pyrobisqit
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- Apr 8, 2015
- 1
Hi everyone,
For the past years, I've been experiencing really, REALLY poor performance on an i7 3930K and a GTX 980 (they should really perform better than this). The problem appears so far only in the videogame Dota 2.
I've been hunting for months, forums, because, when I'm playing, every once in a while (3 to 8 times in a 1 hour game), the screen freezes, the sound mutes and nothing works, for intervals of around 400 msec, usually less than that.
As you can imagine, playing a competitive game with these kinds of lag spikes is very frustrating, and like I said, my hardware should perform better than this.
I finally decided I wanted this completely off my system, so I got LatencyMon.
This is what I see:
Apparently, the problems seem to be related to the DirectX Graphics kernel, the nvidia kernel mode driver and sometimes, tcpip.sys shows up as the top total execution drivers in LatencyMon.
I've been searching, and some people suggest that I try without the Nvidia driver: that's simply not possible, because Dota 2, being a 3D videogame, obviously requires hardware acceleration. This also happened with my GTX 770, so I'm more suspicious of the board (Asus P9X79) than my graphics card.
I also saw somewhere to go to device manager and disable WiFi: This computer does not have WiFi, but still, I disabled everything I could find that was not essential and I didn't use (such as optical audio output, or printing support). My 3930K is heavily overclocked, but I also reset the board to defaults (erasing overclocking and getting it back to stock) and it still shows frightening numbers in LatencyMon.
What could it be? I really want to get this fixed, and I'm quite desperate...
Thanks everyone in advance!
For the past years, I've been experiencing really, REALLY poor performance on an i7 3930K and a GTX 980 (they should really perform better than this). The problem appears so far only in the videogame Dota 2.
I've been hunting for months, forums, because, when I'm playing, every once in a while (3 to 8 times in a 1 hour game), the screen freezes, the sound mutes and nothing works, for intervals of around 400 msec, usually less than that.
As you can imagine, playing a competitive game with these kinds of lag spikes is very frustrating, and like I said, my hardware should perform better than this.
I finally decided I wanted this completely off my system, so I got LatencyMon.
This is what I see:
Apparently, the problems seem to be related to the DirectX Graphics kernel, the nvidia kernel mode driver and sometimes, tcpip.sys shows up as the top total execution drivers in LatencyMon.
I've been searching, and some people suggest that I try without the Nvidia driver: that's simply not possible, because Dota 2, being a 3D videogame, obviously requires hardware acceleration. This also happened with my GTX 770, so I'm more suspicious of the board (Asus P9X79) than my graphics card.
I also saw somewhere to go to device manager and disable WiFi: This computer does not have WiFi, but still, I disabled everything I could find that was not essential and I didn't use (such as optical audio output, or printing support). My 3930K is heavily overclocked, but I also reset the board to defaults (erasing overclocking and getting it back to stock) and it still shows frightening numbers in LatencyMon.
What could it be? I really want to get this fixed, and I'm quite desperate...
Thanks everyone in advance!