I recently built a gaming PC about three years ago with an Intel i5-11400f CPU, an NVIDIA RTX 3060, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. Until now, it has performed flawlessly, maintaining 60 FPS even on resource-heavy games like Skyrim and Apex Legends at high settings. However, I've noticed that the frame rate has dramatically dropped to around 30 FPS while playing Terraria, even when I set all the graphics to minimum. I've only recently cleaned up my storage, but I'm unsure what else I can do for fixes. Any suggestions would be really helpful!
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First off, I'd check your CPU and GPU temperatures. Sometimes, overheating can cause major performance drops. If your thermal paste isn’t working well anymore, that might be a clue too!
My CPU temp is about 45°C after running for a while, but I can't find the GPU temp in the BIOS.