Hello! I have a bit of an odd problem with a new gaming PC I've recently build that has me quite stumped.
Basically I've recently built my own PC for the first time and everything seems rad, it's not incredibly heavy but it's a decent rig that should be able to run most games.
Specs are:
Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Socket 1150 Intel H97 Chipset
Intel i5-4460 Quad Core CPU @ 3.20GHz
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz
Sapphire Radeon R9 270X DUAL-X 2GB GDDR5
Suffice it to say I think my machine is well enough capable of running the games I'm trying to run. I've tried three games so far; Far Cry 3, Dishonored and Skyrim. All with similar results. Basically what happens is that sometimes (I want to say 50% of the time) when I run the games, everything is fine and dandy. I'm running them at Ultra high, maximum everything and the FPS is as smooth as silk at 60 FPS. The other 50% of the time, I run the game and it is extremely laggy. Lowering the graphical settings to the lowest graphical settings possible hardly improves this at all. I'm talking playing the game at 15-20 FPS at low graphical settings when I was just running the bloody thing at 60 FPS on the highest settings!
I do not think it is an issue of overheating. I've sometimes had this issue after a fresh boot of my computer (sometimes not) and I've checked to see if my card is overheating or anything.
Usually, when I'm lucky and the game is running smoothly, it stays that way and I can play for extended sessions of hours at a time with absolutely no problems.
But that's not the strangest thing...
The strangest thing is that my current "fix" to this problem (which is not reliable and doesn't always work), is to either pause the game or minimize for a minute or two. For some strange reason, after I do that and return to the game, it's suddenly smooth as silk again! This doesn't always work but it has happened to me at least several times. I don't know what the connection is.
Other than that I've tried the usual stuff I could google up... updated my driver software, updated my windows, even did a virus/malware scan (I mean the computer is brand new, I doubt I've had time to get it infected already )
So now I am here. I hope someone has any ideas as to what might be the problem? Otherwise I will just have to keep rolling the dice whenever I want to play a game and pray that I'm lucky enough to get smooth performance. :frown:
Basically I've recently built my own PC for the first time and everything seems rad, it's not incredibly heavy but it's a decent rig that should be able to run most games.
Specs are:
Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Socket 1150 Intel H97 Chipset
Intel i5-4460 Quad Core CPU @ 3.20GHz
Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz
Sapphire Radeon R9 270X DUAL-X 2GB GDDR5
Suffice it to say I think my machine is well enough capable of running the games I'm trying to run. I've tried three games so far; Far Cry 3, Dishonored and Skyrim. All with similar results. Basically what happens is that sometimes (I want to say 50% of the time) when I run the games, everything is fine and dandy. I'm running them at Ultra high, maximum everything and the FPS is as smooth as silk at 60 FPS. The other 50% of the time, I run the game and it is extremely laggy. Lowering the graphical settings to the lowest graphical settings possible hardly improves this at all. I'm talking playing the game at 15-20 FPS at low graphical settings when I was just running the bloody thing at 60 FPS on the highest settings!
I do not think it is an issue of overheating. I've sometimes had this issue after a fresh boot of my computer (sometimes not) and I've checked to see if my card is overheating or anything.
Usually, when I'm lucky and the game is running smoothly, it stays that way and I can play for extended sessions of hours at a time with absolutely no problems.
But that's not the strangest thing...
The strangest thing is that my current "fix" to this problem (which is not reliable and doesn't always work), is to either pause the game or minimize for a minute or two. For some strange reason, after I do that and return to the game, it's suddenly smooth as silk again! This doesn't always work but it has happened to me at least several times. I don't know what the connection is.
Other than that I've tried the usual stuff I could google up... updated my driver software, updated my windows, even did a virus/malware scan (I mean the computer is brand new, I doubt I've had time to get it infected already )
So now I am here. I hope someone has any ideas as to what might be the problem? Otherwise I will just have to keep rolling the dice whenever I want to play a game and pray that I'm lucky enough to get smooth performance. :frown: