Gaming performance are really bad, but I have good specs! (I think)

EcLiiPse · Sep 20, 2015

Hello there, as the title says...

here are my specs:

MB: MSI - Z97 GAMING 5
PROC: Intel Core I5 4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
MEMORY: 8 Gbytes
GRAPIC Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
HDD: 1,5 TB
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate

For some reason I lagg incredibly on same games I really enjoy to play, like
TERA and ARK. but my PC seems to not be able to handle it are there any suggestions,
that is possible to fix this?

maybe its the combination of the specs I use?

Thank you in advance!

profoundnoah · Sep 20, 2015

Very interesting. By lag do you mean graphically or loading times? A 770 should be able to handle those games just fine with an i5 like that.

Bubba Feet · Sep 20, 2015

Are your video drivers up to date? Have you tried messing with the settings for each game, like maybe lowering certain settings or setting a lower frame rate. The lag you're referring to does it happen offline and online, you might just have joined servers in which your ping is way too high.

hamzinjo · Sep 20, 2015

Connection maybe whats your ping

EcLiiPse · Sep 20, 2015

Well also graphically and Loadings wise.... amd yes i did update my driver or trying to lower all the graphic settings ingame... and still no good results, the idea that something is wrong is really big, since i watch streamings playing the same games MORE smoothly then me with even lower specs, also putted Power Settings on High Performance... i am out of ideas...

profoundnoah · Sep 20, 2015

Are you running on ethernet or wirelessly? The game's loading slow because you're on a Hard Drive, not an SSD. If you can, go buy one and move your games over to it. That might help the FPS.

EcLiiPse · Sep 20, 2015

Also
DOWNLOAD Speed: 40.58Mbps
UPLOAD Speed: 4.08 Mbps

EcLiiPse · Sep 20, 2015

That could be the case, an SSD and I am running on Ethernet

Bubba Feet · Sep 20, 2015

Is it only games that are multiplayer that suffer from lag? I would assume both of those games save your progress via their servers, so maybe reinstall both games.

profoundnoah · Sep 20, 2015

Yes, I recommend a Samsung 850 EVO 120GB version. You might need to reinstall windows on the SSD though, so you can boot faster. Here's a link. http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E120B-AM/dp/B00OAJ5N6I/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1442787644&sr=8-5&keywords=850+evo

EcLiiPse · Sep 20, 2015

No I dont think so Bubba Feet, because I play other multiplayer games with ease... like League of Legends, and that kinds

EcLiiPse · Sep 20, 2015

So buying an SSD hard drive could solve the problem :O?

Bubba Feet · Sep 20, 2015

Hold off on the SSD, it seems the problem is with only these two games right? Have you tried reinstalling them and playing them again.

profoundnoah · Sep 20, 2015

Like bubba said, is it just those two games in particular? We need to make sure of stuff before you go and spend money.

Bubba Feet · Sep 20, 2015

Seems a lot of people are having performance problems with ARK, its still an early access game that most likely hasn't been optimized. Try these settings from a similar setup to yours.
- Resolution : 1920 * 1080 (maybe lower this)
- Windows Mode : WindowedFullScreen
- Resolution Scale : 80%
- World Tile Buffer : Epic
- View Distance : Epic
- Anti-Aliasing : Medium
- Post processing : Medium
- General Shadows : Low
- Terrain Shadows : Low
- Texture : Medium
- Sky Quality : 0%
- Ground Clusters : 0%
- Mesh Level of Details : 0%
- All checkbox : unchecked

hamzinjo · Sep 20, 2015

hard drive will not have any impact on your fps only the loading times can you please test your memory with memtest86 let it do a test about 6 hours would be anough i my self do a 14

dieng memory can cause all kinds of issues

EcLiiPse · Sep 21, 2015

Bubba Feet, I already tried reinstalling any of those games... on seems that my GPU gets 100% useage on the meter I have displayed on my desktop
so lowering settings was my first thing to do, but nope, not a good result either, I am going to try that Memtest tho...

thnx for suggestions so far!

profoundnoah · Sep 21, 2015

ARK is in early access and might not be optimized. Does this happen with any other games?

EcLiiPse · Sep 21, 2015

Well it happens with TERA,

Wich isnt in the early release...
Maybe it is still not optimized

But still i see people streaming it with a way smoother gameplay then I do with lower specs....

hamzinjo · Sep 21, 2015

Oke heres a solution please download pasmark do a benchmark its a couple of minutes than compare your cpu with exact cpu model and to the same for the gpu or you can compare to other people rigs on pasmark to

I mean compare the benchmark results

ZeroGravity780 · Sep 21, 2015

An SSD only helps with the initial load of the game, it has no performance increase in-game. I have all my games on regular 7200 RPM drives and they work fine. You will not experience LAG because of a hard drive, unless your running out of ram. The operating system will start to use your hard drive as temporary memory if you are running out of ram. It has to be an internet issue or from what i remember ARK isnt well optimized.

profoundnoah · Sep 21, 2015

It isn't an internet issue from what the OP's posted, as his other games run just fine. It sounds to me like its just bad optimization. Was there a recent update in ARK/Terra?

ZeroGravity780 · Sep 21, 2015

profoundnoah :

Agreed, I have a 980 ti and I even had issues running ARK when i last tried to play.

profoundnoah · Sep 21, 2015

I also have a 980 ti, although I have yet to use it in my skylake system. My i7's coming today so I'll try and report my findings as well.

ZeroGravity780 · Sep 21, 2015

profoundnoah :

Nice, hope your enjoying your new skylake build! 980 ti is a beast, best card ive ever own, even if I had to sell my soul for it.

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