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Consistent lag spikes

AkiraShadow
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I was playing Monster Hunter World and its having a consistent lag spike. I was ignoring it at first because its quick and consistently timed so started to kinda just not notice it after a while. Still it is still bothering me as to what is causing it. I dont see any unusual activity in cpu that can correlate to the spikes. Note the dips in gpu graph. Any ideas?

cpu: ryzen 3800x @ 4.2ghz (So low IMO)

Memory: DDR4 3200 32GB

gpu: Radeon 5700xt

 

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try playing around with the distance scaling(i dunno if there is such a setting in that game) but i had the same happen to me when playing minecraft with large chunk size, it would lag when memory dumps took place

its a longshot but its worth a try

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Task manager isn't monitoring the GPU right, please switch to something more accurate like GPU-Z or even MSI Afterburner.

 

Try running FreezeKiller from the Ryzen DRAM Calculator while you game.

 

Having the latest chipset drivers? https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x470

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Taskmgr is monitoring fine in my case. Only difference is taskmgr seems to avg it a little. Still accurate enough for many cases. 
Here is afterburner screenshot. The dips in utilization correspond precisely with the lag spikes.

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Chipset drivers are all up to date. cross checked the version numbers in devmgmt with version numbers listed in the updater.

FreezeKiller does not have any effect on the game smoothness.

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Started and canceled windows shutdown to kill background processes and the lag spikes stopped. Though its not a solution at least i know it is software related. Ill have to spend some time to figure out what process is causing it. 

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dont forget that without recent drivers for your gpu the game will freeze every now and then

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