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  1. Y

    Solved Games freezing on launch until alt tabbing + unable to run multiple programs at once

    Hello, I was hoping to not have to end up seeking help with this issue but I have now tried pretty much everything I am well enough versed in to try and fix these issues. The PC specs will be listed at the bottom for those who don't care about my blabbering. The Problem: When launching any...
  2. C

    Input lag (keyboard and mouse)

    Dear friends, This is the problem: I will type a sentence to a text editor, for example, and the screen will not update until half of the sentence's letters have been typed in. I will click on the mouse, select text or select a tab in my browser, and the response will show after some seconds...
  3. alonoemo十一

    Pc becoming louder and laggier

    I got my pc around december 2020 for an xmas gift, the specs are: Processor amd ryzen 3 3100 4 core processor 3.59 ghz Ram 12gb Gpu Radeon rx550/550 series I’m aware that its pretty low end, but i’m fine with that I just want things to run smoothly with no lag and the pc to be quiet as it was...
  4. Daniel TP

    poor performence in games

    Hey. I have been getting bad performence in games for about 1 year now. I have contacted Nvidia about 10 times now for help but they didnt fix it. they said the gpu might be broken so I upgraded from an Asus ROG Strix RTX 3080 12 GB OC edition to an Asus GeForce TUF Gaming RTX 3080 Ti just...
  5. robrt

    CPU usage drops abnormally when playing games

    Hey there, this is my first time using this website. I've been trying to fix this problem I've had with my 2017 Dell Inspiron 7000 for about a month now, but I've had no results. Basically, every time that I play a game, let's say, Rocket League, my FPS drops from 220-240 to 9-22, ping goes...
  6. Hati

    Solved Weird teleportation/lag while gaming (strafing)

    Hey! Honestly it's driving me nuts because I can't even explain my problem properly as I haven't seen anybody else complain about it. Basically, whenever I game (typically VALORANT) and try to peek a corner 3 out of 10 times I will most likely be teleporting a millimeter to the left or right...
  7. C

    FPS Drops

    So I recently started to get FPS spikes while I was in-game (Almost every game). I thought it might have been my PC overheating, so I downloaded 'CoreTemp' to check the temperatures will gaming. Generally, all of my cores temps were between 38 and 55 °C. But sometimes all of my core...
  8. shushy

    2 years gaming input lag

    My issue originally began on a completely separate PC, after a Windows reinstall I had horrible in-game input lag in virtually every game I played, making it unplayable. Over time of trouble shooting anything I could possibly think of and online suggestions, I took it to the next level of...
  9. M

    Solved Lag/stutter issue.

    Hi, I’m having trouble with gaming on my pc. I’m getting lag and stutter when playing online and offline. I find Fortnite tends to lag quite a lot when my son is playing it. Other games only seem to stutter a bit such as apex legends. I also have age of empires, when this is played the...
  10. Timtompc

    Unexplainable newfound lag.

    First I'll list my specs, I built my pc myself a couple years back and everything's been smooth sailing up until just over a week ago. I don't remember my motherboard model, I know it's gigabyte made. AMD FX8350 Gtx960 (4gb) 8Gb DDR3 ram 1tb Seagate hard drive.. (more on this later) So until...
  11. P

    Entire PC stuttering, need help to identify problem.

    Trying to determine if a specific piece of hardware has been causing my issues. PC specs: Z97MX- Gaming 5 motherboard with Intel Core i7-4790K (motherboard is about 5-6 years old) Geforce GTX 1070 Ti (card is relatively new, a little over a year) C: drive is Samsung SSD 850 120GB (came with...
  12. Brunsos

    Solved Large FPS Drop When Opening Certain Programs On Taskbar

    I'm confused why my computer lags incredibly after i open programs such as my gamecube emulator and my league of legends client. It only seems to lag when i open gaming related programs. After a few seconds its returns to normal until i click out and click back in again, then it lags again. Also...
  13. stiiizi

    Input Lag in Every Single Game

    I've always had issues with input lag. In CS, my game would feel fine, but 10 minutes or so into a game I would notice this strong input lag that only went away if I alt-tabbed in an out. I did this alt-tabbing very frequently so I didn't run into the input lag. Now, I feel the input lag all the...
  14. manu0221

    New(ish) Gaming PC won't stop freezing

    Around the ond of October of 2019, I got a new Gaming PC built up. I never got any problems until recently. These last days I have had some performance problems while playing my games, I've been playing a lot of Fortnite (at first I thought it could be only a problem of Fortnite, but it had...
  15. nakkikoira

    Bluescreen problem

    First of all my english is bad im not native. So, one day i was going to play pubg with my friends. Then when the game was downloading my headset went deaf and i got bluescreen. And averytime after that i couldn't go to play pubg or fortnite it did the same thing and excatly the same bluescreen...
  16. S

    Random stuttering and performance issues

    I am currently experiencing strange performance issues such as stuttering and audio crackles when running certain programs or apps. For example whenever I re-enter lobbies in online games and more frustratingly when I am watching something on Netflix on Microsoft Edge. (I recently heard that...
  17. Robertart

    2 games suddenly lagging (low fps) !?

    My problem is the following: I was away from my PC for about 3 days. Everything was working fine before that. When I returned to my PC and started up either of those 2 games, they were suddenly lagging to an extent that they were unplayable. To take note of, is that these games didn't ever lag...
  18. E

    Good pc, tons of lag spikes on fortnite

    I have a good pc that can run practically every game well but fortnite has lag spikes for no reason sometimes. I even put it at minimum settings and its not any better. If anyone know what is wrong i would really appreciate the help.
  19. L

    lag spikes during online games (and while streaming etc.)

    It happens quite randomly, sometimes not at all during a 5 minute game (Rocket League), other times I will have occasional lag spikes that make the experience unbearable. I have issues with lag spikes in other games and while streaming shows sometimes as well. I recently ran some ping checks...
  20. E

    Computer Switches Off By Itself Shortly After Switching On

    When the computer is turned on, it typically works fine and smoothly. From time to time, the computer will stutter, seen mainly with the lagging cursor. After about 5 - 10 minutes or so, the monitors lose connection and the message 'No Signal' appears on the screens. The system unit, which seems...