Games run at high fps, then drops, then goes back to normal constantly.

[a_123]

I've been having this problem for such a long time that I think this has been occurring since the beginning of this PC. I upgraded my cooler a few months ago from air cooling to liquid cooling, and it dropped the temperatures but I still get frame drops. Today, I just upgraded my GPU into an RX 480 8 GB in hopes of it solving my problems, and I still get the issue. I really don't understand what the issue is with this computer, and I would have to literally change every part to figure out if it's a component in my PC that is causing this issue. On games such as Rocket League or CS:GO, I get no such issue with frame drops or any games that don't really require a good graphics card or CPU. However, on games such as GTA V, Arma III, Dark Souls III, Cities: Skylines, this issue persists and I honestly have no idea what is wrong anymore. I've changed the settings to the absolute lowest for any of these games and this issue still persists. I recently also just went into my BIOS and set it back to default just in case something was adjusted there, and the issue still continues. I get very high frame rates on these games and they are extremely smooth for about 5 minutes of gameplay, and then this issue kicks in. The frames randomly drop to something around 10-20 FPS and basically slows down the game. This goes on for about 10 seconds or so, and then it goes back up to the very smooth FPS that I should be getting always. This cycle repeats over and over again, and it has become so frustrating and ruins the game experience for me that I don't even bother playing games that much anymore. I'm not sure if its a component in my PC that is causing this or some kind of setting, and I'm completely clueless. Please help me somehow with this issue, I really want to get rid of this issue permanently without having to basically replace every single part in my PC to fix the issue. I'm wondering if it's some kind of throttling issue.

Here's a picture of how the temperatures show up on the chart in SpeedFan. The green line is CPU, and the red line is GPU. This picture is for when I was testing Dark Souls III: http://imgur.com/a/ZRZys

The only game I was recently been able to test with the new GPU was Dark Souls III: the CPU temp averaged around 58 C, and the GPU averaged around 67 C. Let me know if you want me to test again with a screenshot of the whole thing.

As of right now, the idle temperature for CPU is 39 C, and the GPU is at 54 C.

CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: RX 480 8 GB
Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme4
SSD
HDD
8 GB RAM
Power Supply: 750 Watts
Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 120 XL

 

[Jenkins453]

I had a similar problem not too long ago. Turns out it was the read speed of my HDD. I had huge frame rate problems in bigger games such as Arma 3, GTA 5 and more recently Gears 4. I upgraded my OS drive to a 1TB SSD and moved those particular games and haven't had any problems since. If your game data for those bigger sized games in on the HDD (since I noticed that you have both an SSD and a HDD) that could be whats limiting your frame rate. Its not so much a frame drop issue as almost a... buffering type issue. The only other thing that I could think it would be is if maybe the voltages are not what they should be in BIOS (and resetting it to default didnt fix your problem somehow) and that is causing a sort of "choking" effect when under a load. Again, thats just what fixed it for me. Something to look into!

 

[a_123]

I had a similar problem not too long ago. Turns out it was the read speed of my HDD. I had huge frame rate problems in bigger games such as Arma 3, GTA 5 and more recently Gears 4. I upgraded my OS drive to a 1TB SSD and moved those particular games and haven't had any problems since. If your game data for those bigger sized games in on the HDD (since I noticed that you have both an SSD and a HDD) that could be whats limiting your frame rate. Its not so much a frame drop issue as almost a... buffering type issue. The only other thing that I could think it would be is if maybe the voltages are not what they should be in BIOS (and resetting it to default didnt fix your problem somehow) and that is causing a sort of "choking" effect when under a load. Again, thats just what fixed it for me. Something to look into!

I just tried moving the folder for Dark Souls III into my SSD and tried running it off there, and the issue still persists. I remember running GTA V a long time ago on the SSD as well and it had this issue also.

 

[atosz011]

Did you find out what was the problem?