Disk Cleanup didn’t but CCleaner did. I always use it for registry, forgot about being able to clean up Windows files.
Thanks again for all your help.
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So, hours and hours and money later lol, it ended up being 3 things.
- My GPU
- One of the PSU cables
- One of my SSDs
I think I may FINALLY be good now. Still testing different drivers.
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Woah - I just read through this epic troubleshoot you and Elocin hammered out. Good to see you may have it Vyku.
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Yeah, I’d buy them a coffee if I knew how.
So something did end up also being wrong on my ISPs end, which is where all this started. Their data center went out a couple days ago and they had to replace some stuff. Cleaned up my pathping/tracert results.
Yesterday, I had some lag spikes again. Even saw a problem ID 141 again. It’s worrying but this new gpu is my friends - known to be working fine.
I am tempted to replace my mobo, ram, and PSU for science/paranoia but that’s a lot of money.
The latest reinstall of windows I did, after removing the problematic ssd, did have a hiccup at first. When I first rebooted after replacing the psu cable and removing the ssd, it didn’t boot and had a mobo light for CPU. I restarted and it had a mobo light for RAM. I restarted with a single stick and it started fine. I switched sticks and it restarted fine again. Put both sticks in and it restarted fine. So that was confusing.
After replacing the SSD, the issue I had with crazy frametimes in WoW and Apex was cleared up. I then installed a different game and frame times were awful. Rebooted Apex and WoW and frame times seemed fine. Weird that the other game acted that way. I blame the other game.
I’ve also been reading even more about the difficulties people have had with amd mobo bios since the 5xxx series launch. Investigating GPU issues have shown me how many people are having issues with nvidia bios since 3xxx came out as well.
With all this chaos going on, it is hard to narrow down if I have an issue or it’s a driver thing lol.
Aww shucks.
This is… oof … I think testing another GPU vs replacing everything else might be a more plausible troubleshooting method.
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It was hard enough to get ahold of this second one let alone a third. I won’t have my GPU back from RMA for at least a month. I’ve built probably 40ish computers for me/others in my life and never had issues with any of them. This is the first time I’ve ever had this much trouble so I’m frustrated.
It might really be a driver/dx12 issue. Do you have MSI Afterburner? What’s your Frametime ms like in WoW? Mine seems to be jumping around again. I just don’t know if that’s borderline normal since WoW is so CPU bound and the number of people can vary. I tested it in oribos where no people were though.
I’m not alone