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i recently got this laptop that i had been playing csgo and a lot of other games with

system specs:
amd a6-5200 apu w/ radeon hd 8400/r3 graphics
4 gigs ram
windows 10

but it seems like about a week ago or so i think they updated the source engine that runs all the half life 2 games because out of no where i got hit by a huge fps hit. i used to get around 45-60+ frames on dust2 with bots but it went down to low 20's. and i know its the source engine because it affected gmod and l4d 1/2. i have pretty decent graphics that i can already overclock to 780 core and 1040 mem. not saying the apu is bad, but i would like to get a little more performance out it. ive already tried numerous oc programs like amd overdrive, fusiontweaker, and a few others. if anyone knows how to overclock the amd a6-5200 apu, it would be greatly appreciated.
 

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Pretty sure they wouldn't update an engine that is older than time itself.

Check your temps.
 
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yeah would have to agree. most likely windows updated your drivers without telling you.
 
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yeah would have to agree. most likely windows updated your drivers without telling you.

but that wouldnt make any sense because i didnt suffer fps hits in any other games that i play (minecraft, cod5waw, doom3 so on...)
 

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but that wouldnt make any sense because i didnt suffer fps hits in any other games that i play (minecraft, cod5waw, doom3 so on...)
It can do funky things to specific game engines.
 
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It can do funky things to specific game engines.

i checked the driver in device manager for my apu and it said the driver for it was installed on 8/6/2015 and when i experienced the fps hit was durring the beginning of summer so that cant be the case. anything else that couldve gone wrong? i assumed that it was the source engine because it changed the font in all of the source engine games that i play and slowed them all down to unplayable(being csgo, l4d1/2 gmod). i havent seen any other posts about yet so i have no clue what couldve cause it. thanks for the fast reply though
 
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Most probably a regression in the latest patch for the game engine.
 
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anyways, back to the main question. is there any way i can over clock the amd a6-5200 apu? ive already tried amdoverdrive and fusiontweaker
 

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