help! gaming problems.

[Cinemuh]

So, this all started about 7 months ago when I got my new PC.

About a month later, I started noticing lag on a lot of my games.

It got worse. Now, Rocket League is always dropping FPS, It'll go from 250, to 140. I have a 120 hz monitor, so I shouldn't be able to see it. But I definately can. The ball feels like it's moving slow, it's just very weird. The more cars there are, the more frame drops I get. 1s isn't that bad, 2s is pretty bad, 3s is almost unplayable. When I close Rocket League, I hear crackling too.

H1Z1 lag is different. It's frame stutters. Every time I try to play the game, randomly my I will get frame stutter. Sometimes it's every 30 seconds, sometimes it's every 10 mins, it's random. This lag is my screen freezing for about a second, and making a crackling sound.

The culling has the same problem as h1. I have almost 40 hours on the game now. My FPS will go from 62 to 59-58ish, and i'll feel the game get slower. The game has done the same kind of drops I get on H1 randomly. Where my screen freezes for a second. That's only happened twice on the culling. It happens a lot more often on H1.

My main concern here is Rocket League, as I play the game competitively.

Attempts to fix:
BOUGHT ALL NEW PARTS - Well, not all new parts. I bought a new processor (i7 4790K), new graphics card (GTX 980) new ram (2x8GB Corsair vengence ram) new mobo (Asus z97 mobo) and finally new SSD (HyperX 120GB SSD+New windows) I installed the new windows on the new SSD, booted it up, installed the new drivers, and chrome, steam, and Rocket League. SAME LAG. I don't get it.... It makes no sense to me. The only parts I haven't replaced are my PSU, and 2TB HDD.

After those new parts didn't fix, I returned them and got even newer, upgraded parts. i7 6700K Corsair DDR4 ram, Z170A mobo, new case, fans, new psu. 850W corsair.

Still getting the same lag.

I've unplugged my HDD while gaming to see if that was the issue, same drops drops/stutters.

Tried disabling sound drivers, same drops drops/stutters.

Turning vsync on and off, same frame drops.

Changing settings in nvidia control panel, same frame drops.

Yes, i've made sure my monitor was plugged in to my GFX card. (Not completely stupid, only a little 😀)

All of my temps are completely normal while gaming. No CPU spikes when it happens, no ram spikes when it happens.

I already tried deleting Geforce Experience while gaming, same issue.

So as you can see, i've tried almost everything. I don't get where this lag is coming from. After replacing basically my whole computer. I still don't know where the frame drops, stutters, and all of that is coming from. I'm extremely frustrated. The last week has been me just trying to fix this. and it's still not fixed.

However, I did finally switch the outlet that my PC was plugged in to. It fixed it a little bit. Games are a lot smoother. I thought it was a power problem. So I went out and purchased a cyperpower UPS with Sinewave. Plugged that in and it was working a lot better. But the lag is still there. Not nearly as bad as it use to be. But still VERY VERY annoying. Pls help. 🙁

Would be very grateful if you fix this.

 

[bailojustin]

Honestly, I'm pretty sure it's actually your internet.
The reason why your rocket league gets laggy the more people there are is because it's much more information being sent and received. You could be deali g with packet loss, or packet collisions on your network.



What is your internet adapter and please make 100% sure that your internet drivers are all up to date and you do not have any other Internet drivers that could be conflicting.
(You can download teamspeak 3 and go to connection info as I have found has one of the best network analyzers built in, this will allow you to see if you have any packet loss whatsoever)


Try playing a game with your internet off, a single player game and let me know the results.

If it is still doing the same thing with no internet please download a program like speccy and post your temps so I can see if it's possible thermal throttling. This will cause fps drops the more the card or cpu need to render.

Once you have your temps let me kow them.

Also please download msi afterburner, run it while you are playing a game and make it a 3s in rocket league, now check what the gpu usage and cpu usage is. Let me know the results.

Now Open task manager, open resource monitor and start playing a game.
Check in the resource monitor after 15 mins of playing the game, look at your memory, is it 100%?
Alot of the times your memory will slowly be used till you might not have any left and it will lag the whole pc, games will suffer drastically, and just an overall slowdown. Please let me know these results.

I know it may seem like alot I'm asking you to do, but just do it and I can assure you we here at toms will find and fix your issue no matter what it may be.

 

[bailojustin]

I have a feeling it will be either your internet, or your memory usage maxing or lastly thermal throttling.

The crackling, is this coming from your monitor? Is the noise coming from your computer, if so check the fans, maybe the gpu fans are goi g bad and can't cool the card, or the cpu fan going bad causing thermal issues.

