Before anyone digs into me and gives me all of the "just upgrade" answers, I know my hardware is old. So I only play World of Warcraft. I have most of the settings set around medium and resolution at 1080. I'm running an AMD FX8370, 8gb ram, and 2x GTX 970 in SLI. When I built it, it was decent. The problem is my fps. I max out at 30 fps. It has been that way since I built this pc, when the game requirements were much less. Never goes above 30 and sometimes, like when loading into a major city, it goes down to less than 10 fps for a while. When I look at the task manager performance tab, it shows my cpu utilization at around 40%, memory usage at about 75%, and gpu usage at 15-20%. Since nothing is showing close to 100% utilization, does that mean that I haven't hit a bottleneck? If that's the case, what could the issue be that's causing such low framerate?
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FPS problems
- Thread starter Drack0816
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welcome to the forum. 
FPS drops are not my thing per say, as I'm not a gamer but here is my stock standard response, see if anything helps.
if you have your PC as lean and clean as you can make it, that's part of the battle.
sadly, the other parts may be outside your control like; number of users of your network, bandwidth, line attenuation, signal to noise ratio, etc. logging into your modem's config menu will show these values.
but things you can control are;
CCleaner (free version) or Glary Disk Cleaner or the inbuilt cleanmgr command can do most of those points.
ShutUp10 by O&O Software can stop a lot of telemetry items.
other things to try;
has there been any changes in the time frame that the FPS rates have dropped?
like new software or hardware, or extra users on the network?
it could also be performance rot, and doing a fresh install of Windows may help.
FPS drops are not my thing per say, as I'm not a gamer but here is my stock standard response, see if anything helps.
if you have your PC as lean and clean as you can make it, that's part of the battle.
sadly, the other parts may be outside your control like; number of users of your network, bandwidth, line attenuation, signal to noise ratio, etc. logging into your modem's config menu will show these values.
but things you can control are;
- reboot modem/router/pc
- delete restore points
- turn off hibernation (powercfg -h off)
- empty web browser cache
- delete system temp files
- scan Windows for system corruption (sfc /scannow)
- scan drive for file corruption (chkdsk c: /r)
- disable unwanted scheduled tasks
- disable unnecessary startup services
- disable scheduled defragging
- TRIM any SSD's
- turn off Timeline and Activity History, and all things Microsoft Telemetry based
- empty recycle bin
- delete log files and error reports
- remove old Windows Updates files
- cleanup software installer and distribution caches
- delete unwanted programs
- remove any browser extensions
- if connecting via wireless, try ethernet
- pause any online cloud storage synchronising (OneDrive, DropBox)
CCleaner (free version) or Glary Disk Cleaner or the inbuilt cleanmgr command can do most of those points.
ShutUp10 by O&O Software can stop a lot of telemetry items.
other things to try;
- create another user account and login under that profile
- check for firmware updates for modem/router and PC BIOS
has there been any changes in the time frame that the FPS rates have dropped?
like new software or hardware, or extra users on the network?
it could also be performance rot, and doing a fresh install of Windows may help.
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