My game locked at 40 fps. What do I do? pls help

[Ryan Cooper]

My game crashed one day at the very end of match. Then it lost all controls - I couldn't even move my camera and shoot. Fixed this issue and now the game locked at 40 fps.
Before the crash it was 144 fps on ultra.
Like wtf.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by Ryan Cooper:

My game crashed one day at the very end of match. Then it lost all controls - I couldn't even move my camera and shoot. Fixed this issue and now the game locked at 40 fps.
Before the crash it was 144 fps on ultra.
Like wtf.

Crash that leads to lose of controls.. That really sounds like some driver/hardware failure. Is your videocard driver still alive? 40 fps doesn't sound like a lock. Sounds more like a videocard no longer working, and instead, relaying all the job to the CPU integrated graphics.

[Ryan Cooper]

Originally posted by SiEgE:

Originally posted by Ryan Cooper:

My game crashed one day at the very end of match. Then it lost all controls - I couldn't even move my camera and shoot. Fixed this issue and now the game locked at 40 fps.
Before the crash it was 144 fps on ultra.
Like wtf.

Crash that leads to lose of controls.. That really sounds like some driver/hardware failure. Is your videocard driver still alive? 40 fps doesn't sound like a lock. Sounds more like a videocard no longer working, and instead, relaying all the job to the CPU integrated graphics.

It was working just fine then it works just fine now, thank you very much. I really don't know what happened, but controls are fixed and now the only issue I have is fps. Damn, it's like with Minecraft all over again. See if I can force it to use videocard thru settings...

[Ryan Cooper]

Nope, didn't work. Checked the driver, everything seems fine. Not really sure tho.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by Ryan Cooper:

Nope, didn't work. Checked the driver, everything seems fine. Not really sure tho.

There are not that many options left. I can split them in 3 groups: Settings(+drivers), Hardware and OS.
If you have other apps that run well at high fps, with high quality settings, then Hardware is out of question.
OS might think the app doesn't deserve the resources and might limit it as a "background application", limiting its possible fps. Or some settings in the OS regarding power saving.
Then the settings part is you installing drivers improperly, changing its settings, or the game's settings in a way you'll only get as many fps as you're getting. That can be ruled out by changing the game quality to see, if it says 40 fps even on the lowest settings.

If it is exact 40 fps lock.. then I don't think that is possible, since most fps limiters(in example, VSync) are limited to 60/75/whatever refresh rate your monitor is currently having.
Default hard fps limiter is usually around 60/100 fps. Nvidia's background fps limiter is 30 by default.
40 is something that is definitely coming from some settings on your system.
Also, make sure you've installed the CORRECT videodrivers if you have an AMD card. I've heard there are several types of drivers, and some of them force-turn on several fps draining features.

I'd also advice to try a "default PC setup" - leave exactly 1 mouse, 1 keyboard, 1 monitor, 1 speaker/headphone jack enabled. No other USB ports should be used. If your headphone uses USB - I'd suggest removing it for the duration of test.
Make sure you Restart your OS(not Shutdown+Boot up. Restart also removes some temporary stuff that will persist through the boot sequence, otherwise). Give a round of anti-malware checks to kick out all the possible miners and etc. Completely wipe out your videocard driver settings(driver installers usually suggest you doing so and have those tools implemented within them) and reinstall the videocard driver. Try running your game like this. Or, that might be some settings within the game you've changed yet forgot about. Try uninstalling the game, and make sure you've wiped out all the settings files from the disk C.

If that doesn't help either, it might have something to do with the OS itself, or strange bug that only occurs on that combination of videocard+OS+BIOS combo. Considering how crash was the reason of the issue, I might assume something might've happened to the videocard on the hardware level.
Keep in mind that videocards can "die" in such way they'll still be working, but they'll lose all their performance: Check the Device Manager->Display Adapters
If your videocard has a yellow or red icon near it - that might be your issue right there.