Inconsistent Frames and Freezing/Stuttering

grenade252 · March 23, 2015

Specs: MSI R9 290x, I5-4690, 8(2x4) gb G.Skill Ram, Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM HDD, Asus H97 Pro Gamer MOBO, Rosewill green 630 watt PSU.

This build is about a month old, within 3 days of using it I started having problems in game. I've made a couple threads before, I thought I had it fixed, but it's the same.

Sometimes frames will be stable, other times they are all over the place. Compared to the first few days of use, BF4 has lower frames overall. I have seen as low as 7 fps and once held at 15-17 for a while in game, but the usual drops are down to the 40's, and when it drops it will stutter.

In League of Legends I used to have 60 fps constantly, now it will drop as low as 15 fps and I will get stuttering/jumpiness, even at 60 fps it will sometimes be shaky as I move. I played yesterday and throughout most of the game, the game play was shaky. Just standing in place with nothing moving, it dropped from 60 fps to 38 fps yesterday and did the quick freeze and go back to normal. Sometimes when I place a ward or see someone else place one the fps will drop considerably and it will quickly freeze and come back. Also, a couple times when I was walking forward and need to turn around, when I would click backwards it would keep walking forward instead of turning back.

I was thinking of getting an SSD and putting the games on there to see if that will rule out the HDD or not.

What I've done:
Ran Memtest86
Ran Microsoft memory test
Disabled AMD sound driver and used only Realtek
Removed drivers with Display Driver Uninstaller and re-installed drivers
Removed KB3004394 windows update(found that this update conflicted with AMD drivers)
Installed all other windows updates that were needed
Tried different graphics setting in BF4, stayed the same
Defragged the HDD
CPU temp highest was 73c, GPU was 74c
Ran Seatools(Seagate HDD test)
Ran the Intel Processor Diagnostic tool