| Random lag spikes. [message #441742] |
Tue, 21 December 2010 13:27  |
SSADMVR
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So yeah, I've been getting random lag spikes lately. Around every 5 min. FPS drops to around 2 for a few secs, it then speeds up again and works fine till the next lag spike. The weird thing is, it only happens to me during gameplay. Offline or online, no difference. So it can't be my connection. It doesn't happen with other programs, chrome, word etc all work fine.
Any ideas??
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| Re: Random lag spikes. [message #441768 is a reply to message #441742] |
Wed, 22 December 2010 04:20  |
SSADMVR
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Thanks for the input.
I've used Speedfan and it turns out the Core temp. goes up to around 80 degrees and that's whent the lag comes, during the lag the Temp1 (no idea what this is btw) temp goes up to around 78 as well. When the lag stops the core temp drops to around 70 and everything is fine for a bit untill the core temp start heating up again and the lag wave comes again.
Oh, CPU usage also goes up to around 100% during the lag spikes.
So how do I go about fixing this?
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| Re: Random lag spikes. [message #441811 is a reply to message #441742] |
Thu, 23 December 2010 09:10 |
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danpaul88
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Vacuum cleaners are not really recommended unless you want to fry your motherboard with static electricity... your better off with a can of compressed air to blow the dust out of the system and then you can hoover said dust up off the floor when your done.
The 100% CPU usage could be for one of two reasons;
1) Something is running in the background periodically which is hogging the CPU and causing your lag, with the side effect of this high usage being high core temperatures
2) The CPU itself has determined it is getting too hot and has reduced it's clock speed to reduce the heat produced. With the number of available CPU cycles decreased Renegade's usage of the total amount would increase.
If your CPU had continued to get even hotter it would have completely shut down to prevent permanent damage. For reference the thermal cutout point for recent Intel CPUs is about 95 degrees.
[Updated on: Thu, 23 December 2010 09:13] Report message to a moderator |
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