Seemingly random framedrops

HEADBANGA666 · April 26, 2018

As the title states, my framerate randomly drops to 0 for a second or two. It affects lots of games but the game I'm going to use to try and resolve the issue is Rocket League, as it's what I'm trying to play ATM.

Watching my GPU activity when it happens shows it just drops to 0, then back to normal.

PC Specs:

CPU: AMD FX-8350 https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-8350

MOBO: ASRock 970A-G/3.1 http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/970A-G3.1/

RAM: 4x4GB (16GB) Corsair Vengance DDR3 2133

GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 970 https://www.evga.com/products/specs/gpu.aspx?pn=8296b494-5d1d-400d-b2e8-d00ccd71e088

PSU: CoolerMaster V750 http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/enthusiast-v-series/v750/

OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit v1709

Any help is much appreciated.

HEADBANGA666 · April 26, 2018

Just had a period of about 20 seconds of hangtime. Sounds were still heard but no motion in game. GPU at 0%. Then went to desktop. Game still in taskbar. Apon clicking on it, the game maximises and tells me I've been kicked for inactivity.

I've circled the period of inactivity on the 2 graphs and the max temperature my GPU reached since I opened the monitoring software.

Ace McPlane · April 26, 2018

5 hours ago, HEADBANGA666 said:

Just had a period of about 20 seconds of hangtime. Sounds were still heard but no motion in game. GPU at 0%. Then went to desktop. Game still in taskbar. Apon clicking on it, the game maximises and tells me I've been kicked for inactivity.

I've circled the period of inactivity on the 2 graphs and the max temperature my GPU reached since I opened the monitoring software.

Disable GPU power usage monitoring in Precision X

and disable shadowplay in geforce experience if you're using that.

Those are two things that can cause seemingly random frame drops that shouldn't be.

If that doesn't help,

wipe out your video card driver with DDU in safe mode and then install the newest version or roll back one version if that also doesn't work.

https://windowsreport.com/display-driver-uninstaller-windows-10/