[patrick87i]

Hi there,

My rig had been running fine for about 12 months before I encountered some fps problems. So for the last 3 or so months I have been experiencing FPS lag across all the games I play (CoD4, Cs:GO, BF3, ARMA2, PS2, NS2 to name a few).

With some games its more noticable than others but it's just choppy and something is visibly wrong.

Something weird I have noticed when playing CoD4 is that I can hold 250 frames (which looks fine as well, not choppy) while spectating someone, however when Im actually playing it is sparadic and very choppy,

My original build was this:

Gigabyte z68P-UD3
Intel i5 2500k
Gigabyte GTX560ti
2x4gb g.skill ripjaws
OCZ 650w

Today I went out and brought a brand new MSI GTX 660ti PE as I thought it would solve my problem (assuming it was GPU related). Put the 660 in and still getting the same problems immediately.

Ive tried fiddling with a ton of settings in the NVIDIA control panel, but no dice.

So, what on earth could be the problem?! RAM? MOBO? CPU (i hope not)?!

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this problem has been driving me insane for so long. I plan on getting some new corsair (2x8gb) ram next week in the hope that might solve the issue!

Thanks,

Patrick

 

[BradleyW]

Use MSI Afterburner to lock your frame rate.

 

[brettjv]

Maybe you picked up a virus or otherwise installed something that's hogging CPU cycles.

May want to consider throwing a fresh copy on windows on a spare HD and seeing if that fixes the issue

 

[BradleyW]

 

[patrick87i]

Thanks for the replies guys. Im in the process of reinstalling Windows as we speak. Hoping this will fix the issue, if not I'll report back.

Whats the average temp my core's should be running at under fullish load?

Cheers

Edit: What should I lock it to Bradley?

 

[BradleyW]

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrick87i

Thanks for the replies guys. Im in the process of reinstalling Windows as we speak. Hoping this will fix the issue, if not I'll report back.

Whats the average temp my core's should be running at under fullish load?

Cheers

Edit: What should I lock it to Bradley?

Lock it to 60 and see how it goes.

 

[patrick87i]

Reinstalled Windows yesterday, had no luck at all with that.

Going to buy some new RAM this week and hopefully a new 120hz monitor. It may well be my monitor thats causing the issue seeing as it's >3 years old.

 

[tha d0ctor]

run a memtest and check your ran, use a hdtune type program and check the drive that everything is installed to in order to see if its healthy

I highly doubt its a monitor issue

 

[BradleyW]

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrick87i

Reinstalled Windows yesterday, had no luck at all with that.

Going to buy some new RAM this week and hopefully a new 120hz monitor. It may well be my monitor thats causing the issue seeing as it's >3 years old.

VGA? 60Hz? 32 colour bit?
Did you limit your fps?
All correct chipset drivers installed?
Bios at stock values?
Tried older drivers for the GPU?

 

[patrick87i]

Currently using DVI-D to 120hz LG monitor with 32 bit colour.

Didnt limit fps. All correct drivers installed and bios at stock (before and after windows reboot).

Also tried a few different drivers with no luck.

Will do a hd tune tonight. Is memtest hard to run? I tried to do that yesterday but couldnt work it out, I think due to it being an .iso. Suppose I could just use that magic iso program yeah?

Thanks heaps for the help guys.

 

[BradleyW]

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrick87i

Currently using DVI-D to 120hz LG monitor with 32 bit colour.

Didnt limit fps. All correct drivers installed and bios at stock (before and after windows reboot).

Also tried a few different drivers with no luck.

Will do a hd tune tonight. Is memtest hard to run? I tried to do that yesterday but couldnt work it out, I think due to it being an .iso. Suppose I could just use that magic iso program yeah?

Thanks heaps for the help guys.

You really should limit your fps.

 

[sugarhell]

250 fps is way too much for some engines. Cap the fps at 120

 

[BradleyW]

And in more demanding games, set the Monitor to 60Hz and lock the fps to 60 using MSI Afterburner. But when you are hitting 250, 120Hz and locking the fps to 120 should fix your issues.

 

[patrick87i]

Im only talking about holding 250fps for Cod4 guys. Its easily achievable and shouldn't cause any problems with my current specs. For other games, I generally get an average of around 60-70 and thats quite enough for me.

Will locking my GPU @ 60 make that the max for all games? I also don't want to be using my 120hz monitor @ 60hz as it's pretty much a waste!

The problem I'm seeing is quite hard to explain I guess and it's very unusual, hence my difficultly in trying to isolate it.

My build is perfectly capable of running games like Cod4 and CS:GO at even a constant 120 fps. But after 20-30 minutes of gaming frames drop and theres this unbearable choppiness that gets worse the longer I play.

I can then simply close down that game and reopen it 2 minutes later and get another 20 odd minutes worth of perfect fps.

Its driving me nuts.

 

[BradleyW]

Please, just lock your fps to either 120 or 60, or whatever you want. Anything above 30fps! Just try it and report back

 

[Jackeduphard]

sounds like a possible MOBO issue more then anything ... and it could be PSU, but at this point just buy a whole new rig

Power fluxing in either will cause and could cause things to not work right ... only time I have ever I MEAN EVER ran into a problem like this it was GPU over heating or CPU volts fluxing ... (the mobo or something i cant remember) was messed up ... new mobo = no more problem ... but this was years ago ...

 

[BradleyW]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jackeduphard

sounds like a possible MOBO issue more then anything ... and it could be PSU, but at this point just buy a whole new rig

Mobo or PSU issue? Possible, but not very likely.

 

[Jackeduphard]

Quote:

Originally Posted by BradleyW

Mobo or PSU issue? Possible, but not very likely.

A lot more likely then you know, with fluxing power or bad capacitors then yes it can and will happen.

 

[tha d0ctor]

Why not monitor the voltage history of your motherboard with HWMonitor or Aida64 and see if anything is out of ordinary. In order to run memtest you should burn the ISO and boot right from it of you can make a bootable flash drive with that very same iso

 

[Jackeduphard]

Quote:

Originally Posted by tha d0ctor

Why not monitor the voltage history of your motherboard with HWMonitor or Aida64 and see if anything is out of ordinary. In order to run memtest you should burn the ISO and boot right from it of you can make a bootable flash drive with that very same iso

This.