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OkVibez

OkVibez

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Gamers…Nerds… I need your serious help. Last couple of weeks Ive been getting massive lag spikes in my favorite game, Escape From Tarkov. Over the last couple of years I have upgraded my pc to handle this poorly optimized game and I think I did ok. It’s been great until a couple weeks ago.

PC Specs:
MSI B550 Mag Max Wifi (replaced from B550 Rog Strix)
Ryzen 7 5800x3D
RTX 3090 FTW3 (Replaced with 2060s during testing)
32gb (2x16) Corsair Vengeance Pro (Swapped to another of the same set)
Corsair h150 AIO
Corsair 1000e PSU (Had a thermaltake 1200w PSU before the troubles)
WD Blue M.2 500gb (2500mb)
Samsung M.2 (7000mb)

This is what is currently installed, and I have listed some parts I had when this issue started then I started rapidly changing parts with no success.
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I have logged my issues with HWINFO and can clearly see all the dips. I have yet to figure out what the cause of them is though.

Whenever I put in the 2060s, it no longer stuttered like it did, BUT I was getting a lot of crashes in the game. However the 3090 did not crash, it just stutters. Almost like it can handle whatever is happening to it, but the 2060s couldn’t and would result to crashing.

The first part I replaced was the ram, switched channels, only used 1 stick, still happened.
I got a new Samsung m.2 and reinstalled windows, same issue.
I returned the drive, however I do have another m.2 already in my system so I went ahead and installed windows there just incase. Still the same issue.

Now I’ve known I had a bad power supply for a while now because when I first got my 3090, when it would draw max power it would shut off when using the 1200w Thermaltake Psu. All I did was undervolt the card and it has been fine for half a year until this new problem.

With that said, I was hoping, maybe the PSU really is bad now so I went out and got a new one.
Now I can use the full potential of the card without the PC shutting off, however, I still get my frequent lag spikes where my fps gets cut in half and my usages spike down.

Now I am further down the rabbit hole, yesterday I decided to go out and get a new motherboard because maybe just maybe mine has become faulty over the last 2 years. I installed it and the issue persists.

I am mind blown. The system has been underclocked it’s entire life. Heat is no issue here.

I do not have another system that can handle the 3090 to completely rule that out.
With the random crashes with the 2060s installed leads me to believe something else is causing this chaos.


NOW I am going into the stress testing phase.


After numerous windows installs, updates, and new hardware I have no idea what it could be.

I have ran OCCT on each test for hours with no errors. I even ran the power test it OCCT OFFERS AND everything can run at 100% no problem.
I ran MemTest64 for 2 hours with no errors.
Corecycler has been currently running for the last 12 hours with no issues.

The only test I have noticed something in is LatencyMon.
Whenever I have this program open and the stutters happen, I get a disable CPU throttling message. Which makes no since because my CPU is pegged at 4450 in game unless it drops a little bit do to the system lag spike.

I have also tried fresh installing windows, downloading gpu driver ONLY and running my game to see if any programs I did have were the issue, nope, no fix.
I went back to old drivers, even went back to windows 10 with no success. If anyone has any information, PLEASE help me.
 
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COLGeek said:
What, if anything, are you overclocking (CPU, GPU, memory)?

What are your CPU and GPU operating temperatures at idle and under load?
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When the issues started, memory was at stock settings. GPU and CPU were undervolted.
GPU idles at 35-40c. and CPU idles around the same. During load the GPU is only reaching 68-70 with a hot spot of 85. During a stress test it can reach 75 with a hot spot of 90. To me that is totally normal for this type of power draw on the card.
During gaming the cpu only reaches maybe 60c. But that is the way its always been.
 
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ex_bubblehead said:
"....this poorly optimized game...."
This says everything that needs to be said. Those brief moments with no lag were just fortunate coincidences.
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This is certainly true.

@OkVibez other than what you originally noted, do you see any other performance issues with any other games/applications?

Temperatures are okay. Nothing of note there.

Undervolting should be unnecessary if your PSU is up to the task. The 3090 can be very demanding as you know. Your tweak is a band-aid, but likely not the cause of anything noted above.
 
