Looking for some help.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 08:23

Just bought a graphics card from this website to upgrade from my gt220. First day of the install games were running smooth But yesterday i was playing league of legends in the morning and i had a serious case of lag, very delayed reactions and hard to control cursor. I restarted the game and everything went fine.
Lastnight i was playing lord of the rings online went for about half hour without any problems then it was suddenly doing the same thing as it did with league of legends. I tried restarting which didnt work, latency and fps was fine and my internet speed was running max. So i had to call it a night after it ruined my gaming.
This morning ive just tried lotro again, within 10mins of playing it started doing it again. I then went on league of legends to test it and it was working fine until the 12min mark where it started it again. My fps was jumping between 30 and 60 fps, i tried restarting the game but that didnt do anything this time.
Ive never experianced a problem like this before and im really hoping its not the graphics card as i spent months saving up to get it. Anyhelp will be appreciated here.

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) (build 7600)

2.50 gigahertz Intel Core2 Quad Q8300

6144 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Nvidia Gtx 460 1024mb

also using a 22inch widescreen monitor.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 08:49

i think i did, is there a way to make sure?

i would pop my old card in but it was the card that came with my pc and i dont have a cd to install it.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 09:08

Just been playing ghost master which is quite an old game though with no problems, going to try something else more testing.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 09:09

yes they are both nvidia cards

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 09:34

its 650w, recently upgraded also.

They are both connected securely.

Just had a 20min battle on empire-totalwar on high spec with no lag watsoever. Beginning to think its more to do with internet gaming.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 09:41

i have no idea, could you point me in a direction of something which might tell me.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 10:14

dont really know what im doing with furmark but i went for 6mins stability testing, fullscreen 1680x1050 my temp reached 91 and my fps averaged at 71. didnt want to run it to long as i had no idea what i was really doing lol.

"for a start it only has a single PCIe connection. I presume you plugged in the molex to PCIe power connection to make up for this?"

im pretty new to all this but from what i know everything is connected to something. all cables go to the psu. i followed the instruction manual as best as i could.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 11:14

i dont know its all confusing me. just had 3 games on league of legends only in the first game the fps went abit rampant but only between 50 and 60 fps. Looks like im going to have to give it some time and keep trying to narrow it down. Thanks for the advice i shall be back most likely haha. Very helpful bunch you are.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 13:27

yeah i dont trust it but ive been working with a tight budget. it will have to do till after xmas unfortunatly.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 14:28

just tried lotro again and 15mins playing and it did it again. im hoping its just the two games and its a coincidence. lotro going ftp so ill wait for that update then see if its fixed. Really have no idea what is causing this odd behaviour ive got nothing running in the background no downloads nothing at all. Ingame theres a chain thats says how my connection is and its perfect. just gave anno 1404 10mins and its doing it on there and ive closed it and my cursor is still jumping about making it hard to control infact my whole pc is starting to lag

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 15:07

yesterday it fixed it. Today its not doing anything.

Diplexbullet19 · 29 Oct 2010 at 15:18

Yeah ive just done that, there was also a tvcard underneath part of the fan just by a few mm. really hope this works!

ive left the case open and removed the tvcard. Put lotro on and did a skirmish then left it on while i walked the dogs, so its been playing for about 50mins and no trouble yet.

just tried anno again and i thought id touch my card and it was very hot. Guessing it must be overheating, any tip? lol

Diplexbullet19 · 30 Oct 2010 at 07:36

just to say it must definitly be something to do with heat. having the side of the case off has prevented the problem. Thing is leaving the case off means it will fill up with dust and dirt so it can only be short term fix. How do i keep my graphics card more cool?

Diplexbullet19 · 3 Nov 2010 at 07:00

right i rearranged a few things and removed a few things and it was working fine for couple days but yesterday i had lag on league of legends luckily it was at the end of a game.
Later i went on lotro to see all the new ftp changes and went to help some friends and i was getting movement lag, like people running on the same spot then jumping forward and everything glitching when im walking. I ran afterburner my temp was 70 and my gpu usage was between 67 and 80 which im not sure if thats high.
Other than that i had nothing running in the background and i was the only person using the internet. Anyway it made it pretty unplayable.

Diplexbullet19 · 9 Nov 2010 at 15:06

Ok i have given this a while and im afraid its not getting any better. I have been playing lotro lastnight and i was lagging quite a lot, my friend was skipping ahead of me all the time and my skills were taking a good 5 seconds to be used.
I got fraps on to check frames it was running between 100 and 250 fps, Latency was mostly balanced on 32 with 0.4% loss. I continued to play and for a short while it got better then all of a sudden it went really bad it was like walking in slow motion, my cursor was the same. My friends voice went very slow and choppy and my whole pc went very very slow.

Game became unplayable so ive just got off and everything started to speed up again.

Its just happened again today, was playing for a couple hours with no problems then out of the blue the same thing. i Checked all temperatures cpu barely reaching 50 gpu 62 and frames were bouncing between 100 and 150. This isnt a heating problem and its something i cannot find any information on. I was suggested by a friend my psu isnt sharing power correctly between cpu and gpu. Feels like im hitting a brick wall.

Diplexbullet19 · 9 Nov 2010 at 15:18

Its connected directly to the router by cable, i ran a speed test was running 2.5meg and 60ping. I just went straight back on lotro after making this post and its running perfectly fine again.

i dont think it is the internet because my whole computer lagged lastnight, start menu, IE, everything was doing it.

Diplexbullet19 · 9 Nov 2010 at 16:06

iviv said:
I'm not sure if that would be a graphics problem. Running on the spot then suddenly catching up deffinately sounds like a network/latency issue to me. But this doesn't explain it going slowly in Windows.

Run a full AV/malware scan? You could have picked something up causing these issues?

Latency isnt the problem as ive got this thing in game which tells me and its running a healthy green while this is happening.

Diplexbullet19 · 21 Nov 2010 at 15:30

really not getting anywhere with this problem, was just playing the witcher and its happened again, got off the game waited an hour started playing again with no problems. What the #@*% is going on. ready to just throw the pc away lol

Diplexbullet19 · 28 Nov 2010 at 13:39

Right then, just playing batman and it started to stutter after a couple hours playing, i open afterburner and the gpu usage is 32, game lagged really bad for a few seconds so i checked and it was 8 on the gpu usage. Sounds like the gtx 460 is the thing giving up, any ideas what causes this or how to fix?