FPS drop throughout games

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

Jhaemes

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Noticed this about twenty minutes ago, I loaded up Mount and Blade Warband and it was lagging a fair bit until I turned everything down to Low (I'd previously run it solid at ultra). I figured it might just have been that game, but then I loaded up WoW. My fps on that is usually 80-120, it only drops lower when i'm doing the big bg's. Anyway, that was trickling around the 40 mark.

I had a similar problem before, except the fps dropped to around 10. That was a problem with the driver so I rolled back to 296.10 (GeForce)

System spec : i3 2100, GTX 550Ti, OCZ ModXStream 700w PSU.
 
Well you don't have a monster rig, no offense but more than enough for Mount and Blade.

It could be down to a few reason, im sure you've tried these but its best to do a process or elimination first.

- Updated your drives to the lastes
- Same as above, but try rolling back
- Have you installed something that maye using all your HDD read and write speeds? (This is the problem a lot of people overlook, basically it leaves to room for the HDD to load the game textures fast enough)
- Take out the graphics card and re-intall it, if you've moved the computer you could have a small chanced you pushed the card out of the slot meaning its not getting enough power.
- Have you changed the graphics card PCI-E x16 slot? This was a mistake i once did, i moved it from a x16 slot to another x16 slot, but that slot only ran in x4 mode.
 
Sounds like the card is entering a lower Power state by mistake. I've experienced this with the 300 drivers. The only solution is a reinstallation (keeping old settings) and rebooting. Maybe Nvidia are working on a fix, because they sure are taking their sweet time to release official drivers.
 
Games are on my SSD, which has just over 12gb free space if that's any help.

I'm a bit sceptical about updating the graphics drivers, since last time I went for that I got the "not switching from 2D to 3D sometimes" bug.

Haven't moved the computer or card.

Also, eVGA Precision is reporting 405Mhz gpu clock (this is with a game running and alt tabbed to precision) Could that be the issue?

Edit: Restarted and fixed, back to normal now.
 
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