- Jun 4, 2015
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So a computer i built for my brother a while back which has an FX-8350 and 16gb RAM (and a more recent addition, a 980ti), seems to have some odd issues. It mostly plays everything great including BF4, Darksiders 2, RB6: Siege, etc. However, when The Division launched he encountered some issues. Basically the game would run great, 80-90+fps at 1080p ultra with a 144hz monitor, then every few minutes there would be lag and a big FPS drop to less than 10 fps that would last about 30 seconds, then back to normal. Rinse, repeat. Made the game unenjoyable. Through some research we discovered that going into task manager and setting core affinity on the game exe to only use 4 cores (0, 1, 2, 3) caused the game to run perfectly fine. There was a slight FPS hit, but the performance smoothed out.
We thought this was an isolated incident until BF1 came out. The beta ran fine, however the final release doesn't. He downloaded it and jumped on yesterday and the same exact issues as The Division cropped up. Updated drivers, tried different settings in the nvidia control panel, etc to no avail. I figured it was bottlenecking so i told him to go into bf1 and crank up the graphical scaling to put a heavier load on the GPU to give the CPU a chance to catch up better. He maxed it out to 200% and said it was running better, but the issue eventually returned. So then i remembered the core affinity trick from The Division. He did it, and it worked and everything ran great after that. I figured maybe turning cores off that way allowed it to turbo up higher on the remaining cores, but im not sure thats accurate.
Any idea why this is a fix? Why this is happening? This is on windows 10 as well.
Also, what BIOS settings would i need to look at to try to force all cores to run at the max turbo frequency all the time? Motherboard is an ASRock 970 Extreme 4 i think. I feel like going this route would also stabilize/smooth things out, and if it doesn't its at least worth a try.
We thought this was an isolated incident until BF1 came out. The beta ran fine, however the final release doesn't. He downloaded it and jumped on yesterday and the same exact issues as The Division cropped up. Updated drivers, tried different settings in the nvidia control panel, etc to no avail. I figured it was bottlenecking so i told him to go into bf1 and crank up the graphical scaling to put a heavier load on the GPU to give the CPU a chance to catch up better. He maxed it out to 200% and said it was running better, but the issue eventually returned. So then i remembered the core affinity trick from The Division. He did it, and it worked and everything ran great after that. I figured maybe turning cores off that way allowed it to turbo up higher on the remaining cores, but im not sure thats accurate.
Any idea why this is a fix? Why this is happening? This is on windows 10 as well.
Also, what BIOS settings would i need to look at to try to force all cores to run at the max turbo frequency all the time? Motherboard is an ASRock 970 Extreme 4 i think. I feel like going this route would also stabilize/smooth things out, and if it doesn't its at least worth a try.
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