Hello,
I'm dealing with some weird issues with my PC and I can't seem to figure out what is going on. I've done a few benchmarks and my PC scores just above average on these tests which is completely throwing me off. I only truly noticed this issue about 3-4 weeks ago when I downloaded Total War:Rome II and tried to siege down a city that included a army. When I selected my army and moused over the city my FPS went from 144 (I limit my FPS to this) all the way down to 10-15 FPS. I thought it was weird, so I reinstalled Total War:Warhammer III to play as the new DLC for the chaos dwarfs was coming out (Which is now out). And what do you know I get a few turns in and the same issue happens when I go to siege down a city with an army in it my FPS plummets to 10-15. I now knew something was up because it was two separate games and one was a very recent game.
I began to do trial and error. I de-selected the army and moused over the city with the army and it was completely fine. I started a new campaign and instantly selected my army and moused over other armies that I could already see, and it was always random but some armies I moused over would cause this issue even outside of cities. Now I am hyper focused on this weird FPS issue, and I decide to turn on my framerate graph and notice it's smooth with random small spikes, that now I can see on the graph I can feel when I play. I did something I shouldn't have done but I immediately went scorched earth and DDU my graphics driver and installed the most recent one and now it became worse and every game I played or installed had these just ungodly stutters or FPS drops that were just an immediate spike on the graph.
Now, I made an even worse decision and reinstalled windows and now all the games I once played decently smooth or smooth have these stuttering and FPS spikes. When doing my trial and error for each game I notice most of these spikes happen when it's something like the UI pops something up like a prompt or something of the sort. Sometimes I can be walking around in an area and get them but that might just be specific games I need to retune again. I noticed when I hoover my mouse over options and select something or move the mouse fast over options or menus it kills performance. I even went as far as the download Star Wars: Galactic battleground (Age of Empires but star wars) and was getting these weird FPS issues including when I had a builder selected and moused over the options it would cause these issues. I've never had an issue with this PC before and I am beginning to wonder if a recent windows update did this?
Some things I noticed for the Total War FPS drop that was constant my CPU and GPU usage would also go down to almost nothing. Though when I have the spikes nothing seems to be affected. Though it might happen to fast I just can't tell. There just no noticeable change on the graphs.
I feel like I tried a bunch of things (I'll list below) and nothing worked. And now all my games are basically unplayable due to the fact it's just a constant spike-fest when dealing with the UI in some games or when something specific happens on the screen. Like when moving the mouse simply over options sometimes it just freezes as well, and you can feel it.
I tried:
PC Specs:
MSI Gaming Geforce 3070TI 8GB
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB(2 X 16GB) F4-3600C16D-32GVKC (Found that this wasn't under the compatible rams for the mother board. The 16GB version was. Could this be an issue?)
WD Black SN750 NVMe m.2 2280 1TB
MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Edge WiFi
Intel i9-10850k
Seasonic Focus GX-850, 850W 80+ Gold
Corsair iCUE H100i RGB Pro XT
Any Tips on what I might be able to try next would be greatly appreciated. I think something hardware is up? I just can't tell, and it doesn't seem like anyone else is having this issue but me. As of right now I am on another fresh install of windows, fully updated drivers, steam, games, and MSI Afterburner installed. I turned on Hardware Acceleration as well but open to try anything else at this point.
It is late here so I definitely might have missed something I tried or some details pertaining to the issues, but this is the gist of it.
Thank you if you read all of that!
I'm dealing with some weird issues with my PC and I can't seem to figure out what is going on. I've done a few benchmarks and my PC scores just above average on these tests which is completely throwing me off. I only truly noticed this issue about 3-4 weeks ago when I downloaded Total War:Rome II and tried to siege down a city that included a army. When I selected my army and moused over the city my FPS went from 144 (I limit my FPS to this) all the way down to 10-15 FPS. I thought it was weird, so I reinstalled Total War:Warhammer III to play as the new DLC for the chaos dwarfs was coming out (Which is now out). And what do you know I get a few turns in and the same issue happens when I go to siege down a city with an army in it my FPS plummets to 10-15. I now knew something was up because it was two separate games and one was a very recent game.
I began to do trial and error. I de-selected the army and moused over the city with the army and it was completely fine. I started a new campaign and instantly selected my army and moused over other armies that I could already see, and it was always random but some armies I moused over would cause this issue even outside of cities. Now I am hyper focused on this weird FPS issue, and I decide to turn on my framerate graph and notice it's smooth with random small spikes, that now I can see on the graph I can feel when I play. I did something I shouldn't have done but I immediately went scorched earth and DDU my graphics driver and installed the most recent one and now it became worse and every game I played or installed had these just ungodly stutters or FPS drops that were just an immediate spike on the graph.
Now, I made an even worse decision and reinstalled windows and now all the games I once played decently smooth or smooth have these stuttering and FPS spikes. When doing my trial and error for each game I notice most of these spikes happen when it's something like the UI pops something up like a prompt or something of the sort. Sometimes I can be walking around in an area and get them but that might just be specific games I need to retune again. I noticed when I hoover my mouse over options and select something or move the mouse fast over options or menus it kills performance. I even went as far as the download Star Wars: Galactic battleground (Age of Empires but star wars) and was getting these weird FPS issues including when I had a builder selected and moused over the options it would cause these issues. I've never had an issue with this PC before and I am beginning to wonder if a recent windows update did this?
Some things I noticed for the Total War FPS drop that was constant my CPU and GPU usage would also go down to almost nothing. Though when I have the spikes nothing seems to be affected. Though it might happen to fast I just can't tell. There just no noticeable change on the graphs.
I feel like I tried a bunch of things (I'll list below) and nothing worked. And now all my games are basically unplayable due to the fact it's just a constant spike-fest when dealing with the UI in some games or when something specific happens on the screen. Like when moving the mouse simply over options sometimes it just freezes as well, and you can feel it.
I tried:
- DDU graphics drivers
- Reinstalling windows
- Turning on and off game mode
- Turning on and off Hardware acceleration
- Disabling dynamic tick
- Removing my second monitor (Main is 144 while second is 60)
- When windows reinstalled only installed steam and game and still had the issues.
- Disabled steam overlay
- disabled hardware acceleration on Edge
- disabling Fullscreen optimization
- reinstalling/updating drivers for everything.
- Tried playing with wifi disabled
- changed polling rate on mouse
- Checked temps GPU never breaks 60c underload, CPU varied by game 50-60c max underload as well
- Turning XMP on and off
PC Specs:
MSI Gaming Geforce 3070TI 8GB
G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 32GB(2 X 16GB) F4-3600C16D-32GVKC (Found that this wasn't under the compatible rams for the mother board. The 16GB version was. Could this be an issue?)
WD Black SN750 NVMe m.2 2280 1TB
MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Edge WiFi
Intel i9-10850k
Seasonic Focus GX-850, 850W 80+ Gold
Corsair iCUE H100i RGB Pro XT
Any Tips on what I might be able to try next would be greatly appreciated. I think something hardware is up? I just can't tell, and it doesn't seem like anyone else is having this issue but me. As of right now I am on another fresh install of windows, fully updated drivers, steam, games, and MSI Afterburner installed. I turned on Hardware Acceleration as well but open to try anything else at this point.
It is late here so I definitely might have missed something I tried or some details pertaining to the issues, but this is the gist of it.
Thank you if you read all of that!