Poll of the Day > My PC has such choppy graphics and frame rate. Is my GPU overheating?

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I only really play Civ 6 or the sims 4 on my PC and never had a problem with choppy graphics since building this in June last year. But recently Ill fire up a game and after about 2-3 mins the graphics are choppy as hell and the frame rate drops on most games.

I have a 3070Ti that I think could be overheating, is this likely to be the problem? My case has two fans at the front and one at the back, but none at all at the top. Is this what makes the difference you think?

Ive updated all my drivers, Ive checked for cryptominer viruses and all seems okay. Tbh I even checked the temp on GPUz and it seemed normal, think it was 54C or something cant remember.

If its not the overheating what could it be?

it could be literally anything, it does not have to be related to temps

That's an entirely normal temp. and that 3070Ti should handle what you're throwing at it...easy. I'm working with a 1660 and a 1050Ti previously. What other components?

i'm thinking it's a power delivery issue

I think it's Civ 6 being a Civ game.

However, for Sims 4 I heard that you need to enable a larger internet cache file since it needs to cache all the store assets.

Also supposedly there's a memory leak with names in Sims 4 and resetnames (in the menu) fixes it but not sure.

I would check your memory usage during those times. I had a massive memory leak on my computer due to corrupted network drivers so that I was pretty much at 95% memory usage all the time while gaming, which caused exactly what you are talking about. Once I fixed that (and doubled the memory on my PC since it was cheap and I never maxed it out when I built it), that fixed all the problems.

Edit: Also, just to be clear, updating corrupted drivers doesn't fix the issue, you have to uninstall and reinstall them. Updating just adds new files on top of the corrupted ones.

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Hey guys, so basically I'm running the following:

Intel Core i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz
16GB RAM DDR4
RTX 3070 Ti (8GB)
1GB SSD

that's about it I think. Thing is would it be a power supply issue if it's only just become a problem in the last few months? I think i have a 750W PSU or something i cant remember

Dikitain posted...

I would check your memory usage during those times. I had a massive memory leak on my computer due to corrupted network drivers so that I was pretty much at 95% memory usage all the time while gaming, which caused exactly what you are talking about. Once I fixed that (and doubled the memory on my PC since it was cheap and I never maxed it out when I built it), that fixed all the problems.

Edit: Also, just to be clear, updating corrupted drivers doesn't fix the issue, you have to uninstall and reinstall them. Updating just adds new files on top of the corrupted ones.

Gotcha

I'm firing up some games now so ill check mem usage when it starts getting choppy.

You reckon I should uninstall my graphics drivers then reinstall?

FatalAccident posted...

Gotcha

I'm firing up some games now so ill check mem usage when it starts getting choppy.

You reckon I should uninstall my graphics drivers then reinstall?

Only if they are truly corrupted, just because it can be a bit of a pain. Big thing though is checking memory usage. 16GB is kind of on the low end, so maybe up that if possible?

Hmmm I saw 60%-ish memory usage when I was just playing Civ just now. Is that normal?

If not then maybe time to double up

did you try increasing your internet cache size as I recommended?

You might have to do it in Edge or whatever your system default browser is as well

Are your components covered in dust?

FatalAccident posted...

Hey guys, so basically I'm running the following:

Intel Core i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz
16GB RAM DDR4
RTX 3070 Ti (8GB)
1GB SSD

that's about it I think. Thing is would it be a power supply issue if it's only just become a problem in the last few months? I think i have a 750W PSU or something i cant remember

That should be more than enough, you sure your SSD is not full? Or running some malware in the background or a Anti-Virus program?

FatalAccident posted...

I only really play Civ 6 or the sims 4 on my PC and never had a problem with choppy graphics since building this in June last year. But recently Ill fire up a game and after about 2-3 mins the graphics are choppy as hell and the frame rate drops on most games.

I have a 3070Ti that I think could be overheating, is this likely to be the problem? My case has two fans at the front and one at the back, but none at all at the top. Is this what makes the difference you think?

Ive updated all my drivers, Ive checked for cryptominer viruses and all seems okay. Tbh I even checked the temp on GPUz and it seemed normal, think it was 54C or something cant remember.

If its not the overheating what could it be?

Check your GPU and CPU temps while gaming.
Install hwinfo. Run it in sensors only mode. Leave it minimized and go play your game until it starts having a problem. Hwinfo will keep track of all the temp sensors and will show if any showed overheating. It keeps a record of this so even if you close the game it keeps what your max temps were.
Also I suggest posting this on the PC board. You might get better responses than potd which is a joke social board

What's the RAM's clock speed?