PC began experiencing delays, reduced frame rates, and stuttering during certain games.
PC began experiencing delays, reduced frame rates, and stuttering during certain games.
Do you have any parts boosted beyond their standard speed? Have you verified the heat levels with a tool such as HWMonitor? You can use it to keep an eye on things during gameplay.
Reduce the frame rate to match your screen's refresh speed. Try increasing it. Also, attempt to raise the game's frame rate—such as doubling the monitor's refresh rate or beyond.
Nothing was overclocked. Temperatures look normal in Ghost Recon, but I need to wait for Hogwarts to finish downloading before testing. I changed the frame rate to uncapped, which didn’t help much, so I tried setting it to half the refresh rate. When I started Ghost Recon (still connected), there was only a brief lag after about 30 minutes, then I disconnected and played for an hour without any lag now. It seems the Hogwarts problem might be different.
I ran some extra tests:
Restored the system to an earlier recovery point (nothing changed)
Verified drive integrity and read/write speeds – everything is normal
Installed the latest drivers for the mainboard, chipset, etc. (no changes)
Overall it looks like the hardware isn’t being used much; all cores are running at medium levels, GPU is at 70% max but still only showing low frame rates and stutters.
Memtest64 also showed no problems.
Ah, Ghost recon started stuttering again – that’s the issue. I’m really frustrated here because everything worked fine before and it just stopped working one day after another. Any suggestions on what else I could try?
PS: Checked XMP settings already; CPU boosts too, but not being used as expected, same with the graphics card.
Hey there,
Which Windows power profile are you using? Could switching to high performance improve things? What NVCP setting are you applying for GPU in power management mode? Trying 'prefer maximum performance'—does that help?
78c is on the higher end for GPU temperature. The GPU hotspot temperature can be checked with GPU-z. If it's more than 30-40°C above the GPU temperature, that might be the problem.