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Question

What could the problem be?

by Mar 6, 2017 8:25AM PST

Hi,

Recently I've started getting issues that in games worlds would not render fast enough, so my question is if the problem could be the hard drives that couldn't get information fast enough? I've upgraded everything but the hard drive during the past year, the hard drive is around 4 years old.

Current specs are

Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Pentium G3258 @ 3.20GHz 29 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
MSI B85M PRO-VD (MS-7A01) (SOCKET 0) 31 °C
Graphics
IPS235 (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (ASUStek Computer Inc) 32 °C
Storage
465GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 (SATA) 30 °C

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The 1050, while a nice card
by Forum moderator Mar 6, 2017 8:37AM PST

Will not render fast enough under load. Nothing wrong with that. Just run with less graphic detail.

PS. If you feel the HDD is a bottleneck, replace it with a SSD.

Post was last edited on March 6, 2017 8:42 AM PST

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by Sassunderscore Mar 6, 2017 9:50AM PST

Yeah but I mean I had been able to play on higher settings just like a week ago and now in the last few days it had started

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by Sassunderscore Mar 6, 2017 9:51AM PST

Yeah but I had been able to play on higher settings just like a week ago, the problem has started in the last couple of days.

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That would be a new issue to discuss.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 6, 2017 9:56AM PST

I'm going to dismiss this as discussion creep. While I like the idea of a better HDD, the complaint is in your top post and the answers are well done. Can be upsetting to a gamer that wants to run on high with a mid range card.

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Pre-emptive answer to any "it worked before."
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Mar 6, 2017 9:53AM PST

Games, Windows, drivers and such update and can change the result. You could go into a new area of the game and find this issue.

Same answers as you found so far. Upgrade the video card, HDD or pull back on settings.

Again, the 1050 is a nice card but not in the killer class like the 1080. In fact, why is the 1080 made? Think about that.

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Problem
by Mar 6, 2017 10:47AM PST

Give the innards a good cleaning.
Redo the thermal paste on ALL the heat sinks.

If you still have the problem try it with the side panel off.

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Thanks
by Sassunderscore Mar 7, 2017 11:06AM PST

Will try, thank you for the tip Happy

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