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What the Hell!?!? Better PC is getting worse performance

GeneralBrad·12/27/2016, 5:09:01 PM·4 votes·4,553 views

Ok, I am just wondering if anyone has an answer to my riddle. I have two PC's that I have league loaded onto:

Old/Wife's Gaming Rig: 12GB 1333MHz DDR3 Phenom II 1090T Black Edition 3.4GHz (3.7 turbo) Radeon HD5770

New/My Gaming Rig 24GB 1800MHz DDR3 FX 8350 Black Edition 4.0GHz (4.5 turbo) Radeon R9 380 x2 (crossfire disabled for league)

The issue I'm having, even after a complete system refresh and driver/bios updates for EVERYTHING, is that the new computer is getting fewer frames in general gameplay (~120 vs ~145) and dips to about 65fps in teamfights (old pc stays stable) Both pc's are running settings maxed (dropping settings to minimum on the new pc didn't change anything.)

The new PC is using less than 30% of both CPU and Graphics card while running the game, New PC sits around 60% cpu and 80% GPU.

Does anyone have a clue what the hell is going on? Again, Complete system refresh, complete repair as well as uninstall/reinstall of the game, new drivers, rolled back drivers. several different virus/malware scans, firewalls on, firewalls off, processor affinity/priority, even going through the FPS troubleshoot on the website....nothing makes any difference. I load into the game and briefly see about 360fps then is drops over about a minute to 120fps and crashes low in fights. the game also gets VERY laggy in fights. I've watched the system monitor and there are no usage spikes, no temperature spikes, nothing. no other game on my system is having an issue.

If some kind genius out there has any idea what is going on I would love to fix this problem.

***EDIT

for those hung up on hardware, NONE of my hardware is breaking a sweat and it all running correctly on both PC's, additionally I did try overclocking (no change) and I dropped a Fury x into the system with no difference...other than now the GPU is only running at about 10% usage.

CPU never breaks 30% while gaming, as far as league is concerned there are ZERO hardware bottlenecks.

In terms of software. I have done a COMPLETE system format and reinstall 64bit os. installed Direct x runtime compatibility from Microsoft. there should be no software interactions of any kind messing anything up and there are no programs running in the background. in fact, I can run a video render AND watch streaming video AND watch a twitch channel all while playing league and it won't impact performance from what I am seeing.

Everything was working fine until this latest patch.

35 Comments

TheStiiv12/28/2016, 4:20:50 PM2 votes

I didn't read all the comments (too many), so if someone already said what I'm going to say, sorry. I had a problem like this before, my cpu and ram was over 90% when i was playing League. 3 things you can try here, it helped me a lot. First one is to make sure that your power settings are set on 'high preformance' rather than 'save energy' or something like that. Second one is try to disable Windows update, it can download updates in background and slow your pc down. And the third one, which helped me was disabling a 'Superfetch' process. This process took 50% of my cpu, and a 1.1gb of ram. After disabling it, my pc runs everything fine and smooth.

vOmvbrawfU12/28/2016, 4:25:09 PM2 votes

OP, an idea when you make a post like this would be to edit the post if you reply to a comment or something. For example, someone said it could be the power saving mode activated. You should make an edit that says, "Edit: power saving mode not on" so that people reading your post know what has already been said. No offense, but most people don't want to read through all these comments to try and figure out what people have already suggested lol.

UsiTsukino12/27/2016, 6:33:03 PM1 votes

Hey guy !! :D I post here to tell you, I had almost the same problem you're having (probably). You can find my problem in this link (compare your problem to mine): http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/AbtUXZAg-wut-what-happened-in-my-last-game- but it was FPS related.

I fixed it by downloading the new client (the beta one) in the new laptop. And I didn't want to play in the Beta Client until Riot release it officially. =\

The FPS problem I had was in the old client, and I found it strange, because, c'mon, is the old-client.

Now, my new pc runs the Beta-Client (in-game) fine. But I hate the fact that sometimes, when I'm closing the "Friends" tabs and that, the new clients freeze for about 1 minute. And that's annoying .__.!!!

linhttn12/27/2016, 5:34:47 PM1 votes

First, I am struggling to understand why your ram is not in groupings of 4 or 8. For either PC. You should be running your RAM in dual channel.

If you aren't seeing temperature swings on your processor. I really don't know what to tell you. The only thing I can even think is potentially it is your monitor.

What is the Hz of your monitor? Have you tried to old monitor on the new PC? Also, do you have multiple monitors plugged into the video card?

Zaryelle12/28/2016, 11:12:10 AM1 votes

Since everyone has already mentioned things I was thinking, make sure Windows is 64 bit. I haven't used 32 bit in a while but I'm guessing it would run LoL a little worse.

If you cannot find a solution, uninstall LoL then delete all the temp files associated in your Users and Program Files folders. Make sure every trace of it is gone then reinstall. If that does not help, try creating a new account on your computer. These are just some last try suggestions as everyone else has already suggested the common stuff.

If you also have extra OS images laying around, you might want to try a different image just to see if it works. It's rare but I have had some issues before with certain programs that only happened on one OS, while working completely fine on the other OS (with same hardware).

One example is one of my first gaming computers would not update WoW patches from the client I always had to manually update them and couldn't figure out why, tried reinstalling WoW client, no driver issues or anything., nothing worked, reinstalled the original image and still wouldn't work, but then after a new different OS it works fine..

zaphos12/27/2016, 9:30:50 PM1 votes

Apparently people who don't know anything about hardware feel the need to blame it for every problem...and...monitor causing problem...seriously?....

at any rate it sounds more like driver/directx9 compatibility issues, it's a game specific software issue of some kind, obviously not an easy one to track down based on what has already been done. you say you updated all your drivers, did you roll back your gpu driver by any chance and see if that works?

AthenasVendetta12/27/2016, 5:51:18 PM1 votes

24 gbs of ram is just unnecessary. lol

Sounds like you are still running the computer on the intregrated graphics card. I mean i wouldn't see a problem with having crossfire on or off. I just think you are not using those cards.