Games Won’t Run

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AntixOg

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I can play Rainbow 6 Siege perfectly fine on my pc. I exceed 90% of the minimum requirements for all my other games but I still can only get 4 FPS. I’ve changed all the settings in game to the lowest, I change resolution to the lowest and I even went into the NVIDIA Control Panel and put all settings to max performance. My pc refuses to run New World and Overwatch 2. I also changed all the settings in GeForce Experience but still nothing even helps it a little bit. Also all of my drivers are up to date.
 
g'day and welcome to the forums. :)

let’s get your complete PC specs and see if anything stands out.
get Speccy from here; https://www.piriform.com/speccy/builds
in Speccy, click File > Publish Snapshot (hit Yes if prompted to proceed with publish) > Copy to Clipboard > Close.
now you can paste (Ctrl+V) that link into your next post.
one component Speccy doesn’t cover is the Power Supply Unit, so also include the make/model of the PSU.

while we wait for that, try these from an elevated command prompt;
  • chkdsk c: /r
  • sfc /scannow
  • dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
  • dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /resetbase
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

do a web speed check - go to www.speedtest.net and post the results.
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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