LAGGING IN GAMES WITH MID RANGE PC?

Bradguin121 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:07

My spec's are:
Intel i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz w/ Coolermaster TX3 Heatsink
ATI Radeon HD 5850
ASRock P67 Pro3 Motherboard
Kingston 4GB DDR3 1066MHz RAM
Seagate 500GB HDD
500W Corsair PSU
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
Antec 300 Case

I don't know why but I seem to lag on pretty much every game I play! For example Fallout 3, ArmA II, MINECRAFT!, THE SIMS 3!...I shouldnt be lagging at all with any of these games?! I checked my FPS on Fallout 3 with Fraps and it said I was getting a solid 60FPS with ultra settings @ 1920x1080, but I was lagging. I did the same with The Sims 3. It said I was getting between 100-250FPS but I was lagging. I dont know whats wrong here

Iv tried everything to try and fix the problem like updating the drivers for my GPU and patching my games but still no fix!! Has anyone else had this problem?

Please help!

Thanks

Jay85 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:13

Check your graphics card using MSI afterburner and see what kind of activity it's doing while gaming. If the GPU usage is bouncing up and down then i would say it was a drivers issue.

Bradguin121 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:20

Jay85 said:
Check your graphics card using MSI afterburner and see what kind of activity it's doing while gaming. If the GPU usage is bouncing up and down then i would say it was a drivers issue.

Ok, Im downloading MSI afterburner now but its going to take a while......1 hour -.- my internet is being 'throttled' by SKY >.> What do I do if it is a drivers problem?

Thanks

95thrifles · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:23

What do you mean by lagging? Is this whilst online? If so I expect its your internet connection
With those sort of FPS you shoudlnt be seeing any issues Id of thought
Pretty sure Sky dont use a FUP cap to throttle like a lot of other providers BTW

Bradguin121 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:27

95thrifles said:
What do you mean by lagging? Is this whilst online? If so I expect its your internet connection
With those sort of FPS you shoudlnt be seeing any issues Id of thought
Pretty sure Sky dont use a FUP cap to throttle like a lot of other providers BTW

Wel..its lagging how else am i meant to put it ?

And no i havent been playing online. And SKY have done something cause they always slow my internet speed down after iv been torrenting music! :mad:

Jay85 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:30

Bradguin121 said:
Ok, Im downloading MSI afterburner now but its going to take a while......1 hour -.- my internet is being 'throttled' by SKY >.> What do I do if it is a drivers problem?

Thanks

If it's a drivers problem then i would recommend a clean install of the drivers you're currently using and update if new drivers are available.

Are you using the latest drivers?

If drivers don't fix this then i would recommend a clean install of windows and drivers for all of your components.

I remember having a similiar problem with lagging in all games when i switched from ATi to Nvidia. A clean install of windows fixed this for me but it wasn't a big issue since i keep all my games and software on a seperate drive.

95thrifles said:
What do you mean by lagging? Is this whilst online? If so I expect its your internet connection
With those sort of FPS you shoudlnt be seeing any issues Id of thought
Pretty sure Sky dont use a FUP cap to throttle like a lot of other providers BTW

I doubt it's internet lag because he's getting the same issues in SIMS 3!

Bradguin121 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:33

Jay85 said:
If it's a drivers problem then i would recommend a clean install of the drivers you're currently using and update if new drivers are available.

Are you using the latest drivers?

If drivers don't fix this then i would recommend a clean install of windows and and drivers for all of your components.

I remember having a similiar problem with lagging in all games when i switched from ATi to Nvidia. A clean install of windows fixed this for me but it wasn't a big issue since i keep all my games and software on a seperate drive.

I doubt it's internet lag because he's getting the same issues in SIMS 3!

Yeah, I switched from Nvidia to ATI though but iv done a clean install of windows so that didnt fix it :/ i might just reformat my harddrive and do another clean install of windows and see what happens then

Jay85 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:36

Bradguin121 said:
Yeah, I switched from Nvidia to ATI though but iv done a clean install of windows so that didnt fix it :/ i might just reformat my harddrive and do another clean install of windows and see what happens then

Let me know how you get on, i'm sure it should fix it.

Did you use Drivercleaner to clean out the Nvidia drivers?

Bradguin121 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:38

Jay85 said:
Let me know how you get on, i'm sure it should fix it.

Did you use Drivercleaner to clean out the Nvidia drivers?

Will do, and no i didnt I just uninstalled them by hand D;

Jay85 · 22 Jan 2012 at 20:39

Bradguin121 said:
Will do, and no i didnt I just uninstalled them by hand D;

That's good, avoid drivercleaner. It can sometimes (not always though) delete important windows system files which can cause lockups and graphics issues.

Bradguin121 · 23 Jan 2012 at 14:57

Jay85 said:
That's good, avoid drivercleaner. It can sometimes (not always though) delete important windows system files which can cause lockups and graphics issues.

Ok, last night I reformatted my harddrive but now I cant install AMD catalyst! :mad:

It starts but always freezes mid-way through the process. Any ideas how to fix this? >.>

Thanks

beejjacobs · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:00

So this is a fresh install of windows and the latest drivers from AMD?

Bradguin121 · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:03

beejjacobs said:
So this is a fresh install of windows and the latest drivers from AMD?

Yeah, I reformatted my harddrive and did a fresh install of Windows 7 and now when i try and download the latest AMD drivers for my GPU it doesnt let me install them

beejjacobs · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:05

Hmm, try running it as administrator?

EDIT: is it also the right version (64 bit - although the 32 bit version should work)

Bradguin121 · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:08

beejjacobs said:
Hmm, try running it as administrator?

EDIT: is it also the right version (64 bit - although the 32 bit version should work)

Iv tried that and the same thing happens and yes I made sure it was 64-bit several times when trying to install it

beejjacobs · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:12

How odd. have you installed anything else? Is it just this that won't install? may be worth re downloading it in case it didn't download properly or something.

Bradguin121 · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:15

beejjacobs said:
How odd. have you installed anything else? Is it just this that won't install? may be worth re downloading it in case it didn't download properly or something.

The only other thing Iv installed is Anti-virus and I've tried that too :/ Maybe its just bad drivers? Im not sure though :/

beejjacobs · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:18

Yeah, I'm surprised they don't even install. Might be silly but have you restarted!? Always fixes everything

Bradguin121 · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:20

beejjacobs said:
Yeah, I'm surprised they don't even install. Might be silly but have you restarted!? Always fixes everything

Many times!

Im thinking about doing another clean install? Worth a shot i guess because i cant think of anything else atm!

beejjacobs · 23 Jan 2012 at 15:21

Yeah, annoying though. Maybe someone else has some ideas!? Also, check the graphics card is in properly, check all power cables. Just give it another general check to be sure.