Unplayable games due to lag

blingyeol

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Hello,

I have a rather weird problem. It started while I was playing an online mmorpg game (TERA); I ran it just fine with highest settings, I played for a couple of months and then one day it suddenly started lagging. I just logged in and couldn't move a character, the lag was that terrible. It stayed like that after rebooting the game and computer.

At first I thought internet connection is at fault, but then it started doing the same after just days of playing singleplayer Mount & Blade Warband. There the game runs fine on the map, until I switch to the first person view, which causes a lag so terrible I have to forcefully close the game.

Temperatures ran on max 80°C during TERA and 60°-70°C during M&B and my cpu usage is around 50% only, so I don't think that's the problem.

Also it happens only during games, otherwise my laptop rans perfectly fine.

My laptop's pretty new, bought it this year and here are the specs:
Intel Core i5-4210U @ 1.70GHz
AMD Radeon R5 M255
8 GB RAM
Windows 10

(I suspect the shitty win 10 being the cause tbh, it's like a second Vista, that was crashing games on me all the time.. so if I can't find a solution, I'm just gonna reinstall system and stay with 8.1)

Thanks in advance!

 

blingyeol

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it was 80°C while doing dungeons in TERA, yes but with M&B it's only around 60°C, is that too high?

P.S. I just tried reinstalling M&B and lag is gone... I'm a noob but could that be a problem with cache?
 

blingyeol

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So it really was a cache problem! It started lagging soon after the reinstall again and I cleared both browser cache and the game cache, so I don't know which one did the trick (or if both combined) but everything was fine :)