New Build Freezing/FPS Drops/jumpy mouse

[grenade252]

This build is a week old. Specs are MSI R9 290x, I5-4690, Asrock H97 Killer MOBO, 8gb G.Skill Ram, Seagate Barracuda 1tb 7200rpm HDD, 630watt Rosewill PSU.

 

Problems:

 

Computer has froze a couple times. Could move mouse but nothing else, had to force restart. One time I could hear the hard drive trying to do something constantly.

 

Getting FPS drops in all games and stuttering/shakiness. In League of Legends, frames used to stay at 60, now it will be at 60 and drop to 40 and the game stutters/freezes. In BF4 I have had frame drops like 140-60, 100-30, 90-3. I was just on BF4 and just sitting in place frames would be at 75-80 and kept dropping to 40-47. I played SC2 last night and had the same stuttering/shaking.

 

In BF4 sometimes when I move the mouse to click a spawn point it will lag all over the screen. Or when I try to turn a turret it will stay in place or jerk around. It has happened just a couple times out of game. I've tried different usb ports and a new mouse.

 

Earlier I had my speakers hooked up to my motherboard ports and only one speaker would work, moved it to the front case ports and it worked. But now it's working again in the motherboard. The keyboard quit working until I unplugged and plugged it back in. 

 

This may not be related, but now when I reduce a game to see something else, and I click the reduce tab or quick start icon to reduce that progam, the game will go back to full screen instead of something like GPU-Z being reduced.

 

I ran the Microsoft memory test and it came back fine. I have screen shots of the Task Manager while BF4 was loading and in game. And GPU-Z screen shot, I set it to max after a about 10 minutes of BF4.

 

Any ideas what the problem could be?

 

This is with BF4 loading. It went down to 80-83% a couple times but for the most part was 97-99%

 

 

this is with it loaded. It was immediately stuttering but I couldn't see the Disk usage in full screen to see how high it was.

 

[LabRat]

this a repeat thread?

 

for reference.....

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/316126-bad-gpu-or-something-else/

[grenade252]

this a repeat thread?

 

for reference.....

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/316126-bad-gpu-or-something-else/

Sure is. I wanted to re-post it with better info and on the Troubleshooting page, rather than a GPU page, since it could be anything. Is there a problem?????????

[LabRat]

why didn't you include information already gone over?

[grenade252]

I've run Memtest86 and Crystal mark, they came back fine.

Ran Microsoft memory test, it came back fine.

Monitored temps in game, highest cpu was 73c and highest GPU was 74c but stayed mostly around 68c.

HDD load while loading a game is 99%, while in game it goes down to around 13% and jumps around some.

 

I just uninstalled the GPU drivers and tried to re-install them but now it will only install 13.1, and not 14.12 like I originally had.  It will do the download and then when it's nearing the end the program closes. Now in BF4 I don't have the option for DX11 or Mantle. I'm going to keep trying to get 14.12 to correctly install.

 

I'm wondering if it may be a bad MOBO. A couple times now I have had the sound cut out so only one speaker is working, when I moved the plugs to the front case port it worked fine. Also, the keyboard became unresponsive and I had to unplug it and plug it back in for it to work. And the mouse becomes erratic and jumpy. I did an online RMA with newegg and going to buy a different brand and get a refund. Even if he MOBO isn't the main problem I don't want to deal with random problems with the ports.

[LabRat]

I wish you luck with it.

[grenade252]

I've uninstalled the drivers with Display Driver Uninstaller and re-installed all drivers , updated Intel Chipset drives. All drivers should be up to date. Still getting FPS drops in all games. While playing League, now when I die or am about to die my FPS drops and it freezes and comes back quickly, like my old POS computer used to do.

[LabRat]

 sounds like a driver problem............ does that board have some kind of on board sound.......... if you're not using it go into the BIOS and disable it.

 

how many sound drivers are installed?....... 1. the on board- 2. the sound from the graphics driver install and what else?

 

does that board have the crazy killer nic on it and did you seek out the latest driver for it from the NIC site?

 

does this happen with games that are not internet related?

[grenade252]

It's freezing for a sec and dropping FPS in campaign too.

 

AMD High Definition Audio Device Driver 9.0.0.9905

 

Realtek Driver 6.0.1.7293

 

It uses Purity Sound™ 2. I don't see anything about killer nic, what is that?

[LabRat]

diable/uninstall any sound you are not using. don't let windows reinstall it. ( check the device manager )

[grenade252]

I did that and it's still the same. I'm going to remove the GPU and use the Intel graphics to see if that changes anything.

[z3kron]

Try this. When in the OS go to control panel>power settings> then there will be an administration option in the side (if win 7) something about power properties and set the pcie performance to max.Also in the power settings set the plan to maximum/performance.

in the bios in my mobo i have a pcie mode settings which changes the pcie x** mode.. try to check that.

In AMD control panel set max pre rendered fames to default or application control or 3

set the power settings to performance in the control panel.

I hope my experience with my 590 helped you

[grenade252]

Power setting is already set to performance. I couldn't find anything in my BIOS about a different pcie setting. Thanks for trying.