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getting low fps when gaming

Jan 10, 2015 8:09AM PST

i have a home built pc with an AMD Phenom II x6 processor 3.20ghz nvidia Geforce 970 GTX 16 gig ram windows 7 and i only seem to get 100 fps when im running at good graphics and when i make it higher it drops like a rock to were i get fps lag ive been trying to stream and when i get thte stream up i barely hold 60 fps at good graphics i feel i should be getting way better but i can not figure out what is going wrong

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Since most displays run at 60 frames a second.
Jan 10, 2015 8:21AM PST

Why would we need more than that?

Streaming is more a matter of your internet connection. Even my old laptop with core2duo and Intel 4500MHD would get 60FPS playing Netflix.
Bob

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not streaming a movie
Jan 11, 2015 1:02PM PST

im streaming my game play live on twitch and since my fps drops much under 60 fps i cant do it

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Then do what most do.
Jan 12, 2015 1:17AM PST

Cap it at 30. Your CPU/GPU won't be hit so hard and your internet connection speed will have some spare space.

If you are doing this over WiFi, well, that's been discussed. Get wired.
Bob