[SOLVED] Decent system but bad lag during gameplay

[erini]

Hello,

My specs are:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW 8gb graphics card
Corsair Vengeance LPX 4x8GB DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C16
1TB HDD
EVGA Supernova 750 P2, 80+ Platinum 750W
Ryzen 5 2600
MSI Motherboard B350M BAZOOKA
Dell - 24" LED QHD G-SYNC Monitor (model S2417DG)

Playing Fortnite (all settings set to low except: anti-aliasing is set to High; shadows are off; view distance & post-processing are medium) and Monster Hunter World (all low to medium) and getting frame drops from 200 to 70 on a regular basis. Benchmarking shows the GPU up to about 90% during gameplay. Just did a clean reinstall of Windows 10 with no improvement shown. All mobo, cpu and gpu drivers updated. Also took out 2 of the 4 ram sticks and that only made performance worse.

Does anyone have any suggestions?! This has become such a nightmare. So many other gamers have worse systems than mine, yet they're able to play with no trouble. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[jacob68]

Hello,

My specs are:
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FTW 8gb graphics card
Corsair Vengeance LPX 4x8GB DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C16
1TB HDD
EVGA Supernova 750 P2, 80+ Platinum 750W
Ryzen 5 2600
MSI Motherboard B350M BAZOOKA
Dell - 24" LED QHD G-SYNC Monitor (model S2417DG)

Playing Fortnite (all settings set to low except: anti-aliasing is set to High; shadows are off; view distance & post-processing are medium) and Monster Hunter World (all low to medium) and getting frame drops from 200 to 70 on a regular basis. Benchmarking shows the GPU up to about 90% during gameplay. Just did a clean reinstall of Windows 10 with no improvement shown. All mobo, cpu and gpu drivers updated. Also took out 2 of the 4 ram sticks and that only made performance worse.

Does anyone have any suggestions?! This has become such a nightmare. So many other gamers have worse systems than mine, yet they're able to play with no trouble. Thanks in advance for any help.

I need to ask the obvious...what ping do you have?

 

[erini]

I need to ask the obvious...what ping do you have?

Typically between 5-20. Sometimes as low as 3.

 

[jacob68]

Typically between 5-20. Sometimes as low as 3.

Does this issue only occur with Fortnite? Not any other games?

 

[erini]

Does this issue only occur with Fortnite? Not any other games?

Also with Monster Hunter World and some others

 

[nick_v15]

run CHDSK and defrag on your drive.Something tells me the drive is the prob.Also check it with crystaldiskinfo.

 

[erini]

run CHDSK and defrag on your drive.Something tells me the drive is the prob.Also check it with crystaldiskinfo.

When I ran a diagnostic on the drive, it shows that it performs poorly only during gameplay. Otherwise, performance is great.

 

[nick_v15]

run crystaldiskinfo

 

[jacob68]

When I ran a diagnostic on the drive, it shows that it performs poorly only during gameplay. Otherwise, performance is great.

How old is that drive? If you feel secure that the issue is related to the drive and defrag/re-install doesnt help it could be simply a mechanical error.