This will be resolved once you post your temps using speccy after 15 mins of regular gameplay.

 

[Cinemuh]

I have a feeling it will be either your internet, or your memory usage maxing or lastly thermal throttling.

The crackling, is this coming from your monitor? Is the noise coming from your computer, if so check the fans, maybe the gpu fans are goi g bad and can't cool the card, or the cpu fan going bad causing thermal issues.

This will be resolved once you post your temps using speccy after 15 mins of regular gameplay.

Nothing is going bad. It's all brand new. Even the fans.

 

[bailojustin]

Just take these steps and I can assure you within the hour we can fix this.

You may think it's not going bad but components always have room for error and broken fans, that's why rma's exist is because the chance of getting something faulty is always there.

 

[Cinemuh]

Honestly, I'm pretty sure it's actually your internet.
The reason why your rocket league gets laggy the more people there are is because it's much more information being sent and received. You could be deali g with packet loss, or packet collisions on your network.



What is your internet adapter and please make 100% sure that your internet drivers are all up to date and you do not have any other Internet drivers that could be conflicting.
(You can download teamspeak 3 and go to connection info as I have found has one of the best network analyzers built in, this will allow you to see if you have any packet loss whatsoever)


Try playing a game with your internet off, a single player game and let me know the results.

If it is still doing the same thing with no internet please download a program like speccy and post your temps so I can see if it's possible thermal throttling. This will cause fps drops the more the card or cpu need to render.

Once you have your temps let me kow them.

Also please download msi afterburner, run it while you are playing a game and make it a 3s in rocket league, now check what the gpu usage and cpu usage is. Let me know the results.

Now Open task manager, open resource monitor and start playing a game.
Check in the resource monitor after 15 mins of playing the game, look at your memory, is it 100%?
Alot of the times your memory will slowly be used till you might not have any left and it will lag the whole pc, games will suffer drastically, and just an overall slowdown. Please let me know these results.

I know it may seem like alot I'm asking you to do, but just do it and I can assure you we here at toms will find and fix your issue no matter what it may be.

https://gyazo.com/93acfea7bf6afa510acacca48244c4d4

 

[bailojustin]

Also please let me know all of the things I asked asap. This will allow me to quickly determine the problem and fix it, it should take max 30 mins or less to do all I ask. Thanks -J

 

[Cinemuh]

Just take these steps and I can assure you within the hour we can fix this.

You may think it's not going bad but components always have room for error and broken fans, that's why rma's exist is because the chance of getting something faulty is always there.

I know man, but i've been having this problem for months. You're telling me i've gone through 3 different computers, with a total of 5 different installations of OS's on them and they all get the same problem? That's not the issue at all man. The parts are fine.

 

[bailojustin]

You will need to check the connection info for packet loss during the moment. So go into a game and once you lag bad, minimize and quickly see what it is, or you can start a speedtest.net with the program open and see.

 

[bailojustin]

Isorry, I require the info so I can understand 100% what's going on, it's my steps of troubleshooting to find the root cause.

 

[bailojustin]

The biggest one now that I am interested in is your temps and memory usage, we can start there, get speccy and post the temps while playing a game, and taskmanager <resource monitor and let me know memory usage aswell as disk usage.

 

[Cinemuh]

The biggest one now that I am interested in is your temps and memory usage, we can start there, get speccy and post the temps while playing a game, and taskmanager <resource monitor and let me know memory usage aswell as disk usage.

https://gyazo.com/dde0ac13fa35e9afe5712420e0344c9b

 

[bailojustin]

There is your issue. Your graphics card is thermal throttling 100%.

When you play intensive games that cards temp will skyrocket.

What you should do is Reseat your gpu cooler back on the card. If you overclocked it remove all overclocks.

Okay t fix this issue, let's determine why is over heating.

With the gpu removed from the computer, spin each fan, watch the fans VERY closely for when they are about to stop, they should jump backwards a tiny bit, there should be some resistance.

Let me know if all fans jump.

Now download msi afterburner <--IMPORTANT.

Once downloaded manually change the fan speed of your gpu to at least 75%-100%. It would be better if you could just make the fan curve in the settings if you know how.

Now when you change the gpu fan to 100% it will be loud yes, but watch the card temps. Open your game with the fans at 100% and the CASE OPEN. if you have a fan or anything you could aim at your gpu do it. Once you opened your game, play it and enjoy no fps drops. That is if you can keep it cool enough,typically I don't let my card go above 70, and i have a gpu that runs very hot. So you want to keep gpu temps at below 80c 75c is better.

I'm sure that your problem is thermal throttling on your gpu.