Question How do you troubleshoot/diagnose performance issues while gaming?

[PauloSilva93]

How do you guys troubleshoot/diagnose performance issues?

Hi i was wondering how you guys troubleshoot\diagnose performance issues ingame, like stutters for instance. I have gotten rid of most stutters with blurbustersguide for freesync, and capping the framerate and improving frame pacing seems to improve the experience tremendously, but i still have one few big spikes that break immersion immediately, and i was wondering what do you guys do to find the root cause, like your methods or thought process. Well thanks for your time, hope you can help me xD

 

[hotaru.hino]

Immediate things to check:

• Are the parts overheating?
• Did I forget to set the correct power profile?
• Is there anything else that might be going on that I forgot I was running?

Other things to check:

• Is this a recent enough game that I should probably update my GPU drivers for?
• Are any other games having this problem?
• Does this problem go away if I do a clean boot?
• Did a recent update to the game cause issues?
• Did a recent Windows update cause issues?

I guess lucky for me, I haven't really needed to go beyond the immediate scope.

 

[TerryLaze]

If you only get one big spike once in a while it's probably the ram filling up and having to swap things out.
I don't know for sure but I think that will happen with any amount of ram, if you play long enough it will fill up eventually and swap things out.

 

[PauloSilva93]

If you only get one big spike once in a while it's probably the ram filling up and having to swap things out.
I don't know for sure but I think that will happen with any amount of ram, if you play long enough it will fill up eventually and swap things out.

and how do i fix that? thanks for the input

 

[TerryLaze]

and how do i fix that? thanks for the input

You don't, that's just how it works.
You can use a very fast nvme for the game and the pagefile and that should reduce this but I don't think you can get rid of it completely.