Solve : Low FPS in DX games after HDD to SSD upgrade?

1.	Solve : Low FPS in DX games after HDD to SSD upgrade?
Answer» Hi! I have a very peculiar problem with all DirectX games (Dirt series, Grid 2, even old Need for Speed); Non-DirectX games are fine (such as Minecraft). The FPS are very low after I upgraded my storage HDD (the OS and some programs are on the SSD, games and some programs were on the HDD) to a SSD. I used Macrium Reflect to clone my storage DRIVE. Here is the step I went through and some info on my storage setup, to better understand the problem (and maybe the cause): Previous storage setup C: OS on 850 EVO 250gb (unchanged) D: Storage on WD Black 1TB (was filled 1/4, is now replaced by a new SSD of 500gb) Plug the new SSD (MX300 525GB) on the motherboard, turn on PC Format the new SSD, give it drive letter F: Clone the WD Black 1TB to the MX300 500GB (Macrium shrunk something to MAKE it fit on the 500GB) Turn off PC, unplug WD Black Turn on PC, change the drive letter of the new SSD from F: to D: (LIKE the now unplugged WD Black) Reboot PC, test games. Loading times are improved, but FPS are very low (20-30 FPS most of games, Rocket League is at 5-10 FPS). I think the mistake I made was to reboot the PC without the D: drive. Right after the cloning, I should have set the HDD to H: and the new SSD to D: right away, THEN unplug the HDD. It looks like this mistake messed up DirectX. I tried re-installing it, but no luck. I updated the GPU drivers too. I ran UniGine Heaven Benchmark: OpenGL mode runs fine, DX mode doesn't (low FPS). I don't know what to do, I searched on other forums with no results. Thank you in advance! Relevant system specs: Windows 10 x64 Intel Core i7-4790k Nvidia GTX 970 MSi Z97 Gaming 5 P.-S.: I hope that my English is not too horribleEdit - The CPU usage goes higher than usual; up to 89% total CPU usage while Windows finishes booting up. Usually, it goes up to ~75% only in CPU intensive games.If you run DXDIAG and wait for it to load info, and then click on Display Tab top left of the DirectX Diagnostic window, does it show any problems in the Notes Section? ALSO are all features enabled on this window similar to my pic shared? Also in the Windows Event Logs is there any issues in there or does all look well? [attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]DXDiag is all good and the event viewer doesn't show anything unusual. I did a full reinstall of the graphic drivers, no luck.I went for the good ol' format and reinstall solution So clean install fixed it and it was an issue with the transfer from HDD to SSD then?It seems that it was an issue with DirectX. Booting the PC once with no D drive (the storage drive) messed up DirectX in some way... well, that is my guess. I don't know why nor how, since DirectX is installed on the main drive (C), which I did not touched. Interesting.... glad you got it fixed through clean install. And yes DirectX shouldnt have been affected on C:\Windows with the change to D:

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Hi!

I have a very peculiar problem with all DirectX games (Dirt series, Grid 2, even old Need for Speed); Non-DirectX games are fine (such as Minecraft). The FPS are very low after I upgraded my storage HDD (the OS and some programs are on the SSD, games and some programs were on the HDD) to a SSD. I used Macrium Reflect to clone my storage DRIVE. Here is the step I went through and some info on my storage setup, to better understand the problem (and maybe the cause):

Previous storage setup
C: OS on 850 EVO 250gb (unchanged)
D: Storage on WD Black 1TB (was filled 1/4, is now replaced by a new SSD of 500gb)

Plug the new SSD (MX300 525GB) on the motherboard, turn on PC
Format the new SSD, give it drive letter F:
Clone the WD Black 1TB to the MX300 500GB (Macrium shrunk something to MAKE it fit on the 500GB)
Turn off PC, unplug WD Black
Turn on PC, change the drive letter of the new SSD from F: to D: (LIKE the now unplugged WD Black)
Reboot PC, test games. Loading times are improved, but FPS are very low (20-30 FPS most of games, Rocket League is at 5-10 FPS).

I think the mistake I made was to reboot the PC without the D: drive. Right after the cloning, I should have set the HDD to H: and the new SSD to D: right away, THEN unplug the HDD.

It looks like this mistake messed up DirectX. I tried re-installing it, but no luck. I updated the GPU drivers too. I ran UniGine Heaven Benchmark: OpenGL mode runs fine, DX mode doesn't (low FPS).

I don't know what to do, I searched on other forums with no results.
Thank you in advance!

Relevant system specs:
Windows 10 x64
Intel Core i7-4790k
Nvidia GTX 970
MSi Z97 Gaming 5

P.-S.: I hope that my English is not too horribleEdit - The CPU usage goes higher than usual; up to 89% total CPU usage while Windows finishes booting up. Usually, it goes up to ~75% only in CPU intensive games.If you run DXDIAG and wait for it to load info, and then click on Display Tab top left of the DirectX Diagnostic window, does it show any problems in the Notes Section?

ALSO are all features enabled on this window similar to my pic shared?

Also in the Windows Event Logs is there any issues in there or does all look well?

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]DXDiag is all good and the event viewer doesn't show anything unusual.
I did a full reinstall of the graphic drivers, no luck.I went for the good ol' format and reinstall solution So clean install fixed it and it was an issue with the transfer from HDD to SSD then?It seems that it was an issue with DirectX. Booting the PC once with no D drive (the storage drive) messed up DirectX in some way... well, that is my guess. I don't know why nor how, since DirectX is installed on the main drive (C), which I did not touched. Interesting.... glad you got it fixed through clean install. And yes DirectX shouldnt have been affected on C:\Windows with the change to D:

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