Hello, I have been having some really big issues recently win my new install of windows 8.1 and gaming...
Windows 8.1 64bit
8gb corsair vengance 1600mhz
Amd fx-6300 (not overclocked) 3.5mhz
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P motherboard
1tb hdd (ST1000DM003-1CH162 ATA)
Gigabyte geforce gtx 780 (driver 337.50 was causing issues currently using 331.82 again)
PSU corsair RM850 80+ gold
ALL COMPONENTS ARE NEW AND ALL DRIVERS ARE UPTO DATE EXCEPT NVIDIA AS THE UPDATED VERSION CAUSED EVEN MORE ISSUES.... Only 3 things in my computer are not brand new but there maybe 7months old (RAM, HDD, CPU)
It is not temps causing issues as I am always worried about temps and always keep a very close eye on them cpu hits around 50-55c under heavy load and gpu hits around 65-73c again under heavy load.
THE ISSUES:
When ever I play any game on my computer I get stuttering and fps drops to 0 for like 3 seconds every few minutes no matter what game I play I have very bad stutters. I have RMA'ed the gpu 4 times now, I had the same issues on the AMD R9 290x and I got that replaced for another AMD R9 290X and that done the same then I thought I would leave AMD and go back to Nvidia and get the gtx 780 and thats doing the exact same thing....
THINGS I HAVE TRIED
Memory tests (failed and passed, I will explain more below)
Changing gpu drivers.
Installing fresh windows with a complete format.
installed all microsoft updates.
ran gpu benchmarks (pass)
Off the top of my head I can not remember what else but its been like a month now and im tempted to just sell the parts and forget about pc gaming...
Memory test failed - Windows memory diagnostic test failed 3 times, the memory test before windows boot failed 3 times and all times failed because the test just randomly stopped running / paused just under half way through.
Memory test passed - I downloaded memtest86 and ran the test and that passed with no errors I ran this over night and total run time was 6 hours.
Low memory warning - windows started giving me low memory warning around an hour ago the thing is on my 2nd screen I had task manager performance tab open and it was showing the memory load/usage was only 2gb while playing games leaving me with 6gb remaining...
After all this hell I done hours of searching on the Internet and found a program called LatencyMon and after downloading it and running it for not even 20 minutes I stopped playing and took a look at the results and was very confused.... please see images below...
Ignore the paint program on the right I was using it to save the printscreen
Same here Ignore the right screen.
On the right screen in this one is a DPC Latency program and yellow is not great but I helpt having alot of red spikes pop up on there but never managed to catch them the spikes hit the very top on the window in most cases tho.
Windows 8.1 64bit
8gb corsair vengance 1600mhz
Amd fx-6300 (not overclocked) 3.5mhz
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P motherboard
1tb hdd (ST1000DM003-1CH162 ATA)
Gigabyte geforce gtx 780 (driver 337.50 was causing issues currently using 331.82 again)
PSU corsair RM850 80+ gold
ALL COMPONENTS ARE NEW AND ALL DRIVERS ARE UPTO DATE EXCEPT NVIDIA AS THE UPDATED VERSION CAUSED EVEN MORE ISSUES.... Only 3 things in my computer are not brand new but there maybe 7months old (RAM, HDD, CPU)
It is not temps causing issues as I am always worried about temps and always keep a very close eye on them cpu hits around 50-55c under heavy load and gpu hits around 65-73c again under heavy load.
THE ISSUES:
When ever I play any game on my computer I get stuttering and fps drops to 0 for like 3 seconds every few minutes no matter what game I play I have very bad stutters. I have RMA'ed the gpu 4 times now, I had the same issues on the AMD R9 290x and I got that replaced for another AMD R9 290X and that done the same then I thought I would leave AMD and go back to Nvidia and get the gtx 780 and thats doing the exact same thing....
THINGS I HAVE TRIED
Memory tests (failed and passed, I will explain more below)
Changing gpu drivers.
Installing fresh windows with a complete format.
installed all microsoft updates.
ran gpu benchmarks (pass)
Off the top of my head I can not remember what else but its been like a month now and im tempted to just sell the parts and forget about pc gaming...
Memory test failed - Windows memory diagnostic test failed 3 times, the memory test before windows boot failed 3 times and all times failed because the test just randomly stopped running / paused just under half way through.
Memory test passed - I downloaded memtest86 and ran the test and that passed with no errors I ran this over night and total run time was 6 hours.
Low memory warning - windows started giving me low memory warning around an hour ago the thing is on my 2nd screen I had task manager performance tab open and it was showing the memory load/usage was only 2gb while playing games leaving me with 6gb remaining...
After all this hell I done hours of searching on the Internet and found a program called LatencyMon and after downloading it and running it for not even 20 minutes I stopped playing and took a look at the results and was very confused.... please see images below...
Ignore the paint program on the right I was using it to save the printscreen
Same here Ignore the right screen.
On the right screen in this one is a DPC Latency program and yellow is not great but I helpt having alot of red spikes pop up on there but never managed to catch them the spikes hit the very top on the window in most cases tho.