Clocking advice?

linnemeyerhere said:

I would make sure you're running the latest graphic's drivers and leave your OC alone. It isn't responsible for any lag, it will be other resources being used or a driver issue or just the way the system is interacting with that game, IMHO. Is your OC tested stable?

It's not likely that the CPU has anything to do with lag.

linnemeyerhere said:

I would make sure you're running the latest graphic's drivers and leave your OC alone. It isn't responsible for any lag, it will be other resources being used or a driver issue or just the way the system is interacting with that game, IMHO. Is your OC tested stable?

Drivers are up to date and installed properly, perhaps it could just be a resource drain. And yes, the OC is stable.

kbrady1979 said:

linnemeyerhere said:

I would make sure you're running the latest graphic's drivers and leave your OC alone. It isn't responsible for any lag, it will be other resources being used or a driver issue or just the way the system is interacting with that game, IMHO. Is your OC tested stable?

It's not likely that the CPU has anything to do with lag.

I had thought it might be the CPU due to the fact that this lag isn't persistent, it just randomly hits on and off. I had considered that maybe the CPU was draining too much power by being set in the BIOS at 4.52 GHz when the regular setting is 4.2 GHz. It was the only reasonable guess after dealing with lag when my hardware far exceeds the requirements for the game's recommended settings, plus the fact that the games I'm running are not that old, so there's no reason for my card to already be too advanced to run them properly.

Mark Phelps said:

I may get arguments for saying this -- but really, there aren't any hard and fast "safe" overclocking levels. I did overclocking for YEARS, back when it was a lot of work involving making detail changes in BIOS setting screens and there weren't any cool GUI tools like you have today.

It was worth it back then because you could get serious (as in 50% or more!) speed improvement. And, if you went too high, the PC would simply crash, you would restore BIOS defaults, and start again.

It looks like you're doing considerable overclocking of your GPU, so nothing comes immediately to mind that would explain the lag in the gaming.

What could be the case is that you've got background tasks running that are consuming resources. But, that's just a guess.

Again, I know this "dates" me, but back in the "old days", we would manually shut off all but critical processes to get serious speed improvement. It might be work you're running Task Manager to see what's using resources and shutting down services you don't need.

I figured there wasn't anything guaranteed, but I was more or less just wondering if there would be a general 'safe' level that would not have so many FPS drops at random moments.

Yeah, now if you go too high it fries your hardware from what I've read.

It's not persistent lag, probably should have noted that, it's these random drops that occur quite often. It's not so annoying when it's in a part of the game where you're just sort of walking around, but when it occurs in a part where you're supposed to react quickly and accurately, it's a much bigger annoyance.

Could be.

I've used PCs for awhile (since 1998), I've just never gotten into overclocking until just a few months ago, so it's just something I'm not entirely familiar with. But I will try what you suggested.