- May 23, 2013
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So about a month ago I was able to play all my games on my PC fine. I don't have the most amazing setup but it is as follows:
AMD Phenom IIx4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz
8.00 GB RAM
Running Windows 7 Home Professional 64 bit
And I did have 1; Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 for graphics
My power supply is an Ultra Power Supply if I recall it is 750 watts. Don't think this matters but I'm listing it so people know.
Now for the past week or so I've been getting some weird issue that I haven't been able to figure out what exactly happened. Games that I was playing that I know I can use as an example were League of Legends and Grand Theft Auto 4 + Episodes from Liberty City. They played fine, mostly above 60 fps with some drops of maybe 5 fps here and there but that's normal with my setup.
However I stopped playing the games for a bit and came back and for some reason at certain times the FPS meter will go from 60+ to maybe around 4 or 3. I ignored it the first time but then it started to just keep happening. It doesn't happen too often but it seemed to be when there is a lot of effects and the like going on. It will only last about 3 to maybe 8 seconds too with the program (whichever game it was) spiking in usage on my pc from maybe 30-40 to 70-80. On GTA 4 it happens more frequently.
I ran a program called speed fan to find out my computers temp and speeds while the problem occurred. It doesn't seem that the temperature increases but I understand that it may not be noticeable. I realized that my graphics card fan was running fairly high and I did feel it was time to upgrade my card. So I went ahead and bought a new card; GEFORCE GTX 660 Superclocked; 2GB GDDR5. I figured it would solve my problem but it didn't. I then ran defrag's and just registry cleanups not really expecting everything but just for good measure.
The problem did not stop. Now another game I play is Warframe and I did not ever notice the problem happening on there. So my friends noticed that I had Warframes VSync Option on Auto so it would automatically set it to however my graphics card would set it by default. I then proceeded to try this on League of Legends and it seemed to not occur again on there for the time being. I will continue to keep the option on to further test.
The thing is though, why am I suddenly having to run VSync on games that I didn't before? I am still going to use my GTX 660 since it's just a good upgrade. I have purchased Compressed Air and Thermal Paste to clean up the inside my PC and just waiting for them to arrive. I am unsure if this will help though. I am hopeful, but doubtful too. My PC isn't too old either maybe 2 years max so I figure the thermal paste would be fine but there's no use in not trying.
Basically I'm just looking for more opinions and possibly an idea of what could be wrong. I figure if my Processor is dieing out or something, it wouldn't just be randomly on a game for a few seconds and then go back to being fine.
AMD Phenom IIx4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz
8.00 GB RAM
Running Windows 7 Home Professional 64 bit
And I did have 1; Radeon HD 6850 1GB GDDR5 for graphics
My power supply is an Ultra Power Supply if I recall it is 750 watts. Don't think this matters but I'm listing it so people know.
Now for the past week or so I've been getting some weird issue that I haven't been able to figure out what exactly happened. Games that I was playing that I know I can use as an example were League of Legends and Grand Theft Auto 4 + Episodes from Liberty City. They played fine, mostly above 60 fps with some drops of maybe 5 fps here and there but that's normal with my setup.
However I stopped playing the games for a bit and came back and for some reason at certain times the FPS meter will go from 60+ to maybe around 4 or 3. I ignored it the first time but then it started to just keep happening. It doesn't happen too often but it seemed to be when there is a lot of effects and the like going on. It will only last about 3 to maybe 8 seconds too with the program (whichever game it was) spiking in usage on my pc from maybe 30-40 to 70-80. On GTA 4 it happens more frequently.
I ran a program called speed fan to find out my computers temp and speeds while the problem occurred. It doesn't seem that the temperature increases but I understand that it may not be noticeable. I realized that my graphics card fan was running fairly high and I did feel it was time to upgrade my card. So I went ahead and bought a new card; GEFORCE GTX 660 Superclocked; 2GB GDDR5. I figured it would solve my problem but it didn't. I then ran defrag's and just registry cleanups not really expecting everything but just for good measure.
The problem did not stop. Now another game I play is Warframe and I did not ever notice the problem happening on there. So my friends noticed that I had Warframes VSync Option on Auto so it would automatically set it to however my graphics card would set it by default. I then proceeded to try this on League of Legends and it seemed to not occur again on there for the time being. I will continue to keep the option on to further test.
The thing is though, why am I suddenly having to run VSync on games that I didn't before? I am still going to use my GTX 660 since it's just a good upgrade. I have purchased Compressed Air and Thermal Paste to clean up the inside my PC and just waiting for them to arrive. I am unsure if this will help though. I am hopeful, but doubtful too. My PC isn't too old either maybe 2 years max so I figure the thermal paste would be fine but there's no use in not trying.
Basically I'm just looking for more opinions and possibly an idea of what could be wrong. I figure if my Processor is dieing out or something, it wouldn't just be randomly on a game for a few seconds and then go back to being fine.
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