Intense lag spikes

[rare yoke]

So everytime i launch a game pubg rocketleague shatterline gta5 etc i start for like a few mins with intense lag specs that happen every 3 to 4 seconds my drivers are up to date and i dont think its an hardware issue
my specs
cpu: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Ram: 16GB DDR4 hyperx predator
MB: ASRock A320M-HDV R4.0
Gpu: 8176MB ATI AMD Radeon RX 5700

[jagged panther]

Sounds like it could be temperature related mate, open your AMD Adrenalin software, go to Performance > Metrics on the right hand side click "overlay" make sure your size is set to 100% and click the slider on "Show Metrics Overlay".

Play one of those games for a bit and if your gpu temperature is going above 80c, or your cpu temperature is going above 90c, you're just thermal throttling. Which means it might be time to replace the thermal paste on your CPU or GPU, or maybe buy some more case fans.

[rare yoke]

ait

but its only in the beginning

cuz if i give it some time the spikes stop

i just started the games and my cpu is 65 ish and gpu 60

and my games lagging

[jagged panther]

What were your usages like @rare yoke ?

Your VRAM, RAM, CPU and GPU usages

[rare yoke]

gimmy a sec restarting my gta

[jagged panther]

aLRIGHT

[rare yoke]

gpu is around 65

cpu is 5 percent

eyo what

vram

2650 mb

ram like 10

[jagged panther]

Sounds about right for 1080p

What's your actual fps?

[rare yoke]

yup

like rn without the spikes

its capped on 144

[jagged panther]

No, with the spikes

Turn vsync off

[rare yoke]

i mean i capped it on 144 in settings

and

[jagged panther]

Turn that off too

[rare yoke]

and when the lag happends it goes to like 15

[jagged panther]

search game mode in windows settings and turn it to what it isnt

if its on turn it off and vice versa

[rare yoke]

its off

now on

[jagged panther]

alright

[rare yoke]

wait what does that even do

[jagged panther]

I don't actually really know

It just makes windows change background tasks

[rare yoke]

ah

[jagged panther]

It can give amd lag spikes if turned on but we'll see

What's the wattage of your power supply?

[rare yoke]

like 550

[jagged panther]

that might not help

it should be fine but if your 5700 is a bit power hungry

[rare yoke]

u think i should upgrade

[jagged panther]

Have you got both cables in

It should be fine so no

Save your money for something else

[rare yoke]

both lights of the cables or on

[jagged panther]

By both cables I mean

If that's your psu

You should have 2 gpu slots

12v gpu slots

Do you use both of them?

[rare yoke]

o r

[jagged panther]

Not that side

the other side

What's your powersupply?

[rare yoke]

dont really know outta ma head then ill have to open my pc

[jagged panther]

Yeah you'll need to

because if you're not using both of your gpu slots that will probably be the problem

unless you've just started having these issues

[rare yoke]

yeh they just started

like

i got this pc begin covid

so like

2020

[jagged panther]

Well it's probably not that then

Have you done any hardware changes?

[rare yoke]

ehhh cpu upgrade

[jagged panther]

When was that?

[rare yoke]

went from 5 2600 to 3600

changed it with ma brothers new pc

and i added an m,2 ssd to put my windows on like a year ago

and an extra hdd of like 2 tb

[jagged panther]

Lad when did you upgrade your cpu

[rare yoke]

ehhhh like 7 months ago

[jagged panther]

right

I mean anything that could have changed recently

Within a day or two around the time of when these spikes started

[rare yoke]

recently nothing

i did the new windows update

thats it

[jagged panther]

Well it could be that

But I doubt it

I don't know what they could be, your hardware sounds fine

I'd recommend reseating your RAM, if that doesn't work reseat your cpu

Factory reset your bios

you might even need to update it

And turn the fps cap off

[rare yoke]

alright

thx for the help bud