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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: paicrai on Wed, 23 October 2013, 15:55:20
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This is a problem I can easily fix but just formatting my hard-disk after having stored wanted files on an external hard-disk (Extreme, but I haven't found a solution yet and it is utmost annoying), because I don't have much on this computer because it's pretty new. But I want to see if I can fix this before resorting to that.
Here's a summary of the issue: About 1-2 weeks ago I started noticing extreme FPS drops everywhere, literally everywhere, even notepad, hence why I wrote system lag. This issue was also accompanied by sound distortion, which basically sounded like either an old gramophone with haemorrhoids or a trampoline spring being stretched.
I have gone to several forums with this issue, consulted my brother (also a member of this forum, and dude, if you're reading this, hi and don't make fun of me), googled it, updated my drivers, changed input ports, changed audio settings, checked for bad sectors and lots of other stuff that did not help. I will try and change the output when I get my speakers to work, even though it doesn't seem like it'll help much.
I think I know what caused it, which was some malware on a single torque 3D demo, which seemed to target System32. I found this a bit unbelievable however, because I have downloaded this previously with no issues, and there are also several other demos I downloaded from the same site and makers which weren't malicious. So someone bothered to infect the least popular demo out of several other demos. This seemed to cause the issue though, so I'll stick with the idea of one simple demo corrupting my computer (;-;).
So now you know what my problems are, explained in a hopefully entertaining and useful manner, and what may have caused them. All I need now is some leet help from some leet dudes over at the leet kingdom of computer knowledge.
Sorry for if I injected an incurable dose of stupid into this forum, I just need some help with my computer.
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almost sounds to me like a bad integrated graphics chip causing a HUGE bottle neck in the system. Take that with a grain of salt. Also having hardware specs could help diagnose the issue.
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almost sounds to me like a bad integrated graphics chip causing a HUGE bottle neck in the system. Take that with a grain of salt. Also having hardware specs could help diagnose the issue.
Specs should be as following
Windows 8.0 64bit
ASUS GeForce GTX 760 2gb GDDR5
8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Ram
i-5 4430
Asus Gryphon Z-78
1TB Sata hard-disk Western Digital
Hope this helps.
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Malware, audio driver problem, audio hardware problem, RAM problem, and not enough power are potential causes I can think of.
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if you have a spare system of a friend with a known good system I would start swapping hardware into the other rig to narrow it down. I realize that most of this stuff is fairly new but that doesn't mean it can't be bad.
Pointy fox has a point no mention of what PSU is powering this
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Also check this out: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/ (http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/)
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Corsair H60 Water Cooling and a Corsair CX600M PSU, if that helps too. I also put this computer onto the max performance preset when I started this up, but that shouldn't causing issues, should it?
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Go back to windows 7...
Also SSD would really help, $150for a 250gb drive these days, quite cheap...
Also the LESS software you run simultaneously.. the more Consistent your gaming experience...
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Go back to windows 7...
Also SSD would really help, $150for a 250gb drive these days, quite cheap...
Also the LESS software you run simultaneously.. the more Consistent your gaming experience...
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This sounds like a hardware issue to me. As was suggested, try testing all the hardware separately (one piece at a time) on another machine and see if you can isolate the faulty hardware.
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Corsair H60 Water Cooling and a Corsair CX600M PSU, if that helps too. I also put this computer onto the max performance preset when I started this up, but that shouldn't causing issues, should it?
Max performance might be increasing the clock speed of your RAM or something and causing instability.
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Also check this out: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/ (http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/)
This should not be overlooked. As a Sandy Bridge ThinkPad owner I've had more than my fair share of issues with this...
The symptoms sound like monitoring DPC latency could point in the direction of a problem (even if the DPC latency is a symptom that needs to be further researched beyond that point). It could be as simple as trying different drivers for one or more devices than what are in use though.
I didn't look up the mobo but if it has an Intel 82579 gigabit ethernet controller, I'd start playing with previous releases of the driver for that and see what happens.
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Also check this out: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/ (http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140263-how-to-get-the-cause-of-high-cpu-usage-by-dpc-interrupt/)
This should not be overlooked. As a Sandy Bridge ThinkPad owner I've had more than my fair share of issues with this...
The symptoms sound like monitoring DPC latency could point in the direction of a problem (even if the DPC latency is a symptom that needs to be further researched beyond that point). It could be as simple as trying different drivers for one or more devices than what are in use though.
I didn't look up the mobo but if it has an Intel 82579 gigabit ethernet controller, I'd start playing with previous releases of the driver for that and see what happens.
The Ethernet controller problem was solved with the newer drivers.. It used to drop on me all the time.. It's been pretty solid for me on the drivers from 1year ago.. I haven't updated since then
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Go back to windows 7...
Also SSD would really help, $150for a 250gb drive these days, quite cheap...
Also the LESS software you run simultaneously.. the more Consistent your gaming experience...
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LOL n00bs. (http://www.cute-factor.com/images/smilies/onion/026.gif)