Keep Getting FPS Drops.

MatTheCat · 17 Jun 2013 at 01:09

Bear in mind that some games 'just do that sort of thing'. I cant speak for the games you are playing, but certainly Bioshock Infinite likes to lag out when running on my more than capable desktop. Deus Ex HR was the same until the devs released a fix in an update.

Don't disable V-sync. This just leads to ugly tearing in games (very obvious and annoying with ATI cards I find) and puts undue stress on your GPU for no good reason. What to do is get some monitoring software that allows you to display resource utilisation in top left of screen, then you will be able to see if something is maxing out during frame crashes.......if not, it is probs just a bug/driver issue.

On Holiday · 17 Jun 2013 at 01:13

"Show processes by all users"..

Antowns · 17 Jun 2013 at 13:49

Dishonored lagged for me too, only slightly, sounds like what you're getting. I've also got a 7850 (MSI TF).

BeadyRoller · 17 Jun 2013 at 15:19

My PC is more than capable of running Dishonoured smoothly though, it's really annoying. So you're all saying it's probably the game, not my PC?

Cheers.

BeadyRoller · 17 Jun 2013 at 18:21

Just gone in to game and the problem is still there, it keeps at 60FPS but then it keeps dropping all of a sudden to 20-30 and lags out a lot, does it every minute or so.

I went to task manager in game and my CPU usage went up to like 30%, Dishonoured isn't using the intel CPU graphics as the default for this game by any chance? How do I check if it's definitely using my GPU? That might be the case.

MatTheCat · 17 Jun 2013 at 19:36

BeadyRoller said:
Just gone in to game and the problem is still there, it keeps at 60FPS but then it keeps dropping all of a sudden to 20-30 and lags out a lot, does it every minute or so.

I went to task manager in game and my CPU usage went up to like 30%, Dishonoured isn't using the intel CPU graphics as the default for this game by any chance? How do I check if it's definitely using my GPU? That might be the case.

Get a resource monitoring program, in this case MSI Afterburner will do.

Run it.....

When you get a frame rate crash, see what % of your GPU is being used. If your dedicated GPU goes to 0%, then it could well be a iGPU switching issue.....commonplace with AMD laptops if that is what u have.

BeadyRoller · 18 Jun 2013 at 19:18

Cheers for the help mate, I haven't got a laptop, just a PC that I built myself, posted the specs in the opening post.

The game lags even in the opening menu, how do I actually check if the game is using my GPU or the interrogated graphics on the CPU?

Cheers.

BeadyRoller · 20 Jun 2013 at 18:20

Anyone?

Cheers.

Threepwood · 20 Jun 2013 at 20:49

BeadyRoller said:
Anyone?

Cheers.

I presume the video cable is in the video card?