Performance degradation overnight

Sc00p007

Sc00p007

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Hi,

When i first start my pc, everything is fine.
I double click a game launcher, within seconds it is launching . Games starts and the frame rate is smooth.
Sometime later, between 4-12hrs. If i double click a game launcher, it will take 30 seconds to trigger the game launch. It should be roughly 2 seconds.
Then when i am in game, i notice that performance can be down too. For example, today i first started project cars. Took 2 seconds to start launching and the framerate was smooth. 6hrs later, it takes over 30seconds to start and there is an obvious microstutter ingame.
This can be remedied straight away by restarting the system.

This has been present through out multiple driver updates, multiple clean OS installs.
My gpu hit a maximum temp of 29 degrees during my project cars test, and the cpu was around 40.
I do not use sleep or hibernation modes change state etc.

Im guessing its software related, but need ideas as to what is most likely. As testing can take a while as i dont know how to trigger it and it can take a good few hours to rear its ugly head.

I don't install much on this computer. It is my gaming rig, so its only steam battlenet origin windows games.
Other software i use are: Gigabyte SIV (needed for fan control), Msi Afterburner ( i have uninstalled this in the past but seen the stutter problem), Razer synapse, corsair utility engine.

I also have an oculus rift connected. Maybe this is causing the problem? I sometimes hear a usb disconnect/reconnect sound (once every good few hours, correlation?). Something to do with the rift, but it works as it should.
 
varkanoid said:
Whats your mem usage at percentage wise when its really slow.
Do you use CPU Temp and Win 10 by any chance ?
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I haven't looked at that specific time. But when launching a game I have never seen it over 10gb and during gaming the most I have seen recorded was about 19/32gb. Usually around the 7gb when launching. However, i will get back with a real tested number later when it no doubt happens again.

I use windows 10, but i dont use cpu temp.
The only monitoring software I have installed is afterburner. I use this for gpu and cpu temps as it gave the same figures as real temp and Hwmonitor. Since using all these monitoring programs, I have reformatted a couple of times, and so only ever installed afterburner since.

Apart from gaming and vr, the only other program I use is chrome. I use it for Web browsing (no dodgy sites) and YouTube.
As it is my main gaming rig, I am very ocd about having the bare essentials. As soon as I have a configuration I like after oc testing etc. I always reformat and install that configuration.
No-one else uses this pc and I don't install anything else to reduce my ocd that im cluttering up my system with rubbish. Other rig can be used for messing about.
 
This sounds somewhat familiar, similar to what happened to my wife's PC, with occasional freezes and slow program launches if it was left on for too long. Started switching out parts one by one, and seems like it was the old GTX 560 in it that was giving up the ghost (VRAM maybe?) as the freezes didn't happen on the iGPU. Swapped in a 1050 Ti and everything's fine now. The old card is still just sitting there, haven't really done much to investigate what was wrong, but externally it looked fine (not much dust at all, and noise wise it was the same as it was new)

I couldn't say that you're case would be the same, but it would be worth trying to isolate the issue by removing/swapping things one by one.
 
chongker said:
This sounds somewhat familiar, similar to what happened to my wife's PC, with occasional freezes and slow program launches if it was left on for too long. Started switching out parts one by one, and seems like it was the old GTX 560 in it that was giving up the ghost (VRAM maybe?) as the freezes didn't happen on the iGPU. Swapped in a 1050 Ti and everything's fine now. The old card is still just sitting there, haven't really done much to investigate what was wrong, but externally it looked fine (not much dust at all, and noise wise it was the same as it was new)

I couldn't say that you're case would be the same, but it would be worth trying to isolate the issue by removing/swapping things one by one.
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OH, I hope not. Voided the warranty on my card installing a block.
Tomorrow I will use the iGPU and see if the problem disappears.

I don't have any freezes. Just a delay in programs starting.

Todays results:

Only web browsing, youtube and using battlenet as my reference.

Start up - 10hr36m: Double click battlenet icon, 1 second to load into the game select screen.
10hr36-shutdown: Double click battlenet icon, 46 seconds to load into the game select screen.

Once the problem started, i then tested Borderlands 2.

Click on play, 42s until the game goes full screen and starts to load.

Restart computer, click play on Borderlands 2 = 2-3s to start loading.

The following are videos showing the problem and my task manager

https://youtu.be/TTAv_7sCyJg
https://youtu.be/rU3vEo7dPwQ
https://youtu.be/TfM9wKidE6A
https://youtu.be/hJDi7hOUWJM

When it does come back, do you think i could then swap the hdmi from the gpu into the igpu without restarting?
 
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Checked your SSD health as well as your secondary HDD/SSD's, I had a very similar problem that drove me crazy and I only found out what it was by disconnecting my secondary HDD and the problem went away, even software reported the disk as healthy but no matter the machine when it was plugged in the performance and wait times were unreal!
 
chickadee said:
Checked your SSD health as well as your secondary HDD/SSD's, I had a very similar problem that drove me crazy and I only found out what it was by disconnecting my secondary HDD and the problem went away, even software reported the disk as healthy but no matter the machine when it was plugged in the performance and wait times were unreal!
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OK,

I only have two drives set as raid 0. So not so easy to unplug one.
I'll try a clean install on a mechanical drive. It's not plugged in at the moment, will have time at the weekend.

One change i have just made is in the power settings, i have changed "turn off display" to never. Thinking about it that seems like the only other thing that happens with my computer between restarting and the problem arising.
I had already made sure to turn off sleep and hibernate and hadn't thought about this option.
 
Sc00p007 said:
OK,

I only have two drives set as raid 0. So not so easy to unplug one.
I'll try a clean install on a mechanical drive. It's not plugged in at the moment, will have time at the weekend.

One change i have just made is in the power settings, i have changed "turn off display" to never. Thinking about it that seems like the only other thing that happens with my computer between restarting and the problem arising.
I had already made sure to turn off sleep and hibernate and hadn't thought about this option.
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Damn what are you doing that requires a RAID0 of those drives!
 
I like one big drive and the 1tb drive wasn't out at the time. With both drives mounting on the motherboard, I like how neat it makes my computer build without the sata cables (testbench config so i don't have the power buttons etc plugged in). Because of aesthetics and the want for 1 drive, i thought id go Raid0. Little bit of vanity, as i think for my needs it would be marginally better to have them separate as it can add latency, i dont need the seq speeds the drives provide.
I don't even have a secondary drive plugged in. That's in the wardrobe for if i ever need it.
 
Update:

36hrs on and everything is running as it should. Fingers crossed. If it is still ok tonight, i will allow the power options to turn my display off after 10 minutes and report back if it affects the launch times.
 
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