My PC / Radeon R9 295x2 is Having FPS Drops and Low FPS and is Lagging Intermittently When Playing CS:GO and H1Z1

ItsEvergreen

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Hi, here is my Computer info:

9-Bay Acrylic Case

Windows 8.1 64 Bit

Power Supply: Ultra X4 1600-Watt Modular - 135mm Fan, ATX, But I use 1000 Watts of this, you need a 210V outlet to use the full 1600-Watts.

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0

Ram: Vengeance® Pro Series — 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 DRAM 1866MHz C9 Memory Kit (CMY16GX3M2A1866C9

Hard Drive: Corsair Performance Pro Series 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-P256GBP-BK

CPU Processor: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core 4.01 GHz

CPU Processor Liquid Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H110

Graphics Card GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 295x2 Used for the Primary Center Monitor

Graphics Card GPU 2: Zotac Geforce GTX 660 Used for the 2 Side Monitors Left and Right.

Sound Card: X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series

Computer Fans. 1x 120mm Fan on Back 1x 120mm on side 2x 120mm Fans on Front 1x 80mm Fan on Top.

Outside Case:

Monitors: Primary Main Center: BenQ XL2730Z 144Hz - Left side: ASUS VE278 60Hz Right Side: DELL E172FP 75Hz
Keyboard: Logitech G910
Mouse: Mad Catz R.A.T. Pro X
Mic: Blue Yeti
Headphones: iSport Intensity

I get around 190 FPS but it's not always smooth and I think I should be getting more FPS then that. So when I play CS:GO it will give me drops in FPS and feels laggy at round starts so if I'm playing on a deathmatch server it will be at like 50 fps and laggy when I spawn after dying and it will stay like this for around 30 seconds or so before it goes to around 144 to 190 FPS, when I see a laggy player on my screen or when there are many players on my screen like in a zombie server, It lags when a grenade is thrown or when I look at the scoreboard. It lags in the game menus before I start a game it feels like there is a mouse delay when moving the mouse in the game menus. When the FPS drops it has gone down to 50 FPS or maybe lower, I think.

I seemed to got most of these problems when I upgraded my CPU to the AMD Radeon R9 295x2 Graphics Card. I did have some Menu lag before in in CS:GO but I think I fixed that, but now it's back.

When I have chrome and other internet browsers closed it lags and FPS Drops way less. I also have downloaded and install new drives for the graphics cards.

Also If I play Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 it runs totally fine. But If I run H1Z1 it freaks out even more then in CS:GO and my GPU gets really hot. It does run better when I run it in windowed mode making it only use 1 GPU but it still gets really hot.


Please help me find out with is lagging me. I will add more information if asked or if I can think of it.


 
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Hi, as a person who has had two R9 295x2's on his rig i hope i can help you.
I understand and relate to all your problems so let me explain.

1. Your games will run smoother on windowed mode (even though the fps drops compared to the full screen) because when put to windowed mode only one of the gpus inside the R9 295x2 will do the job of running the game.
2. Stuttering and lag on some games while not on others : I've been through these problems and have struggled myself, the fast and short answer is that not all game engines are optimized for more than 2 gpus to be utilized within it, thus making your two gpus not being able to cooperate with one another right (they can't decide who puts the frame first perfectly). Other games are...
You said it is better in windowed mode. This points to two things. Xfire and FreeSync.

Disable FreeSync first and see how it runs. If still laggy disable Xfire too. Also try just Xfire disabled. I've never ran a Xfire setup so I don't know if you can disable it for certain games or not, same with FreeSync, don't know if you can disable on a per game basis.
 

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Thank you very much, you fixed it. I turned off "AMD CrossFire Mode" and "FreeSync" and "Virtual Super Resolution" and "GPU Scaling" and it fixed it. But I put FreeSync back on, but now I have screen tearing even tho FreeSync is back on.
 

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Yea man your right, I put my monitor back on 144Hz because it keeps going down to 60Hz and I restarted the game and now FreeSync works lol go figure. :) Will i'm so happy I got it working so much better now :) and thanks for the help. :) :)
 

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Hi, as a person who has had two R9 295x2's on his rig i hope i can help you.
I understand and relate to all your problems so let me explain.

1. Your games will run smoother on windowed mode (even though the fps drops compared to the full screen) because when put to windowed mode only one of the gpus inside the R9 295x2 will do the job of running the game.
2. Stuttering and lag on some games while not on others : I've been through these problems and have struggled myself, the fast and short answer is that not all game engines are optimized for more than 2 gpus to be utilized within it, thus making your two gpus not being able to cooperate with one another right (they can't decide who puts the frame first perfectly). Other games are simply well optimized and will make your gpus have perfect cooperation together.
3. Your cpu is extremely bad compared to your gpu, making them not very cooperable with each other (let's face it, all amd processors are shit these days, even the best ones available).
4. This one drops down to your cpu again. Your cpu can only support so many pci-e lanes, and adding another card on top of the hungry R9 295x2 will only make it harder for your cpu to cooperate with your R9 295x2 and give it its full power (being a dual gpu means that it desperately needs all those 16 lanes to be used fully).
5. As for the gpus running hot, the problem is for everyone. What i did myself was buy noctua fans and put em in push and pull on the rads, nothing else can help them from not throttling, they are just too hot for that 120mm rad to handle.
6. In the end, i sold my two R9 295x2s and bought me an asus PG279Q monitor (1440p ips 165hz gsync) and a Gtx 980 ti. And i would recommend you sell that card before new ones come out and replace it with a Gtx 980 ti (overclock that 980 ti and you'll get performance close to the R9 295x2 and no lag or problems).

Nontheless, i hope i helped you.

If you have any other questions then please let me know, i would be more than happy to help you :)
 
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Ok I got it to go to 144hz on high resolution 2560 x 1440 but now I can't get freesync to work on high resolution and high hertz. I used a custom resolution " as seen here http://imgur.com/Ns7tZSQ" to get it to go up to 144hz on high res, but I think I may of done something wrong, because on the Radeon settings it shows the the freesync refresh rate is only at 40 to 60hz here is a pic http://imgur.com/evG3Tar . I would like to know what I can do to fix this and also what is good custom resolution settings for 2560 x 1440 at 144hz ? Here are two pics of the settings. http://imgur.com/evG3Tar and http://imgur.com/Ns7tZSQ
 

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Unfortunately freesync only supports up to 75hz.
Nontheless, i don't think anyone needs freesync or gsync for that matter on a monitor that's faster than 100hz.
I personally have a 165hz monitor and after lots and lots of experimenting, i found out that when enabled, the game would get much less responsive and just fakely feel smoother (like playing at 60hz smooth even though i was on 165hz 165fps).
As of now, if you have a monitor with a higher refresh rate than 80hz i don't think you need freesync or gsync.
Hope this information helped.