Hey guys
So i've branched out and started gaming on more stuff than i usually do (I never gamed much outside of Street Fighter 4, Age of Empires 2 HD and League sometimes)
Almost every single game i own on my libary is micro freezing, some worse than others, and it's driving me to the point of insanity!
It's hard to explain, and for the most part i can recreate the problem in each game at certain points, but other times its just seemingly random, its making my gaming life a living hell, i have all these games i wanna play that i cant due to these micro freezes.
They dontusually last longer than .5 of a second, but they are consistent, and thats what distracts me from immersing myself in them.
Some games i managed to make better, sometimes even remove it, others i just cant and some dont have this problem atall.
Take for example Borderlands 2, i had to do a heck of tweaks in the .ini to make it not micro freeze just turning the camera around!
Whilst a game like Sleeping Dogs (Arguably more demanding and a lot more powerful rig needed to run) maxes out 120fps solid with no micro freezes atall!
Dishonoured micro freezes, but it does it in the same places every time, and usually doesnt do it again if i go back through that area, sometimes it will but most of the time it wont.
Half Life 2 does it, not very much, once or twice per map load, i get a .5s freeze, i get this problem in Batman Arkham City a lot more badly, i get it in Mortal Kombat every time i choose a new character and do a special move for the first time, i get it in skyrim just walking around sometimes, i get it in Fallout 3 walking the wastes, DmC every time something spawns or gets killed, Team Fortress 2 randomly. F3AR every time it saves or goes past a checkpoint.
But i get some games that run beautifully at 120 and never stutter, games like Hard Reset, Kane & Lynch 2, Spec Ops The Line, Deus Ex HR, Devil May Cry 4, all of these games are flawless and run beautifully.
I've tried everything in my arsenal to fix this, a fresh install of windows onto an SSD, running the games on an SSD, using an older graphics card, using a new Power supply, everything, i can honestly say i cannot find a fault in my rig, temps are fine, everything flows fine, benchmarks dont stutter/micro freeze, everything runs amazingly, the games in question do this regardless of graphical settings and i have absoloutely no idea what to do anymore.
A friend of mine said that some games just do micro freeze, especially unreal games due to texture streaming, or checkpointing, and that the games i played dont require much of that so i dont notice it and now im branching out i'm experiencing this problem and its putting me off.
Is it normal for games to have micro freezes at certain points? Or for certain things for that matter, or is it my rig, because i have no idea right now.
List of things i have done.
Reinstalled Drivers, reinstalled windows onto an SSD, tried it in only basic stuff loaded, removed indexing, removed virtual memory, ran a 12 hour Memtest, ran harddrive health tests, ran benchmarks, checked temps, run stuff at high priority, everything i can think of.
I believe it must be problems with certain games because of the fact that i was able to drastically reduce it to the point of not happening in Borderlands 2 and Bioshock Infinite, and help reduce it in Dishonoured but not rid it completely (And lets be honest, the game doesnt really require a powerful rig)
My rig is an i7 2600 @3.4ghz, GTX 680 Power Edition 2gb, 8GB Samsung Green RAM, 840 250gb Samsung SSD.
Everything is at clocks, temps on cpu never hit over 60, temps on GPU never hit above 40-50, loads are always good, no CPU spikes, no GPU spikes, nothing i can spot.
Some games i can recreate the problem loading the map then walking past a certain point, others run flawlessly like sleeping dogs, kane and lynch 2, spec ops the line etc
I'm just hoping its me worrying over nothing, but you never know
(Also like to say it happens in l4d2, but not as often, it still happens though, and minecraft is literally unplayable at this point)
I hope i can find a fix and help anyone in the future with this post! If anyone has any suggestions, please, i'm so desperate to get this sorted!
I honestly think its just how some games handle being coded, and that im worrying too much, anyone else got thoughts?
(id like to add, i never micro freeze on desktop, twitch, youtube, apps, flash based games, java based gamese tc.
What operating system? Have you tried updating your drivers rather than just reinstalling them? (are you just reinstalling the same version you had before or are you installing the newest ones)
What resolution are you playing at?
Have you tried turning the settings all the way down? Not just "What I think I should be able to run it at"
Yep, turned them to the lowest they could go, its never an issue with framerate or VRAM, RAM, GPU or CPU usage, it's usually always at specific points or doing something specific for the first time in a game.
I'm on a fresh install right now as of a week ago, it didnt really help, i installed the latest drivers from every site so everythings up to date, and everything was looked for and no updates besides Graphics Card.
1920x1080.
Running on Windows 7
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Running on Windows 7[/QUOTE]
Well i meant 32-bit or 64-bit mostly
[QUOTE=Skwee;46145407]Well i meant 32-bit or 64-bit mostly[/QUOTE]
Oh
64 bit yea
[quote] Mortal Kombat every time i choose a new character and do a special move for the first time[/quote]
This made me think maybe it could be something to do with audio? I remember when I installed a high quality gun sounds mod for world of tanks when I booted up the game the first time a gun sound was played there would be a bit of a microfreeze like you describe for the first time it was played and then after that everything ran smoothly. But walking around in skyrim and fallout makes me think it could just be loading stuff in.
Yea i originally had the idea it may be that, but i happened on my old sound card, and now on the usb sound card adaptor i use, if i unplug all of them and uninstall all drives related the issue stays.
I understand some games need to load things into memory at certain times. Thats why they will micro freeze in the games, games like Bioshock and Dishonoured having large areas and such yknow, because when it does happens, its always in the same area. I can recreate it every time, which leads me to believe that its definately related to stuff loading in, but i just want to make entirely sure its not my computer, as i never noticed it happen on source before.
I run a 120hz monitor, and usually get 120fps, its not related to dropping frames as it'll happen regardless of how high my fps is unlocked aswell.
Take for example Left 4 Dead 2, i get a micro freeze every time i reload the dual pistols and strafe, but the fps doesnt drop, i get that same issue with the PDA on Engineer in TF2.
Whenever i play Half Life 2, the first time i spawn in and use the flashlight i get a micro freeze, and the fps drops then goes back up within that .7 of a second.
Some games run beautifully, sleeping dogs, kane & lynch, Hard Reset, Spec Ops: The Line and a few others, whilst others only micro freeze or have a little hiccup when loading or autosaving, like F3AR and such, which i totally understand as its wanting instant access to write, it helps adding it to the SSD, but never elimates the issue.
The reason i believe it isnt down to me is because, when i started playing Borderlands 2, sanctuary every time i turned around too fast, ran 5 steps, did anything id get that micro freeze, and after a few ini tweaks, disabling Mip texture streaming, upping poolsize, changing physx stuff, i pretty much elimated it besides a 1 or 2 of the same areas, so it made me believe it cant be my rig.
I might make a video, as i can recreate the problem in specific areas, which leads me to believe its just a game loading or a checkpoint rather than my pc.
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