Sudden performance drop over night

[cc.zero]

Sudden performance drop over night

Hi,I bought The Witcher a couple of days ago via Steam and started playing yesterday. Everything was working properly and smooth. Now I just wanted to play some more and suddenly the performance is gone to waste. It's been like 'saving the game at 40 FPS' yesterday and 'loading the game at 5 FPS' today.Anyone have any idea what could be causing the game going from smooth to unplayable over night without any apparent system changes?Thanks in advance and greetings

 

[tommy5761]

You can try turning some in game settings downAnistropic filtering----8 Antialiasing-----DisabledGrass and Shadow to medium Depth of Field--Unchecked I use these settings and my game runs a better FPS and the video card runs about 25 degrees cooler.It may work for you

 

[cc.zero]

Thanks a lot for your reply.Turning the settings down doesn't help and it wouldn't really make sense since the game ran at 65 FPS the day before (on highest).It seems to be a CPU usage issue. I did some further testing with another Windows 7 installation I have on my maschine. It ran perfectly fine on highest settings. (like it did on my regular W7 installation the first day).An important difference I noticed: Under my regular OS The Witcher always uses 100% of one core. Under the backup OS it uses from 70% of one core to 100% plus another 20% on a second core.So for some reason the CPU usage of the game changed from day one to day two on my regular OS...

 

[vilgefortze]

100% on one core is bad. really really bad. The cores are designed to share load as far as possible. If one core is taking the brunt at 100%, you should stop playing immediately as the overload may cause permanent damage to your system. Most dual cores share load on a more 60-40 basis. ON quads usually 2 cores share a little more load than the other two. I checked on my laptop (Quad) usages are 15%, 7%,, 23%, 14% while running Witcher.On my desktop (Dual) usages are 49% and 32%.!00%+0% or even 70%+20% is scary. You have some other issue, and you must resolve this before you end up damaging your cores permanently.

 

[tommy5761]

It might also help to ensure you have a clean system by using either malwarebytes or SUPERantispyware to check for any kind of malware that might reside on your system. Both have a free version