Issue running games

ScottytooHotty · #1 16-09-19, 06:18 PM

Hi All,

I have a werid issue when running games, it started yesterday but when I run games my gpu usage is all over the place causing games to stutter and have really unstable frame rates.

I have tried updating to latest driver and have rolled back to the driver begore that I knew worked fine and nothing has worked.

Not sure if this is relevant but it was fine the day before but when I loaded up GTAv yesterday I alt tabbed out and turned on discord streaming which is the first time I have used the software but I hadn't run any games before that yesterday so not sure if there was an issue beforehand.

Any help appreciated.

RobM · #2 16-09-19, 09:04 PM

Since this appears to possibly be a conflict with discord, have you tried removing discord and starting a game?

tgrech · #3 16-09-19, 09:38 PM

The Discord overlay would cause me a lot of issues disabling that in the settings might help.

ScottytooHotty · #4 16-09-19, 10:07 PM

I have the overlay disabled anyway and have now uninstalled it just to test but that didn't change anything, I didn't think it was discord but mentioned it as I know the streaming part of discord is new and wondered if anyone had heard of any issues

AlienALX · #5 16-09-19, 10:20 PM

There are so many background apps on PC now it's a joke. I could not run Borderlands 2 because of a combination of MSI AB and my mouse pad software. Ended up taking me four hours to figure it out.

NeverBackDown · #6 16-09-19, 10:29 PM

If you are streaming, did you try it with OBS/Xsplit and twitch? Are you getting the same problems? Could just be discord streaming services are not entirely bug-free yet.

ScottytooHotty · #7 16-09-19, 10:34 PM

As I said I don't think it is discord as I have only tried streaming once with it but i'm not sure if the issue arose before I tried it.. also I have now completely uninstalled discord and am still getting the same issue.

AlienALX · #8 16-09-19, 10:48 PM

Go to Task Manager and just start disabling one app at a time. That's about all you can do.

tgrech · #9 17-09-19, 10:28 AM

Well if we go back to the original issue with a clear mind

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it started yesterday but when I run games my gpu usage is all over the place causing games to stutter and have really unstable frame rates.

Can we rule out hardware as an issue? Might be worth checking the voltages reported to your motherboard from your PSU (12v/5v/3.3v) are within spec, maybe it's also CPU throttling causing your GPU to choke? Which could be caused by maybe an OC going a bit off, of course temps is one I'm sure you've checked already but could be that too if not, or maybe the OC or power settings on your GPU if any, possible a driver update resetting something.

ScottytooHotty · #10 17-09-19, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by tgrech

Well if we go back to the original issue with a clear mind Can we rule out hardware as an issue? Might be worth checking the voltages reported to your motherboard from your PSU (12v/5v/3.3v) are within spec, maybe it's also CPU throttling causing your GPU to choke? Which could be caused by maybe an OC going a bit off, of course temps is one I'm sure you've checked already but could be that too if not, or maybe the OC or power settings on your GPU if any, possible a driver update resetting something.

I'm not sure if its hardware or not TBH, I have noticed that my CPU seems to be constantly jammed at max frequency even though it's just sitting here idling, with my OC on it was constantly at 4.7ghz on all cores and now I have update the bios an my OC is off t's just sat at 4.3ghz on all cores.

I give up though I have spent enough time trying to find out whats wrong.. I'm gonna rebuild it and hope for the best.