I've recently run into a computer snag. I've been playing the heck out of Neverwinter for a while, but now I find myself suddenly having trouble doing so. I would estimate that I clocked 50 hours into the game while playing in highest settings (game's auto-detected recommended settings) and smooth performance aside from occasional issues in crowded hubs.
A couple of days ago, however, the game suddenly stopped playing well. It's doing this graphical stutter thing. It animates fine for a character's step, then lugs, and repeats. I tried switching to other games afterward and found this sort of behavior happening elsewhere. I've gone back to Neverwinter, dropped all the settings (save resolution) to their lowest settings, and still the same luggy play goes unchanged.
If my computer is off overnight, it plays fine again for a while the next day before the same problem returns. :/
I've run some Dota2 and CS:GO this morning to test things out. Both are still in the realm of playable, but CS:GO just did the stutter-by-step thing.
I've started running GPUShark and Task Manager in the background to monitor statistics. My GPU doesn't look like it went above 50*C (or at least by much) during my session, nor was the VRAM maxed. [Edited]My RAM is never even at 50% usage. My CPU usage does get rather high at times, sometimes maxing out, but currently pushing around 80% max in Star Trek Online. It's hard to see exact performance at a given moment since I have to alt-tab to see it, though.
I've installed the latest graphics drivers, but that hasn't seemed to help. I've closed out background programs to no avail. I've run spyware and malware sweeps which returned nothing other than a couple cookies. CCleaner just did its job. I'll try Defraggler next, I reckon.
Any guesses what the problem may be, or any ideas I can try that I haven't already? Unfortunately, I don't have other hardware around to swap parts out and see if that helps, nor do I have the money to replace anything. I didn't see any visual indicators of hardware trouble when I looked at the video card yesterday, though.
Oh. System specs:
Windows 8 Pro
Athlon II X4 640
8GB DDR3 1333
EVGA 650 Ti SSC 1GB DDR5
Edit: My CPU fan has been absurdly noisy lately. It usually stabilizes after a couple minutes after startup, but it sounds anything but pretty on cold start. Any chance I'm having CPU heating issues? I just installed HWMonitor to watch my various system temps and such.
A couple of days ago, however, the game suddenly stopped playing well. It's doing this graphical stutter thing. It animates fine for a character's step, then lugs, and repeats. I tried switching to other games afterward and found this sort of behavior happening elsewhere. I've gone back to Neverwinter, dropped all the settings (save resolution) to their lowest settings, and still the same luggy play goes unchanged.
If my computer is off overnight, it plays fine again for a while the next day before the same problem returns. :/
I've run some Dota2 and CS:GO this morning to test things out. Both are still in the realm of playable, but CS:GO just did the stutter-by-step thing.
I've started running GPUShark and Task Manager in the background to monitor statistics. My GPU doesn't look like it went above 50*C (or at least by much) during my session, nor was the VRAM maxed. [Edited]My RAM is never even at 50% usage. My CPU usage does get rather high at times, sometimes maxing out, but currently pushing around 80% max in Star Trek Online. It's hard to see exact performance at a given moment since I have to alt-tab to see it, though.
I've installed the latest graphics drivers, but that hasn't seemed to help. I've closed out background programs to no avail. I've run spyware and malware sweeps which returned nothing other than a couple cookies. CCleaner just did its job. I'll try Defraggler next, I reckon.
Any guesses what the problem may be, or any ideas I can try that I haven't already? Unfortunately, I don't have other hardware around to swap parts out and see if that helps, nor do I have the money to replace anything. I didn't see any visual indicators of hardware trouble when I looked at the video card yesterday, though.
Oh. System specs:
Windows 8 Pro
Athlon II X4 640
8GB DDR3 1333
EVGA 650 Ti SSC 1GB DDR5
Edit: My CPU fan has been absurdly noisy lately. It usually stabilizes after a couple minutes after startup, but it sounds anything but pretty on cold start. Any chance I'm having CPU heating issues? I just installed HWMonitor to watch my various system temps and such.
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