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GTX 660 Maxed out

Brooke10

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Whist playing" World of Tanks" i noticed that my frame rate had dropped to about 15 after some time. After the game had finished i checked my GPU usage and found it had been on maximum usage(Using After burner)

Is this a result of too little Graphic card memory(2GB) or is the card not powerful
enough(IE should i upgrade) I only use one monitor (1920 x 1080)

Do i need more than 2GB memory:confused:

Thanks
 
Rather than checking it after "you finished", I would suggest you enable MSI Afterburner's On Screen Display so you can monitor the GPU usage WHILE you are gaming.

From what I recall, World of Tanks is a single-threaded game, so usually it is more CPU limited than graphic. I can't imagine your 660 being not fast enough for that game...
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Rather than checking it after "you finished", I would suggest you enable MSI Afterburner's On Screen Display so you can monitor the GPU usage WHILE you are gaming.

From what I recall, World of Tanks is a single-threaded game, so usually it is more CPU limited than graphic. I can't imagine your 660 being not fast enough for that game...
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Hes saying he checked it and it had been on maximum usage. You dont need on screen display as you can see after you have finished what the usage has been in the graphs. If his card is flat out at 100% then its not going to go any faster is it?
 
oldestgregg said:
Hes saying he checked it and it had been on maximum usage. You dont need on screen display as you can see after you have finished what the usage has been in the graphs. If his card is flat out at 100% then its not going to go any faster is it?
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I'm just saying he should just check again to make sure. Unless he's recording a log, the graph on the MSI Afterburner would only show the GPU usage for the short period of time before he exit the game...which is why I suggested him to check the GPU usage on the fly. Also with the OSD, he will be able to monitor of his GPU is downclocking itself for no reason.

I don't know if you know about WOT, but it is quite a CPU limited game. There's absolutely no way that a 660 with 100% GPU usage would only be delivering 15fps.

oldestgregg said:
You should check your CPU usage during game as well though just to see where its at.
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Not much point checking CPU usage, it won't be 100% since the game is single-threaded...would be lucky to get more than 25-40% CPU usage in total on a quad-core CPU.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I'm just saying he should just check again to make sure. Unless he's recording a log, the graph on the MSI Afterburner would only show the GPU usage for the short period of time before he exit the game...which is why I suggested him to check the GPU usage on the fly. Also with the OSD, he will be able to monitor of his GPU is downclocking itself for no reason.

I don't know if you know about WOT, but it is quite a CPU limited game. There's absolutely no way that a 660 with 100% GPU usage would only be delivering 15fps.


Not much point checking CPU usage, it won't be 100% since the game is single-threaded...would be lucky to get more than 25-40% CPU usage in total on a quad-core CPU.
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Sorry forgot to add to alt-tab out while in game to see the usage...my bad. I still would have thought though that if the game was maxed and the card was maxed then its maxed out. He isnt getting 15 all the time it just drops at times which still sounds right to me. Yeah he may be cpu limited a bit but his card is still giving all it can.
 
I would check graphic card clocks (while in game using MSI Afterburner) to make sure the card isn't downclocking to power saving levels, in which it's more likely to explain 100% usage and rubbish frame rates.
 
SouthEastBlue said:
I would check graphic card clocks (while in game using MSI Afterburner) to make sure the card isn't downclocking to power saving levels, in which it's more likely to explain 100% usage and rubbish frame rates.
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^This to be honest.

The CPU could be bottlenecking so badly to the point that that the graphic don't even need the core clock at full speed to keep up with the CPU.
 
Thanks for all the replies, i have checked the CPU loading and appears to run at about 75% max

so i assume that is not the problem.

Thanks for the help
 
Brooke10 said:
I'm using Phenom 965BE o/c 3.85
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I found another topic which someone with similar issue with issue as you with similar spec:
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/218791-wot-ingame-battle-cpu-usage/

As I said, the game primarily only use one core mostly, and the other cores barely have much usage on them.

If you really want to make sure, as I mention before...try using MSI Afterburner's on-screen display, and see what the 660's clock speed is and GPU usage is at when the frame rate falls to hell.
 
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