Why is my game acting like it's freezing and lagging?
Why is my game acting like it's freezing and lagging?
the name tells me everything. basically, this problem only happens on big games like ARK or COD. sometimes it even shows up in Fortnite and Overwatch. the game gets really slow and lags every single time. when it freezes, your computer uses way more storage space until the lag stops coming back to normal. but once I reset my whole PC, everything runs fast and there is no stutter at all. however, two months or so later, the stutter returned. i have no idea what to do now. My drivers are already updated and I've reinstalled them multiple times. nothing helped except resetting my computer, which brings back the lag after a month. this has been happening for nearly two years! even after fixing it for almost 18 months, I stopped playing games for so long that I came back to try something else. here is what my PC looks like: the graphics card is an RTX 2070 and the CPU is an Intel i7 8700 with 8GB of DDR4 RAM running at 2666MHz. you can guess the rest from this picture, but it shows how bad my computer performed. loading times were way too long compared to before. here is a link to a video showing just how slow things get and how hard it was to load the game: https://youtu.be/wooiPmLL3Tc
Welcome to the forums, new person! Please share details about your setup, like this: CPU: Motherboard: Memory (RAM): Hard drive or SSD: Graphics card: Power supply unit: Chassis: Operating system: Monitor: add how old your power supply is besides its brand and model. When you see stuttering on your monitor, check the temperatures of that device for your computer setup first.
Have you turned the power settings up to High Performance? If not, click Energy Options and turn everything all the way to High. Also, shut down HDD Sleep and anything else that makes your computer stutter. Check out this guide with simple steps: How to Customize Power Options Advanced Settings in Windows 10 for your hard disk, processor, JavaScript Timer Frequency, Graphics, Internet Explorer, plus www.howto-connect.com
Get this. Start UBM Reboot mode. Just wait some minutes. Then start UBM while your browser is off. Finally, post a link to where you see the results on that page.
It's hard to figure out exactly why this happened because lots of things can be making it worse. I had a similar problem a few years ago. What fixed it for me was changing my Windows power settings from Balanced to High Performance. When you use Balanced, your computer might change the voltage and clock speed on some parts of its hardware, which makes performance go up and down too much. Overclocking does this too, whether you are doing custom overclocking or using Intel's turbo boost. If you do custom overclocking, I'd either fix it right or turn it off. Also, if your CPU has a turbo feature from the factory (which is an older version of the processor), try turning that off too as well, because this problem might still go away after changing the power settings. If all these steps don't help at all, you can try temporarily turning off your anti-virus and Windows Game Mode to see if they are causing it. If none of those work, then you'll have to investigate a little deeper.