Please help ! 60 fps but still buggy/laggy gameplay

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Hello everyone i dont know if this is the right topic to choose to post this thread so if any of mods could move my post to appropriate topic i would really appreciate it ! Recently i bought myself a new computer. The specs are following:

Asus gtx 970 strix 4gb
intel core i5 4690k 3.5ghz quad core processor
z97 gaming 5 motherboard
8 GB RAM
1TB HDD
650W PSU

So i was really exited because i got it and i installed bunch of games on it like Archeage, league of legends, dishonored, bioshock infinite. So i installed fraps to check fps while i was gaming and the fps was always at 60 FPS. But while i was gaming i noticed that the gameplay was not smooth it felt really laggy. I would move my mouse around and all from the sudden i would notice a little lag spike. It was like a little screen tear. It really annoyed me because i couldn't play the game normally basically i couldn't enjoy the game. In archeage when i first launched it characters in cites took ages to load. When i came to the city after the intro all the characters were black like they were glitched out but then they came back after 10 sec. In archeage when i moved my camera my screen froze for a sec and then everything was fine. But i also got those weird lag spikes in that game too. When i installed windows it was also acting pretty weird when i would open a program i expected to be opened in instant because people were saying that my computer should run at speed of light with specs like that. When i opened a program it took like 5 second to open up and sometimes even control panel would take that long to open. I updated all my drivers with gefroce experiance and i updated my bios and network drivers using motherboard utility MSI Live update 6. I also used driver booster 2 to update my drivers i also paid for that software. I tried turning off v-sync and turn it on again and it didnt fix it. I also uninstalled nvidia phishyx and turned on triple buffering but nothing. I tried moving my computer to other monitors (monitors are around 7-8 years old) and i even tried TV but the problem is still there... My CPU temperature is 46 last time i checked in bios and my GPU temperature is around 70 when playing games like archeage. I have the same GPU, PSU like my friend and similar processor just a little bit weaker and when he is playing games i just mentioned nothing happens everything is working smooth for him. I worked really hard for this computer for years but now i got this lag spikes. The funny thing is a program FRAPS and ACTION which are programs to record videos with showed that i played all of the mentioned games at 60 FPS sometimes i noticed it jumped down to 59 FPS but usually it was always 60 i never saw FPS droped more then 59 FPS. Any ideas how to fix this. I would really appreciate !

Let me know if you guys need any more info about anything !
 
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Just got my PC 1 week ago didn't touch overclocking.
 

cmdrdredd

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I bet your HDD isn't as fast as you were hoping. Instant opening programs only really happens with an SSD.
 
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Yeah thats true... But it still doesn't explain why do i have that issue in games...
 

Midwayman

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Gah, paragraphs man. SSD. physical disk IO causes all sorts of annoying stutter.
 

cmdrdredd

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Hitching in games can come from assets loading off a slow HDD depending on the title. It's hard to say without seeing it in person.
 

cmdrdredd

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Also have you verified your 970 is boosting correctly and not somehow locked to 2D clocks? That will kill your performance immediately.
 

SMOGZINN

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Hello everyone i dont know if this is the right topic to choose to post this thread so if any of mods could move my post to appropriate topic i would really appreciate it ! Recently i bought myself a new computer. The specs are following:

Asus gtx 970 strix 4gb
intel core i5 4690k 3.5ghz quad core processor
z97 gaming 5 motherboard
8 GB RAM
1TB HDD
650W PSU

Let me know if you guys need any more info about anything !

Hello Exoclap, Welcome to Anandtech forums!

I want to start by saying that you should probably post this in the Computer Help sub-forum, you will get better responses.

As others have said, your problem could possibly be caused by a slow hard drive, do you know what sort of 1TB HDD you have? Truthfully the high level of lag spikes you are getting feels more like a configuation problem than hardware to me (although the opening of programs taking 5 seconds is common HDD issue, it is exactly sort of thing that SSD is intended to improve.)

Is your computer build by a Large OEM (Dell/Alienware etc.) or is it self-built (or did you pay an individual or small business to put it together?)

What operating system do you have installed (Windows 7/8/10), and is it genuine?

EDIT: Also, please refrain from creating multiple accounts and posting the same question multiple times. These forums do not have a high post count and it is easy to see multiple posts, and the regulars will pretty much all read the first one, so there is no need. It will not get better responses if you post it more.
 
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SlitheryDee

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Paragraphs please.

I'm unfamiliar with this driver booster 2, but I've never trusted driver utilities like that. It could be installing a wrong or outdated version of something and you'd never know it.

I think my first move would probably be to uninstall anything it installed and then manually find the latest drivers for all my hardware from the manufacturer's websites and install them myself.

If that didn't help I would move on to a clean windows install where I once again installed all the drivers manually just in case I missed whatever it was that is causing the problem.

If that didn't help I would start swapping parts. I'd try different memory sticks and graphics cards even if I had to temporarily remove them from other working computers to see if that fixed the graphical anomalies and/or loading time problems. You might be able to narrow the problem down to a specific piece of hardware that can then be exchanged by the seller.
 

Chaotic0ne

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I use this program here:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/iobit_game_booster.html

This allows you to temporarily switch to different power settings, and disable programs/services not needed for gaming, and then enable them all back when you're done.

I used to get an annoying stutter in DAI, every so often almost like clockwork my FPS would drop from 60 down to 35 or so, and that stutter went away when I booted the game up with gamebooster.

I personally think screen tearing is worse than the occasional FPS hickup due to having Vsynch enabled. Games like DAI for example, screen tear like crazy with Vsynch off.
 
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