Constant Freezing/Stuttering/Performance Drops During PC Gaming

Diaru

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May 5, 2016
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So I've had this issue pretty much ever since I've been gaming on PC, and I always thought it was just because my pc was a potato, so I kept upgrading it. Got new graphics card, more RAM, a new CPU, cleaned PC, new monitor, etc... But nothing fixed it, if anything, it made it kinda worse.

When playing video games, especially online games like MMOs, the game constantly freezes for 1 to anything like 6 seconds, and this happens constantly every few seconds... Strange thing though is my FPS does NOT drop at all from what I see on the FPS counter, it always remains at 40-60, yet it feels as if the FPS drops down to 1 or something.

GTA V is pretty much unplayable because of this, and it also happens a lot on other games, even though I can play them (most of them) it's pretty annoying and puts me off.

I've tried disabling core parking, using RadeonPro to adjust my monitor's refresh rate, using Dyanmic V-Sync, Double V-Sync, G-Sync, normal V-Sync, no V-Sync, nothing seems to help. Dynamic V-Sync and adjusting the refresh rate helped a tiny bit for a day or so, but then it got even worse for the days after that.


Here are my specs:

OS: Windows 10 64 Bit

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz

GPU: Radeon R7 260X

Memory: 4gb


Every game I play either exceeds or meets the Recommended specs, or in rare cases it meets the Minimum, yet games are rendered unplayable because of this, again, the FPS doesn't seem to be lowering.

Please help, I'd really love to get back into PC Gaming but I just can't like this.
 

Diaru

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May 5, 2016
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It also happens on offline games, I have perfect internet connection, downloads run at a minimum of 4mb/s, so... That's not the issue
 

Diaru

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I have a program which allows me to monitor temperature and change fan speed manually, fans are usually at a high speed and temperatures are cool.
 

Diaru

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I've stated that in my OP...

I've tried to play with no V-Sync, with V-Sync, Dynamic V-Sync, etc...
 

OliverS

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Mar 3, 2016
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What kind of hard disk are you using? Maybe your hard disk is slow or maybe you will need more RAM in your PC. I know myself when I play GTA V it uses more than 4GB RAM so maybe that's it. Apart from these things I can't help either mate, your cpu is good and your GPU is ok but not amazing either :)
 

Diaru

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Yea mate the problem is that it isn't just GTA:V, it happens in almost every game. And something really weird is that it will happen in a non-demanding game like Skyrim or CS:GO, but then it's fine in heavy games like Division and FFXIV.

I have all my games installed on D: instead of C: but I don't think that matters, my hard disk seems fine.
 

Diaru

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I need 8 gigs of RAM and a better graphics card to play games that have Recommended specs lower than what I already have?

Yea mate, if u're not gonna be helpful don't reply at all yea
 

Diaru

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I'm pretty sure people are only reading the "GTA V" part and making their conclusions right away there... But this doesn't only happen with GTA V like I stated, it happens in games like ESO, WoW, Starcraft II, Wildstar, and sometimes it even happens on Garry's Mod which is RIDICULOUS.
 

Diaru

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It also used to happen when I had Windows 8, so I doubt that's the issue :/