As there are many different things people can mean when they say "lag spike" i'm going to specify my "lag" using an example. A few months ago I bought, built and installed windows on a new PC, with all custom parts, which put together myself one afternoon. absolutely everything worked the first time ( to my surprise, things always seem to break for me) No problems with led's buttons ram or cpu stuff, I checked in the Bios that everything i had was listed and working fine, installing windows was quick and easy, and nothing went wrong in the installation process. I began to install all my games and programs on it. This was back in September, and as i am posting this in December because it has finally gotten the better of me. (here is where the example comes in) I have been playing Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, and various other online games, all of which produce lag spikes where, if playing battlefield, all the vehicles, people running, sound effects, etc are stopped for about 2-4 seconds, my character can still move, but when everything catches up, i am pulled back to where i was when the spike started. This makes it incredibly hard to play because when the spikes finish i am usually dead or getting shot at because i cannot move. This provlem also occurs in skype calls, with the people i am talking to's voices being cut off, then skype tries to catch up by repeating what they said, only really fast, this happens in time with the spikes that happen in game, the blue square around a persons skype avatar, that appears whenever they are talking, still stays solid, then flashes rapidly when the spike finishes.
Things i have already done are checking my internet connection (this doesn't happen when browsing the web or downloading anything) I have confirmed that no such thing happens when i am in a single player game, I dont think it is a hardware issue because my computer works fine in every way shape and form, and in fact does not happen when i play Dayz, a mod for Arma II, and i recently bought the Dayz Standalone game, of which the spikes do not occur in it either.
PLEASE HELP, any suggestions are welcome. (besides telling me to get a new PC, because that is what i've seen on every other post about issues like this)
Thank You in Advance
Things i have already done are checking my internet connection (this doesn't happen when browsing the web or downloading anything) I have confirmed that no such thing happens when i am in a single player game, I dont think it is a hardware issue because my computer works fine in every way shape and form, and in fact does not happen when i play Dayz, a mod for Arma II, and i recently bought the Dayz Standalone game, of which the spikes do not occur in it either.
PLEASE HELP, any suggestions are welcome. (besides telling me to get a new PC, because that is what i've seen on every other post about issues like this)
Thank You in Advance