CS:GO Freezes on Win10, i7-4790k, GTX980Ti GamingG1

[Xeraph]

Hi all.

I'm having an issue with my newly built computer, which doesn't occur in any other game, only CS:GO. 

Basically what happens is when I play CS, there is a brief freeze occasionally (10-15min) of 0.5 seconds and below (a really short freeze), and it's not the audio channel problem, the audio is fine. The sound doesn't loop and there isn't any error message in the console. This only happens to CS:GO, and not my other games like Battlefield 4, Black Ops 3, Crysis 3. They all run butter smooth without any freezing.

The interesting thing is that when I get the freeze, this happens: http://imgur.com/un4BxVZ. The core clock and the core voltage both drop slightly during the freeze.

Another interesting thing is that when I was scanning my WD Green 2TB drive for bad sectors using HDTune (150 MB/S), there were no freezes for about 40 mins after which I went to sleep.

 

My specs:

Intel Core i7-4790k @4.00 GHZ

Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1/USB 3.1

Corsair H110i GTX Liquid Cooling

Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 MHz 2x8GB CL11 

Gigabyte/Nvidia GTX 980 Ti G1-Gaming

Corsair HX750i PSU

Samsung 850 Evo (Boot Drive)

WD 2TB Green 64MB (Gaming Drive) <------ CS:GO and other games are here
Samsung 24x DVD/RW Write/Read

 

EDIT: I'm on 355.60 Win 10 WHQL Drivers by Nvidia without GF Experience installed. 

[You_are_a_cunt]

It's CS:GO being a little bitchy

I get rather the same thing, but when it freezes for me it's for a few minutes, long enough that I reboot instead of waiting for it to unfreeze

[Xeraph]

Did you try to reinstall the game? You can do this by right-clicking CSGO in your steam libary and click "delete local files".

I uninstalled game and steam, defragged, reinstalled, problem still persists.

[Xeraph]

It's CS:GO being a little bitchy

I get rather the same thing, but when it freezes for me it's for a few minutes, long enough that I reboot instead of waiting for it to unfreeze

My CS:GO on my laptop before I got my desktop runs fine...

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

My CS:GO on my laptop before I got my desktop runs fine...

What does Net_graph 1 say?

Any Loss/Choke?

 

- Did you un-park your cores? Might be it. Windows 10 parks cores/threads. My AMD cpu has 8, it parked 4 of them, causing me to get shitty FPS.

Maybe parking/unparking freezes the game in your case?

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

Hi all.

I'm having an issue with my newly built computer, which doesn't occur in any other game, only CS:GO. 

Basically what happens is when I play CS, there is a brief freeze occasionally (10-15min) of 0.5 seconds and below (a really short freeze), and it's not the audio channel problem, the audio is fine. The sound doesn't loop and there isn't any error message in the console. This only happens to CS:GO, and not my other games like Battlefield 4, Black Ops 3, Crysis 3. They all run butter smooth without any freezing.

The interesting thing is that when I get the freeze, this happens: http://imgur.com/un4BxVZ. The core clock and the core voltage both drop slightly during the freeze.

Another interesting thing is that when I was scanning my WD Green 2TB drive for bad sectors using HDTune (150 MB/S), there were no freezes for about 40 mins after which I went to sleep.

 

My specs:

Intel Core i7-4790k @4.00 GHZ

Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1/USB 3.1

Corsair H110i GTX Liquid Cooling

Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 MHz 2x8GB CL11 

Gigabyte/Nvidia GTX 980 Ti G1-Gaming

Corsair HX750i PSU

Samsung 850 Evo (Boot Drive)

WD 2TB Green 64MB (Gaming Drive) <------ CS:GO and other games are here

Samsung 24x DVD/RW Write/Read

 

EDIT: I'm on 355.60 Win 10 WHQL Drivers by Nvidia without GF Experience installed. 

Here's my solution at lease. Worth a try.

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/432164-cpu-uses-only-4-cores/#entry5793606

[ExcitezR]

try and put csgo on the SSD 

[Xeraph]

Hey guys thanks for all your suggestions!

 

try and put csgo on the SSD 

Yep, I googled and that worked for a lot of people with Green HDDs, which auto-park the head every 8 seconds. cl_forcepreload 1 did help the issue but not solve it entirely. I managed to fix my current problem by opening HDTune while I was playing so as to keep my HDD running (get the head not to park).

[Xeraph]

So the culprit is my HDD, I guess. Don't buy a WD Green drive if you're going to play a Source Engine game.