It's frustrating as hell, I've only seen HWinfo record the drop in Memory Clock Speed once, that doesn't show up every time the FPS plummets. There is a problem somewhere because the same scenes in a game will run fine again once the system has been rebooted. I've gotten some videos of the FPS drops, first to around the 85fps mark, then to around the 55fps mark with nothing standing out.
100% GPU usage in games - help!
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It's frustrating as hell, I've only seen HWinfo record the drop in Memory Clock Speed once, that doesn't show up every time the FPS plummets. There is a problem somewhere because the same scenes in a game will run fine again once the system has been rebooted. I've gotten some videos of the FPS drops, first to around the 85fps mark, then to around the 55fps mark with nothing standing out.
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Sorry if I missed this, but have you tried putting everything to stock and seeing if the problem repeats itself still?
@Threepwood Problem is persistent at stock also...
Latest results from HWinfo, other than the highlighted does anything stand out?
Latest results from HWinfo, other than the highlighted does anything stand out?
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Are you using G-sync? tried turing that off? There is a similar thread here https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/1080ti-hitting-100-usage-and-stuttering.18830460/
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You should set up msi afterburner so you can see the stats in game and in real time. Also go into nvidia control panel click on manage 3d settings then the program settings tab, locate the game exe and then in the list set the power management to prefer max performance, only do this with games individually don't set it as a global setting and if you set a custom fan curve and keep the gpu below 75c your boost speeds should improve above 1500Mhz. Not saying this will fix it but worth a shot. Your gpu max temp on the list is showing 85c, that's too hot and probably caused the card to throttle so you should use afterburner and set a more aggressive fan curve.
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Okay so having downloaded the outer worlds in that game I'm seeing continuous wild fluctuations in FPS no matter what settings I play at coupled with some epic screen tearing, it actually makes feel a little nauseous after a while. With Fall Out 4 it's still the same problem. What's more I've ramped up the GPU and system fans to 100% and have not gone about 70c on the GPU and same problem persists. I've also managed to make use of my mates 2070 today to retest and replicated the results albeit with lower overall FPS. So I don't think it's hardware related, at least not the GPU. I've run malware bytes and am clean, even saw it suggested to run latencymon on a another thread with a similar issue and that's come back all clear. I've tried lowering the OC on my monitor down from 100fps to 90fps and that's made no difference, disabling anti virus and what few non essential programs I have running in the back ground to no discernable effect.
Still need to try with gsync disabled which I'll do tomorrow before I go away for a few days. Failing that I'm going to reinstall Windows from a thumb drive and update the bios, and try running things as bare bones as possible. Hopefully that will clear things up, if not... I'm stumped.
Still need to try with gsync disabled which I'll do tomorrow before I go away for a few days. Failing that I'm going to reinstall Windows from a thumb drive and update the bios, and try running things as bare bones as possible. Hopefully that will clear things up, if not... I'm stumped.
Okay so I've cracked it! On another forum it was suggested in a similar thread that a dodgy cable could be the issue so I ordered a replacement.
Problem seems to be solved, my old cable doesn't appear to be damaged in anyway but everything seems to be behaving as it should.
Not sure how a cable could cause these issues but I'm not complaining.
Problem seems to be solved, my old cable doesn't appear to be damaged in anyway but everything seems to be behaving as it should.
Not sure how a cable could cause these issues but I'm not complaining.
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Funny you should mention that, my DP cable died randomly one morning when I booted my PC up. GPU port worked with my primary monitor but the 2nd monitor and DP cable failed. Switched to HDMI as a replacement and it was fine...strange, but glad its sorted.
It's definitely not what I would have expected, I'd even wondered if it might be my monitor failing at one point. So I'm glad it's been such a simple fix.
2hrs of rdr2 and hovered around the 60fps mark without much variation, as expected given what reviews are saying about performance of my card on this game. Put the old cable back in and it's all over the place.
2hrs of rdr2 and hovered around the 60fps mark without much variation, as expected given what reviews are saying about performance of my card on this game. Put the old cable back in and it's all over the place.
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It isn't something you would think of at first, that's for sure. Glad you managed to fix your problem. Seems like the cable isn't able to feed your card with stable power for some reason.
Power cable or video cable?
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