> I hit 100%, but often see stuttering/framerate drops. > > Full Specs: > > ASRock z170m Extreme 4 MB > 8GB DDR4 2133 Dual Channel > i5 6500 @ 3.2GHZ Turbos to 3.7 > Radeon R7 240 2GB DDR3 (Carry over from old PC) > 1TB Western Digital Blue 64MB cache HDD (Carry over) > Windows 10 Pro > > I have a sneaking suspicion the gfx card is the source of the performance issue. Its > getting swapped for an RX480 in a few months anyway. > > For giggles, I ran 5 instances of Higan .99 with the following games: > > TMNT Turtles in Time > Batman Returns > Star Fox > Contra 3 > SMB 2 Yoshi's Island > > All 5 instances ran simultaneously @ a solid 60fps, 100% CPU usage the whole time. No > slowdown. Old Phenom II x4 struggled to run one of any SNES game in Higan @ 100%.
Is there any dust on the graphics card fan? If so then try to blow it off with a strong blower. Make sure hold the fan on the card while doing that.
Reading here. The graphics card should be good on the spec. http://ir.amd.com/mobile.view?c=74093&v=203&d=1&id=1862417 The one that you got almost 3 years old. Give another graphics card a try anyway to see it better than the one that you have.