Games not running well on mid/high system.

[zecele]

SPECS:

MSI GTX 660 Twin Frozr III 2gb
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
Seagate Barracuda 500gb hardive 7200rpm 16mb
Coolermaster Elite 500w PSU
ASUS M4A88T-M Motherboard
Windows 7 Pro 64Bit
8gb ripjaws ram


Games tested so Far:

GTA IV = Lag/Stutter
Witcher 2 = Lag on medium to high settings.
Every Bethesda game = Lag when the fps drops at all even by just 1 fps.
Minecraft = Stutter
Dead Island = Weird Stutter even with consistent 60 Fps.
Dark Souls = Runs Perfectly
Dead Space 2 = Seems to run Perfectly
Mass effect 3 = Some lag.
Indie Games run fine.
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I have had lag in most games that i have tried and in reality my system should be able to run any game on max settings. I have had this lag since i built my computer and since then i have updated my gpu, ram and cpu and all this did was increase my fps but not fix the lag so in my mind that only leaves the psu or hdd as far i know a mobo doesnt cause bad game performance like that. I have reinstalled windows multiple times, reinstalled drivers multiple times.

I really need help with this cause it is driving me crazy.

Thanks in advance, help in greatly appreciated.


SPECS:

MSI GTX 660 Twin Frozr III 2gb
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE
Seagate Barracuda 500gb hardive 7200rpm 16mb
Coolermaster Elite 500w PSU
ASUS M4A88T-M Motherboard
Windows 7 Pro 64Bit
8gb ripjaws ram


Games tested so Far:

GTA IV = Lag/Stutter
Witcher 2 = Lag on medium to high settings.
Every Bethesda game = Lag when the fps drops at all even by just 1 fps.
Minecraft = Stutter
Dead Island = Weird Stutter even with consistent 60 Fps.
Dark Souls = Runs Perfectly
Dead Space 2 = Seems to run Perfectly
Mass effect 3 = Some lag.
Indie Games run fine.
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I have had lag in most games that i have tried and in reality my system should be able to run any game on max settings. I have had this lag since i built my computer and since then i have updated my gpu, ram and cpu and all this did was increase my fps but not fix the lag so in my mind that only leaves the psu or hdd as far i know a mobo doesnt cause bad game performance like that. I have reinstalled windows multiple times, reinstalled drivers multiple times.

I really need help with this cause it is driving me crazy.

Thanks in advance, help in greatly appreciated.

I Reset my Nvidia Settings.

 

[Sunius]

:lol:

Reset Nvidia settings to default except the VSync. It will fix the lag. You can't set supersampling to 8x and except not to lag!

 

[kiezz]

Your settings are too high the first thing i'd do is turn off ambient occlusion it will improve your gaming a lot

 

[darth pravus]

+1 Turn down your NVidia settings. Just reset to default and never touch them again if that what your going to do with them

 

[darth pravus]

I literally couldn't figure it out until I saw that

 

[zecele]

:lol:

Reset Nvidia settings to default except the VSync. It will fix the lag. You can't set supersampling to 8x and except not to lag!

This has improved performance greatly Skyrim has near enough no lag but there is some weird stuttering issue now i haven't tested other games yet. Also minecraft still stutters and mass effect 3 now lags when turning.

 

[Sunius]

Check other games. Make sure adaptive VSync is enabled.

 

[zecele]

I tested

Skyrim
Alan Wake
Minecraft
Dead Space 2
Mass Effect 3
GTA IV
Witcher 2


Alan Wake and Dead Space 2 where the only ones that ran fine.

 

[darth pravus]

No AA setting in control panel and with adaptive Vsync and latest drivers?

 

[zecele]

No AA setting in control panel and with adaptive Vsync and latest drivers?

AA set to Application Controlled
Adaptive Vsync is on
I have the latest drivers

 

[zecele]

your cpu is a pos.

I disagree

 

[darth pravus]

SMART test your HDD

 

[zecele]

the 3570k is mid/high gaming cpu. His outdated cpu is low/mid. I'll reiterate myself. Your cpu is a piece of garbage. Upgrade to fix your fps. Also make sure you're running at your monitor's native resolution.

The phernom II x4 is an extremely popular cpu for gaming i have seen many people using it for gaming for battlefield 3 and far cry 3 with stable 60 fps. Most games use gpu over cpu anyway also my cpu is overclocked to 3.8ghz. Also the problem isnt anything to do with fps im getting good fps but still getting stutter.

 

[zecele]

SMART test your HDD

Everything came back green apart from

UltraDMA CRC Errors which had a yellow triangle beside it.

 

[darth pravus]

Try using another SATA table and another sata port on your motherboard

 

[Sunius]

Phenom II is a decent CPU. No need to upgrade.

Could you check your GPU usage during lag?

 

[zecele]

Try using another SATA table and another sata port on your motherboard

Didn't change

 

[zecele]

Phenom II is a decent CPU. No need to upgrade.

Could you check your GPU usage during lag?

Skyrim used around 40 to 60% of my gpu.

 

[zecele]

Try doing a clean install of Nvidia

EDIT: is windows up to date?

I have done at least 4 clean installs of nvidia as i recently just upgraded my gpu from an powercolor hd 6850 to a nvidia gtx 660 so had to wipe all my old divers anyway with driver sweeper/fusion.

And i also tried reinstalling windows 7 and have downloaded all the updates again.

 

[zecele]

Is the resolution set to your monitor's native resolution? I have the EVGA GTX 660 2GB SC and it is OCed and has none of the problems you're having. Assuming it is a hardware limitation I'm saying its your cpu. I play Skyrim maxed out with HD textures, tons of mods, hi-res models, ect. If I remember correctly Skyrim is CPU hungry.

Even maxing out planet side 2 on my 3570k @ 4.2Ghz the fps will drop to 42fps here and there.

Yes it matches my monitors native resolution. Also Planetside 2 for me runs fine on max settings no lag at all.

 

[gamerk316]

Antialiasing Transparency = 8x (supersample)

First off, turn of Supersampling. That KILLS performance.

 

[zecele]

Antialiasing Transparency = 8x (supersample)

First off, turn of Supersampling. That KILLS performance.

Already reverted my Nvidia settings to default.

 

[bigirishman]

Hi mate! Turn off vsync (including adaptive). Download riva tuner v2.24 and install. Once installed go to program files x86 - riva tuner - tools - d3doverrider and create a shortcut to your desktop for the d3doverrider.exe file. You can now force vsync using d3doverrider instead of using NVidia or game vsync and it should sort your issue out. To set d3doverrider to work for your specific game then start the program with the shortcut then once opened click the + button at the bottom left and find the game exe where ever its installed. Force triple buffering setting should be set to on and force vsync setting should be set to on, also application detection level should be set to high.

 

[zecele]

Hi mate! Turn off vsync (including adaptive). Download riva tuner v2.24 and install. Once installed go to program files x86 - riva tuner - tools - d3doverrider and create a shortcut to your desktop for the d3doverrider.exe file. You can now force vsync using d3doverrider instead of using NVidia or game vsync and it should sort your issue out. To set d3doverrider to work for your specific game then start the program with the shortcut then once opened click the + button at the bottom left and find the game exe where ever its installed. Force triple buffering setting should be set to on and force vsync setting should be set to on, also application detection level should be set to high.

I have tried this before and it did not work as far as know using the vsync option in the control panel is no different than forcing it in d3doverrider but thanks for the advice.

 

[Sunius]

Could you check your CPU usage and if it's high what's using it up? It should be enough for the games, but maybe you're running something in the background that you shouldn't be?