Built new PC but Lacking performance ?

[Randall8686]

Hi Alll

I have built this pc for my brother inlaw (he wants to play farming simulator 2013) this game is a bit new to me and im unaware of its demands etc but its playing PANTS ! i installed it on my pc (Spec in sig) and it just sticks at 60fps. However on his newbuild its struggling to hit 30fps and his spec im sure should be handling this game fine. I turned the graphics down and it makes little difference. Its only loading 3 of the cores on the cpu to about 50-60% and the graphics card to about 30% according to the asus tool so what could be wrong Spec is

Im fairly sure this PC should run this game flat out the resolution is 1680x1050 and playing with this only ups the fps by 1 or two.



AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) have overclocked to 4ghz to see if any better but nothing
Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard
SuperFlower Amazon 450W "80 Plus Bronze" Power Supply
Asus Radeon R9 270X DirectCUII TOP 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics
TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01)
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) HDD

 

[Akagi]

Is the system in high performance mode in the power settings?

Have you checked the power connectors to the GPU?

What are the temperatures like?

All drivers installed and up to date?

 

[OvEr_KiLL]

unpark your cpu cores, have a look on google and youtube for vids and tutorials, very easy to do
makes games use ALL the cores

 

[Randall8686]

Is the system in high performance mode in the power settings?

Have you checked the power connectors to the GPU?

What are the temperatures like?

All drivers installed and up to date?

Power settings for what ?

GPU Power connectors fine and lights on each one

48C

I belive so i have that rather nasty AMD Catalyst thing installed (Nvidas way is so much nicer)

 

[Randall8686]

hmmmm I think there might be somthing wrong with the graphics card, Its now saying in CPU Tweak that the temp is 0c and gpu 0% but fan duty is 737 million% ad clock speed 300mhz

 

[stulid]

Have you installed the latest catalyst drivers as it sounds like the card isnt switching from a lower power saving state when it needs to.

 

[Randall8686]

I downloaded this thing http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+Vista+-+64

 

[stulid]

That is the newest.

 

[Akagi]

Power settings in Windows. Type "power options" into the start menu.

Does seem that there could potentially be an issue with the GPU. Might I suggest trying it in your machine? Or trying your GPU in his?

 

[Randall8686]

was on balanced. Will restart and try again.

 

[Randall8686]

in the game its still only maxing out at 40% on the GPU still getting 26fps

Max temp 47c

 

[Randall8686]

with the graphics as low as they will go the fps is 44-46

going to install battlefield and report back

 

[Danny75]

Update mobo BIOS as well, if you haven't already.

 

[Randall8686]

not touched any bios's

 

[Randall8686]

Well have tried everything above and still getting shocking frame rates. Total pants ! now im getting all pi55ed off with it lol. On the lowest settings its getting 40-50 fps and looks like pacman level graphics. How can it be soooo bad ?

 

[stulid]

Motherboard chipset drivers installed?

What does CPU-Z say about the CPU and memory.

upload some pics of the different tabs of CPU-Z.

 

[Randall8686]

 

[Randall8686]

All Screens on CPUZ

 

[Gboyd]

What happened with BF4? How did that run?

It sounds like the GPU is not being seen by the game.

 

[Randall8686]

battlefield 4 is not installed yet. will do in a mo. Agree on the GPU not being seen by the game but its loading it a little 30% ish