Any ideas?

[The Pizza Man]

So my partner and I have gaming rigs set up next to one another and we're both very avid gamers. Hers is the slightly older one but should still run really well. Recently though, we've been noticing seemingly random spikes in lag where the framerate just drops for all of a second or two and picks back up. 

 

I've tried monitoring Afterburner but it literally just looks like the GPU drops the ball every time and I can't understand why.

 

Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting this? Or any information I should collate beforehand?

 

Specs include;

 

- GTX 1080 (by Palit I think)

- Ryzen 2600X on an Aorus X470 board

- 16GB DDR4

- Everything installed to either one of a couple of MX500 SSD drives.

- Latest Windows update as of the time of publishing this.

- Latest GPU drivers as of the time of publishing this.

 

Usually playing at 60hz and at 1440p.

 

It's been happening in weird scenarios like something as intensive as Forza Horizon 4 on a High, fixed graphics setting (dynamic rendering and all that jazz turned off) and on something as easy to run as Rocket League (Normally on near-highest settings but even on it's lowest settings at 1080p - frame rates sit flat against the 120fps mark except for these intermittent troughs in framerate). It'll sometimes happen in Sims 4 (although modded to all Hell) and it'll sometimes happen in Stardew Valley as of late. It seems to get worse the longer a game is played, but that could just be because it's more noticeable and jarring the longer we bear it.

 

Thanks in advance for any help folks, we really appreciate it.

[Mando772004]

15 minutes ago, The Pizza Man said:

So my partner and I have gaming rigs set up next to one another and we're both very avid gamers. Hers is the slightly older one but should still run really well. Recently though, we've been noticing seemingly random spikes in lag where the framerate just drops for all of a second or two and picks back up. 

 

I've tried monitoring Afterburner but it literally just looks like the GPU drops the ball every time and I can't understand why.

 

Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting this? Or any information I should collate beforehand?

 

Specs include;

 

GTX 1080 (by Palit I think)

Ryzen 2600X on an Aorus X470 board

16GB DDR4

Everything installed to either one of a couple of MX500 SSD drives.

 

Usually playing at 60hz and at 1440p.

 

It's been happening in weird scenarios like something as intensive as Forza Horizon 4 on a High, fixed graphics setting (dynamic rendering and all that jazz turned off) and on something as easy to run as Rocket League (Normally on near-highest settings but even on it's lowest settings at 1080p - frame rates sit flat against the 120fps mark except for these intermittent troughs in framerate). It'll sometimes happen in Sims 4 (although modded to all Hell) and it'll sometimes happen in Stardew Valley as of late. It seems to get worse the longer a game is played, but that could just be because it's more noticeable and jarring the longer we bear it.

 

Thanks in advance for any help folks, we really appreciate it.

I think it is something with nvidia i have a 3080 and i do notice some stutters in games like rust but to be honest rust is know to stutter. assuming that maybe it isnt a driver problem you may probably be facing a bottleneck where your cpu might be holding back your gpu. what's your average gpu usage in these games?

[The Pizza Man]

12 minutes ago, InfernalClaw said:

I think it is something with nvidia i have a 3080 and i do notice some stutters in games like rust but to be honest rust is know to stutter. assuming that maybe it isnt a driver problem you may probably be facing a bottleneck where your cpu might be holding back your gpu. what's your average gpu usage in these games?

Using Forza Horizon 4 as my prime example then, if I unlock the framerate it'll float around anywhere from 100 to 140 fps (depending on what's on screen) on High and at 95% or more GPU usage.

 

Randomly, however, it'll just drop for a second from 100fps all the way to 5, 10 or 15 fps and pick it back up again. Pretty sure she's on the latest Nvidia driver and it's done this for a while now but recently it's just becoming a headache.

 

EDIT: Perhaps it's worth our while to do a clean Windows install? I'd rather avoid this where possible, however.

Edited June 14, 2021 by The Pizza Man

[The Pizza Man]

Some additional info... I've run a few races and tried to get the CPU and GPU temps and usage to spike. 

 

The CPU temperature peaks at around 89C at worst on one occasion but only hits 81 Celsius 99% of the time. 

 

The GPU temperature peaks at 74 Celsius on one occasion but remains around 70 Celsius 99% of the time.

 

The lag spikes do NOT correlate with any increase or decrease in temperature despite the temperatures hanging around the higher end of the scale.

 

I have monitored this by playing the game, dropping in and out and looking at the graphs. I can be sure that temperature is not a factor, though I do plan on addressing it.

[Mando772004]

i really suggest trying a clean copy of windows 

[The Pizza Man]

Do you think an 'in-place' reinstallation of Windows will do the job (ie: the 'keep my files' option), or is it generally better to let Windows wipe everything and reinstall?

[ndesign.ie]

Keep my files may work, keep a backup elsewhere just in case.

Full wipe would remove any randomness that an in place may not.

[The Pizza Man]

36 minutes ago, ndesign.ie said:

Keep my files may work, keep a backup elsewhere just in case.

Full wipe would remove any randomness that an in place may not.

Thanks, just making another back up so everything is up to date and I'll suck it up and just do a full system wipe and reinstall.