Next level Haunted computer

[zengara]

Ok......

I got a few new things, an SSD (kingston 250 gb), a GPU (RX 580 Sapphire special edition) a new case and windows 10. I have for a few months have had problems, whenever I download a heavy game, like Tomb Raider or Assasins Creed Odyssey I get spike lags after like 2 mins of start up of game, and from there on out every 10 second it drops from 60 to like 10 fps, it literally doesnt matter what I do or where I stand, how I do it etc. As long as I moved the first few seconds of the upstart. It doesnt matter what my graphics is on, low or high, literally same stuff happens. And I mean literally at the same time, and the same fps drop

When I finished the Tomb Raider Trailer (even with the dips) I could replay it all right now, with 0 laggs nor dips or stutter. I got my brother to whom is a IT Consultant in some government based company, that does some important websides, identifaction....stuff to look at it, so we have obviously done all the normal stuff. From reset, look at temp, Task manager, put Avast on to remove some of the load on windows.....etc. Only thing that was weird, s that the Core Temp showed that CPU load was on 100% when the spikes happen even though Task Manager showed like 50-80%. (and other normal stuff like update all drivers, go to websites and check if right drivers and check websites for small stuff that you need to shut down like diagtrack. Look at power usage, and give it more to see effect etc).

 

The even more weird stuff about this, is that it only happens when I download big games and dont finish them, even if I delete them after. I used to for like 2 days ago play Guild Wars 2 and at the very least LoL throughout a game without a problem. But now the same thing happens to these games because it happened to odyssey 

 

My primary guess is that there might be some corrupted files on the hard-drive that Is still my main and is an old hard drive or windows is acting up in the background. 

My specs used to be 

AMD FX 6300

GTX 750 ti msi

8 GB RAM

PS: 550 VS

 

Now it is:

AMD FX 6300

RX 580 sapphire nitro special edition

8 GB RAM

PS: 550 VS

 

honestly....if you have any idea, pleaaaaaaase help. This is some next level haunted stuff

[thedangerine]

Make sure you have amds newest software that they recently released as a lot of people have had issues when using the old one

[BlueThumb]

Are you overclocking your FX 6300? If so, you may have corrupt game files that can result from bad read/writes. One of my gaming builds is almost your exact build but with an older R9 270X.  I thought I had a stable overclock but it turns out I didn't, which meant corruption. It wasn't enough to crash the game but cause poor performance. By adjusting my overclock, it runs smooth again. 

[BlueThumb]

Also, some may say you're bottle-necking your CPU. It could be true but not too likely. One way to test that out is to watch your CPU usage with AMD Overdrive while gaming. If all six cores are at 80% or over, then you're about tapped out. You can lower your FPS and see if your CPU usage drops.

 

[zengara]

Yeah I am overclocking my fx 6300 5% Always used to work. So I just need to turn overclocking off?

[zengara]

6 minutes ago, BlueThumb said:

Also, some may say you're bottle-necking your CPU. It could be true but not too likely. One way to test that out is to watch your CPU usage with AMD Overdrive while gaming. If all six cores are at 80% or over, then you're about tapped out. You can lower your FPS and see if your CPU usage drops.

 

I'll try not overclocking my CPU and see if that helps. My brother and I have tried looking at the load of the cores as I play The Division, Tomb Raider and Assassins Creed Odyssey and it stays at a 70 to 80 % range for all of them until the cpu dips in % Utilization for some reason. When it does that, it shows the loads of all of the cores as 100%, and it keeps fluctuating between these two states at a regular interval.

[BlueThumb]

5% over-clock is not a big deal and shouldn't be causing an issue. This said, it sounds like you are getting some bottle-neck as 80-100% it topping out the CPU. When the CPU is maxed on, you will get lag and other issues, such as severly dropped FPS. 

 

An RX 580 is probably the fastest card you can match to an FX6300 and some games are more CPU heavy than others. One fix is to make the GPU do more work than the CPU, which is done by locking FPS <60 and raising graphics settings to high or better.

 

Do some internet searches on "CPU bottlenecking GPU". Even better, you can look at posts that are specific to the FX series. The FX6300 and 8300 series are believed to be to top-out on RX 580s and GTX 1060.  

[zengara]

Thank you very much! I Solved it, this seems like a weird problem so I would like to write the solution, just in case if others encounters it.

 

It was already on default, since the new components and reset. It seems like it needed to be overclocked back to 5% to work properly, there doesnt seem to be any logic to it since the frame drops really happened on a timely manner and in all games, from League of Legends to Assasins Creed Odyssey and in all graphic settings, from everything on lowest to higest. But if this happen to you, return to the overclocking part and return it to what it used to be, before you downloaded windows/got new stuff. Like if you had 10% overclocking, put it back to that, and play the game.

 

EDIT:(There probably is some logic, like old files from harddrive connected to 5% or some random weird stuff, but still seems like it shouldnt affect it....At least not in that manner. Games indicate if there is a problem with the hardware, like run slower in big fights and more fps in movement in an empty zone. This was just weird. Either way, if you encounter it, here is a possible solution to your haunted problem)

 

I would like to thank everyone for their help!!!! specially BlueThumb, would probably not have looked in BIOS for a while if it was not for you!