Let me preface by saying I have a 550 GTX, a i3 2120, 8gb of ram, 500w psu. The system fits my need and can do it for long periods of time without hassle. I have been running MSI's afterburner and checking a TempMon to help figure out this weird issue that sporadically pops up.
I was playing a game and I kept alt-tabbing to chat. Once I alt-tabbed back into the game the rendering was very laggy. I closed the game and double checked that the gpu never got hotter than 70 and was currently lower than that. I opened the game back up and the lag persisted. I opened another game and the lag persisted. I checked task manager and killed the browswer and things that look like they were taking up a lot of ram. The lag persisted. I finally restarted the system and the lag was gone upon the reboot.
This happened again, during an alt-tab. I decided the alt-tabbing was hanging up the video card and I couldn't understand why the video card would unhang, especially after I stopped asking it to render things.
I thought it was the one specific game, then it happened with another. The only commonality was they were both launched from Steam. I decided to make a 'house rule' no alt-tabbing while using Steam. Well just now I launched a game from Steam and it imediately started lagging upon load up. Again temp is fine, proccesses are fine--I shut down AVP, closed all programs.
I'd love to fix the problem but I really don't know where the problem is. The GPU is definitely acting weird but it's not demonstrating weirdness in temp or anything. Fan doesn't even spin up like its being taxed. CPU seems fine, maybe its a power issue?
Before anyone suggests that the 550 is a shitty card, I know the opinions of it but again it works well for what I want it to do and just throwing it out is not an option I am looking to entertain currently. It's brand new. I feel like the issue is something to do with Windows as the problem goes away upon a reboot. Literally the time it takes the system to reboot, the problem is gone.
Any ideas?
I was playing a game and I kept alt-tabbing to chat. Once I alt-tabbed back into the game the rendering was very laggy. I closed the game and double checked that the gpu never got hotter than 70 and was currently lower than that. I opened the game back up and the lag persisted. I opened another game and the lag persisted. I checked task manager and killed the browswer and things that look like they were taking up a lot of ram. The lag persisted. I finally restarted the system and the lag was gone upon the reboot.
This happened again, during an alt-tab. I decided the alt-tabbing was hanging up the video card and I couldn't understand why the video card would unhang, especially after I stopped asking it to render things.
I thought it was the one specific game, then it happened with another. The only commonality was they were both launched from Steam. I decided to make a 'house rule' no alt-tabbing while using Steam. Well just now I launched a game from Steam and it imediately started lagging upon load up. Again temp is fine, proccesses are fine--I shut down AVP, closed all programs.
I'd love to fix the problem but I really don't know where the problem is. The GPU is definitely acting weird but it's not demonstrating weirdness in temp or anything. Fan doesn't even spin up like its being taxed. CPU seems fine, maybe its a power issue?
Before anyone suggests that the 550 is a shitty card, I know the opinions of it but again it works well for what I want it to do and just throwing it out is not an option I am looking to entertain currently. It's brand new. I feel like the issue is something to do with Windows as the problem goes away upon a reboot. Literally the time it takes the system to reboot, the problem is gone.
Any ideas?
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