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Solved Consistent FPS loss in all games after a certain period of time, restart fixes it.

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tonymacaroni

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So this has been happening for about 2 weeks now. I can't pinpoint it. After a certain amount of time (maybe 5ish hours?) I go into any game, and I barely get 30 fps. Rocket League, Rainbow Six Siege, Overwatch. All games I normally get 60+ on. No settings change, even when I turn settings to low as can be it does not improve the frame rate. The only fix is to restart my computer. I have prefer maximum performance set in NVIDIA control panel. GPU Usage is at 100 when the frames go down. No noticeable difference in temps, it's not throttling because of too high temps. I thought it was discord causing it, but after not opening it in a few days that was not the case.

http://i.imgur.com/rnQZ5CD.png

There's the task manager startup programs. Normally have Spotify and steam open as well just not on startup.

Here is MSI Afterburner graphs. The red line is where I had rocket league open with only 30 FPS (normally 60+) and after is where I had alt tabbed out and was screen capping. The points before is where I had kerbal space program open and noticed the bad frames but then moved to rocket league.
http://imgur.com/a/6m3aY
After this I restarted and everything was fine. Obviously games are still playable, it's just a major inconvenience to have to restart my computer, especially since I don't have an SSD.
Any help here or idea as to what's causing it, and why a restart fixes it? I'll be happy to provide more info if need be.

i7 4790k not overclocked
MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
EVGA GeForce GTX 480 1.5GB Video Card
 
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Hi tonymacaroni, Welcome to PCHF! :)

Please download Autoruns. After you download the zipped folder on your desktop, right click the zipped folder and click Extract All. After the folder has been extracted open the regular folder. Run the autoruns.exe program by right clicking on it and selecting Run as administrator. When you open the program click the Logon Tab and then post a screenshot of all the startup entries in your next reply.

I want to go through your startup entries and have you remove any items that you don't need running on startup to make sure that there isn't a software conflict that is causing this problem.

Also, have you updated your video drivers to the latest version?
 
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NOTE: The issue has been resolved..

IAF....Quote via Tony......
After doing some snooping, I've realized it was watching Twitch streams thru google chrome. Not streaming them, watching them. I just watch Twitch thru microsoft Edge now, but I read you can edit chrome settings to use less resources. Adding this so it may help somebody else.



Edited by Veeg..
 
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