Every source game has constant FPS lag spikes

[MaxiTaxi]

This used to never happen, its really frustrating because it makes them unplayable. I have the newest GPU drivers and am on windows 11.

[MaxiTaxi]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Oh, then it's not that. Do you remember what you changed??

I don't know. It might only be L4D2 since I didn't try CS:GO until after I had this problem, but i doubt it since they have the same issue

[AustrAlien2010]

You have a rediculous fast PC, and it should not run slow.
Wouldn't hurt to remove all the dust from the fans though. Dust in cases often causes problems. Make sure it's properly cooled.

[MaxiTaxi]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Wouldn't hurt to remove all the dust from the fans though. Dust in cases often causes problems.

maybe, but it doesn't happen with other games,

[AustrAlien2010]

Your power supply, is it powerful enough?

[MaxiTaxi]

It isn't hardware. Like I said, it's only with source games, and only recently, no hardware changes happened when this started.

[AustrAlien2010]

But you still need your mainboard's chipset drivers, do you not?

[MaxiTaxi]

i found no drivers except audio (which i got) and i updated my bios. Issue still exists.

[AustrAlien2010]

Chipset drivers for your mainboard:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550M-H-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver-chipset

[MaxiTaxi]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Chipset drivers for your mainboard:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550M-H-rev-10/support#support-dl-driver-chipset

Updated them, but still have the issue. Someone said it could be polling rate, but I can't change it since my mouse software needs my mouse to update, but it wont update, it just fails.

[AustrAlien2010]

Only you can find that out. Maybe you have a virus. It could be anything. It's your pc. I can't fix it from here.

[MaxiTaxi]

Originally posted by AustrAlien2010:

Only you can find that out. Maybe you have a virus. It could be anything. It's your pc. I can't fix it from here.

Yeah probably, no clue what it could be though I can't remember anything i have done when it happened. Thanks for the help.

[Glam Stachee☆]

Yeah I got the same issues. My laptop certainly isn't "amazing" but it has little issues running other games, but pretty much every source engine game runs like garbage, most noticeably L4D and Black Mesa, but even bloody Half-Life 2 with no mods will sometimes stutter.

[AustrAlien2010]

Make sure you have at least 25% free space on your hard drive.
If you know how, can you check the size of your virtual memory? There is also a chance, you may be able to increase performance, by disabling a lot of features that you may be able to find in the same screen as your virtual memory settings. Because operating systems can also be a system hog.

[iggorrr! (:]

Dude, i have same issue.

It was normal until month ago.

GTX 1060 6GB
Ryzen 5 2600x
16 GB DDRD2
Windows 10

Thing is, if you can confirm to me does it only happens to you playing as survivior because when i play with zombie in versus or scavenge, it's totally fine, just as survivior i have lag spikes/stuttering.

I also noticed in CS:GO same thing happens. Millisecond of framedrop and goes back.

So yea, those are 2 source games. Not that source engine could cause problems but it's strange ;/

[DjMuffinTops]

I too just started having this issue within the last month. booted it up today usually get a constant 299 fps but every second it dips to 100s and makes a really noticable stutter. I'm on windows 10 though.