Sluggish PC

[rylasasin]

Okay this started like 1 or 2 days ago. Right out of the blue with no explaination whatsoever.

 

Alright, so when I first start my computer, loading programs and stuff is hella slow, and my Skyrim/fallout framerate is absolute balls (I'm getting crunched down to like 17fps indoors where normally I'd have 150-300fps indoors). 

 

Up untill today, I "fixed" that by restarting (though it would reoccur the next time I shut the computer down and went to bed and started the comp back up). Today though that only seemed to solve half the problem. Skyrim runs at normal framerate, yet it takes 3-4x as long to load anything.

 

 

Funny thing is, my task manager isn't showing my CPU/Memory as being overloaded.

[Luckyseven95]

 Maybe you have too much start up prograrms? Try typing "msconfig" into the search bar, go to the startup tab, and disable as many things as you can.

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Need more info to help you.

 

150-300fps you have nasa mainframe computer thats failing now hack by some terrorist?

 

Specs pc how long ago you have had a clean install?

 

Still running on 32bit xp and browser?

 

PC from 10 years old or a laptop for 50 bucks by local grocery store when buying a sack of washing powder?

 

Maybe your in some botnet hehe

[myuhinny]

Could be many different things spyware/malaware run a good one like malawarebytes anti malaware remover http://www.malwarebytes.org or viruses use a virus remover to scan your computer look in your windows task manager look at what is being a computer whore.

 

Check and see if you computer has a lot of fragmented files the more you download the more fragmented files the more fragmented files you have to slower a computer will be go to control panel go to right top corner search bar and type in defrag click it and run it/analyze. Clearing internet cache can help control panel internet options browsing history. Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files this is under performance information and tools.

[rylasasin]

Need more info to help you.

 

150-300fps you have nasa mainframe computer thats failing now hack by some terrorist?

 

Specs pc how long ago you have had a clean install?

 

Still running on 32bit xp and browser?

 

PC from 10 years old or a laptop for 50 bucks by local grocery store when buying a sack of washing powder?

 

Maybe your in some botnet hehe

 

CPU: AMD 4170 4.2 GB Quad Core

 

Memory: 8 GB

 

GPU: Gefore GTX 560  * 2 (SLI)

 

Hard drive: 1 TB (548 GB free, 382.5 used.)

 

Windows 7 64 bit.

 

It's 2 years old.

 

 

Could be many different things spyware/malaware run a good one like malawarebytes anti malaware remover http://www.malwarebytes.org or viruses use a virus remover to scan your computer look in your windows task manager look at what is being a computer whore.

 

Check and see if you computer has a lot of fragmented files the more you download the more fragmented files the more fragmented files you have to slower a computer will be go to control panel go to right top corner search bar and type in defrag click it and run it/analyze. Clearing internet cache can help control panel internet options browsing history. Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files this is under performance information and tools.

 

Already scanned for both (malwarebytes and Spybot S&D) and viruses (avast). Turned up nothing.

 

Only thing of real note is skype.But closing it doesn't help all that much.

 

Tried defragging but that doesn't help. (Well it did yesterday, after several restarts. But my drive is not showing up as fragmented today and yet the problems persist).

 

One thing I noticed too, that on the first time I start up windows and try to restart, it doesn't restart, it just hangs on the black screen. I have to manually restart it once the screen goes dark.

 

If I restart windows again after that though it works.

 

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Need more info to help you.

 

150-300fps you have nasa mainframe computer thats failing now hack by some terrorist?

 

Specs pc how long ago you have had a clean install?

 

Still running on 32bit xp and browser?

 

PC from 10 years old or a laptop for 50 bucks by local grocery store when buying a sack of washing powder?

 

Maybe your in some botnet hehe

 

CPU: AMD 4170 4.2 GB Quad Core

 

Memory: 8 GB

 

GPU: Gefore GTX 560  * 2 (SLI)

 

Hard drive: 1 TB (548 GB free, 382.5 used.)

 

Windows 7 64 bit.

 

It's 2 years old.

 

 

Could be many different things spyware/malaware run a good one like malawarebytes anti malaware remover http://www.malwarebytes.org or viruses use a virus remover to scan your computer look in your windows task manager look at what is being a computer whore.

 

Check and see if you computer has a lot of fragmented files the more you download the more fragmented files the more fragmented files you have to slower a computer will be go to control panel go to right top corner search bar and type in defrag click it and run it/analyze. Clearing internet cache can help control panel internet options browsing history. Free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files this is under performance information and tools.

 

Already scanned for both (malwarebytes and Spybot S&D) and viruses (avast). Turned up nothing.

 

Only thing of real note is skype.But closing it doesn't help all that much.

 

Tried defragging but that doesn't help. (Well it did yesterday, after several restarts. But my drive is not showing up as fragmented today and yet the problems persist).

 

One thing I noticed too, that on the first time I start up windows and try to restart, it doesn't restart, it just hangs on the black screen. I have to manually restart it once the screen goes dark.

 

If I restart windows again after that though it works.

 

 

BIOS update if hanging blackscreen manytimes its old bios you need to update and its always importend having lastest bios.

 

Same with any update and drivers.

 

How old is your installation.

 

 

[Guest carywinton]

If all of this transpired seemingly in a very short time, then it is possible Windows Update did a naughty thing to you and replaced your system and or video drivers, this is a very common problem with MS$ Updates. Also looking in task manager will do no good for a rogue process that is running as a "Service" it simply will not show up. Running Msconfig is a good idea, but be careful what you turn off , make sure to "hide all Microsoft Services"  first. Skype runs a service in the background that can seriously impact "Sound" it is a good idea if you are not going to use Skype while in game to turn this service off. from a command prompt you can run Services.msc and look at all the services that are set to run "Automatically" and are currently in a "Running" state. This is a good place to look for those rogue type services, for they cannot hide here and usually they will have no description next to them as to what they do or where they belong and what programs they are associated with. Last thought I have here is try a video and sound drivers update. I hope this helps you get it nailed down. Final note, on BIOS update recommendation, this is a good idea in theory, but make sure to back up your old BIOS/CMOS first, sometimes a BIOS update can render your system board/motherboard inoperable.

Kind Regards,

CaryWinton

[Guest Mogie56]

I would definitely start running Malware Bytes  and anything else you may have. I had almost the same problem, games sucking fumes dropping the fps, taking 5 minutes to transition from an interior cell to an exterior cell. I saw this thread, ran malware bytes and came up with 61 objects detected. 18 registry keys, 35 files, 4 registry values, 3 folders and 1 registry data. now going to run it again just to make sure.

 

 

Update: ran it again and found nothing more. went into skyrim, still a little sluggish on startup but that's due to the enb. transitions are now back to about 30 seconds or less. fps has never been the greatest on this old card but it still runs about 45 in populated areas. So yeah before the hard solutions run malwarebytes just to be sure.