Mini-Freeze/Stutter in games

Indie · 15 May 2015 at 15:10

Hi There,

Having a few issues when gaming using my machine (Laptop). During every game I play I seem to be getting slight mini stutters/freezing. Doesn't seem to happen at any specific points in game either, just randomly.

Spec: MSI GS702OD-409UK Stealth
i7-4700HQ @ 2.4GHz
8GB RAM
NVIDIA GeFroce GTX 765M 2GB

Games that I've played recently in which seem to stutter:
DOTA 2
WoW
Bioshock (all of them!)
Killing Floor 1 + 2

Graphics drivers are all up to date, AV was un-installed but to no avail. Anybody have any ideas on what I could do to stop this from happening?

CEUOTC · 15 May 2015 at 16:26

Could be temperature related. CPU or GPU throttling under load due to heat. I assume you have power set to maximum performance. Might need a dust out or repaste at a guess.

Indie · 18 May 2015 at 11:46

CEUOTC said:
Could be temperature related. CPU or GPU throttling under load due to heat. I assume you have power set to maximum performance. Might need a dust out or repaste at a guess.

thanks for that, for some reason that never crossed my mind.

any recommendations for software to monitor temps?

will give this a look at tonight...

mickyflinn · 18 May 2015 at 11:54

Core Temp for cpu msi afterburner for gpu but not sure if that will work with intergrated graphics.

Indie · 18 May 2015 at 12:44

mickyflinn said:
Core Temp for cpu msi afterburner for gpu but not sure if that will work with intergrated graphics.

thanks very much, will give it a whirl

Indie · 18 May 2015 at 19:32

for CPU getting around 50-60 in game
GPU is 61 max and havers around 55

Indie · 19 May 2015 at 09:11

Was like that all night, not sure if thats good or bad as, If I'm honest, I rarely look at temps.

Saying that last night wasn't too bad in general, I had 3-4 mini-freezes whilst playing dota 2 for around 2-3 hours.

deano-5 · 19 May 2015 at 19:24

Those temps are fine

Ch3m1c4L · 19 May 2015 at 19:29

which hard drive is it installed onto, and if its the HDD, is that drive a 5400 or 7200 drive?

Indie · 20 May 2015 at 09:12

Games are all installed on the HDD, Not sure what drive it is actually, I'll check.

Indie · 20 May 2015 at 10:26

Yeah its 7200.

I've had a look at the power settings and it was set to power save.. oddly enough. I've switched it to a performance/gaming setting now so i'll see if that makes any difference at lunch time

CEUOTC · 20 May 2015 at 13:03

CEUOTC said:
Could be temperature related. CPU or GPU throttling under load due to heat. I assume you have power set to maximum performance. Might need a dust out or repaste at a guess.

Indie said:
Yeah its 7200.

I've had a look at the power settings and it was set to power save.. oddly enough. I've switched it to a performance/gaming setting now so i'll see if that makes any difference at lunch time

Here's hoping :-)

Ch3m1c4L · 20 May 2015 at 13:39

Indie said:
Yeah its 7200.

I've had a look at the power settings and it was set to power save.. oddly enough. I've switched it to a performance/gaming setting now so i'll see if that makes any difference at lunch time

its certainly possible, my old old laptop on battery would struggle on many things when set to power save, and be totally fine on other modes.

Last night I was playing Borderlands 2 with a friend for the first time ages. Using in game voice, whenever I pressed the push to talk key, it would lag the game for a couple of seconds. from solid 60fps to 0, then straight back to 60. Using steam voice was fine. It never used to do it, and after a few hours of play, it stopped doing it.
No idea why it happened, but is there anything that you are doing that coincides with the games lagging?

Indie · 20 May 2015 at 14:18

I have to say it really cut them down.. played DOTA over lunch, managed to get two games in. First was mostly fine, had one freeze of around 1-2 seconds. 2nd game i had two freezes of about the same.

I cant find anything that would suggest its any specific action in game that sets it off, sometime sit does it in larger battles, other times it does it just walking from base - towers. Really odd!