Hello Everyone,
A series of events seems to have led to me being unable to play Fornite. A month or more ago I was playing the game fine.
Back about 2 weeks ago I was trying to play the new CoD Warzone game and was unable to load it due to an error I got when clicking Play. It turns out my AMD driver was out grossly outdated. After updating and trying to play again it worked.
Come 2 days ago I go to try and play Fortnite again and as soon as I get to the lobby screen, my GPU and RAM spike up to 100% usage and I drop to less than 1 FPS. I tried joining a game and the best I got was basically a screen update every 2-5 seconds, making it literally unplayable.
I've tried a few things from google so far (reduce FPS limit from unlimited to 60, reinstall) and nothing so far. Prior to this the game ran smoothly for me.
CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
Storage: Crucial MX100 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video Card: MSI Radeon R9 270X 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)
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So bit of an update. Something is certainly strange. I tried playing again, same exact lag. I decided to go into a game and nothing changed, except that the game itself is registering as if I wasn't lagging. In fact when I turned on my FPS monitoring, it is showing me at 60 FPS, but the game itself is unplayable. If I fire a weapon, reload, switch weapons, all of it happens behind the scenes (I can hear it happening) but it just doesn't show me it happening.