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ex_bubblehead said:
"....this poorly optimized game...."
This says everything that needs to be said. Those brief moments with no lag were just fortunate coincidences.
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I have 4k hours into this game. And I promise you no one would play it if it cut their resources in half every minute. Something is not right. And it hasn’t always been like this.
 
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COLGeek said:
This is certainly true.

@OkVibez other than what you originally noted, do you see any other performance issues with any other games/applications?

Temperatures are okay. Nothing of note there.

Undervolting should be unnecessary if your PSU is up to the task. The 3090 can be very demanding as you know. Your tweak is a band-aid, but likely not the cause of anything noted above.
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Yeah the undervolt really was for my bad PSU. Now that I have PSU that can handle all the components it is no longer undervolted. Originally when the problem started it, it was. Since all my testing, it is all stock now.
 
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OkVibez said:
Yeah the undervolt really was for my bad PSU. Now that I have PSU that can handle all the components it is no longer undervolted. Originally when the problem started it, it was. Since all my testing, it is all stock now.
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Good on stock settings. Without a stable baseline, much time gets wasted sorting through all of that.

When you reinstalled everything, did you also install the latest chipset drivers, directly from AMD?
 
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ex_bubblehead said:
The "not right" is that the software is NOT optimized and your hardware is out performing it. This WILL cause the issues that you are encountering.
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How could it run right for years and now it won’t? How come none of the big streamers that have a similar setup can play the game normally? I am telling you now, the player base is huge for that game. And I can bet my pc hardware is better than 80% of those players. Then there’s my friends with less of a setup that I play with everyday and none of them have ever had this problem.
 
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COLGeek said:
Have you reviewed ant "guides" like this game thread on Reddit?

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Of course! If you really want to enjoy tarkov you kinda have to. Here me out, whenever they release patches, they normally break something, like a setting ect. For example, one patch they broke their audio setting button, and anyone who had it on would constantly lag. But this community is so tight that they figured it out instantly and told everyone to turn it off. Boom everyones games fixed. The issue I am having now is not consistent with anyone else’s. To explain what happened and when it did it would help people understand.
Me and my buddy’s were playing a on the most optimized map on the game called LABS. Runs great for most people. We were playing back to back games, then next game, all of a sudden whenever I got in proximity of an enemy my game would start lagging hard. I am talking about going from 200+ fps to 40fps. I noticed it right away and continued to play a couple of games with the same thing happening. I could tell every single time whenever I was near someone because of the insane frame drops. The buddy’s I was playing with were not experiencing these issues. Nothing changed, we just went from one match to another.

That was the very first sign something was up.
 
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OkVibez said:
Of course! If you really want to enjoy tarkov you kinda have to. Here me out, whenever they release patches, they normally break something, like a setting ect. For example, one patch they broke their audio setting button, and anyone who had it on would constantly lag. But this community is so tight that they figured it out instantly and told everyone to turn it off. Boom everyones games fixed. The issue I am having now is not consistent with anyone else’s. To explain what happened and when it did it would help people understand.
Me and my buddy’s were playing a on the most optimized map on the game called LABS. Runs great for most people. We were playing back to back games, then next game, all of a sudden whenever I got in proximity of an enemy my game would start lagging hard. I am talking about going from 200+ fps to 40fps. I noticed it right away and continued to play a couple of games with the same thing happening. I could tell every single time whenever I was near someone because of the insane frame drops. The buddy’s I was playing with were not experiencing these issues. Nothing changed, we just went from one match to another.

That was the very first sign something was up.
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Are you playing via a wired or wireless network connection?
 
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COLGeek said:
Is your network adapter driver up to date?

What you described could be attributed to a network issue. The on-board Realtek 2.5 Gbps network adapter could be the root of the problem.

Switch to your wireless adapter and compare performance results.
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That is something I have not done yet! I will give it a go.
 
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OkVibez said:
I am not at home this exact second. But I 100% am on the newest bios. Since I had just got that board yesterday to see if it would fix my problem, right off the bat I updated it.
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Clearing CMOS afterward is key there. Make sure to try it, then check again.

You will know if it's cleared as you will be presented with a different screen than usual at next boot, which will prompt you to go to the bios and reconfigure it.
 
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