Hi!
I've been having trouble with my gaming laptop for about a year now and although I have been searching here and there I cannot find a satisfying solution. I tried following the 10 simple steps from this forum, most of which I had already tried anyway, but the problem wasn't solved.
My laptop is an unmodified ASUS ROG750JX with 16 Go of RAM. When I bought it in december 2013 it worked perfectly, but after about 6 months I noticed weird 1-3 seconds freezes in game. Since then I have been testing to try to understand where the problem came from and here is what I found so far.
The freezes occur when the game tries to load something, at first I thought it was a sound related problem because it occurred consistently when loading certain sounds in the game, but even when the sound was completely disabled in the game options, the freezes didn't go away.
I get the problem in many games, Steam games or not (League of Legends for example get it a lot), offline or online (so not an internet connection problem), old games or new games and performance settings set on ultra or low don't seem to matter.
The screenshot below is from Path of Exile where you can monitor performance in game, and you can see the frame rate peaking and the FPS dropping to 0 for a short while. As you can see on the screenshot nothing is happening on the screen, I'm pretty much alone and I still get this drop. In PoE I noticed it occurred mostly when a new song was loaded in the soundtrack, or when I activated crates that spawned 3 groups of monsters at once.
In League of Legends it occurs for example when I get targeted by a turret for the first time in the game (then a little beep sound alerts you you're being targeted), when a turret is destroyed or when certain champion abilities were used.
Now I remembered at the beginning I had no problems, and reading this forum someone hinted on another related thread that it could be a problem from the hard drive, which makes sense. I then tried reinstalling PoE on my SSD drive (the one containing the OS), and it ran perfectly smoothly. When I bought the laptop I was installing games on this drive because I didn't realise it couldn't hold that much memory (about 350 Go minus the OS, compared to the almost 1 To HDD).
So I'm pretty sure now the problem comes from the HDD on which the games are installed. Do you think I'm correct?
Also, how can I check if it's a purely hardware problem (in that case I'll just have to change it I guess), or some kind of lame parameter on the HDD from Windows or whatever that keeps it from functioning properly?
Finally something really weird that I can't fathom: when I thought of seeking help on the net I started recording my gameplay with OBS to have a video recording of the problem, but the thing is when I'm recording ... the problem just disappears, all the games run smoothly. How does it make sense??! So that's a temporary fix but it's not very satisfying, also I'm afraid I won't be able to do it when games become more memory intensive.
Thank you very much for your attention and I hope someone will have an answer for my questions
I've been having trouble with my gaming laptop for about a year now and although I have been searching here and there I cannot find a satisfying solution. I tried following the 10 simple steps from this forum, most of which I had already tried anyway, but the problem wasn't solved.
My laptop is an unmodified ASUS ROG750JX with 16 Go of RAM. When I bought it in december 2013 it worked perfectly, but after about 6 months I noticed weird 1-3 seconds freezes in game. Since then I have been testing to try to understand where the problem came from and here is what I found so far.
The freezes occur when the game tries to load something, at first I thought it was a sound related problem because it occurred consistently when loading certain sounds in the game, but even when the sound was completely disabled in the game options, the freezes didn't go away.
I get the problem in many games, Steam games or not (League of Legends for example get it a lot), offline or online (so not an internet connection problem), old games or new games and performance settings set on ultra or low don't seem to matter.
The screenshot below is from Path of Exile where you can monitor performance in game, and you can see the frame rate peaking and the FPS dropping to 0 for a short while. As you can see on the screenshot nothing is happening on the screen, I'm pretty much alone and I still get this drop. In PoE I noticed it occurred mostly when a new song was loaded in the soundtrack, or when I activated crates that spawned 3 groups of monsters at once.
In League of Legends it occurs for example when I get targeted by a turret for the first time in the game (then a little beep sound alerts you you're being targeted), when a turret is destroyed or when certain champion abilities were used.
Now I remembered at the beginning I had no problems, and reading this forum someone hinted on another related thread that it could be a problem from the hard drive, which makes sense. I then tried reinstalling PoE on my SSD drive (the one containing the OS), and it ran perfectly smoothly. When I bought the laptop I was installing games on this drive because I didn't realise it couldn't hold that much memory (about 350 Go minus the OS, compared to the almost 1 To HDD).
So I'm pretty sure now the problem comes from the HDD on which the games are installed. Do you think I'm correct?
Also, how can I check if it's a purely hardware problem (in that case I'll just have to change it I guess), or some kind of lame parameter on the HDD from Windows or whatever that keeps it from functioning properly?
Finally something really weird that I can't fathom: when I thought of seeking help on the net I started recording my gameplay with OBS to have a video recording of the problem, but the thing is when I'm recording ... the problem just disappears, all the games run smoothly. How does it make sense??! So that's a temporary fix but it's not very satisfying, also I'm afraid I won't be able to do it when games become more memory intensive.
Thank you very much for your attention and I hope someone will have an answer for my questions