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  1. Neokek Win User

    Momentary pauses/split second lag spikes/FPS drops to 0/GPU workload drops in to negative...


    I have pretty much done everything possible. Many different drivers, Bios settings alterations these two has been the most successful, but the problem reappears . Chipset updates, New user account, game bar shutdown, antivirus shutdown, discord and steam overlay shutdown, clearing of caches, disabling of everything in Nvidia control panel, disabling of all sound cards, power settings changed to ultimate, i have disabled fast start-up too this also worked for a while for many hours . I used to run my second monitor on the IGPU but have changed that too. Windows controls disk cache.

    I'm using windows defender and have scanned every file with malwarebytes, rouge killer, c cleaner, ++. I have scanned disks for errors, drive health is good on the EVO 860 SSD. Just going to put "etc" here. I have done a lot!


    It has to be a Windows or hardware issue, period. The computer feels unresponsive. If i bring up chrome with tabs opened on it, it can take 500ms to 1000 ms to get it going, just as an example.


    https://imgur.com/XMds0PT


    I am at my wits end here. It's been an ongoing issue for 3 windows 10 installs I really thought disabling fast start-up were the culprit, because of some weird hibernation issues that occurs but it turned out not to be that after all.


    ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H Gaming

    Intel Core i7-8086K Limited Ed

    HyperX Fury DDR4 3466MHz 16GB

    Nvidia GTX 1070 FE Founders Edition

    Corsair Hydro H100i RGB

    Samsung 860 EVO 250GB SSD



    Where can I find a bare minimum checklist for services and background processes running to have a fully functional WIndows 10 for everyday use and >Gaming< BTW? I've stripped it all down before too but it takes hours and hours and hours.


    Any help and tips from users who has experience with momentary freezing/lag spikes/ is greatly appreciated.

    :)
     
    Neokek, Mar 29, 2020
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  2. stac Win User

    Massive FPS Lag And GPU Spikes

    I've recently noticed that when running games like Minecraft and League of Legends, the FPS stutters and drops suddenly. This problem only started a few weeks ago - before that it ran fine. I usually average around 90FPS in Minecraft and 70FPS in League, but during the spikes it drops to 5-10FPS. The spikes used to only occur every few seconds and went away after a while, but now they're frequent and make trying to play near impossible.

    I opened up Task Manager when running Minecraft, and the GPU constantly spikes from around 30% to up to 90%, causing the drops. Most of the GPU usage is from Java running, and the spikes are from it as well. Running on Windows 10, I already have Optifine installed on Minecraft. The problem only occurs in fullscreen.

    Things I've already tried:

    • Uninstall and reinstall graphics drivers
    • Cleaned out junk files
    • Uninstall and reinstall games
    • Close background programs, end tasks in Task Manager
    • Ran multiple antivirus scans using AVG, MalwareBytes and Adaware(no problems found)

    Specs:

     
  3. LêDũng1 Win User
    GPU usage drops randomly to 0% when gaming

    My GPU usage drops randomly from 70-100% to 0-10% when im gaming. especially when playing FH4, creates severe lag spikes. Its really annoying. Anyone can help me?
     
    LêDũng1, Mar 29, 2020
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  4. Dull Byte Win User

    Momentary pauses/split second lag spikes/FPS drops to 0/GPU workload drops in to negative...

    Sudden FPS drop/Stutter

    Since 2 days ago, I just turned on my Computer, and it starting having issues while I was playing Witcher 3 (starts with decent fpsm and then very low fps, dropping to 35, then 20, and stopping at 12 or so, in a matter of seconds, in a matter of 1min of starting the game), also stuttering without any high demanding programs, randomly. I was playing at 45-60 fps, without any stutters or sudden fps drop. Have tried other games the issue persists. Even setup everything to low settings.
    I have ran several tests with several tools, all seems normal, no sudden memory spikes, or temperature raising out of the ordinary, nothing that would indicate such an fps drop or stuttering.

    MSI Afterburner

    I also did the reset option on Windows10, completly cleaned out all my personal info from the windows partition.
    So at this point, I am not sure if it is a software issue or a hardware issue.
    Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

    Edit: I kept doing some tests to find out the issue. And this happened before and I was able to replicate it. Same thing happened as before, till I set it up to fullscreen, Alt+Tab from the game and then back to the game, FPS went up to 50 again, stable and good, dropped after a couple of seconds. After a bit it went to 2-5 fps, and I had to shutdown the game, because even the sound was getting messed up.

    MSI Afterburner 2

    In this image those ups and downs in the GPU usage are when the fps dropped really hard and the sound got messed up.
     
    Dull Byte, Mar 29, 2020
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