Unstable Fps Whats Causing this?

[NeoTech52]

So I had an Intel Pentium g3258 that caused unstable frame rate( was paired with a gtx 750 ti). Later on, as time went by I thought that buying an intel core i3 4160 would fix the problem. Turns out it did but very little(I tested the intel core i3 4160 with the gtx 750 ti and the 1050ti problem still occurred) and till this day Is till don't know whats causing the unstable frame rate can any one help? thanks in advanced.Also, the Weird frame drops seem to be like this, for example, stable 60fps for like 10 minutes then drop about 10 or 5 frames and then Repeats. Keep in mind I also set the games graphical settings to the lowest but this still occurs
My specs:
Corsair 500watts
Gtx 1050 ti
intel core i3 4160
h81m-p33 motherboard
1tb hard drive

 

[glytch5]

hmmm....
Not to state the obvious but do you monitor your hardware? Even with like Afterburner?
Your GPU or CPU could be working fine until it gets nice n toasty in your case, and then thermal throttle down.

If you are on windows 10, I would also recommend trying to turn off all non windows services, and see if that helps...

 

[NeoTech52]

hmmm....
Not to state the obvious but do you monitor your hardware? Even with like Afterburner?
Your GPU or CPU could be working fine until it gets nice n toasty in your case, and then thermal throttle down.

If you are on windows 10, I would also recommend trying to turn off all non windows services, and see if that helps...

I do Monitor my hardware, For example, I check the temps for both gpu and cpu and currently at the time the cpu maximum tempature is 60 degrees Celsius while in gaming and idle is 50 degrees though if i do put new thermal paste the results may be minimal to the fps drop problem.even when my cpu was fresh off the box it was still providing me some fps drop. Also I will try to disable the non window services

 

[glytch5]

One of the strange things with graphics settings is... if you turn the settings down to low, your game becomes more CPU bound than graphics card bound... so sometimes lower settings can give you worse performance... weird right?

What games are you playing? Its not battlefield 1 is it? If it is we have along conversation ahead of us lol.

 

[NeoTech52]

One of the strange things with graphics settings is... if you turn the settings down to low, your game becomes more CPU bound than graphics card bound... so sometimes lower settings can give you worse performance... weird right?

What games are you playing? Its not battlefield 1 is it? If it is we have along conversation ahead of us lol.

I play games like Call of duty black ops 3 and overwatch,h1z1,etc.

 

[glytch5]

Next time you play, open task manager and performance, when you notice the FPS drops and stutters, check on your desktop and see if your CPU is hitting near 100 percent load. Also check and see what your GPU load is. I dont' know much about intel chips, but I feel like a 1050Ti and an i3 should be able to handle overwatch just fine.
My fx 8350 and an r9 280x handles overwatch nicely on my backup unit... you may just be bottlenecking. What you got for memory in that bad boy? windows 10 your os?

 

[NeoTech52]

Next time you play, open task manager and performance, when you notice the FPS drops and stutters, check on your desktop and see if your CPU is hitting near 100 percent load. Also check and see what your GPU load is. I dont' know much about intel chips, but I feel like a 1050Ti and an i3 should be able to handle overwatch just fine.
My fx 8350 and an r9 280x handles overwatch nicely on my backup unit... you may just be bottlenecking. What you got for memory in that bad boy? windows 10 your os?

Windows 10 is my os( 8GB RAM vengance)

 

[glytch5]

8 gigs should be enough... supposing your not getting high CPU load, or getting low GPU usage, there must be a setting somewhere you are missing.
I do not own the games you have mentioned other than overwatch. So I can't say for how much power you need for them.

thermals are not throttling... just get spikey FPS... man sounds like you have a bad case of the PC blues haha.
Did you try turning off the non windows services/do you know how to do that? Maybe something is causing your disk to hit high loads and its smackin your frames around?
Also... this is multiplayer, single or both?

 

[NeoTech52]

8 gigs should be enough... supposing your not getting high CPU load, or getting low GPU usage, there must be a setting somewhere you are missing.
I do not own the games you have mentioned other than overwatch. So I can't say for how much power you need for them.

thermals are not throttling... just get spikey FPS... man sounds like you have a bad case of the PC blues haha.
Did you try turning off the non windows services/do you know how to do that? Maybe something is causing your disk to hit high loads and its smackin your frames around?
Also... this is multiplayer, single or both?

This occurs on both Multiplayer and Single player. One more note is that my CPU load seems to be above 90% most of the time and when it stutters it seems that it increases (100%) and then lowers its percentage(lowers to about 85 or 78 percent) and then increases percentage back to 90%.the Gpu load seems to be normal it Stays above 90% and above so no low gpu usage. Also yes I have disabled all non- windows services.

 

[glytch5]

hmmm. ARe you bottlenecking that CPU? I am not familiar with Intel chips, as I have not owned one since the original penium, but if your CPU is smackin' up to 100 that is the issue I would say.

You may just need more horsepower. However you can try a couple things:

one is since your on nvidea, set your pre rendered frames to like 2 or 3, I know that changes the games CPU and GPU usages and can help with stuttering. Also in say overwatch, try capping your frames at 60, that will make your CPU do less work, if you are currently getting well over 60 as it is. Your ganna have to go with maybe high or medium graphics settings, but not low enough to put all the work on your CPU and then cap the frames. Play around with the pre redered things in your nvid control panel too... those can help.

 

[mdd1963]

Turn off all unnecessary tasks such as Onedrive, GoogleDrive, Dropbox, etc.; the i3 has nothing to spare.

 

[mdd1963]

Turn details down to medium, the 1050 is not equipped for high/ ultra quality at 1080 P ....

 

[Karadjgne]

BlackOps was horribly optimized, so that's not exactly a good reference. 50C at idle is high, even for a stock cooler, especially on an i3. Unless you are in India, and it's summer and you have the windows open. You should be seeing idle temps @10°C higher than ambient temps.

With that kind of cpu usage, you are being throttled. Either the i3 isn't enough, you don't have HT enabled, or there's an issue with the gpu drivers. There are issues when nvidia drivers get a bad install and they'll create a 'prefontcache' folder in windows, and when that happens you'll see a consistent 25-50% cpu usage, before games are even started, which has a net affect of not allowing true idle, but in fact a cpu under load, when you are doing nothing and think it's idle.

Check the services and processes tabs in device manager, the only thing that should be using any real number is the 'idle process' which should bounce 95% or higher. Try to turn off any extra processes that are unnecessary, or anything like browser add-ons etc that will use up cpu.