Question about my odd problem

[Roberto G]

I'll try to make this as short and quick post

My specs:

Intel i5 3570k - stock
Gtx 760 4Gb O/C - stock o/c
8GB GSkiill Jawz Ram - stock
500 Watt Corsair Power Supply Bronze Certified
1TB HDD (Brand new)
23" Planar 120hz Monitor

My problem:

Whenever I start game such as APB and Counter Strike, but especially APB the game will run perfectly normal up until I restart the game or go afk for quite a bit with the game running.. When ever I do go afk for a long time or restart, my game feels sluggish as if I was dealing with input lag and latency problems. Incredibly my FPS manages to stay at normal range but I call this false FPS.. I'll have to restart the game 1 or 2 times to get the normal feel again...ugh -_-

Tips? Thanks guys.

 

[snowctrl]

Afk?

 

[Cryoburn101]

Hmm... Your AFKing for long periods of time may be heating up the components until performance starts getting impacted. Then, restarting gives them a quick 'cooling off' period. I've had similar problems on some of my computers. Some things I suggest -
Get a compressed air can and a small paintbrush and dust out your computer thoroughly. Make sure you get the fans and the heatsinks.
After that, see if airflow is decent in your case. You can check this by writing your temps when your side panel is on. Then, take the side panel off and use a house fan to blow into the case. If the temperatures drop dramatically, you need to improve case air-flow. You can do this by having back-top fans blow out, and side-front-bottom fans blow in. Also adding fans and improving cable management can help significantly.

 

[Vynavill]

I agree with Cryoburn101. However, it might also be the PSU not being able to keep up with the power...

Don't take me wrong, a 500w PSU can power a 760 no problem, but a tiny drop in that amount due to time or any kind of damage and you're going to exceed available power fast... Try to look it this way: if there's low power, everything runs slower, and fans usually take the first hit; as they start spinning slower, temperatures start building up, and eventually throttling kicks in to avoid damage, giving you a slower game.

As a rule of thumb, I use to stay at least a good 100W above required. Up to you if you want to follow my advice or not ;P
It might just be a dust build-up as Cryoburn suggested anyway, so I suggest you check up that before.

 

[Roberto G]

This happend with my Radeon 7850 1GB Card + Amd Quad Core also, but I think I will be buying a better PSU later on anyways. Thanks for the help

 

[Azizinum]

i have a 144hz monitor and i faced some issues , i recommend you fix the fps for both games cause as in counter strike the fps is like 300 , change it to 150 by this command "fps_max 150" ,i don't know about the other game but as 120/144 hz monitors you have to fix the fps for all games you are going to play , i did it for dota2/cod black ops2/CS:GO/World of warcraft ,cause without fps fix , you will face issues and 300 fps in CS:GO is over kill keep it fps_max 150 , its enough or even 120 as it match your screen refresh rate, hope this helps gl

 

[Vynavill]

Well, unless you're aiming for bragging rights and the game manages to keep above a minimum of 60FPS, enabling V-Sync or frame limiters (depending on the game) might reduce load on the GPU, and obviously temperatures. So yeah, you might want to try what Azizinum suggested as well.