Help with degregation of CPU or Possible Memory Leak?

[c.pj.prince]

To give you a quick overview, last year I bought a 1060 to add into the system. After working fine for a few months, after a while I noticed that my graphic intensive games (XCOM2 for reference) started getting significant framerate drops. Moreover when leaving the computer on for a period there was an exponentially use in memory, which eventually broke the system. So eventually after putting up with this for so long (uni work has gotten in the way and when I do play games I've mainly stuck to CoH2 making the whole thing bearable), this started creeping into other less graphically intensive games. CoH2 was started taking a long time to load the map and jittering significantly even at low graphical settings. Additionally, a dragging Microsoft Word window caused the system to lag out the wazoo.

So I've tried are reinstalling and updating the drivers, which did not have an effect; reninstalling Windows, which does seems to have resolved longer load times, however graphical performance has not changed significantly.

My Specs are
Z87-G45 Gaming
i5 4670k
GTX 1060
128 SDD
2x1TB HDD
500w Corsair PSU
Windows 10

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[mdd1963]

I'd check your CPU temps to make sure you are not throttling under load, normally looking at HWMonitor while running Intel Extreme Tuning Utility/stress test will tell the tale within 5 minutes, as it generates a decent load equivalent to Prime 95 v26.6 on my system anyway.

If temps are under control...


Perhaps you had some sort of botched application, or even malware causing the mem leak, then normally, a quick format/fresh reinstall will routinely take care of it.
Gather all chipset drivers unique to your motherboard ahead of time, and, standard Geforce driver package....

 

[c.pj.prince]

I'd check your CPU temps to make sure you are not throttling under load, normally looking at HWMonitor while running Intel Extreme Tuning Utility/stress test will tell the tale within 5 minutes, as it generates a decent load equivalent to Prime 95 v26.6 on my system anyway.

If temps are under control...


Perhaps you had some sort of botched application, or even malware causing the mem leak, then normally, a quick format/fresh reinstall will routinely take care of it.
Gather all chipset drivers unique to your motherboard ahead of time, and, standard Geforce driver package....

Running the stress test the temps appear normal, maximum was around 53c, idling around 38c. Which appear normal, however I decided to put the computer to sleep overnight instead of shutting it down to test this. Yesterday CoH2 was playable if not slightly jaggy, today it is currently unplayable. However the CPU utilisation temp and memory are still at a minimum, currently on the memnu screen the FPS is 4-8 and CPU utilization around 30% and memory around 50%, when playing the game, on minimal settings, it's running at 1FPS with CPU utilisation @50-60% and Memory @60%. Temps are fairly consistent too around 45c.

The drivers all appear up to date, I did find an artcile highlighting that killer's LAN port can cause issues, but updating this does not appear to have resolved the issue. As I mentioned I did reinstall Windows 10 the other week, yet that has also failed to resolve the issue. The only way to resolve the issue is restart the computer, but even then it still lags in games to a certain degree and eventually falls culprit. :/

 

[c.pj.prince]

Testing it again this morning (after leaving on sleep) and it is consistently occuring.

It might be degration of the CPU, though why it's occuring only after the system's been on for so long I've honestly no idea. I've had the system approximately 41/2 - 5 years, though I've added various parts to it over the years. As far as I can tell the problem only started occuring a while after installing the GTX 1060.

 

[c.pj.prince]

I've searched and not found an answer so far. :/

 

[Pinhedd]

I've searched and not found an answer so far. :/

You have a memory leak.

The Z87-G45 motherboard has a Killer LAN network card built in. When the generic WHQL drivers are used with this NIC memory in the kernel's non-paged pool leaks and cannot be recovered until the system is restarted.

To remedy this, install the latest Killer LAN network drivers from the Killer LAN website. Do not update through Device Manager, Windows Update, or your motherboard manufacturer's website.

Once the drivers are updated, reboot your PC.

 

[c.pj.prince]

I've searched and not found an answer so far. :/

You have a memory leak.

The Z87-G45 motherboard has a Killer LAN network card built in. When the generic WHQL drivers are used with this NIC memory in the kernel's non-paged pool leaks and cannot be recovered until the system is restarted.

To remedy this, install the latest Killer LAN network drivers from the Killer LAN website. Do not update through Device Manager, Windows Update, or your motherboard manufacturer's website.

Once the drivers are updated, reboot your PC.

Thanks for the reply, as mentioned I did attempt this previously, with no result. I attempted this again but to no avail, the issue still persists. Booting up CoH2 right now has resulted in FPS of 15.

 

[c.pj.prince]

Update: this actually only seems to be applying to certain games. Testing it in RS:2 and it was keeping a solid 60FPS. Not sure whether CoH2 is just dodgy...

Update 2: Although the above was true at the time; I was latter hit by significant lag when sitting idly at the desktop. Attempting to open a pdf caused the system to jag.

Again turning off the system and turning it back seems to be the only solution.