henke on 11/7/2016 at 20:37
For the past month or two I've been getting pretty terrible performance in games, there's a good chance it's related to the switch to Win 10 I did a couple months back. Everything from GTA V to simple 2D games seem to be affected. I've installed the latest GPU drivers, and then uninstalled them and installed drivers from January when that didn't help. I've run antivirus scans using AVG Free, Avast, and Housecall. Not finding any viruses. Also tried killing processes and disabling stuff from starting up to see if anything might speed things up, but no luck so far. Starting to run out of ideas here. Anyone got any suggestions?
Benchmark tests with Fraps:
American Truck Simulator - 12-20fps, on GeForce Experience's suggested settings, which are very high. This game ran significantly better a few months back on Win 8.1, on these same settings.
System Shock Pre-Alpha Demo - ~25fps most of the time, but when I go into the second room and start whacking at the robot I'm getting severe hiccups and ~14fps.
Specs:
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz
16GB RAM
Win 10 64-bit
An SSD and a HHD, 2 partitions each
GeForce GTX 960
Al_B on 11/7/2016 at 22:00
You haven't turned on DirectX diagnostics or similar at some point when working on your games, have you? I did that once and we puzzled when I came back to the computer later and was getting poor performance until I remembered what I'do done.
Other than that I'd be inclined to monitor your graphics card temperature to see if it's getting too high and throttling performance.
bassoferrol on 11/7/2016 at 22:10
Everything works fine for me under Windows 10 Pro - 64 bit (that includes Thief1 and 2)
More or less the same fps than in Windows 7
Was yours a clean installation?
Do you have the latest DX9 runtime library (June 2010)?
The next post is down the line......
TannisRoot on 12/7/2016 at 12:01
Check your temps. Is something overheating?
henke on 12/7/2016 at 12:53
Ok, installed (
http://openhardwaremonitor.org/) Open Hardware Monitor and had it running while playing American Truck Sim.
Max Temps:
GPU Core - 48C
CPU Cores - 35-37C
Max Loads:
CPU Total - 90,4%
GPU Core - 94,0%
From what I've read, that's not too high, right?
Quote Posted by Al_B
You haven't turned on DirectX diagnostics or similar at some point when working on your games, have you? I did that once and we puzzled when I came back to the computer later and was getting poor performance until I remembered what I'do done.
You mean dxdiag? Sure I've had it on at some point, but surely it's no longer active after you've closed it, let alone after a restart?
Quote Posted by bassoferrol
Was yours a clean installation?
Do you have the latest DX9 runtime library (June 2010)?
It wasn't a clean install, but an upgrade from Win 8.1. And I have DX12.
bassoferrol on 12/7/2016 at 14:22
I think that having DX12 doesn't mean that you automatically have the latest DX9 libraries...
But I can tell you that Windows 10 per se is not the culprit of your problems. There must be something else around...
TannisRoot on 12/7/2016 at 15:10
Your temps are fine. What is your CPU useage outside of the game with nothing running?
Also you might want to test your RAM (just to rule it out).
henke on 12/7/2016 at 17:06
Ok, I have D3DX9_43, which appears to be the latest version of DX9.
My CPU Load with nothing but Open Hardware Monitor running is ~1%.
Tested RAM using Windows Memory Diagnostic and it reported no problems.
TannisRoot on 12/7/2016 at 17:18
Could be a bad graphics driver. I'd uninstall your current graphics driver and install either the latest or an earlier version to see if that fixes it.
Al_B on 12/7/2016 at 17:38
Quote Posted by henke
You mean dxdiag? Sure I've had it on at some point, but surely it's no longer active after you've closed it, let alone after a restart?
Sorry, I wasn't being clear. I meant the debug options from the DirectX control panel (such as shown (
http://graphicdna.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/directx-control-panel-and-d3d-debug.html) here). Those do persist but I doubt you have them on from what you've said.
One other possibility - do you have game recording software that you've been using that may be having problems with Windows 10? Might be worth uninstalling to see if that's interfering with your graphic drivers and causing odd slowdowns.
