Quote Originally Posted by Varictus View Post
Thanks for the advice.
I gave it a shot, seems requiring Steam to run in the background is also tanking my FPS.
I used to get 25 to 35 FPS, now I get 3 to 8.
Seriously?
Something is VERY wrong with your system if you are getting crashes and tanked FPS through steam. Overlay may be buggy (disable it) but FPS should be unaffected because steam uses essentially -0- resources in terms of CPU or GPU. Only thing it uses is around 100MB of RAM.

If my system was unstable as yours, I'd consider doing a clean Windows install.