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James Orme

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Hi,

Bit of a strange one. When I am playing any game, just before a character speaks, the game stutters/lags as if it has to load something.

This is the only lag I get and it is strange as I have a High spec Gaming rig.

SLI TITANs,
ASUS P9X79,
PRO i7-3820 4200GHZ set with turbo ratio.
16 GB Corsair Dominator Platinum
1200w Corsair PSU
250GB Solid State
1TB WD Hard Drive

I haven't tried anything much apart from a reload so far, as I am not too sure where to start.

Would love to hear some suggestions or if someone has had this issue before.

Cheers,
James O
 
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smorizio
check that your running the newest bios file. may be the gpu and the sound card using the same memory range or irq. make sure the sound drivers are updated from realtek.
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Thank you, I will check these asap.
 
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Official understatement of the day award!
 
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Haha I didn't want to sound like I was showing off. TY though.
 
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Have updated the bios to the latest version, and it does seem to be running better, without that pesky lag, I think the bios version may of been released before a lot of the hardware that I have inside it.

I should of tried this before asking the question really, but the bios didn't strike me as an obvious possible fix for this issue.

I will do some more testing tonight after work, then if all works correctly, ill pick you as the solution.

Thanks!
 
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James Orme

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Still having issues... Tried all as above.

Could it be that I copied these files from and old PC build?

They are steam game files that I copied and put onto the new PC?

Also noticed the other day, COD Ghosts took about 5 minutes to load a level rather than the normal 20-30 secs (as its on a SSD)

Could this be a sign of the SSD failing? Or issue of copying files as mentioned above.

Since doing BIOS update it is better, but not fixed.
 
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I think there may still be some very minor lag, but I am now getting 60 FPS + on all games on Ultra settings on a 2k screen. It also usually stays at around 120 FPS.

I found that a little overclocking of everything seems to of helped a little.

But then I went into the Nvidia Control Panel and selected Application Controlled or off on everything, Single display performance and Max performance and this has made it much much smoother.

Still can't understand why it was happening around Dialogue of BOTS.... Computers a?
 
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those big shots most times are cut shots and are hard on most pc. check that the game itself is set to use max ram to load your game from the hard drive to the ram. also check that your pc using full 16g of ram. also check that the games are using the newest direct x. some games default to the older and slower 9x.
 
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James Orme

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Big shots and cuts shots? And the PC registers 16GB.

How do you encourage the game to use as much RAM as possible?

And a lot have the option to use dx9 but not all. is there an easy dx11 force on anywhere?
 
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Are you running audio from the GPU or from the motherboard chip? Or perhaps from a dedicated sound card?

In general, GPUS are terrible at audio. The reason is extremely easy: The GPU on video mode only will send a constant stream of data of images. If there is audio, there is more data. THe problem is not that HDMI cables cant handle that amount, but that each game has its own pace and speed for audio, and the nVidia drivers need to decode that and send it to the HDMI cable.

You can imagine how hard it can be for a GPU video company to nail right audio in every program the come across.
If its from realtek, you should FIRST of all, delete the audio driver from nVidia for the titans. That driver is up to no good, and in my case was the reason for a few BSODs here and there.

Games will only use as much ram as they are programed to, so not really.
In general, if possible install only the drivers you are going to use. In my case, basic driver and physx.
 
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That actually makes a hell of a lot of sense. At the moment you are correct the audio is sent through hdmi from the graphics card. I will un-install the audio drivers and put it through 3.5mm onboard and see what happens! Thanks for the advice.
 
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Just bringing up an old thread that I have had some headway with.

I had the RAM running at 1600 mhz at 1.5v (basically defualt settings but bumped up to 1600MHZ). I thought that was fine (as that is what it states clearly on the side of the RAM).

I was still getting the stupid frame drop issues. (Worse in some games then others)

I hit defualt on the Motherboard and notice that it goes down to 1333mhz for RAM. This got me thinking.

I did some research and apparently 1600 MHZ on Corsair Vegance RAM only works in XMP mode. (as that adjusts voltage and some other settings).

I haven't tried XMP mode yet, but I did test at 1333mhz for a long while, and the FPS drops went away in all the games that exhibited them (Titanfall/Crysis 3 and some other high demand games).

A little bit of a noob thing for me to overlook. I always had suspicions that it could be something to do with the RAM, but it did seem much more GPU related.

I hope this will help someone else who has had hours and hours of frustration and failed attempts to sort this out! (I stumbled across this after basically rewiring my entire PC from the power supply up to ensure that I had put everything on the correct Rails (turns out on my PSU it is one 12v rail at 100AMPS so that was a waste of time!)

James O.
 
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