Lag spikes in games

Recently my comp has been having like 5 second lag spikes in games, any game like cod 4, gta 4, anything- there kinda random..like once every 10 min, or once a min and fps drops from 40's to 5-15's, my cpu isent overclocked and its below 82 C, gpu doesent have temp detectors but it does it whether its overclocked or not(not more often one way or another) anyone know what might be wrong? And also if its the cpu or gpu cause im not sure about that either

 

Usually lag has to do with your internet connection. Try to play on servers with low ping, also try to open game ports on your wifi/modem router.That should fix your problems.Another thing to try is lower the eye caddy a bit.

 

Nah happens offline its not internet

 

Sometimes it can be related to the game having to pull data off the hdd, though usually you will only notice split second lag spike. Maybe de-frag you hdd to start with...

 

^^ Didint think about defrag ill run it overnight and see if it works

 

I'd think it be more your CPU throttling due to high temps. 82c is pretty high :/

 

You can upgrade your ram.IT matters a lot sometimes.Also like others said defrage your hard disc the both participations.

Turn off programs or services running at startup download cclenear and clean your computer with it.

IF you have a antivirus turn it off while playing.Go to task manager and at the process menu show how much memorry it is using.Mine is usually 250m but you can descrease it up to 150-170m by msconfig.Press the windows logo on your keybord while holding it press r.then type msconfig.turn some services and startup programs.this might boost your laptop.

 

To the 2 above, its not ram cause I dont think ive ever even used 2/3 of my total ram before- not antivirus, And my cpu has been running at those temps sense I got it with no props, its only been sense about 3 days ago thats its been doing this.

And defrag is still running so ill test after work at like 6pm

 

LOL my T9400 used to run at 101 celcius and there nver was lagg spike... that was of course without a notebook cooling pad but once i got it and undervolted temps stay below 90. BTW, AMD processors are weak so that may be a prob... some games could be stressing it too much causing lagg...

 

*Wishes I had a notebook that cpu didnt throttle at 65c

 

In the bios there should be a feature called "AMD Power Now!" or "AMD Live!" ( I know that my Dell Stuido 1536 had this) and those features are what throtle the CPU. In the description it should state what it does. I disabled both on my Dell.

Hope this helps!

 

Is it lag or a stutter issue.

Can often point towards the northbridge being too hot.

How hots the GPU?

 

Turn off the more taxing game effects such as shadows and anti-aliasing.

 

ati 3650 doesent have a temp detoector, no program can detect it either and its like- It runs at 40 fps straight for 10 min, then outa no where itll be 5-12 fps and lag, nothing triggers it its random- and it lasts about 5-20 secs

And to the guy above me it handled Cod 4 fine with the same settings a week ago, its not the details its just random 5-8 sec spikes where I go down to 5-12 fps

And I defragged it didint do anything

 

Can you at least detect gpu clocks? It could be overheating, and then throttling when you notice the lag. I know it doesn't seem like 10-20 seconds would lower temps enough for it to clock back up but if you monitor cpu temps at full load and then cut off whatever is loading it the temps will immediately drop and within a few seconds will be close idle temps. Since you cannot detect temps maybe you can check the gpu clocks when this happens and see if it is indeed downclocking.

 

Uninstall any recent updates to the system.

 

I think you are right, except its the cpu not gpu because I tried checking the gpu clocks when the fps dropped, and nothing comp wise responded, when it finally did the fps in game was back to normal to

Also i had speed fan on and looked at the chart and it looked like

Max being 84C lowest 71C dropping as soon as the lag started....and picking up when it stopped

 

Visual...dropped to 60's idk what the dip in the middle is

 

Download and Run Process Explorer, and then proceed to do the gaming, it charts the usage, when you get a spike, minimize and go to Process Explorer, I suspect a program periodically doing something.

 

That red at the beg is where it started to lag, does that mean something else was interupting it?

And also for some reason while I was running this my core got up to 94C...its never gotten that hot before