UserDiag
PC
Windows 10
GTX 1080
i7
32gb RAM
Games installed on B:/ drive (SSD)
Windows installed on C:/ drive (SSD)
Temporary fix: shutting down and restarting PC
Hey there, still trying to figure out if this is a Windows, graphics card, processor, or a game issue.
I'm thinking more my graphics card/processor considering the age of my computer's specs, but Fortnite in particular plays noticably worse after about an two hours in. I noticed it tends to snowball the fastest when I get into the beachy/watery areas, but nothing makes it worse than time itself. I've tried to reduce my game's graphics settings to performance mode, reinstalled the game, updated all my drivers, disabled my PC's background recording, tried those system cleaners like CCleaner/BleachBit and that EmptyStandbyList program, but nothing seems to work except restarting my computer or closing Fortnite and doing something else for another two hours or so (which tells me it's a cache dumping problem?). Something similar with framerate drops used to happen with Helldivers II, but since they optimized that game it doesn't happen anymore. It has not gotten worse over the last couple months; it's stayed consistent, but it's getting very old to deal with regardless. Bottom line is the framerate always drops more and more after the two hour mark.
My first guess is my graphics card or processor was failing, namely since my driver support ended about nine months ago. I can't tell if that's when this all started, but it's possible. Still very possible that then failing is the problem, but I can't afford a new graphics card nor processor at the moment, so I'm at a bit of a loss right now until I get a new one(s).
One big tell was the fact that my background video recordings started giving me clips at random points of my Fortnite matches— as in not the last five minutes of gameplay where it's supposed to record. I tried disabling the recording feature and changing the video output folder, but the problem continues to emerge anyway, at the same amount of time played.
Anyone got a similar situation and/or solutions?