FPS drops every 30 secs or so [SUPPORT] [POSSIBLY FIXED]

[pom]

Whenever I play PD2 (no other games, mind you), I average 90+FPS. My computer's fairly good. However, starting recently, I've experienced framerate drops every 30 seconds- 2 minutes or so down to 5-10 FPS. It's really game breaking. It doesn't always happen but when it is happening I have to restart my computer 3 or more times for it to stop happening for 5 minutes of gameplay before it starts again. Not to mention that my computer takes a while to restart. So, restarting isn't practical. I tried several fixes involving using the Nvidia control panel but still doesn't work. I did some diagnostics, and apparently whenever the drops happen, my computer's resource consumption on everything (CPU, Memory, etc.) actually goes down . I have no idea what's happening or how to fix it but until then I pretty much can't play PD2 in a practical manner or help my team in any way. Any suggestions, or am I going to have to let go of PD2?

**EDIT**
The problem may be fixed thanks to Zee- running the game as admin and with the Shadowmap mod, and so far I haven't encountered the issue. Stay posted just in case it happens again.

**EDIT AGAIN**
It started again. :/

[Gunsmith Noob]

A similar thing used to happen to me when the Power chord of my PC was faulty. Electricity wasn't stable and the pc went in a sort of "protective mode" asking less energy.
The only suggestion i can give to you is try another Power outlet/chord.

[Waldo]

Get a better computer. I'm having no issues.

[TacoFox]

Not much to work on. Payday either works or it doesn't everything inbetween are hardware/software conflicts. Long reboots say too much junk is being loaded up. You might want to see what you have booting up with your OS that is constipating your box. apps don't have to take all the resources, just the attention of the cpu off the game.

[Gunsmith Noob]

Originally posted by TacoFox:

Not much to work on. Payday either works or it doesn't everything inbetween are hardware/software conflicts. Long reboots say too much junk is being loaded up. You might want to see what you have booting up with your OS that is constipating your box. apps don't have to take all the resources, just the attention of the cpu off the game.

^This too

[pom]

Originally posted by NoobRage T:

A similar thing used to happen to me when the Power chord of my PC was faulty. Electricity wasn't stable and the pc went in a sort of "protective mode" asking less energy.
The only suggestion i can give to you is try another Power outlet/chord.

I might try that at some point, but I doubt that's it. The issue is only in PD2.
EDIT: Also, my computer is technically a big laptop so it has a battery, so I don't think that would have a huge effect on performance.

Originally posted by Robo-MeeM:

Get a better computer. I'm having no issues.

Can't do that right now. Also, this is a good comp. I can play games like COD and TF2 with max settings just fine, with 60+ FPS.

Originally posted by TacoFox:

Not much to work on. Payday either works or it doesn't everything inbetween are hardware/software conflicts. Long reboots say too much junk is being loaded up. You might want to see what you have booting up with your OS that is constipating your box. apps don't have to take all the resources, just the attention of the cpu off the game.

First off, I know exactly what makes my computer start up long. In fact, here's a list of the culprits:
Google Drive, Lenovo Battery Management, Overwolf, Razer Synapse, Realtek HD Audio manager
Second, I did look at the game's consumption. It's the game that does it, nothing else.

[TacoFox]

An abacus can run COD and TF2, just ask the 3rd world gold miners playing those games. You had mentioned Lonovo...I would say there's your problem right there.
Google Drive, Overwolf, and Razer Synapse all access online resources and could be fighting Payday which needs an almost flawless connection to play the game.

[pom]

Originally posted by TacoFox:

An abacus can run COD and TF2, just ask the 3rd world gold miners playing those games. You had mentioned Lonovo...I would say there's your problem right there.
Google Drive, Overwolf, and Razer Synapse all access online resources and could be fighting Payday which needs an almost flawless connection to play the game.

Okay, so even if my comp isnt that good, I didn't experience any probs with PD2 for a few days after getting it. Also, the problem is FPS, not connection. My connection's okay. And yes, this computer is a lenovo.

EDIT: That, and the problm is with PD2. Also, I play other games like Kerbal Space Program, which is actually graphically intensive to fry abacus computers. (Seriously, I almost melted one of the crappier computers I've used XD) I can't play on full settings in games like that though, I usually go one step down or so. So while my comp isn't super beefy, it's still pretty good.

[TacoFox]

I find it hard to believe that a lonovo would play payday 2 at 90+FPS unless you had bought a high end one. Is your GPU anything other than a intel HD 4000?

[Alucard †]

Payday works great for me but i have a similar issue you described but only and ONLY in weapon / mask customization menus .. my framerate sometimes drop there to like 30 but is restored back to 60+ after i apply a weapon mod or re-enter the menu.

Its really really werid. Cant be faulty PC cause its brand new and ingame everything runs smooth maxed out.

[Dioxido]

I your computer takes a while to restart I bet I'ts the hard drive, defrag the game, patches frag it. Is the hd almost full? Is the razer app tracking clicks?.

[Forsakend]

Originally posted by jiaoshouxu:

clean those dirty stuffs in your chassis

Try this.
Also considering it is a laptop: when you were first playing, were you playing while plugged to a wall socket or running off battery?
What GPU does it have (more out of curiosity)?

[pom]

Originally posted by TacoFox:

I find it hard to believe that a lonovo would play payday 2 at 90+FPS unless you had bought a high end one. Is your GPU anything other than a intel HD 4000?

Yeah, this is the Y510p, 1000$ last time I checked. Also, I think my GPU is the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M. IDK if I might have another GPU stuck in there though. Even if I do I doubt that has something to do with it because I have my PD2 set up to always run with the Nvidia processor.

Originally posted by Diox:

I your computer takes a while to restart I bet I'ts the hard drive, defrag the game, patches frag it. Is the hd almost full? Is the razer app tracking clicks?.

I don't think the Razer app is click tracking, when I go to click tracking in stats it has no data. I have settings full, but I doubt it's that, for the first few days I had the game it ran great. Also, my computer auto analyzes the disks for fragmentation daily and defrags it if it's too fragged. I went ahead and analyzed all my drives and volumes for fragmentation and all of them were at 0%. I also scanned for errors, and there were none.

Originally posted by Forsakend:

Originally posted by jiaoshouxu:

clean those dirty stuffs in your chassis

Try this.
Also considering it is a laptop: when you were first playing, were you playing while plugged to a wall socket or running off battery?
What GPU does it have (more out of curiosity)?

I ran a dust remover cycle a few times now, didn't help. Unless you mean disassembling my machine and literally scrubbing it down I don't think that's a problem. Also, my laptop is a bigun and it stays plugged in a lot of the time. Every time I've played PD2 it was plugged in. See above for GPU.

[pom]

Bump. BTW now it happens every 10 seconds for a couple minutes. Game's nearing unplayable, especially stealth. I swear if I bump into one more person while this FPS lag is happening I am done. :(

[pom]

Ok, this crap just almost lost me a 400k contract I bought. I can't stand it.

[TacoFox]

Your GT 750M is not a gaming gpu, its better than the intel HD 4000 but not by much. According to this bench site,

http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=1715&graphics=GeForce%20GT%20750M%202GB%20GDDR5

The card did well in the 1600 by 900 rez area. Remember this article was from Jan 2013, by today's standards this card would not be given such a decent score.

Here's how your card stacks against current models.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GT+750M

So stay in the 1600 by 900 rez set your details to low, and turn up details till you get a balance of fps and details you can live with.