FPS Drops in big fights/mobs in ALL games! Help please

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OmiexStrike

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Hey everyone,

Here is my specs:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qZjygs

I built the system you see above some months ago.

Basically, in every game I need to have vsync on since my monitor has a 60 hz refresh rate otherwise I'll get tears everywhere. Everything is fine when I'm going solo or just chilling around in games, however when I get into full parties or go to fight big mobs with my party and everyone uses their skills, etc., my fps drops from a solid 60 down to like the 40's, 30's, even 20's sometimes, then jumps back up as the mobs sorta die off.

This is so annoying and I thought that this system should be easily able to handle the games which I play, they are: Diablo 3, Dragon Nest, etc. especially I am surprised with Dragon nest as it can run good on crappy laptops. I'm so upset, I've spent so much money on the system and I still get low fps drops in big fights, what is going on?

I ran MSI afterburner and everything seemed to be fine, in my games my temps stay around the 50 degrees range and my cpu's are being used, except for some low %'s on the last 2 out of my 6, and my GPU usage is around 30% on Dragon Nest and on Diablo 3 its around 70% and higher when it gets hectic and there are a lot of mobs, I guess GPU/CPU usage just depends on the game.

My video card drivers are all updated as well so I really don't see a problem why I should be experiencing these fps drops on these not so demanding games. Can anyone please help? Is this normal?

Thanks so much!
 
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It's recommended to overclock with a decent aftermarket cooler. If you really want to overclock, pick up a coolermaster hyper 212 evo.

It's also recommended to have a better power supply for overclocking.

The extra stress on the PSU might hurt it and the system, so I'm a bit hesitant to put it as a high suggestion. As for overclocking with the stock cooler, You could try bumping up the multiplier to run at the boost clock. Check on temperatures and what not, if it gest too hot, then lower it. Don't touch the vCore.

I don't think the heat would be that much more this bit of overclock. I believe the multiplier should be... 20.5 to run at 4.1Ghz (which is the boost clock), just make sure to monitor the cpu temperatures. I'd recommend...
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Calnin

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Diablo 3 is single threaded heavy and the engine isn't the best. Frames drops in that game will happen, even the best systems will get frames drop with a bunch of mobs around.

As for dragon's nest:

It's probably more single threaded, which is why some laptops would do better. You could try overclocking your CPU to get a bit more frames if you want.

If Dragon's nest is anything like vindictus (which I hope it isn't, I haven't played dragon's nest since the level cap was level 40...), then there really isn't much that you could do about it.

Again, one thing you could try would be to overclock your cpu a little bit and see if you get better frame rates. Your psu should be able to handle it, but it might push it a bit.
 
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Oh, I see. I guess I'm happy since this is common with most people and that there is nothing wrong with my PC. And dragon's nest is basically the cartoon version of vindictus lol.

I did try and test it with Battlefield 3 and I was getting 60 fps on Ultra, however when I looked to the open in big maps my fps would drop down to 40's 50's, mostly 40's though, but I guess that's normal. I got some weird mouse lag too sometimes where when I turned there was a delay, which was weird, but maybe its cause of my cheap usb logitech mouse haha.

As for overclocking, I have never done it before and I am on stock cooling with that 500w PSU as well. I don't know if its worth overclocking and if so, how much should I overclock it to for best improvement?

Thanks.
 
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It's recommended to overclock with a decent aftermarket cooler. If you really want to overclock, pick up a coolermaster hyper 212 evo.

It's also recommended to have a better power supply for overclocking.

The extra stress on the PSU might hurt it and the system, so I'm a bit hesitant to put it as a high suggestion. As for overclocking with the stock cooler, You could try bumping up the multiplier to run at the boost clock. Check on temperatures and what not, if it gest too hot, then lower it. Don't touch the vCore.

I don't think the heat would be that much more this bit of overclock. I believe the multiplier should be... 20.5 to run at 4.1Ghz (which is the boost clock), just make sure to monitor the cpu temperatures. I'd recommend start by bumping multiplier to maybe 19 and seeing how it runs for a time period. Just play a few games, if you restart mid game and what not, then you know the overclock is unstable.
 
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Oh, I see. Do you think it's worth it to put stress on my psu/cpu just to overclock to try and get extra frames? What I'm saying is like, would the overclock really improve my performance that much that its worth putting the extra stress on the cpu/psu?
 
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I've tried overclocking first hand, it's maybe a 5 fps increase at best. Diablo 3's drops are due to latency issues in my opinion. They normally occur when you first boot up the game and mine gradually improve. My system murders the specs of that game I have an i7 2600k and a 780 and I still get drops even if I turn off vsync and average like 200fps. It's just the game, not much you can do unfortunately.

On a side note I wholly recommend vsync for Diablo in particular it smooths frame spike by a vast margin.

Overclocking CPU is honestly not worth it at all for games, geeks will tell you it is, but benchmarks you can find online and from personal experience it isn't at all, just extra heat. Overclocking your GPU, on the other hand, definitely has improvements, but it can lower the life of your GPU and increase power draw as well.
 
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