BFV Pauses

[keithw1975]

I am having problems with 1-3 second pauses during gameplay. I also notice that when you select a spawn point and it zooms in on the map, it isn't smooth and jerks some. The long pauses seem to be most pronounced at the beginning of a round and then mostly disappear as you play. My graphics setting are the recommended settings by GeForce Experience, with a few setting turned down, but even turning everything down to medium didn't seem to make a difference.

Computer Specs:

Intel 7800X@4.1GHz (stable and running very cool as it's used for scientific work)

Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7

32GB RAM

RTX 2080 FE (GPU Temps Max out at 57 when gaming)

1TB M.2 SSD Boot Drive

6TB 7200RPM Gaming Drive

[XSV_NiTEMARE]

Hi there,

Did this only happened today? There's an issue currently affecting some of the backend systems. As a result, connectivity might not be optimal.
This is affecting multiple games.

They are currently working to resolve this at the moment. Stay tuned.

Best regards,

Timmie.

[groundedjet]

I have the same problem. It is a game issue that has not been fixed.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Stutters-in-DXR/td-p/7419141/jump-to/first-unread-message

[keithw1975]

Ok. Thank you.

[OttoVP]

@keithw1975hi mate just to point out this:
"1TB M.2 SSD Boot Drive
6TB 7200RPM Gaming Drive"

a mechanic HDD is way more slow than your M2, SSD and M2 drives are meant to host your FPS games or other high demand game, 7200rpm drives are just for storage purpose (fwi the old seagate barracudas hdds 15k rpm were the only top notch mechanical hdds)
I strongly suggest you to move your game on your M2 (way more performing than a standard ssd sata3 6gb/s)

take a peek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbgxu_4Alc

have fun mate
let me know if you need further help!

[Carbonic]

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@OttoVP wrote:

@keithw1975hi mate just to point out this:
"1TB M.2 SSD Boot Drive
6TB 7200RPM Gaming Drive"

a mechanic HDD is way more slow than your M2, SSD and M2 drives are meant to host your FPS games or other high demand game, 7200rpm drives are just for storage purpose (fwi the old seagate barracudas hdds 15k rpm were the only top notch mechanical hdds)
I strongly suggest you to move your game on your M2 (way more performing than a standard ssd sata3 6gb/s)

take a peek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbgxu_4Alc

have fun mate
let me know if you need further help!

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On that, I don't agree. Harddrive speeds pretty much only affect loading times, not game performance difference once loaded when you have enough RAM which is definitely the case here.

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/ssd-vs-hdd-higher-frame-rates-games

especially no differences that should cause 2-3 second lags.

A reason I could think of that a harddrive could cause pauses during gameplay would be a spin-up delay, which can happen if the computer run power-saving settings on the mechanical harddrive. However, this doesn't fit with the problem happening often in the beginning and then less often over time.

At this time I would suggest trying playing during a proper clean boot:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

and see if conflicts with third-party applications or services cause these large lag spikes.

[OttoVP]

After 25 yrs of IT services i don't trust mechanical hdds anymore after 1 year span.

5400rpm and 7200 rpm hdds are suffering wearing and tearing (as any bearing (sorry for the pun) is subject to aging).

any mechanical joint WILL suffer decay. I based my post on what i've seen and tested and from personal experience (gaming and IT related) building PCs and retrogaming hw.

"No game will run entirely on RAM nowadays and read times (aka game processes during its execution)  are affected by interface bandwidth AND media.

Quoting " spin-up delay":

this exactly why this HDD is not the idea choice and may cause these lags: NAS/Storage products have an high latency (more realiability is the key here) since they're programmed for low consumption specs (as a 6tb SSD nor an M2 are not still available in this size). It's access time it's not even comparable with an M2 / SSD (i do own many on my office data center and home nas)

Btw his pc his choice

[Keithw75]

The latest GeForce driver seems to have improved things quite a bit. I guess I will chalk this up to a bug at this point. My son has been playing on a computer with similar specs, but a gtx1070 and his runs without a snag. Maybe something to do with the RTX cards?