Regular frametime spikes in all games

[krigga]

Hello, in any game that I've tested so far I have pretty regular frametime spikes. My normal frametime is about 4-5 ms, but every 6-8 seconds there is a spike to 30-40 ms. It is noticeable in some games (like team fortress 2), but pretty much unnoticable in others (like in overwatch), perhaps due to GSYNC.

Specs:
Motherboard MSI PRO B650-S WIFI
GPU Gigabyte RTX 4070 Windforce 12GB
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3d
RAM AData Lancer Blade White CL30 DDR5 16GBx2 6000mhz
PSU Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 Snow 850W
SSD Samsung 870 QVO 1TB
HDD TOSHIBA HDWD120 2TB
Monitor AOC Q27G2S

Nothing is overclocked. I attached graphs from capframex.

The frametime spikes were worse previously (up to 80 ms), but I uninstalled drivers completely using DDU, reinstalled again and it became better, again as I said to the point of not being noticable in some games that I play.

So I currently have the latest drivers as reported by geforce experience, I have also set maximum performance in windows power settings as well as nvidia control panel.
I have also switched the cable coming from PSU to the GPU (there was a spare).

Do you have any thoughts?

Team fortress 2

Overwatch

 

[P4-630]

HDD TOSHIBA HDWD120 2TB

I hope you don't have your games library on that disk...

 

[krigga]

I hope you don't have your games library on that disk...

Why?

And anyway, overwatch is on the hdd, team fortress is on ssd, but both experience spikes.

 

[droopyRO]

Some modern games require a SSD to run good.

 

[GerKNG]

i currently have similar problems since a couple days. (7800X3D, 4070S)
i have the feeling that it comes from one of the last two NVidia drivers since i had zero issues until the Manor Lords and now Ghost of Tsushima GRD.

 

[HD64G]

Firstly check if you have the latest BIOS/UEFI for the motherboard. Next, check if there is any program in the background using the disk where the game is installed while gaming. After that, try some other driver for your graphic card and your ethernet onboard controller since those games are multiplayer ones constantly using that.

 

[RJARRRPCGP]

SSD possibly faulty. Please check the SMART of the QVO!

 

[ir_cow]

Those spikes could be loading, though those old games like TF2 doesn't stream data in line UE games.

 

[krigga]

Downgraded nvidia driver to 551.86 (was 552.44) and it seemed to help, at least in overwatch.

However I remember that spikes were usually less of an issue immediately after a reboot before. I'll check again tomorrow and post the results.

BTW, SSD and HDD SMART status is ok.

 

[krigga]

I'm back with new results - today even though the spikes aren't gone completely in tf2, they do seem to be less frequent and even less noticeable.

 

[HD64G]

Much better, happy to see! Have fun!

 

[krigga]

Okay so it turns out the spikes aren't actually gone. So after a few days of my PC working the spikes are back. I put my PC in sleep mode for nights and most of the day, so it wasn't constantly on the whole time. After a reboot the spikes are gone again, but I'm pretty sure they will be back in a day or a few. The sleep mode alone does not seem to be the culprit - I put it in sleep mode to test and spikes are not immediately back from that. Do these facts give any more clue to what could be the problem? I think I'm going to try updating the network driver next, but not sure that it will help.

 

[Superzuber]

try https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon to pinpoint the culprit

it looks like SW issue how you put it, so maybe OS reinstall would solve it, I had lot of strange issues with drivers lately behaving weird, also remember the issue when AMD CPU's could stay on non boost (or even lower clocks) while using fast startup, so you could also try to disable functions like that and maybe avoid putting your computer to sleep for some time