Odd FPS Slowdown in gaming?

[chrismscotland]

Looking for some guidance! Having random slowdown occasionally when gaming on my rig which has been fine since I built it at the end of last year.

I've got an RTX 3080 (MSI Gaming Trio); Ryzen 3700X, 32GB of RAM and most games run off a fast SSD; I've had zero issues playing most things at 4K at almost top settings (except Flight Sim!!) and no slowdown to speak of.

All of a sudden in the last few days I've noticed while playing Battlefield V and COD along with F1 2020 that the games will work fine at excellent speeds and then all of a sudden I'll get a second or two where it just chugs along; almost as if the Nvidia GPU wasn't there at all; it always seems to be fine when I load a game but eventually it decides to start this intermittent slowdown.

I've checked that temps, etc on the CPU, GPU and everything are ok and its all seems to be fine; what else should I be looking at?

 

[Zefan]

I'm not sure as I don't have experience playing at 4K but is there any chance you could be hitting the VRAM limit? Run msi afterburner's OSD stats or your choice of monitoring software and see what's going on with your system during play.

 

[chrismscotland]

I'm not sure as I don't have experience playing at 4K but is there any chance you could be hitting the VRAM limit? Run msi afterburner's OSD stats or your choice of monitoring software and see what's going on with your system during play.

Thanks; I'll take a look; I doubt it though as its never been an issue in the 7-8 months to now

 

[RedFluffy]

What power supply are you using?

 

[Nononame]

Thanks; I'll take a look; I doubt it though as its never been an issue in the 7-8 months to now

That’s probably your problem. Your vram will slowly fill over time and become clogged, a bit like a plug getting blocked in shower.

very carefully take the the card out, being careful not to spill any of the data, and empty it in your bin. I think you are supposed to empty it into e-waste at the tip but I don’t bother. Careful though, if very full it can go everywhere and it’s a nightmare to clean.

after that reinstall the card, and you should be good for another 5/6 months.

you can add a very small amount of AdBlue to help keep it clear but I’ve never bothered.

hope this helps.

 

[olivier renault]

Possible the driver is crashing. I'd check events and logs.

 

[chrismscotland]

That’s probably your problem. Your vram will slowly fill over time and become clogged, a bit like a plug getting blocked in shower.

very carefully take the the card out, being careful not to spill any of the data, and empty it in your bin. I think you are supposed to empty it into e-waste at the tip but I don’t bother. Careful though, if very full it can go everywhere and it’s a nightmare to clean.

after that reinstall the card, and you should be good for another 5/6 months.

you can add a very small amount of AdBlue to help keep it clear but I’ve never bothered.

hope this helps.

Thanks for that incredibly helpful response

 

[chrismscotland]

Possible the driver is crashing. I'd check events and logs.

Will take a look thanks

 

[mickyflinn]

Any driver updates , Try previous drivers.

 

[Nononame]

Thanks for that incredibly helpful response

Sorry that was intended as a bit of joke in these dark times, but I appreciate this was probably not good timing when your computer is not behaving as expected.

my bad, hope you get this sorted quickly.

 

[cornyfeet]

I have been getting the problem if massive FPS dips then sometimes crashing. Turns out it was windows 10 updating in the background while I was playing causing this. Might be a background task like this or antivirus etc?