"High End" PC Performing bad in games.

[Itazura]

Hey there,

I'm having the problem that my PC runs pretty much every single game i try to run like super jittery/choppy even do i have a good ping aswell as decent/good fps.
I've tried pretty much everything. Changing GPU, CPU, MOBO, PSU, Peripherals, etc.
Nothing has helped in any way so far.
The weird thing about it is that games usualy run smoothly when being singleplayer but when it comes to multiplayers, the jittery/choppy feeling starts even tho my connection should be fine.
There's those days that it's kind of okay and then again there's those days when it's just below everything on which i recently realized that my ms seems to be higher in-game and some Packet-loss is coming along with it.

But then again i'm doing a Pingtest and i get this as result:

Could it be that i'm using a Lan Cable that's ~20m long is ? (Should be Cat. 5)


The system is scoring well in 3DMark and does not have any Latency spikes in LatencyMoon so i'm not guessing on any Hardware related problem at all anymore.

The general system specs are the following:

• 
  CPU: i7 4790k @ 4.7 Ghz
  CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H80i
  Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-D3H
  GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming
  RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB @ 1866MHz
  SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 250GB
  HDD: 2x 1TB, 1x 2TB (Storage only)
  Monitor: Acer gn246hlbbid (lightboost hacked)

Please don't mind my english, i'm obviously not a native speaker.
Thanks in advance for every answer!

Best regards,

 

[Entomber]

do you get the same latency when using wireless as you do when using wired internet?

 

[Itazura]

Even worse.

 

[Itazura]

I'm absolutely clueless..

 

[Entomber]

what's interesting about your speedtest is that you have a 27ms ping to a server that's only 50 miles away. I think that is unacceptable, but it is likely something more to do with your ISP than your equipment, which looks more than sufficient to me. Try contacting them to see if there is something wrong with your internet connection.

The top speedtest with 1ms ping and 99Mb/s is the one you should be consistently getting.

 

[Itazura]

I'll try that

 

[Itazura]

I found out, using Adaptive v-sync in my Nvidia drivers combined with tripple buffer helps. Doesn't completely fix it but it's a begining

 

[Itazura]

I found out using Adaptive vsync in combination with Tripplebuffer fixed it some kind of. Still not 100% but better.
Not sure what else i may have to do. It usualy happens in CPU intense games rather than GPU based games.

 

[Entomber]

You did say that it tends to happen in online games, not necessarily CPU intensive games - in singleplayer modes you have no major issues?

To be honest, your CPU far exceeds any requirement for any game. If you like, you can try decreasing the clock speed to see if an unstable OC is causing the lags.

 

[Itazura]

lowering the oc didn't help.

 

[Itazura]

for some reason i just found out that it seems being worse when i have my Chrome browser opened up while playing

 

[Neur0nauT]

20m is long enough for a LAN cable if you live in an area where there could be a lot of noise picked up. You may require a good quality Cat6 shielded cable to prevent packet loss.

Although I'm not convinced this is a network lag issue. Have you checked on your RAM usage when in game? It could be a problem with the RAM or CPU. You should try doing some benchmarking and watch the RAM usage and CPU usage during this. If it is maxed out, then there needs to be some further diagnosis done. It could be that one of your RAM modules is faulty?

 

[Itazura]

The thing is that my pc scores pretty well not to say extremely good in benchmarks (11200 Score in 3DMark 11) But yet it does perform shit in games.
My Ram usage usualy is pretty high due to the 8gigs only. It's mostly between 75-90% i guess.

 

[Itazura]

Here is a 3DMark test i've done tho http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3860442

 

[Neur0nauT]

The thing is that my pc scores pretty well not to say extremely good in benchmarks (11200 Score in 3DMark 11) But yet it does perform shit in games.
My Ram usage usualy is pretty high due to the 8gigs only. It's mostly between 75-90% i guess.

75-90% RAM usage is pretty high for 8GB. How many things do you have running when you are gaming? When I'm running games it doesn't usually go over 50%

I would be looking at process manager to see what is using up all your RAM, and maybe clean up your processes. There could be other processes causing memory leaks, which would stall your system.

 

[Itazura]

I'll test that.

 

[Itazura]

This is the Ram usage while playing

 

[Entomber]

that orange bar in the middle is not a good sign - it shows that your RAM is insufficient and has to write to page file before you can use it again (writing to page file often takes a while, especially if your page file is located on a HDD)

it may be that your computer is trying to use the integrated graphics as well, and I'm not sure why.

 

[Itazura]

That's weird
Can i check what's wrong there somehow ?

 

[Itazura]

Also my iGpu is turned off tho

 

[Entomber]

it's not necessarily that anything is wrong, per se, but it does look like your RAM is being maxed out, probably by the VRAM leaks in whatever game you're playing.

use CPU-Z to see how much VRAM utilization you're getting in games.

 

[Itazura]

It used the normal 4Gigs

 

[Entomber]

that seems to indicate that it's using 100% of the available VRAM, then your system RAM is being used. You can either try turning the texture quality down on that game or upgrading your amount of system RAM.

 

[cst1992]

Are you sure it's using 4 GB of VRAM? Use MSI afterburner, turn on overlay and post a screenshot similar to this, with all the readings in the top left.
http://i.imgur.com/4fg1V.jpg
It's an issue with the GTX 970, if using more than 3.3 GB of VRAM, it causes stuttering.