VID usage % causing problems?

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Ive been having a problem lately basically what happens is when i try and watch a live stream while playing games i get weird choppiness in games its not constant it comes and goes in spikes, weird thing is when the spikes happen my fps in game stays at 60fps this choppiness sometimes just feels like my fps has dropped and other times it feels like a frame skipped or something as if the game jumped forward. when i stop watching streams the games seem to run fine. I downloaded msi afterburner to monitor things while this occurred and the only thing i can see that changed when i watch a stream is the VID usage % goes up. when i noticed that i opened another stream in another tab so i had two streams going at once while in game the VID usage % went up to 80-90% and then i started actually dropping fps in game going from solid 60 to 45-55 and the choppiness was constant. this happens in all games ive tried wow diablo 3 and even hearthstone.

specs:
windows 8.1
i7 3770k
gtx 560 ti
corsair 750 watt
8 gb corsair vengeance
samsung 840 evo ssd
asus p8z77-v lk motherboard

all drivers are up to date ive even tried uninstalling graphics card driver and rolling back to older versions.

ive also ran memtest and it passed same with prime95 all the parts in the pc are new except for ram and gpu so im thinking its gpu but unsure

if anyone could please help really confused as to whats going on, thanks



 
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it might... but if it is a flash/driver problem it might not do anything. Then again 970 has so much more oomph than a 560ti it might at least make it less obvious...

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Thanks for the answer, yeah that's honestly what I'm thinking too which would be fine because im planning on replacing it soon just kinda wanted to make sure that's the issue and not something else before i go and buy a new gpu
 
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VID usually refers to the Voltage Identification Digital and is probably being shown as the percentage of the max stock voltage or some such... If there is a power target setting for the card in the nvidia controll panel you might want to increase it (I'm not sure if the gtx500 series had this feature or has it been introduced later). As the voltage rises the power consumption goes up as well and the card might be hitting the limit which would cause it to throttle down... Though now that I think about it, throttling would show up in the clocks or usage% as well...

Does the actuall GPU usage hit 99-100% during these drops?
 
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No it doesn't. in WoW for example when this happens the gpu usage stays below 85% usually around 70% when the drops occurs the gpu usage doesn't change much the only noticable change is the VID usage % rises iv'e even monitered cpu usage during this and no threads go past like 50%. The 560 ti is also a 2gb so i dont think this could be a vram issue
 
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I haven't tried to overclock cpu yet but what would that do to solve this?
 
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well if it is not the gpu causing the drops it must be something else...


btw are all the games you've tried online games? maybe the streams are adding some sporadic network lag making things feel choppy... Most streams download data in burst maxing out the bandwidth for a short while each time.
 
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Ive tried skyrim and it happens when i play that aswell. i will give overclocking cpu a try but i really dont think its that because none of the threads peak during the spikes and also i tried live streaming myself with obs which was taking around 10-12% cpu usage where as flash player which is running the streams takes around 6-7% and i dont lag while actually live streaming at a high bit rate which really makes me think its something with the graphics card or something. another test i just did was run prime95 while watching streams to see if anything would happen and everything was fine. Do you think it could possibly be the motherboard somehow i mean its brand new ive had it less then 2 months along with everything in the p c besides ram and gpu but i suppose if could be defective.

the thing thats really getting to me is i dont know if i was having these problems before i got the new hardware because with my old stuff the processor was really bad and i would lag a lot in games so i wouldn't know if i always had this issue with the card.
 
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I think that is unlikely, if the mobo was defective I'd expect you to have all sorts of problems pretty much constantly. The problem is too specific imo...

Maybe it is just some sort of compatibility issue between the graphics drivers and flash or something like that, but if changing the drivers didn't help there isn't much that can be done... different flash version maybe or browser?
 
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Ive tried different browser and flash version and it didn't help but i mean do you think that getting a new graphics card (gtx 970) and a fresh windows install on formatted drive would fix it ? Because thats what i was planning on doing here within the next couple of months. I honestly just want to make sure its not like my motherboard or something as long as those things are fine i wouldn't have a problem replacing graphics card. Thanks for responding by the way much appreciated
 
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it might... but if it is a flash/driver problem it might not do anything. Then again 970 has so much more oomph than a 560ti it might at least make it less obvious...

 
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Alright thanks a lot for the input, I'm just gonna tough it out until i can get the new gpu then i will go from there
 
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