I've been experiencing some serious performance issues with my PC lately, especially while trying to play Fortnite. It takes me 5-10 minutes to load into a game, and often I get disconnected for being slow. My specs are pretty decent—I have an RTX 3060, 16GB of RAM, and an i7-11700F—but I can't figure out what's causing these problems. In fact, my friend's old Xbox loads games faster than my setup! Can anyone help me understand what might be wrong?
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Consider doing a reinstall of Windows; it might clear up any underlying software issues that are causing the lag.
I've had issues after upgrading my Nvidia driver too, so that could be a possibility. There are reports of performance problems caused by recent updates.
First off, do you have an SSD? If you're still using a traditional hard drive, that could be a major bottleneck. Also, check the temperatures of your components; thermal throttling might be slowing things down if they're overheating.
It sounds like your system might be struggling with high temperatures or maybe even a failing drive. Both could be making things slow, especially when loading games.
It sounds like your memory usage is unusually high, even when you're not running any programs. That could definitely affect performance, so you might want to dive into what's taking up all that RAM.
Have you tried adjusting the game settings? Lowering the details or the resolution can sometimes boost performance. Also, make sure your graphics drivers are the latest version; it's worth checking!
I already updated to the latest driver and set everything to low, but it was still super slow.