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skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 20 2011 04:06 GMT
#21
Is 40C your load temp? Have you actually stress-tested your CPU with prime95 and monitored the clock speeds, load, and temperatures?
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
June 20 2011 04:59 GMT
#22
40C is where Im at with SC2 open and Mozilla. How do I change clock speeds load and temperatures if prime95 says theyre off.
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 20 2011 05:09 GMT
#23
You check clock speeds through CPU-Z, load through task manager, and temperatures through HW Monitor.
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
June 20 2011 15:44 GMT
#24
When I was at 100% CPU Usage with all 4 cores I was at 70C or a little under. My clock speed right now is at 3.29 with turboboost. Is all that good?
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
June 20 2011 16:08 GMT
#25
But it seems that everything runs fine and smooth until I for instance open a stream and sc2 then I notice considerable lag..but Im only running like 30% or less of my processor. Is my GPU causing this problem?
Zeke50100
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States2220 Posts
June 20 2011 16:17 GMT
#26
Is this also a problem with other games, or only SC2?
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 20 2011 16:30 GMT
#27
This isn't related to your issue but your 2500k is suppose to be at 3.4GHz during a prime95 stress. Why did you disable turbo boost in the BIOS? Overclocking is also primarily done with the turbo boost multiplier.

Have you updated to the latest version of flash and disabled hardware acceleration?
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
June 20 2011 16:41 GMT
#28
I have the latest version of flash, oh and it was at 3.4 I was talking about the stock clock without turbo. How do I disable hardware acceleration?
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 20 2011 16:42 GMT
#29
You go to a flash stream and right click to go to settings and hardware acceleration should be the first option.
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
June 20 2011 17:11 GMT
#30
What does disabling hardware acceleration do? Will it help with what Im experiencing
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 20 2011 17:16 GMT
#31
It uses the graphics card to help flash output the video. Disabling it is just for troubleshooting purposes.
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
June 20 2011 17:19 GMT
#32
Well its disabled and it seems to be helping a little, less lag when I have stream and sc2 open so far.
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
June 20 2011 22:10 GMT
#33
Okay these lag spikes are becoming extremely annoying, I'm going to try to list all my information I have while these lag spikes occur so I can get some help. My computer:
Gigabyte Z68 mobo
Intel Core i5 2500k
MSi HD6850
8GB Corsair RAM DDR3
1TB HDD
650W PSU
Those are my internals. My current open program during this lag spike is: Skype, Mozilla Firefox and Starcraft 2. My CPU Usage and Temps are:
Core 1- 78% 48C
Core 2- 6% 46C
Core 3- 42% 45C
Core 4- 11% 46C
RAM- 38% (~3GB)
Does anyone know what is causing these lag spikes because from all the benchmarks and everything I've seen the i5 should be able to handle this and I don't know where it could be bottlenecking or anything.
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
June 20 2011 22:15 GMT
#34
On June 21 2011 07:10 Catroa wrote:
Okay these lag spikes are becoming extremely annoying, I'm going to try to list all my information I have while these lag spikes occur so I can get some help. My computer:
Gigabyte Z68 mobo
Intel Core i5 2500k
MSi HD6850
8GB Corsair RAM DDR3
1TB HDD
650W PSU
Those are my internals. My current open program during this lag spike is: Skype, Mozilla Firefox and Starcraft 2. My CPU Usage and Temps are:
Core 1- 78% 48C
Core 2- 6% 46C
Core 3- 42% 45C
Core 4- 11% 46C
RAM- 38% (~3GB)
Does anyone know what is causing these lag spikes because from all the benchmarks and everything I've seen the i5 should be able to handle this and I don't know where it could be bottlenecking or anything.


Wait, are you running dual monitors and watching the stream while playing? Is that the issue?
Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5912 Posts
June 20 2011 22:16 GMT
#35
I'm going to do something old school and ask:

Is something accessing your hard drive frequently like anti-virus? It probably shouldn't matter in this day and age but still it seems to be a SW issue and not hardware.

Could be some sort of issue with your graphics driver if its stream + SCII that causes it. Might update?.
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JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-20 22:19:33
June 20 2011 22:18 GMT
#36
On June 21 2011 07:16 Antisocialmunky wrote:
I'm going to do something old school and ask:

Is something accessing your hard drive frequently like anti-virus? It probably shouldn't matter in this day and age but still it seems to be a SW issue and not hardware.

Could be some sort of issue with your graphics driver if its stream + SCII that causes it. Might update?.


Someone asked about AV already, so I hope that's not it. I was actually thinking some sort of bandwidth issue, and he's actually seeing latency, not bad FPS.
Nortac
Profile Joined April 2011
United States375 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-20 22:22:42
June 20 2011 22:21 GMT
#37
Right now the only Antivirus Im running is AVG because its free and ive used it before. I might try to see if there is an update for my graphics drivers.
EDIT:: Im installing some updates, I recently put in an HDMI cord and I think there is an update for it...could this be the problem??
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
June 20 2011 22:22 GMT
#38
On June 21 2011 07:21 Catroa wrote:
Right now the only Antivirus Im running is AVG because its free and ive used it before. I might try to see if there is an update for my graphics drivers.


Do that, and goto speedtest.net and find out what your bandwidth and ping look like.
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
June 20 2011 22:23 GMT
#39
Perform a clean boot and only open up Starcraft II and the stream on Firefox.

You can also try having the stream opened in Chrome or Internet Explorer alongside Starcraft II. Maybe it's a Firefox thing for some strange reason (highly unlikely though but worth a try).
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-20 22:25:07
June 20 2011 22:24 GMT
#40
On June 21 2011 07:23 skyR wrote:
Perform a clean boot and only open up Starcraft II and the stream on Firefox.

You can also try having the stream opened in Chrome or Internet Explorer alongside Starcraft II. Maybe it's a Firefox thing for some strange reason (highly unlikely though but worth a try).


Well, depends, Firefox does have some streaming related memory leaks, but his memory usage doesn't compare to that causing his problem, IF he's given us the numbers from when it's actually occurring.

They're also fairly slow, and don't happen to everyone, from what I've seen.
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