Massive laggs/minifreezes in-game

(Flexington_Thor) #1

I have incredible annoying minifreezes, where the screen literally just freezes for a second or longer, it often costs me my life and really destroys immersion and fun. My drivers are up2date, I got a really good and smooth config, the one from DreoUK, where i get very good frames but still have those freezes. Does anyone know what could cause this or how to fix that? Am just starting with programming so I’m not able to look through the configs etc yet. Thanks in advance :slight_smile:
Flexington_Thor

(XavienX) #2

Specs?

(misspo) #3

I got many rollback lag today.

(Amerika) #4

I always tell people to download Open Hardware Monitor (free/open) and make sure that, while they are playing, they say what temps they are hitting. A lot of freezing/lagging in some games is attributed to overheating (even if other games don’t cause it) or your computer, especially laptops, clocking your CPU down once it reaches a certain heat threshold.

For example, I have an i7 Sandybridge laptop in my living room with an Nvidia 555m GPU. The i7 will clock down to 2.4ghz when it reaches 80C and it constantly tries to go from 2.4 back up to 3.2ghz which is what causes stuttering. If it goes over 80c then it will clock down to 1ghz. I tend to not game on it (I use it as a media center PC and for Steam in-home streaming) due to this issue.

So yeah, TLDR, download open hardware monitor and tell us the temps you have while playing :slight_smile:

(B_Montiel) #5

From my experience, it feels like your gpu is the culprit, or something messing with it. Check your gpu temperature if you don’t find any software clues. Dust it off maybe, there’s always too much dust in a computer.

(RuleofBooKz) #6

if not using temp software to adjust fans etc u must use MSI afterburner u must u must

(Ghosthree3) #7

Turning off HT saves a huge amount of heat and power draw. You can knock the voltage down significantly afterwards actually.

Also it allows for higher overclocks. Got my 2600K to 5.0ghz back in 2013, unfortunately a few months later the PSU blew out and crapped the system… Unrelated, unless you can tell me how an overclocked CPU blows up a PSU :stuck_out_tongue:

(Amerika) #8

Turning off HT saves a huge amount of heat and power draw. You can knock the voltage down significantly afterwards actually.

Also it allows for higher overclocks. Got my 2600K to 5.0ghz back in 2013, unfortunately a few months later the PSU blew out and crapped the system… Unrelated, unless you can tell me how an overclocked CPU blows up a PSU :p[/quote]

Already way ahead of you on turning off HT. First thing I did actually when I opened it up. Sadly, I still have heat issues like many/most other laptops.

(Backuplight) #9

If it does turn out to be a temperature issue, or as something for you to try at least, you might want to try locking your FPS. I had some GPU overheating issues, locking my FPS at 60 prevents it and my gameplay is still just fine. A post on locking your FPS can be found here.

(Ghosthree3) #10

Ah…laptop. RIP.

(XavienX) #11

Ah…laptop. RIP.[/quote]

Can’t wait in 10 years til someone in forums say, “desktop RIP”

(Ghosthree3) #12

Unlikely to happen. If for no other reason than the size of monitors. And no matter how much power we get in laptops, we’ll be getting double at least in desktops.

(Flexington_Thor) #13

Thank you guys, I’ll try all this stuff out!

(PapaHoleNUrHead) #14

something to look at or try - for a few games, I’ve had to turn off monitoring of sensors and CPU frequencies in the AI Suite software for my motherboard. not sure why, but it was causing me mini-freezes in games such as BF4 for me.