Games running at accelerated speed - Card Failure?

[Lockwood]

Hi all and thank you for anyone reading this and can provide advice.

A few days ago my games which I launch through steam are suddenly running at an increased speed. For example when playing Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeros and TPP, character runs at increased speed, reloads quicker, rain falls to ground quicker, enemies react quicker etc. It's like the entire application is on 2x fast forward. I've tried running other games and also notice the same issue.

A few things I've tried which unfortunately have not worked:
- V-sync on through Nvidia control panel
- Triple buffering on through Nvidia control panel
- Rolling back NVidia drivers
- Completely uninstalling drivers and reinstalling latest version
- Setting CPU back to stock (it was overclocked when shipped and stable for 8 years) i.e. loading fail safe defaults in BIOS
- Fresh install of Windows 10
- Reinstall of games
- Setting affinity to CPU 1 / 0 through task manager
- Moving Graphics Card to different PCI slot

Just over two weeks ago I cloned over HDD to SSD and all was working fine. I also cleaned out inside of PC (removed dust) and for two days thereafter was also working fine. 3 days following that the issue came about. I'm not sure if I caused any problems when doing clone / clean, I did however as mentioned above do a clean install of Windows on the SSD. Obviously moving from HDD to SSD has quicken up loading etc. but would not expect it to make games once alrady loaded to run at 2x speeds.

I originally purchase the packaged system from Overclockers in Aug-2010 - "Ultima Viper" Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz DDR3 System.

Upgrades since then:
Jan-2015: Swapped Sapphire Graphics Card HD 5870 to Msi GEForce GTX 970
Sep-2015: Changed RAM to Corsair CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9 12GB (3 x 4GB) DDR3 Vengeance Memory
Jan-2018: Changed HD from Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 (1 TB) to Samsung 850 Evo (500 GB)

So current System spec's:
CPU: I7-930 (Bloomfield)
MB: Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
BIOS: Aware Software International, Inc. Version F5, Date 03/11/2010
RAM: Corsair CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9 12GB (3 x 4GB) DDR3 Vengeance Memory
Graphics Card: Msi GEForce GTX 970

I have reached out to a local repairer to see if they might be able to diagnose as unfortunately I don't have a second system to check the card with or a second card to check in this system.

Happy to provider further details if needed.

Thanks.

 

[Lockwood]

P.S. Issue is found when projecting to my monitor: Asus MX279H 27-inch Widescreen AH-IPS Multimedia Monitor (1920x1080, 5ms, 2x HDMI, VGA, 178 Degree Wide-view Angle, Asus SonicMaster Technology
....and Samsung UHD tv

 

[stuie]

Upgrade to a 4k monitor, thatl slow the fps down

 

[vintage-x]

Try enabling DSR in the nvdia control panel and then setting to a higher resolution in game.

 

[D1craig]

that is the strangest pc bug i have ever heard.

nothing i can think of would make a game slow down. changing settings etc will only change fps not the actual speed of the game play. and from the sounds of it you have tried changing every setting possible.

 

[passifid]

Have you blck overocked ?

 

[EsaT]

Graphics cards only draws frames calculated by CPU running game code and it doesn't affect "clock" of game engine.

And it's like for some reason that game code lost its clock synchronization.
Trying default clocks of CPU would be one variable to try.
That OC is 43% over stock so if those clock pulses are used for time keeping without taking that difference into account it would certainly throw of timing of code.
Also do you have newest drivers for motherboard?

 

[Lockwood]

Tried playing with DSR but no positive result.
I loaded fail safe defaults through BIOS which I think reverts CPU to stock - BIOS is showing:
CPU Clock Ratio: 21x
CPU Frequency: 2.8GHz (133 x 21)
QPI Clock Ratio: Auto
QPI Link Speed 4.8GHz
Base Clock (BCLK) Control: Disabled
BCLK Frequency(Mhz): 133
Performance Enhance: Turbo

Can provide further info if it helps.

Ref drivers for motherboard - I'm a novice - please could you direct me to a step guide for this specific MB?

Thanks everyone for their input

 

[Rroff]

Only time I've seen that is with a faulty FSB/BCLK overclock if something is throwing the timing out like that it is either something really messed up with the OS or hardware issue possibly settings or failure.

Just in case make sure anything that might interfere with a game like overlays, antivirus, discord, etc. are all disabled but generally it won't be caused by something like that except maybe specific to one game.

 

[Sayso]

All i can say is "HAXXOR"
Seriously though doesn't sound like a GPU problem.

 

[Hotwired]

I know of cheating programs which accelerate games by fiddling the system clock.

Or at least interfering with what other programs believe the clock is.

 

[Strife212]

Is your windows clock wrong too?

Try changing the CMOS battery on the motherboard. It's the little round battery, it should just pop out.

 

[Lockwood]

Sorry what do you mean by windows clock and how do I check?

Do you mean replace with a new CMOS battery or remove and replace with same one?

 

[Lockwood]

I think by windows clock you mean one visible on bottom right of toolbar - that seems to be working fine.