System not performing well

[FX-GMC]

I have only installed the necessary programs to run the game. I've almost given up on it. $2000 dollar piece of junk.

Only time I've seen the behavior you describe is running multiple monitoring programs and a bad SATA AHCI driver. It could also be a dying hard drive that is having read errors or maybe something got screwed with your video card (bad memory chips?). At this point you've virtually eliminated CPU, Memory, Mobo, Windows.

 

[SethKnows]

 

[RCoon]

Would you mind opening a Run... window and typing in DXDiag for me and showing us the print screens?

Also check GPU settings in BIOS as I suggested earlier. Make sure the GPU is running at x8 minimum or x16. If it's running at x4, might be the issue.

 

[SethKnows]

This?

 

[RCoon]

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This?

Display tab please
Also see above post regarding GPU in BIOS

 

[FX-GMC]

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Hmm. Looks fine. You could go ahead and disable your HD4000 in the bios and get that out of the way. Are there any smart errors on either of your drives? Crystaldiskinfo will show smart values and status http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html Choose the portable download.

 

[SethKnows]

I'll have to check on the Bios

 

[SethKnows]

Checked the HDDs and SSD yesterday, all appear to be in good health. The Seagate has 2 bad sectors but nothing is currently on that drive right now.

 

[RCoon]

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I'll have to check on the Bios

Looks spick and span sir, I assume you've installed your NVidia 32x.xx drivers?

 

[FX-GMC]

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I'll have to check on the Bios

BenQ GW2750H (Analog). Are you using a VGA cable? I may be grasping at straws, but if your hard drives come back fine maybe try a digital video cable. Side note: I have the same monitor and GPU.

EDIT: May be worth trying battlefield on a different drive. Straw grasping is getting rampant, but this is an odd issue.

Looks spick and span sir, I assume you've installed your NVidia 32x.xx drivers?

335.23 according to dxdiag

 

[SethKnows]

Yes I have. Earlier I was trying to record with ShadowPlay, but the screen started flashing and then went black, I had to reboot. Also I can't get into my Bios, I spammed the key but it never worked.

I've tried the games on multiple drives and the OS on two different ones. I've also hooked up the PC at other people's homes with their DVI cable, still same issue. I've replaced about every single component in this PC but the drives and the ram. I'm ready to take that step if I need to, but I'll be even more disappointed if it doesn't fix the issue.

I really need to install the OS on my SSD again because this HDD is loud and annoying.

 

[FX-GMC]

Yes I have. Earlier I was trying to record with ShadowPlay, but the screen started flashing and then went black, I had to reboot. Also I can't get into my Bios, I spammed the key but it never worked.

Shadowplay has never done that to me. Starting to lean towards a GPU issue. Maybe a conflict between the intel video driver and the nvidia one (not that i've heard of this happening.) Really would like to see what happens if you disable the HD4000 and I like @RCoon 's thought to make sure it is running at x16. GPU-z should tell you that.

Try holding down delete when booting. Should take you to the boot manager and than allow you to get into the BIOS.

EDIT:

I've tried the games on multiple drives and the OS on two different ones. I've also hooked up the PC at other people's homes with their DVI cable, still same issue. I've replaced about every single component in this PC but the drives and the ram. I'm ready to take that step if I need to, but I'll be even more disappointed if it doesn't fix the issue.

I thought you replaced the ram. Try it with one stick and if no improvement use the other. (NOTE: you will have to use the 32-bit version of Battlefield 4.)

 

[SethKnows]

 

[SethKnows]

I haven't downloaded Battlefield 4 yet, only Crysis 3. Would my ram max out with only 4GB?

I guess the good news is that all my old hardware is still good, time to sell it.

 

[FX-GMC]

I haven't downloaded Battlefield 4 yet, only Crysis 3. Would my ram max out with only 4GB?

You could turn the settings down a bit if you are worried. Just make sure you have nothing running in the background (alt+tab out and close the browser once battlefield loads). My rig uses just over 5GB when playing BF4 and that is with a bunch of stuff loaded.

 

[SethKnows]

When I take out the memory, do I use slots 1 and 2?

 

[FX-GMC]

When I take out the memory, do I use slots 1 and 2?

From the manual:

If you are using one stick, put it in DDR3_A1

 

[SethKnows]

Yeah, I don't know why I asked. One stick installed, same issues, kind of worse.

Same result with both sticks.

I've also disabled the HD4000, same result.

Should I just go ahead and buy some new memory?

 

[FX-GMC]

Should I just go ahead and buy some new memory?

In battlefield 4, if you open the console you can type perfoverlay.drawgraph 1 there will be two lines being drawn. One is for the gpu and one is for the cpu. I'm guessing one of these lines will spike up when the lag happens. See which one is spiking and report back. (I think green is gpu and yellow is cpu. it should say on the graph)

 

[SethKnows]

I bought some new ram, might as well as I was wanting to upgrade to 16GB anyway. I haven't downloaded Battlefield 4 yet, will do that now. Before when I had my i5 in the system, it was spiking to 100% while playing Crysis 3. I know the i5 shouldn't bottleneck any gpu so I'm not sure what could be happening there.

 

[FX-GMC]

You could also attempt disabling C states in the BIOS. C6 is core parking I believe. Not sure what else there would be for intel. I'm truly at a loss tho. There is only so much help you can give over the internet.

EDIT: Sorry, I see now you only had crysis 3 installed. I have no experience with that game.

EDIT2: This is kinda off topic, but if you want to calibrate your monitor this guy's settings worked well (Go to the Calibration Results section). http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/benq_gw2750hm.htm Plus, they have an ICC profile for the monitor.

 

[SethKnows]

What would disabling those do? Any negatives to it? And how would I do that?

 

[FX-GMC]

What would disabling those do? Any negatives to it? And how would I do that?

Increase power consumption at idle. Slightly higher idle temps. These should be in the CPU settings in the BIOS.

EIST(desktop) dynamically increase/decrease its clock speed between its minimum clock and its normal operating frequency, as well as voltage, in order to optimize for power consumption.
in other words a performance reduction while using the system, the system may feel you don't need full power. drats just heard a drop out.

C1E Halt: while similar reduces Clock speed by adjusting the multiplier (Core clock to system bus ratio) and to some degree VID. (voltage) this is a more common occurrence with light use
or on today case of Multicore shutting down a core or 2.

C3, C6. This is a deeper sleep with a complete core(s) shut down (Gate off) and no voltage/Data at all. harder to recover from quickly, previous data is cached elsewhere and needs to be re-cached in L3 memory
to re initialize full muliticore, multithread use. Part of Core parking
http://download.intel.com/design/pro...=tech_tb+paper

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/musi...-eist-speedstep-turbo-boost-core-parking.html

 

[SethKnows]

New ram did not work.

Okay, I opened up the console on battlefield and used the graph. The CPU spikes horribly, like through the graph almost to the top of the screen.

 

[FX-GMC]

Okay, I opened up the console on battlefield and used the graph. The CPU spikes horribly, like through the graph almost to the top of the screen.

Do the spikes coincide with when the game lags?

Make sure you aren't running the "Power Saver" profile in the power settings.