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Input lag is killing me

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You need an USB drive with nothing on it, a bootable image file (typically a .iso) of the relevant test/OS/application + an application like Rufus or YUMI that allows you to extract the image onto the drive and make it bootable. Rufus is simple to use and supports a very broad range of systems, while YUMI is more limited in its support but allows for multiple images on one flash drive. Rufus should fit your needs here. Just follow the instructions in the application, don't have any other USB storage connected while preparing the drive (removes the chance of accidentally wiping the wrong drive), reboot and choose to boot from the USB rather than your Windows drive.
Alright man I will try that later, and once again, thank you so much for the help, this problem is freaking my out...
 
Hey guys, I runned the test yesterday and it didn't report any error, I tested with all the memory together, and I don't know if going one by one will make any difference, but if it make, I can run the test once again. Also, do you guys have any other test that I can run to test other components? Such as graphics card or SSD?
 
Hey guys, I runned the test yesterday and it didn't report any error, I tested with all the memory together, and I don't know if going one by one will make any difference, but if it make, I can run the test once again. Also, do you guys have any other test that I can run to test other components? Such as graphics card or SSD?
If you ran Memtest86 for the standard workload and it didn't report any errors, that more or less rules out memory issues (even if they can always crop up, and absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence). An SSD can't really be stress tested in the same way - for a heavy-ish load, run any disk benchmark on it (CrystalDiskMark, for example), but none of those will run for particularly long, and none will show whether drive activity causes slowdowns in other applications. SSDs generally aren't unstable or cause system crashes either, unless the drive is faulty, in which case the only way to tell is typically to try with another drive. As for the GPU, Unigine's benchmarks are pretty good (Superposition for current-gen hardware, though Valley and Heaven is also decent if much lighter), though neither of these are interactive (no benchmarks are), so you aren't likely to be able to tell if the system becomes noticeably more laggy while they're running.
 
If you ran Memtest86 for the standard workload and it didn't report any errors, that more or less rules out memory issues (even if they can always crop up, and absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence). An SSD can't really be stress tested in the same way - for a heavy-ish load, run any disk benchmark on it (CrystalDiskMark, for example), but none of those will run for particularly long, and none will show whether drive activity causes slowdowns in other applications. SSDs generally aren't unstable or cause system crashes either, unless the drive is faulty, in which case the only way to tell is typically to try with another drive. As for the GPU, Unigine's benchmarks are pretty good (Superposition for current-gen hardware, though Valley and Heaven is also decent if much lighter), though neither of these are interactive (no benchmarks are), so you aren't likely to be able to tell if the system becomes noticeably more laggy while they're running.
So you want me to run the Unigine benchmark to test the GPU, and try to use another SSD unit to see if the problem persists?
 
Personally, if he's getting blue screens and ram is fine, I would check the storage media next with a smart test.

The one I use (hdd sentinel) is commercial trialware, but the free trial should be good enough to figure out if a drive is failing or not
 
Personally, if he's getting blue screens and ram is fine, I would check the storage media next with a smart test.

The one I use (hdd sentinel) is commercial trialware, but the free trial should be good enough to figure out if a drive is failing or not
Are you sure this HDD sentinel has a free trial? If it does than I can check later, does it take long to finish or not?
 
You could also use CrystalDiskInfo, which IIRC is entirely free.
 
You could also use CrystalDiskInfo, which IIRC is entirely free.
Alright I will try that, in case it didn't show any errors, what else can I do to test other things like my Graphics Card? I really think that the problem involving the Input lag, lag or whatever this is, maybe is related so kind of config of the windows or even the game, because I tested on Valorant and CSGO, and the problems seems to happen harder or only on CSGO. But what is worrying me is the constant BSOD without any reason

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I installed the CrystalDiskInfo and appointed this in one of the HDD, what should I do? Beside this "Reallocated Sectors Count, there's another on yellow, it's the "Current Pending Sector Count" but I don't have ideia of what this is...

Do you guys think that this may be the cause of the Blue screen? I removed the HDD and tomorrow I will try to play CS and see if this lag stops, or at least this blue screen stops, but it's really hard to say, because it doesn't happens everyday, sometimes only twice in a week or so. But anyway, if you guys think that this caution alert is not enough to be causing this BSOD, what else can I do to test?
 
