hello,
i'm looking to get some help with a really annoying issue. I'm crossposting this in a few places to hopefully get more visibility
I have a newly built PC with a corsair 500W PSU, Asrock b450m-R4 motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 2600, 2x8gb 3200mhz DDR4, 1tb M.2 SSD, and an old HDD for storage. running a clean install of windows ten onto the SSD. The GPU is a used RX480.
Before I built my new PC, I tried the graphics card (which I got first, along with the PSU) in my old PC on windows 7, with a GTX 750TI. It had some trouble at first, wouldn't post etc, had to reseat it and try different power cables. It would also crash every game to a black screen with all the fans running at top speed, until I reapplied thermal paste to its processor, at which point it stopped doing that! after that it seemed to work ok, though of course it was massively throttled by the Athlon 860K that I had.
That is until I built my new rig. Now, on the games I've tested it on (Kingdom Come Deliverance probably being the most demanding, I've also tried BeamNG drive and GTA4) runs terribly, and has really bad stuttering. This takes the form of a very uniform hanging, every second or so the video will pause, quite smoothly, then carry on again, as if someone is pausing the rendering at exact intervals. KCD is basically unplayable, and it does seem to get worse up to a point as time goes on while playing, although I always get annoyed and stop after about ten minutes. I suspected it was maybe temps but they remain around 65-70, so not terrible. I've not seen the CPU go much above 50! When the hanging happens I sometimes but not always hear the gpu fan going up and down in a regular rythym.
What I've tried so far:
I've attached this image of the 'performance' window in BeamNG drive - when those very obvious 'spikes' happen is when the hang occurs. I don't know what they mean, but the very strange thing is that, at one point, the game ran fine with the performance window open, then poorly when I closed it!
I'm really keen to sort this issue out as it's so annoying to seem to have wasted all this money i'll monitor notifications so if anyone can help i'll be very glad to provide any further information!
i'm looking to get some help with a really annoying issue. I'm crossposting this in a few places to hopefully get more visibility
I have a newly built PC with a corsair 500W PSU, Asrock b450m-R4 motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 2600, 2x8gb 3200mhz DDR4, 1tb M.2 SSD, and an old HDD for storage. running a clean install of windows ten onto the SSD. The GPU is a used RX480.
Before I built my new PC, I tried the graphics card (which I got first, along with the PSU) in my old PC on windows 7, with a GTX 750TI. It had some trouble at first, wouldn't post etc, had to reseat it and try different power cables. It would also crash every game to a black screen with all the fans running at top speed, until I reapplied thermal paste to its processor, at which point it stopped doing that! after that it seemed to work ok, though of course it was massively throttled by the Athlon 860K that I had.
That is until I built my new rig. Now, on the games I've tested it on (Kingdom Come Deliverance probably being the most demanding, I've also tried BeamNG drive and GTA4) runs terribly, and has really bad stuttering. This takes the form of a very uniform hanging, every second or so the video will pause, quite smoothly, then carry on again, as if someone is pausing the rendering at exact intervals. KCD is basically unplayable, and it does seem to get worse up to a point as time goes on while playing, although I always get annoyed and stop after about ten minutes. I suspected it was maybe temps but they remain around 65-70, so not terrible. I've not seen the CPU go much above 50! When the hanging happens I sometimes but not always hear the gpu fan going up and down in a regular rythym.
What I've tried so far:
- Checked drivers - GPU driver is up to date in the Radeon software, updated yesterday
- Some people recommended uninstalling everything to do with Xbox from windows, so I used ccleaner to do that.
- I've tried games on various settings, even on low graphics it has the same worsening stutter
- Tried slightly turning up VRAM speed, based on someone's recommendation on a thread, but again, I shouldn't need to do this.
- Tested it with furmark - the image hung a lot (same as in games) and made the screen go black and spun the fans at 100% speed, although the GPU temp readout didn't seem too high in furmark!
I've attached this image of the 'performance' window in BeamNG drive - when those very obvious 'spikes' happen is when the hang occurs. I don't know what they mean, but the very strange thing is that, at one point, the game ran fine with the performance window open, then poorly when I closed it!
I'm really keen to sort this issue out as it's so annoying to seem to have wasted all this money i'll monitor notifications so if anyone can help i'll be very glad to provide any further information!