Game freezing for a split second sometimes

arturukas14 · Oct 9, 2018

My system:
GPU - gtx 1060 6gb
CPU - Ryzen 5 2600
RAM - 8GB DDR4 3000Mhz
STORAGE - 120 Gb SSD and 1Tb HDD
MONITOR - 144hz, 1ms

While playing games i noticed that even though my fps is at 140-250 i sometimes experience split second freezes and it is VERY annoying, especially when it happens during an important moment.

This is what i mean:

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It happens without me streaming. At first i thought its because of encoding problems is why im skipping frames but i experience this even without the stream.

jay.wooster · Oct 9, 2018

Sounds like a driver issue, either upgrade the Nvidia Driver for your 1060 or if your on the latest driver rollback to the previous version (411.70)

Roland Of Gilead · Oct 9, 2018

What games, and what res?

It's most likely your ram getting maxed. games like BF1/COD/Wolfenstein/BF V all use upwards of 9gbs of system ram at 1080p! When it maxes out you get these momentary lapses, but it can be annoying. Getting 16gb (which is the sweet-spot right now for gaming) should alleviate the issue.

it also doesn't help having 8gbs for a streaming machine.

arturukas14 · Oct 9, 2018

jay.wooster :

I am using geforce experience for the drivers. is the 411.70 the most stable version or smth?

arturukas14 · Oct 9, 2018

Roland Of Gilead :

I noticed that ram usage was above 70% sometimes, but im not sure if it was ever maxed out that being said, could ram be the only issue here?

Roland Of Gilead · Oct 9, 2018

arturukas14 :

It's possible, there is a GPU issue,specially if streaming. But for the most part i'd put it down to the ram.

Keep in mind, some ram is hardware reserved so you will not have a full allocation of 8gbs. Maybe 7-7.5.

Like the other poster mentioned update your drivers to the latest one, doing a clean install (select from custom install options for nvidia driver)

Also, if you use Geforce experience in any way to optimize your game,don't. It's trash. Just use Nvidia control panel and in game settings to manage graphical settings.

arturukas14 · Oct 9, 2018

Roland Of Gilead :

arturukas14 :

It's possible, there is a GPU issue,specially if streaming. But for the most part i'd put it down to the ram.

Keep in mind, some ram is hardware reserved so you will not have a full allocation of 8gbs. Maybe 7-7.5.

Like the other poster mentioned update your drivers to the latest one, doing a clean install (select from custom install options for nvidia driver)

Also, if you use Geforce experience in any way to optimize your game,don't. It's trash. Just use Nvidia control panel and in game settings to manage graphical settings.

I dont use experience to optimize games i used it to update drivers. Also, i just played few matches of rocket league and i experienced the stutters while ram usage being 50% or below. the max usage that it reached was 57%

Peter Martin · Oct 9, 2018

you might need the new october win10 update. supposedly addresses the nvidia stutters. this is most likely an os issue not behaving properly with the gpu

Roland Of Gilead · Oct 9, 2018

Think that Oct update has been pulled because of issues.

Peter Martin · Oct 16, 2018

it's been released again from what I've heard, but it might have more issues... sigh

Roland Of Gilead · Oct 16, 2018

Peter Martin :

Quite possibly

arturukas14 · Oct 16, 2018

Roland Of Gilead :

I have 17134 build

jay.wooster · Oct 17, 2018

Latest Nvidia Graphics drivers are actually 416.34, try updating to the new drivers and see if it fixes the issue.

arturukas14 · Oct 17, 2018

jay.wooster :

Tried

Peter Martin · Oct 17, 2018

have you Memtest86 your RAM yet? you need to start the process of elimination through testing.

Roland Of Gilead · Oct 17, 2018

arturukas14 :

Roland Of Gilead :

I dont use experience to optimize games i used it to update drivers. Also, i just played few matches of rocket league and i experienced the stutters while ram usage being 50% or below. the max usage that it reached was 57%

You've mentioned you played rocket league a few times and were still experiencing it. Was this whilst streaming too?

Also, bit late in the day, but this should have been asked almost immediately. Are you OC'ing any components? CPUP/GPU/Ram. If so, try run everything at stock. It could be unstable OC.

arturukas14 · Oct 17, 2018

Roland Of Gilead :

arturukas14 :

You've mentioned you played rocket league a few times and were still experiencing it. Was this whilst streaming too?

Also, bit late in the day, but this should have been asked almost immediately. Are you OC'ing any components? CPUP/GPU/Ram. If so, try run everything at stock. It could be unstable OC.

No OC, apart from the fact that i changed ram frequency to what 3k because the ram stick is advertised as that speed but it was not on that speed from the start, and yes, i get the stutters during and without the stream.

arturukas14 · Oct 17, 2018

Peter Martin :

I tested the ram using "windows memory diagnostic" tool and it found no problems

smorizio · Oct 17, 2018

make sure the mb has the newest bios on it and the newest chipset drivers from amd. also make sure power settings for the gpu and pci slots are off. it may be windows trying to go into low power whe ngaming. also turn off sleep states in the bios.

Roland Of Gilead · Oct 17, 2018

arturukas14 :

Roland Of Gilead :

No OC, apart from the fact that i changed ram frequency to what 3k because the ram stick is advertised as that speed but it was not on that speed from the start, and yes, i get the stutters during and without the stream.

Have you tried ram on default speed? 2133 or 2400. Give it a shot. Did you set 3000mhz by DOCP or manually or both? If you tried only one, try the other. Also, I don't see it but maybe I missed it, what mobo do you have? If it's a B350, this could be the issue as ram compatibility is still an issue for some DIMMS to this day.

arturukas14 · Oct 18, 2018

I had precision x hardware monitor on while i was playing and this is what I it shows:

https://imgur.com/a/956N5i2

when the massive fps drop happens, theres the same massive change in the gpu usage and a small change in clock speed

arturukas14 · Oct 18, 2018

Roland Of Gilead :

arturukas14 :

Roland Of Gilead :

No OC, apart from the fact that i changed ram frequency to what 3k because the ram stick is advertised as that speed but it was not on that speed from the start, and yes, i get the stutters during and without the stream.

Have you tried ram on default speed? 2133 or 2400. Give it a shot. Did you set 3000mhz by DOCP or manually or both? If you tried only one, try the other. Also, I don't see it but maybe I missed it, what mobo do you have? If it's a B350, this could be the issue as ram compatibility is still an issue for some DIMMS to this day.

I have not tried RAM on default speed and my MOMBO is ASRock AB350 Pro4

arturukas14 · Oct 18, 2018

Now that I look at it again i see that gpu reached the max allowed temp which is 92C. ill bump up the fan speed to see if i still have the issue

arturukas14 · Oct 18, 2018

Nop, temp is now below 50C, gpu usage is around 50% and im still getting those stutters

arturukas14 · Oct 18, 2018

Is there any tool or like a benchmark i dunno, that could detect or help detect the issue?

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