All of a sudden all my games are getting 10-15 FPS Help Please!

[John]

I played fallout 4 without any problems. I was getting 40+ fps. Then all of a sudden all of my games including Fallout 4 are getting low frame rates.

MY SPECS-

OS- Windows 10 64 bit
GPU- EVGA GTX 760 2GB
RAM- 8GB
CPU-Intel Core i5 3350p (3.1GHz)

[Wakobi Junior]

Update your GPU drivers, see if there are updates

[John]

Originally posted by Ugnak:

Update your GPU drivers, see if there are updates

I have the latest Drivers Still have problems

[RGX12]

If you were getting higher framerates with certain games and now you're not--assuming no other changes to your system--it means something is running in the background taking resources away from that game. Check task manager or performance monitor for processes taking a lot of CPU cycles, it could be something you've installed--or something that was installed without your knowledge or consent.

[hm042]

I have the same problem - fairly recently showed up.

I pretty exclusively play Portal 2 with Community Test Chamber games. Within the last few days - maybe a week or two - Portal 2 has become unplayable due to extreme lag and slow FPS. Checking out processes and what they are doing it turns out that Steam.exe is using 30-ish% of the CPU and it is also transferring large numbers of bytes bidirectionally via TCP to what appears to be a Steam server address. When I exit Portal 2 this activity by Steam.exe drops out.

I'm strictly a "Singleplayer" player and, except for downloading Community games shouldn't be using much network at all. Nothing has changed with my setup; I believe the last Steam update was on September 27th - this problem MAY date from that.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

This is common for laptops - the system auto- switched to the iGPU (Intel HD) instead the dedicated one. You can force the use of the nVidia card in your driver settings.

[John]

Originally posted by hm042:

I have the same problem - fairly recently showed up.

I pretty exclusively play Portal 2 with Community Test Chamber games. Within the last few days - maybe a week or two - Portal 2 has become unplayable due to extreme lag and slow FPS. Checking out processes and what they are doing it turns out that Steam.exe is using 30-ish% of the CPU and it is also transferring large numbers of bytes bidirectionally via TCP to what appears to be a Steam server address. When I exit Portal 2 this activity by Steam.exe drops out.

I'm strictly a "Singleplayer" player and, except for downloading Community games shouldn't be using much network at all. Nothing has changed with my setup; I believe the last Steam update was on September 27th - this problem MAY date from that.

Did you fix it or is it the same?

[Alex]

What kind of games are you trying to play?

[John]

Originally posted by Bluejay:

What kind of games are you trying to play?

I'm trying to play Fallout 4. The game was running fine when I first got the game, now the game is unplayable with the low FPS. I have the latest drivers, checked task manager to see if anything was running in the background when I have the game open, and nothing changed

[Silver]

Some crap installed on your pc maybe that's not showing in task manager?
Driver control panel settings been altered any way? maybe you turned on resolution scaling or really high AA?
I once had a similar problem and it was a failing hard drive causing it.

[John]

Originally posted by Silver:

Some crap installed on your pc maybe that's not showing in task manager?
Driver control panel settings been altered any way? maybe you turned on resolution scaling or really high AA?
I once had a similar problem and it was a failing hard drive causing it.

How did you fix it?

[Snapjak]

Did you by any chance install the high res DLC?

[John]

Originally posted by Snapjak:

Did you by any chance install the high res DLC?

I did but I uninstalled it

[Snapjak]

Did you uncheck it then verify the game?

[John]

Originally posted by Snapjak:

Did you uncheck it then verify the game?

yes I even reinstalled the game a couple of times

[hm042]

Originally posted by 『John』:

Originally posted by hm042:

I have the same problem - fairly recently showed up.

I pretty exclusively play Portal 2 with Community Test Chamber games. Within the last few days - maybe a week or two - Portal 2 has become unplayable due to extreme lag and slow FPS. Checking out processes and what they are doing it turns out that Steam.exe is using 30-ish% of the CPU and it is also transferring large numbers of bytes bidirectionally via TCP to what appears to be a Steam server address. When I exit Portal 2 this activity by Steam.exe drops out.

I'm strictly a "Singleplayer" player and, except for downloading Community games shouldn't be using much network at all. Nothing has changed with my setup; I believe the last Steam update was on September 27th - this problem MAY date from that.

Did you fix it or is it the same?

Oh, it's still the same - in fact, I started up a "test session" an hour or so ago, entered Portal 2 (from Steam), got the lag, checked the processes, steam.exe using 30-ish% CPU and transferring TCP packets both ways, exited Portal 2, steam.exe returned to quiescent state (as it should be, period). Left Steam just sitting there while I did other things for that hour. I just now started up Portal 2 from that same session, entered the same game (new instance of course), the lag began after about 30 seconds. Looked at processes and their CPU and steam.exe is very reasonable, however it is sending and receiving about 10 packets, each direction (20 packets, IOW), per second. When I switch back to Portal 2 from checking the processes the game has beautiful response for about 20 seconds, then unusable lagginess. This is repeatable. CPU usage of Portal 2 per the graph of Process Explorer suggests the game is using about 20-ish% CPU with spikes higher when "interesting things" are happening in the game.

And, again, this is new behavior - the game has been great literally for years; the last week or two not so much.

[as I'm typing this reply, Steam.exe has gone up to 20+% CPU sitting in the background and is downloading millions of bytes of something - up to 11,000,000 in a new process that wasn't there when I started the reply. I exited POrtal back to Steam and the new steam.exe processes all stopped downloading data and one by one exited]