- Feb 4, 2014
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Hi everyone!
My Specs are:
Cpu: Phenom ii X4 960T 3.0 Ghz
GPU: Aus Strix GTX 960 2Gb
Ram: 8.00 Gb
Windows 7 64-bit
I'm facing some insane cpu spikes from 90-100% while I'm playing games which causes them to freeze but no crash, restart or bsod. The game is left frozen for a while until is starts playing again normally.
An example I can give is Doom 2016 which plays normally but some textures seem corrupted/slow to load and the sound is completely out of sync or it's silent. I tried Total War Warhammer and the game freezes for a minute before it starts running normally again. The same thing happened with Homefront the Revolution and Metal Gear Solid 5.
I've used cpu-z and my temps hover between 53-63 degrees celcius while my gpu's between 43-54 under load. It's gotten pretty hot here but the issue started when I installed some nvidia drivers a while back that started all this. I tried uninstalling but it got messed up somehow when the uninstaller kept running for half an hour and I had to end the process via task manager.
So I used DDUninstaller to remove the Nvidia files and reinstall the driver that worked for me last time(378.66). I've tried disabling the nvidia HD audio driver but the sound issue is still present.
I thought my graphics card was slowly dying but then I played a level in Doom in which I encountered the initial freeze but then the game started to play normally albeit with some performance fluctuations and sound issues and the textures were still blurry with some game glitches.
My idle cpu temps are at 43C since the summers here and my cpu usage hovers between 8-10% although there are spike to 80% if I have multiple chrome tabs open. I cleaned out my pc(cpu heatsink, gpu, ram sticks) 2 months back and my games were running fine until this week. This is the first time I've faced something like this and I'm totally stumped.
I'd love some help with this. Thank you!
UPDATE 28th March: So I later cleaned out my heatsink and removed the dust that had built up and plugged it up again. Unfortunately, my Windows got currupted somehow and I couldn't repair it. Luckily, I had a backup point so I could boot it up ONLY after I removed the graphics card. So I once again installed the older drivers but the same issue is still there.
I played Doom for a couple of minutes and the CPU/GPU temps were around 63/54 degrees respectively. Also, the textures aren't loaded in properly and it looks like I selected to lowest option but I play on high.
The stutter is still there but the game doesn't crash and there's no Blue Screen. Do I need to apply a new thermal paste? Or is my GPU dying somehow?
UPDATE 6th April: I reinstalled the drivers again and games are playable again. I played Killing Floor 2 for two and half hours with no issues(some stutters during loading), DOOM 2016 with some frame drops and Torchlight 2. Apart from some fairly high temps 63 in most cases, the games play fine. No huge stutters like the ones I was facing earlier.
I'm not too sure but I think the nvidia driver somehow corrupted my current drivers and my audio problems went away after I chose not to install nvidia's hd audio driver.
My Specs are:
Cpu: Phenom ii X4 960T 3.0 Ghz
GPU: Aus Strix GTX 960 2Gb
Ram: 8.00 Gb
Windows 7 64-bit
I'm facing some insane cpu spikes from 90-100% while I'm playing games which causes them to freeze but no crash, restart or bsod. The game is left frozen for a while until is starts playing again normally.
An example I can give is Doom 2016 which plays normally but some textures seem corrupted/slow to load and the sound is completely out of sync or it's silent. I tried Total War Warhammer and the game freezes for a minute before it starts running normally again. The same thing happened with Homefront the Revolution and Metal Gear Solid 5.
I've used cpu-z and my temps hover between 53-63 degrees celcius while my gpu's between 43-54 under load. It's gotten pretty hot here but the issue started when I installed some nvidia drivers a while back that started all this. I tried uninstalling but it got messed up somehow when the uninstaller kept running for half an hour and I had to end the process via task manager.
So I used DDUninstaller to remove the Nvidia files and reinstall the driver that worked for me last time(378.66). I've tried disabling the nvidia HD audio driver but the sound issue is still present.
I thought my graphics card was slowly dying but then I played a level in Doom in which I encountered the initial freeze but then the game started to play normally albeit with some performance fluctuations and sound issues and the textures were still blurry with some game glitches.
My idle cpu temps are at 43C since the summers here and my cpu usage hovers between 8-10% although there are spike to 80% if I have multiple chrome tabs open. I cleaned out my pc(cpu heatsink, gpu, ram sticks) 2 months back and my games were running fine until this week. This is the first time I've faced something like this and I'm totally stumped.
I'd love some help with this. Thank you!
UPDATE 28th March: So I later cleaned out my heatsink and removed the dust that had built up and plugged it up again. Unfortunately, my Windows got currupted somehow and I couldn't repair it. Luckily, I had a backup point so I could boot it up ONLY after I removed the graphics card. So I once again installed the older drivers but the same issue is still there.
I played Doom for a couple of minutes and the CPU/GPU temps were around 63/54 degrees respectively. Also, the textures aren't loaded in properly and it looks like I selected to lowest option but I play on high.
The stutter is still there but the game doesn't crash and there's no Blue Screen. Do I need to apply a new thermal paste? Or is my GPU dying somehow?
UPDATE 6th April: I reinstalled the drivers again and games are playable again. I played Killing Floor 2 for two and half hours with no issues(some stutters during loading), DOOM 2016 with some frame drops and Torchlight 2. Apart from some fairly high temps 63 in most cases, the games play fine. No huge stutters like the ones I was facing earlier.
I'm not too sure but I think the nvidia driver somehow corrupted my current drivers and my audio problems went away after I chose not to install nvidia's hd audio driver.
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