Poor FPS M17xR4 7970M - Overlocked

Hello guys,

I'm at a complete loss as to why my FPS sucks so badly.
I'm playing Counter Strike:GO on 1920x1080 everything except AA and filtering which is just set to 2x and I'm getting like 25 fps, i.e. Unplayable.

On L4D2 it's a similair sutation, I put everything on mostly low settings (1920x1080) and I'm barely managing 60fps.

On Counter Strike:Source I'm getting 300fps (the max) with everything on Max. On Team Fortress 2 I get an average of 60FPS on high-ish settings.

It just doesn't feel right, when I was on the Windows 8 RTM(identical to the final release) and Windows 7 I was getting way, way higher FPS. I never remember it feeling laggy due to FPS drops.

It just feels so much weaker than it should be. I overclocked the cards yesterday for the first time to 880/1300. Just a modest overclock because I read on another post here that even a small overclock sometimes overrides any artificial limiting.

I'm 99% sure I have Enduro/intel turned off, when I do FN+F7 and restart the intel thing disappears from the notification area and the Intel 4000HD GPU isn't showing in device manager.

My current drivers is Catalyst 12.11.
What do you guys recommend I can do to resolve this? I don't want to call Alienware because they'll just tell me to revert to the original Dell drivers which isn't really a solution to my liking.

 

I tried searching the internet but this is the only forum where there's plenty of fellow Alienware users that would have a good idea on what I could try.

Other things I've checked for. In Catalyst control centre I've disabled powerplay, in Windows power management settings I've set everything to high performance, so no "optimise power" settings are enabled.

 

Ok guys - more information.

I just launched Battlefield 3. Put everything on Ultra except for filtering settings (1080P again) and had a very comfortable and stable 70-75ish FPS. Put everthing to the highest settings including filtering and sampling and still would barely drop below 60FPS.

BF3 is one of the most demanding games and I'm getting a very good FPS yet my FPS in TF2, CS:GO and L4D2 sucks.

What's the go here? Should I just try re-installing one of those games? If I'm getting great performance from some games (CS:S BF3) then would it still be possibly a driver issue?

 

Solved it myself.
- Just to help anyone else in future this is what fixed it.

Right click on the problem games in steam - verify game integrity and defragment game files.
After doing both these my FPS has now double -to- tripled in those 3 games that had poor FPS before. I'm now getting 150ish average.

 

I was gonna tell you that the issue was in the game most likely since BF3 was running just fine. I'm glad it was a simple fix. thank you for sharing it.