Help with GPU (?)

[Bluphyre]

Hey LTT fam, i recently built a new computer and had one issue regarding ram already resolved by the amazing community! So I figured I'd turn here again in hopes that I will be able to find a solution!

The issue that I am having is that my computer seems to really struggle when it comes to playing a game, and lets say watching something on twitch, or watching a movie / show (not on netflix).

I experience random periods of lag, where the music keeps going but the frames skip.

It seems like packet loss to me, but that doesn't explain the second issue which is watching something while gaming. Lets say the game isn't lagging and im watching something I downloaded; the movie seems to jump in frames as if it can't keep up. Ive tried different video files and different media players to see if it occurs and it does.

That leads me to believe that I have a GPU maybe even a CPU issue? I don't have my graphics settings to ultra or anything like that, and on top of that the games i play the most (OW, hearthstone, WOW, SC2, DOTA2) dont seem to require that much processing power.

 

My specs are as follows (i have nothing overclocked)

 

AMD Ryzen 2700x

AORUS B450 PRO - bios updated

16 GB Kingston HyperX- 3200 MHz RAM

eVGA GTX 1070Ti - 8GB Black edition

512GB M.2 nVMe SSD - WD Black

512GB Crucial MX100 SSD (what i run my games off of)

eVGA 750W G3 80 plus Gold PSU

I have a dell 27" monitor running at 144hZ for gaming connected via display port, and my other 1080p 60hz monitor for media connected via HDMI.

 

 

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks in advance !!

[Stormseeker9]

You set your ram speed in the bios to 3200mhz ?

 

[Bluphyre]

Just now, Stormseeker9 said:

You set your ram speed in the bios to 3200mhz ?

 

xmp or amds version of it whatever u call it is already enabled in the bios to 3200mhz.

[martward]

Check in your browser/video playing software if hardware acceleration is enabled. If so watching videos need resources from the GPU, but since the GPU is very busy rendering your game it can cause struggles. I've noticed this when watching Youtube videos while playing very demanding games, usually disabling hardware acceleration solved it for me.

[Bluphyre]

4 minutes ago, martward said:

Check in your browser/video playing software if hardware acceleration is enabled. If so watching videos need resources from the GPU, but since the GPU is very busy rendering your game it can cause struggles. I've noticed this when watching Youtube videos while playing very demanding games, usually disabling hardware acceleration solved it for me.

 

but logic seems to me that if i disable hardware acceleration, wouldn't the videos / youtube even lag more?

[martward]

1 minute ago, Bluphyre said:

 

but logic seems to me that if i disable hardware acceleration, wouldn't the videos / youtube even lag more?

No because the software emulation uses the CPU. At least this is what I understood when I was facing a similar problem, I could be wrong.

[Bluphyre]

doesn't explain my game lag / fps drop. no idea if its my isp or how to test for that. any ideas?