FPS Lag Problem [please read]

[nosebleedXD]

hi, i got a whole new motherboard and psu and my +12V rail is 11.93, i guess its fixed? thanks alot guys for all your help and rage!

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Is it steady at that value? If it is, congratulations, you're all set. Good luck and hope to see you around!

 

[nosebleedXD]

Here is my temperate and voltage thing atm

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

Looks okay to me.

 

[technicalfury42]

This is a common issue.

What happens, is your computer is capable of pushing out 100fps when the textures and other game data are in your RAM.

Chances are, the game is polling your hard drive to load textures (as you look in a 360 or move to a new area with new objects in the game), which then has to push them into your RAM. Once they are in the RAM, the FPS normalizes at 100fps, but during the texture loading, it drops significantly because of how slow the hard drive is.

The simple fix is adding 1GB of ram.

I suspect if you hit Alt-Tab while gaming and inspected peak memory use in task manage for the .exe of the game that was running, you'd discover it exceeded 1GB.

You could also try turning texture quality down a notch to see if it will drop your paging file usage enough to reduce the fps drops.

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

It wouldn't help much methinks. He used to get a constant FPS before, so the game going to swapfile shouldn't be an issue this time around. Also, a 7200RPM HDD is fast enough for almost any game IMO. The reason I pinpointed a PSU problem is because his +12V rail was around 13V, which indicates an overloaded PSU.

 

[technicalfury42]

Looks like his problem is fixed, per above. For the record, 7200RPM drives will diminish FPS greatly if they are used to pull textures on modern games. They are very slow and the biggest bottleneck on any gaming system. That includes 10,000RPM and 15,000RPM in RAID or otherwise. Still the slowest component. The reason most people don't realize this is because the bulk of information IS in the RAM. It's the spillover that isn't. Normally when people get terribly inconsistent frame rates you can take the case off and even listen to hear if the harddrive is seeking lots of information (grinding away) when you make certain movements (say walking through a large map and turning corners). This will only be noticeable if you are over your current RAM use, obviously.

 

[Rage_3K_Moiz]

You are correct there. You can't beat the seek time of a 10000RPM drive. But most gaming PCs nowadays have at least 1GB of RAM and most of the ones I've seen here at TS have 2GB as a standard, so times are a-changing. But I agree, more RAM would net him a stutter-free gaming experience.

 

[sensaschess]

may be a virus too

I think your problem might be is some unwanted routene, it may be a process call, or a access to HDD or may be a virus too? examine your pc through, via task manager to confirm that you are not cheated by some spyware or hacker tools. watch your pc's activity for sometime when it is idle,
after this you can come to a conclusion.

 

[nosebleedXD]

haha i know its been a while, but thanks guy, i guess my problem was my psu

i got a new one and its fine now but not the best in terms of when i first built this computer

i was just wondering, do any of you guys have tips of how to make your computer run faster and how to keep stuff being stored in hard drive instead of ram instead of memory getting jammed into my ram since i only have a 1gb ram and maybe i may upgrade

also, i may upgrade graphic cards, cheap and decent ones, and if you don't remember, mine was ati radeon x1600