Lag spikes and stuttering voices from my friends

[exkungen]

Hi,

So I build a pc and everything seems to work correctly. But when I play a game, the game has allot of lag spikes. I also frequently hear my friends stutter on discord,
Is there any reason that can cause this?

My components:
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 @ 4.20GHz 31 °C
Kaby Lake 14nm Technology
RAM
16,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z270X-Ultra Gaming-CF (U3E1) 28 °C
Graphics
BenQ XL2411Z (1920x1080@144Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (Gigabyte) 42 °C
Storage
232GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (SSD) 30 °C
3717GB Microsoft Storage Space Device (TMax)
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

 

[e2c2monkeyboy]

Hi,

So I build a pc and everything seems to work correctly. But when I play a game, the game has allot of lag spikes. I also frequently hear my friends stutter on discord,
Is there any reason that can cause this?

My sons machine (is 1/3 your machines power) was doing it quite bad in steam playing warframe (and TF2). Not real cpu hogs there but doing it none the less. I had him remove the virtual memory from his SSD drive and place it off the SSD (his boot drive) and onto the data drive. His lag issues diminished to almost nill. Hope it help a little.

Short answer: under advanced settings looking at system specs and change your Vram - don't know how to do that then....

1. Do a good [windows button] - [E] on your keyboard and bring up a hard drive window. Or just look at your "This PC/ hard drive explorer"
2. If you haven't turned off the folder left pane in explorer -> Right mouse click on the words "This PC" on the left side (about 4 under "Desktop") and choose properties -> then under the performance "text box" choose [Settings...] button.
3. THEN! choose "Advanced Tab" and under "Virtual memory" text area choose [Change...] button. ALMOST THERE!

VRAM Change - need to create to destroy...

1. Uncheck "Automatically manage pageing file size for all drives"
2. Choose your data drive (not SSD/boot drive)
a. Then radio button select "Custom size" and I usually place 4096 min and 4096 max size so that it's fixed and doesn't waste time changing and fragmenting the hard drive as it moves up and down.
b. Then the [Set] button
3. Once you placed the new paging on the data drive
a. Go back to your boot-ssd drive (should be C drive) and set to "no paing file". Windows will give your the warning of death if it blue screens itself and "windows won't tell you why or record the death for you" HAS IT EVER?!!!. I say who cares?
b. Then the [Set] button

Reboot and crossing my fingers it worked for you too.

-E2C2Monkeyboy