Lag Spikes Please help!

[Mistico88]

Ok guys so I have had this prob for a while and just cant seem to figure out why I am having lag spikes during gameplay. On all games I have tried!! It has been happening the last month or so and its really starting to bug me. I even recently upgraded and bought another 780 for sli. That was about a week ago and it still persists. Sigh. Please help. Here are my specs. I have tried re installing nvidia drivers. Changed the transparency in my desktop menu bar to normal. Set all overclocks to stock. Reset my CMOS. It is so annoying during Gameplay.

 

 i7 4770k

MSI Z87-G45 Gaming

ASUS GTX 780 DCUII (IN SLI)

G Skill Ripjaws 16GB 1866

250 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD

2T WD Caviar Black

1000 supernova G2

I have a BenqXL2720z Monitor and my second monitor is a AOC 20in 1080p monitor. Just a regular second monitor. I was going to just do a clean install of everything this weekend. Just back up a few things and just start from scratch from both drives  but i really dont want to do that. PLEASE HELP!!

[Toddwjp]

umm lag is network issue usually? you wired or wireless? your ISP any good,

 

obvs if this in in single player games its not network so please clarify

[NotCthulhu]

By "lag" do you mean a drop in frame rates? or legit lag?

[Mistico88]

Legit lag. It literally limps like every few sec. Yes actual lag.

 

Also, I am wired. And yes these games are usually on network. Will try offline see if its the same. Games I usually play:

 

Borderlands 2

LOL

Dungeon Defenders

Black ops 2

Smite

Titanfall

[Mistico88]

I found this on youtube and its pretty much the exact same thing happening to my set up. Its really the same thing. Its just one big one after every 15sec or so. But its happening on all my games.

 

[Matacks]

Do you happen to have anyone else in the house who is using up Internet bandwidth?

I just had a similar problem while gaming. It was driving me crazy for a few days until I figured it out.. I also went through whole thing of updating drivers and trying to find out if my computer wasnt working correctly.

See, we recently got a roku and a family member had just discovered the joy of watching netflix all the time. anyway, with them streaming hd video all the time, it totally used up a large portion of our available signal bandwidth. . .. I think..

So I just have to make sure the roku isn't being used while I'm trying to play a game because the problem appears to go away when the roku isn't being used and before the roku I had never noticed any problems with ping in games or any kind of slow connection issues..

ideally it would be cool to be able to game and also have somebody streaming video in another room, which isn't really happening with our current setup. maybe something needs to be upgraded for this to happen B)

[Emit]

Try doing some basic troubleshootings first:
Use some kind of monitoring software to check your CPU and GPU. Does any of them spike/drop in usage while the lag is presence? Open up task manager, go to processes, tick show all processes, prioritize CPU usage. Do you see any spike for processes other than your running game? Open up resource monitor, is any program overworking your hard drive? Take out your old card, and leave in your newer 780. Does the problem still persists?

[ross06187]

you need to monitor your

 

CPU usage

Ram usage

GPU clock speed

CPU clock speed

 

in game and see if any one is tanking

 

also turn of SLI and see if it goes away not all games support it well and this causes stuttering.

[Mistico88]

UPDATE!

 

I have at this for hours guys and nothing really. So this is what i have tried based on your suggestions.

 

Tried gaming offline/ still lag

Replaced ethernet cable with a new one/ still lag

Updated my z87-G45 with the latest bios 1.9/ still lag

Replaced my DVI cable/ still lag

 

I will be honest with you guys. I am not experienced with this stuff at all. I just love to game and have the best gaming experience. So I tried monitoring my hardware with CPU Z/GPU Z, Gpu Tweak, Realtemp,  and windows task manager. 

So I didnt really know what I was looking at compared to what it should look like. There were some occasional spikes in both CPU usage and GPU usage but sometimes it didn't coincide with the lag. Cpu temps never went over 63 degrees C. And Gpu temps never really went over 69. I tried playing Borderlands 2 for an hr and League. Yes I know league isnt demanding but because you need to be so precise in your movements that you notice the lag right away.

 

Here is the last thing. When I disabled SLI it seemed to to have reduced the lag. It was still subtle. It might have just been me. Who knows. 

 

Please, Any other ideas?

[Mistico88]

I take it back. It lags even with SLI disabled. 

 

Please Help.

[Captain_WD]

Hey there,

 

Did you try the hardware troubleshooting that @Emit suggested? Maybe some of the hardware is faulty. Try moving around the RAM sticks and swapping the GPUs. Also did you make sure all your cables and hardware sit firmly in their places? I would thing such lag might be caused either from overheating, network usage, background processes or faulty hardware. Since your temps are fine, offline lags too, it's either the usage or the hardware. Could you please post a screenshot of your CPU, RAM and GPU usage during gaming?

 

Captain_WD.