I get FPS Drops in games

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Hi so I already asked this once and totally screwed up on actually giving the needed info so nobody could really help, heres the revision: Hello guys, Im no professional when it comes to knowing things about computers, I know the basics of what is needed to make them run, but not how those things work. Anyways, so I recently switched over to intel from an AMD FX 6300 to an I5 6600k right and it generally works well, 60 FPS in most games but there is an issue: The game freezes up and there are lag spikes whenever there is something new to load in. (I think that's why at least.) So anyway the reason I say that is because as I move around in most of my games, I can see things appear in front of me that I would (On my old processor) have already seen as they would have already been loaded in. For example, while I am running in one game I see trees loading in above me, in another I see cars appear right in front of me. I have already check and in games the temps of all my CPU cores and my CPU are normal, My Graphics cards temp is normal and the GPU usage hangs around 90-99% while CPU at 40-55% When these said lag spikes occur I see both of these things drop the graphics to 0-17% and processor to about 13%. My RAM usage is at about 3100-3300 which is also normal and my internet is fine, I have absolutely NO IDEA what the problem could possibly be so I am relying on you guys (The smart ones) to help me out here. my specs are as follows: Motherboard: GA B150M Processor cooler: Cooler Master Hyper T4 Processor: I5 6600k (Default Clock) Grahpics Card: Gtx 950 FTW PSU: EVGA 500w. My monitor is a 60 Ghz refresh rate so guys I have no idea what the problem is, any help at all would be GREAT. Is there a possibility that this is something to do with my drivers? I dont exactly know what version I have and I dont know where to find the installation for the latest ones.

 

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I would reinstall default drivers. Google your motherboard and find the product page, download the drivers, and install those.

The way it was explained to me is: your hard drive is made to function with a certain set up of motherboard and cpu, basically whatever set up you install your operating system using. If you change one of those elements dramatically, the software doesn't know how to cope with the hardware shift.

So reinstall drivers. If that doesn't work, reinstall windows. Good luck!

 

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I would reinstall default drivers. Google your motherboard and find the product page, download the drivers, and install those.

The way it was explained to me is: your hard drive is made to function with a certain set up of motherboard and cpu, basically whatever set up you install your operating system using. If you change one of those elements dramatically, the software doesn't know how to cope with the hardware shift.

So reinstall drivers. If that doesn't work, reinstall windows. Good luck!

Wait reinstall drivers for which components? Like, motherboard only or should I also do it with processor/graphics?

 

[kaptainkuftic]

I would reinstall default drivers. Google your motherboard and find the product page, download the drivers, and install those.

The way it was explained to me is: your hard drive is made to function with a certain set up of motherboard and cpu, basically whatever set up you install your operating system using. If you change one of those elements dramatically, the software doesn't know how to cope with the hardware shift.

So reinstall drivers. If that doesn't work, reinstall windows. Good luck!

Wait reinstall drivers for which components? Like, motherboard only or should I also do it with processor/graphics?

I would do it with everything to be safe. You probably don't need, like, Reltek drivers or something because those are for audio, but if you have time, do it anyway. You're not going to break anything by reinstalling drivers (provided you don't use beta versions of drivers or something, go with the latest, stable version). Anything that you install an older version of a driver for should update itself with a system restart.

If all else fails to help your system, reinstall windows. That should catch the problem and fix it. If /that/ doesn't work, you're probably looking at a hardware problem. That's what I would do though.

Quick edit: your processor shouldn't have drivers you need to reinstall. I think Windows does that for you. That's why a fresh windows install should help if the first step of just updating regular drivers doesn't.