom water cooling & air conditioning in my experiences.

Just noticed, that after booting the computer today the setting went back to "Power saving" instead of being on "High performance".

Or should I just keep it on Balanced?

Thank you everyone so far, who helped me as this saved me so much hassle and money. I was just about to drop it off to one of the service centres, where they would have charged me around 50-100 pounds.

sztill3 · 10 Jul 2023 at 15:37

Tetras said:
I think your CPU score is fine, given your CPU's clock speed.

Your graphics card: I don't know how to read this chart.

That said, your CPU's clock frequency seems very low and your graphics card's clock is bouncing up and down like a yoyo.

Can you try one of the GPU benchmarks here: https://benchmark.unigine.com/ and report back your score?

No. We're a long way from identifying a hardware problem.

Got the same test redone and it is not bouncing up and down any more ( still not passed tho haha) -

That's also how are the clocks looking with the new setting:

I'm sure it looks way better already.