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there we go, looks like that disk is in fact dying
that says its had 99 sectors die and be locked down, and you said theres another 10 pending (meaning more are dying)

that disk is 100% dying and needs to be replaced... unplug it and dont power it on until you have a replacement drive to backup your data onto

Thats a very slow, very old eco drive - its a 2009 model with only 5,400RPM... time to upgrade it before you lose all the data on it.
 
there we go, looks like that disk is in fact dying
that says its had 99 sectors die and be locked down, and you said theres another 10 pending (meaning more are dying)

that disk is 100% dying and needs to be replaced... unplug it and dont power it on until you have a replacement drive to backup your data onto

Thats a very slow, very old eco drive - its a 2009 model with only 5,400RPM... time to upgrade it before you lose all the data on it.
Thanks mate! I will try to use the PC without him for sometime and see if this blue screen stops, maybe even the lag. I will use all day tomorrow and after that I'll give a report here. Thanks a ton for your help!

there we go, looks like that disk is in fact dying
that says its had 99 sectors die and be locked down, and you said theres another 10 pending (meaning more are dying)

that disk is 100% dying and needs to be replaced... unplug it and dont power it on until you have a replacement drive to backup your data onto

Thats a very slow, very old eco drive - its a 2009 model with only 5,400RPM... time to upgrade it before you lose all the data on it.
Do you think that even with the fact that the operational system and the games, especially CSGO which is presenting this lag, are installed on the SSD, this slow HDD can be causing the BSOD and this lags during game?
 
Please... disconnect that HD and find out. There's zero point thinking up theories when you could be actually finding out.
 
there we go, looks like that disk is in fact dying
that says its had 99 sectors die and be locked down, and you said theres another 10 pending (meaning more are dying)

that disk is 100% dying and needs to be replaced... unplug it and dont power it on until you have a replacement drive to backup your data onto

Thats a very slow, very old eco drive - its a 2009 model with only 5,400RPM... time to upgrade it before you lose all the data on it.
I'm 99% sure you're misreading the reallocated sector count - I think it's counting down from 100, not up from 0. If it had 99 reallocated sectors with a threshold of 10 that indicator wouldn't be yellow but bright red, as that would indeed be a sign of imminent drive failure.

Still, I would also replace that drive. Dying drives need replacing ASAP.
 
i may be reading those numbers wrong, i dont use that program... but its given a warning on reallocated sectors and that means a dying disk no matter what
 
i may be reading those numbers wrong, i dont use that program... but its given a warning on reallocated sectors and that means a dying disk no matter what
Dying, sure. But 1/100 and 99/100 are pretty distinctly different ends of the "how soon is this likely to fail" spectrum ;) But as I said
I would also replace that drive. Dying drives need replacing ASAP.
 
Dying, sure. But 1/100 and 99/100 are pretty distinctly different ends of the "how soon is this likely to fail" spectrum ;) But as I said
Alright, but like I asked before, even with the windows and the games installed on the SSD, with this slow and dying HDD that can be causing this lag and blue screen? I will use the PC all day today and see if I get the BSOD and tomorrow I will try to play and see if the lag persists...
 
Yes, a failling device can cause all sorts of problems

Every minute that drive is powered on increases the chance of it dying, and you losing all data on it - you should have disconnected it immediately on finding it has bad sectors
 
Yes, a failling device can cause all sorts of problems

Every minute that drive is powered on increases the chance of it dying, and you losing all data on it - you should have disconnected it immediately on finding it has bad sectors
Yes I already disconnnected it

Yeah guys, the HDD may be causing the problem, but definitely is not the main cause of the BSOD and this lag on CSGO. I removed it and tested, and rn after turning the PC on, this Blue Screen happenned again. Any other tests I can make to find what's the problem?
 
Did you try running the Latency Checker app again to see what else is creating large numbers of DPC counts?
 
Did you try running the Latency Checker app again to see what else is creating large numbers of DPC counts?
After turning the HDD off? No, but I can test and send the results here if you want
 
Is anything in your system overclocked (including memory xmp)? If so, return it to stock clocks. If not, a windows reinstall might be worth trying to ensure there isn't some software shenanigans causing your bsods. Beyond that you're looking at some hardware error that you'd need spare parts to diagnose (cpu, gpu, motherboard).
 
Is anything in your system overclocked (including memory xmp)? If so, return it to stock clocks. If not, a windows reinstall might be worth trying to ensure there isn't some software shenanigans causing your bsods. Beyond that you're looking at some hardware error that you'd need spare parts to diagnose (cpu, gpu, motherboard).
What can I do to test the other parts such as the GPU? And I reisntalled the windows at list 2 times to try to fix and the problem still happening, so that might not fix the problem

Did you try running the Latency Checker app again to see what else is creating large numbers of DPC counts?
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Hey guys, so basically I was checking on my reliability history and these were the results, as you can see I have this blue screen problem almost every single day. And everytime I type to show additional information about the problem, no matter what the day is, they always give me this code: AV_WdFilter!MpAsyncScanEnqueue. Do you guys know what it is? And it says something about Memory Compartment Id.
 
antivirus word filter - what antivirus are you running?
 
Just the default microsoft defender, why?
because thats what the code says
AV_WdFilter!MpAsyncScanEnqueue

that sounds like somethings up with your antivirus, install malwarebytes and see if it finds anything
 
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