I am skipping frames, BIG time.

Snipekillz · February 12, 2019

Hello there!

So for a long time now i have had a lot of problems with my pre-built Lenovo Y720 Cube.

I got it around 2017.

The specs for it are:

GTX 1070

i5 7400

8 GB RAM

1 TB HDD

i've also put in the 1 TB HDD from my old system, they both seem to be same brand.

In pretty much all games now, i experience major frame skips. It wasn't like that when i got it though. I used to be able to play Overwatch with no problems whatsoever. Now, when i join a match, zero models are loaded, nada. It takes about 5 minutes just for one of the models to pop up, yet a big majority of them are still invisible. In War Thunder, a game that requires not a whole lot of power, i can be cruising around with a tank, for then to be pointing the other way after a 1-2 second long frame skip. In PUBG when i land, none of the buildings are loaded. All of the buildings are a bunch of 2D textures. If i somehow manage to find the entrance, then i would get inside, but bug around. For a long time i could play Fortnite fine, yet around a month ago, the same problem i had in PUBG, appeared in Fortnite. There seems to be very few games i actually can play now without frame skip (luckily the "virus" hasn't spread to AOEII)

I have absolutely no idea what could be causing this. Some friends have said it could be because of the massive amount of files i have, yet i don't believe that (pictures of my drives. E: and F: are the same drive, for some reason it was formatted like that in my old system, couldn't be bothered to change it.)

My system also had a period, where it would crash a few minutes after windows boot. One time, i had to force shutdown my computer 5 times before it stopped. I still have about a month left to return it for not working properly. I need to know if i should do it, or if i can just mess around a bit with my system to fix it.

Thanks in advance!

191x7 · February 12, 2019

Check the health of the drives. I'd recommend Hard Disk Sentinel.

Also, where's your SSD?

Turtle Rig · February 12, 2019

18 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Check the health of the drives. I'd recommend Hard Disk Sentinel.

Also, where's your SSD?

Or CrystalDiskInfo ...... free simple app.

Turtle Rig · February 12, 2019

What do you expect with 8GB RAM and a Hard Disk Drive. Grab 16GB RAM and a SSD and your problems might go away.

Snipekillz · February 13, 2019

2 hours ago, Turtle Rig said:

What do you expect with 8GB RAM and a Hard Disk Drive. Grab 16GB RAM and a SSD and your problems might go away.

Well you see, i thought the exact same thing, except my motherboard is some f**ked up shit Lenovo had to smoke crack to make.

There's 2 ram slots, only 1 filled. Fine i think, i'll order one. I find some Corsair RAM that looked nice, i check everything to make sure it'll fit in a standard motherboard. Order it. 1 week later it comes. I open the box, i am literally jumping. For the first time in my life i will have 16 GB ram. The masterrace. I plug it in with my other stick. The PC beeps loudly, no display. Hmm, weird. I check if i plugged it in correctly, push it a bit more. Yup, snug fit. Try once more, still nothing. I take out my stick and try again. Yup, still boots with the RAM i already had. I then switch them out, so only the Corsair RAM is in, nothing, still beeps.

I research my stick a bit, turns out it's ECC. Maybe the board somehow only takes ECC RAM??

Now for the SSD..... There's only 2 f**king SATA DATA ports.

excuse me what the frick

I've come to the conclusion, that to upgrade just one of the parts i need to upgrade, i'll have to upgrade more parts at the same time. I swear to god the motherboard is pure Meth or something-

Snipekillz · February 13, 2019

3 hours ago, Turtle Rig said:

Or CrystalDiskInfo ...... free simple app.

So you might be more knowledgeable about this app than more, the only thing i understand is that the drives seem to be good. Any other things off your mind that i could do?