PC is lagging

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marine1

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I have the following system.
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When having multiple things open, such as running CCTV monitoring and other programs, it seems to slow down and lag quite badly.

What would you suggest I upgrade with or does it maybe need more ram?
Its a solid state drive

Thanks
 
RAM may be a culprit here, two different size DIMM's by different makers in dual channel formation. Ideally it should be the same size and from the same manufacturer.
You can see in the timings table that there are differences, which could make things go out of sync and cause delays which would make things appear to "lag". (not the funny kind though)

First test should be to remove DIMM #2 (8GB) and see whether the problem persists.
 
marine1 said:
I have the following system.
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When having multiple things open, such as running CCTV monitoring and other programs, it seems to slow down and lag quite badly.

What would you suggest I upgrade with or does it maybe need more ram?
Its a solid state drive

Thanks
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When it lags/slows down, monitor it from Task Manager and resource monitor, and see if you can determine what it hogging it.

Your SSD might not have DRAM cache and could be slowing the machine as writes are queued. Your CPU could also be overheating and slow itself due to thermal-throttling.
 
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Since it's been working okay up until now - it could be that you need to do a windows cleanup to remove old files/caches/unnecessary startups etc

Ccleaner or Privazer worked well for me when I had pc slowdown. Reinstalling Windows is next if hardware changes and a cleanup doesn't work.
 
LCBXX said:
When it lags/slows down, monitor it from Task Manager and resource monitor, and see if you can determine what it hogging it.

Your SSD might not have DRAM cache and could be slowing the machine as writes are queued. Your CPU could also be overheating and slow itself due to thermal-throttling.
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That is the main drive
 
LCBXX said:
When it lags/slows down, monitor it from Task Manager and resource monitor, and see if you can determine what it hogging it.

Your SSD might not have DRAM cache and could be slowing the machine as writes are queued. Your CPU could also be overheating and slow itself due to thermal-throttling.
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I would also start here.
Keep task manager open and monitor processes and performance tabs when you experience the lag.

This should give you an idea of what might be causing the issue you are describing before you go and spend any money on it
 
If the videos in the application are all running as a main stream from the cameras and not a sub stream then it will take up a lot of CPU cycles, especially if you have a few feeds showing at the same time. Rather display the feeds on your main screen as sub streams. The primary stream will show when you double click on a specific feed.
Also make sure that the cameras are encoding the streams with h264 encoding and not h265. The latter has better compression rates, but uses more CPU power to decode.

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Sagax said:
If the videos in the application are all running as a main stream from the cameras and not a sub stream then it will take up a lot of CPU cycles, especially if you have a few feeds showing at the same time. Rather display the feeds on your main screen as sub streams. The primary stream will show when you double click on a specific feed.
Also make sure that the cameras are encoding the streams with h264 encoding and not h265. The latter has better compression rates, but uses more CPU power to decode.

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Thanks bud, appreciate it, i will change to .264
 
I don't think that memory is running in dual channel cause it's 16 + 8.
Did you update your nvidia drivers lately?
I went to 560.94 and it destroyed my 3060 performance to where it struggled to get 30FPS, back to 555.85 and it's running fine again
 
kolaval said:
I don't think that memory is running in dual channel cause it's 16 + 8.
Did you update your nvidia drivers lately?
I went to 560.94 and it destroyed my 3060 performance to where it struggled to get 30FPS, back to 555.85 and it's running fine again
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I dunno man, besides the ram thing, judging by the screenshots his main culprit seems to be the SmartPSSLite software monopolizing the CPU. Drivers for the graphics card wouldn't make a difference, unless you can move the workload to the GPU somehow? I'm not familiar with SmartPSS though so not sure if that's possible or would be worthwhile doing if those other fixes work for OP
 
PC is fine.

SmartPooesLite is hogging the CPU. Change settings to optimise and you'll be okay.
 
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