High End Card and PC, but games still lag

[Hopsun]

Hey everybody

I just recently bought a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card for my PC, and while sometimes it seems to be working well. Certain games lag pretty badly at times, and it feels like something is slowing down in my PC way more than it should. The card looks amazing, and a lot of parts during games it looks and feels great, but then it will get crazy slow and is unplayable. I play games like Assassins Creed, which I don't have many problems with, but it still slows a lot during heavy action scenes. Far Cry and h1z1 is where I really feel the lag. I also have a feeling it's something else in my comp, because lowering the graphics/resolution really doesn't change anything. It will also show 50 FPS on Ultra, but its definitely not at 50 FPS. Can I Run It has my computer running pretty much any game with no fps drop.

My Spec are the following (not even a year old computer):
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GH
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4gb
16 GB Memory
2 Acer 1920 x 1080 Monitors
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
119 gb and 931 hdd drives
ASRock H97 Anniversary LGA 1150 Intel H97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
SeaSonic M12II 520 Bronze 520W

I really have no idea what's going on. I just put this computer together but a month or two ago and have been noticing slight issues but didn't really think anything about it/didn't have the time to ask questions. Graphics drivers up to date and everything. Only thing I can think of is maybe a heating problem, but fan is quiet and I monitored the heat of cpu/card after I build the rigd. The only other thing would be processor (isn't mine pretty good still), or motherboard.

Anybody have any idea?

 

[maxalge]

Hey everybody

I just recently bought a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card for my PC, and while sometimes it seems to be working well. Certain games lag pretty badly at times, and it feels like something is slowing down in my PC way more than it should. The card looks amazing, and a lot of parts during games it looks and feels great, but then it will get crazy slow and is unplayable. I play games like Assassins Creed, which I don't have many problems with, but it still slows a lot during heavy action scenes. Far Cry and h1z1 is where I really feel the lag. I also have a feeling it's something else in my comp, because lowering the graphics/resolution really doesn't change anything. It will also show 50 FPS on Ultra, but its definitely not at 50 FPS. Can I Run It has my computer running pretty much any game with no fps drop.

My Spec are the following (not even a year old computer):
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GH
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4gb
16 GB Memory
2 Acer 1920 x 1080 Monitors
NVIDIA High Definition Audio
119 gb and 931 hdd drives
ASRock H97 Anniversary LGA 1150 Intel H97 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
SeaSonic M12II 520 Bronze 520W

I really have no idea what's going on. I just put this computer together but a month or two ago and have been noticing slight issues but didn't really think anything about it/didn't have the time to ask questions. Graphics drivers up to date and everything. Only thing I can think of is maybe a heating problem, but fan is quiet and I monitored the heat of cpu/card after I build the rigd. The only other thing would be processor (isn't mine pretty good still), or motherboard.

Anybody have any idea?

Install msi afterburner and monitor cpu and gpu temps while gaming, sounds like thermal throttling to me.

 

[Hopsun]

What are normal temps they should be around while gaming? And what would be a fix if it was a heat problem?

 

[maxalge]

What are normal temps they should be around while gaming? And what would be a fix if it was a heat problem?

Ideally a video card should max somewhere below low 80's, a cpu in the high 70's.

If you cpu was hitting 90's for example, you would need to either re-seat the cpu cooler with new thermal paste and make sure the fans were working.

Or buy an aftermarket version cpu cooler.



On a video card could be as simple as cleaning the fans and cooler from dust buildup, or reapplying non conductive thermal paste like mx-4.

 

[Hopsun]

Cpu maxes at 65 and the Gpu maxes at 51 when i gave H1z1 a try on highest graphics. I still have pretty noticeable lag still. Anything else you think could be wrong?

 

[maxalge]

Cpu maxes at 65 and the Gpu maxes at 51 when i gave H1z1 a try on highest graphics. I still have pretty noticeable lag still. Anything else you think could be wrong?

Software issue, hard drive/ram failure. Run memtest, and the hard drive manufacturer checking software.

Make sure all mobo drivers/bios are up to date.

Could also be power saving features kicking in, or something like improper pagefile setting.

 

[Hopsun]

Memtest and hds checked out a okay. I don't have any drivers that i'm missing that i know of. Idk about pagefile settings but power saving were all set and good. This is driving me crazy. I expected it to be something painfully obvious...course it's not.

 

[Hopsun]

Still having the issue, if anybody else has any other input to add