FPS and CPU usage when gaming

[charlieeddon123]

have around £600 PC with an Intel core i5-4670k processor running at 3.40GHz. Have 8GB of RAM with an AMD Radeon R9 200 Series graphics card. I usually average at around 200-300 fps in game but on some occasions it drops to under 100 fps and lags like crazy. I have done many anti-virus tests including malware bytes and have found nothing. All my drivers are up to date and my CPU isn't over heating. As well as this i have no other background programs running that use up CPU. Does anyone have ANY idea what could be up as i feel like i have wasted my money on something that doesnt perform to its best ability.

 

[synphul]

Which gpu (the 200 series covers a lot of cards from a r7 240 to an r9 290x)? Which game, multiplayer or single player? Is this while playing on an online server? Have you watched your cpu usage to confirm it's the cpu usage dropping or some way to confirm it's the cpu? What kind of internet connection do you have?

 

[charlieeddon123]

its the r9 270x, CS:GO both single player and multiplayer. My CPU usage goes up when i play and my computer makes a louder noise than usual. Im using a wired internet connection also,

 

[charlieeddon123]

Which gpu (the 200 series covers a lot of cards from a r7 240 to an r9 290x)? Which game, multiplayer or single player? Is this while playing on an online server? Have you watched your cpu usage to confirm it's the cpu usage dropping or some way to confirm it's the cpu? What kind of internet connection do you have?

Has it got anything to do with memory? Here is a screen shot of my performance in task manager. http://gyazo.com/e2ed811d025108efc28470faafc5ee9f
Is there anything wrong with this ?

 

[synphul]

Memory and cpu usage look fine. The cpu is hardly used at 26% and memory is only half used. Cpu usage should go up during gaming as well as gpu usage. It could be your cpu fan, but chances are it's your gpu fan spinning up while gaming that gets louder, that's common. My hd 7850 is whisper quiet until I load up far cry 3 or something then it sounds like a small vacuum cleaner.

Have you made sure steam is up to date, all game files/patches are up to date? Sometimes patches improve fps other times they hurt them in cs go. Many people have had issues with this. When you snapped that screen shot of your system, was it at idle? (not downloading anything, not running any programs etc). 26% would be a bit high for idle though it does appear to be spiking (which is normal) and not a steady 26% usage.

Granted this is 5mo ago, but sounds similar.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/2vqbdo/huge_fps_drop_since_update/

Just looking through some threads about this, this seems to be par for the course with cs go. Regular update hell for people (I had to research a bit, I don't play cs go). You could try a virus scan, malware scan with something like malware bytes anti malware (mbam), another person passed all these things 'clean' then ran this anti rootkit and found something that others had missed. It helped their fps.
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/disinfection/5350#block2

Edit: here's a csgo 2015 tweak guide that may or may not help improve your performance.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=225142771

 

[charlieeddon123]

Memory and cpu usage look fine. The cpu is hardly used at 26% and memory is only half used. Cpu usage should go up during gaming as well as gpu usage. It could be your cpu fan, but chances are it's your gpu fan spinning up while gaming that gets louder, that's common. My hd 7850 is whisper quiet until I load up far cry 3 or something then it sounds like a small vacuum cleaner.

Have you made sure steam is up to date, all game files/patches are up to date? Sometimes patches improve fps other times they hurt them in cs go. Many people have had issues with this. When you snapped that screen shot of your system, was it at idle? (not downloading anything, not running any programs etc). 26% would be a bit high for idle though it does appear to be spiking (which is normal) and not a steady 26% usage.

Granted this is 5mo ago, but sounds similar.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/2vqbdo/huge_fps_drop_since_update/

Just looking through some threads about this, this seems to be par for the course with cs go. Regular update hell for people (I had to research a bit, I don't play cs go). You could try a virus scan, malware scan with something like malware bytes anti malware (mbam), another person passed all these things 'clean' then ran this anti rootkit and found something that others had missed. It helped their fps.
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/disinfection/5350#block2

Edit: here's a csgo 2015 tweak guide that may or may not help improve your performance.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=225142771

Thanks for the help mate really appreciate it, yes it was at idle when i screenshot. I've had these issues on not just csgo which is worrying for me also, but i will look into the links you have sent me. Is there any specific upgrade that i can do to my PC to stop this from happening that you know of? Im kinda new to computers and my dads friend made this one for me.

 

[synphul]

To stop which from happening? The lag while gaming? If gaming online it sounds like it's your internet connection. You can try something like speed test to determine your connection speed and latency.
http://www.speedtest.net/

If gaming offline, it would help to know which games and what resolution, graphics settings (medium, high, ultra etc) to get an idea of what sort of fps you should be getting. Gaming offline would take the internet aspect out of the equation and the hard drive shouldn't have much to do with it as it has little impact on fps. It may point instead to a driver issue of some sort (even though they're up to date, a corrupted driver could cause problems) or it may be the game title. Some games struggle to get 50-60fps even with an r9 290x or gtx 980/980ti on high graphics settings.

Using a program like hwinfo64 you should be able to see what your cpu and gpu usage is while gaming. If cpu usage is maxed out and gpu isn't there's definitely an issue and something interfering. Depending on the game and graphics settings, it may be all that graphics card can do. Are other things about the system slow as well or just the fps drop in games?

 

[charlieeddon123]

To stop which from happening? The lag while gaming? If gaming online it sounds like it's your internet connection. You can try something like speed test to determine your connection speed and latency.
http://www.speedtest.net/

If gaming offline, it would help to know which games and what resolution, graphics settings (medium, high, ultra etc) to get an idea of what sort of fps you should be getting. Gaming offline would take the internet aspect out of the equation and the hard drive shouldn't have much to do with it as it has little impact on fps. It may point instead to a driver issue of some sort (even though they're up to date, a corrupted driver could cause problems) or it may be the game title. Some games struggle to get 50-60fps even with an r9 290x or gtx 980/980ti on high graphics settings.

Using a program like hwinfo64 you should be able to see what your cpu and gpu usage is while gaming. If cpu usage is maxed out and gpu isn't there's definitely an issue and something interfering. Depending on the game and graphics settings, it may be all that graphics card can do. Are other things about the system slow as well or just the fps drop in games?

i dont think that its my internet connection as my ping is always at a constant 30-40, i have all the settings on as low as possible. A few months back it used to happen to me when i was just on the internet, my cursor would lag hard and it would be hard to use, this has now stopped and now only happens in game. Could you please link me where i could download hwinfo64 from so i can see if its my cpu or gpu, thanks again for the help.

 

[st3v30]

Try to set Power Profile to High performance, maybe your CPU downclocks in that moment when your FPS drops.
This profile will force it to stay all the time on MAX frequency.

 

[synphul]

http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

 

[charlieeddon123]

http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php

thanks