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Question

Strange Performance Issue Since Windows 10 Upgrade

Jul 25, 2016 11:17AM PDT

Ever since I upgraded my Windows from 7 to 10 I've been having a strange problem with running games on my PC. First of all I know for a fact my specs are fully capable of running the games in question at max settings 60fps, they did it all the time on Windows 7. However now I find that whenever I open the same games the frame rate goes up and down dramatically and generally delivers seriously poor performance, something which should not be happening. I found that a temporary solution to the issue is rebooting the PC, and should I go straight onto the game from start up most of the time it runs at a stable 60fps once again.

I also find putting it into sleep mode and turning it back on causes the game which was open to become laggy and run at low fps once again.

As you can imagine I'm rather confused by this as nowhere on the internet seems to shed any light on what it could be, and rather annoyed all the same. I can only blame Windows 10 for the time being as that was what started this issue, but again I cannot find anyone else having this same issue.
Please help!

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Here I get the opposite
Jul 25, 2016 12:02PM PDT

Here I'm getting better results but I have very clean machines (no Norton etc.) and know my hardware, drivers, firmware and more.

The laggy after sleep is a common clue to driver issues.

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Yes, But
Jul 25, 2016 12:22PM PDT

I am aware Windows 10 is supposed to improve performance but clearly that isn't the case with me, and I have made sure all of my drivers are up to date too. Also again it's not likely a software issue as I didn't change anything or install anything new since installing Windows 10 before discovering the issue. Also it only lags on games, loading websites and that is fine all of the time.

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DETAILS
Jul 25, 2016 6:34PM PDT

is it possible you could list the specs of the PC you are running? this could help to figure out what is going on. Also the games you are trying to run.

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Details
Jul 26, 2016 6:21AM PDT

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64bit
Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586
System Manufacturer MSI
System Model MS-7846
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
1TB Seagate HDD

And it doesn't matter which game it is, it could be a simple platformer or the latest triple A they all fluctuate in FPS drastically unless i restart my PC and go straight to game. Other people have been telling me I don't have enough RAM but I strongly disagree because 8GB should be just fine for most games, plus RAM doesn't have a large affect anyway.

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That Seagate.
Jul 26, 2016 7:21AM PDT

Well, that's all over the web so there's that possible item.

Did you install the Geforce Experience?

And again, the laggy after resume was a known driver issue. Did you try hibernate instead of sleep? It's a common workaround.

Drivers are not Microsoft's responsibility but we all wish MSFT had been more aggressive about driver quality years ago.