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Just installed my new 3080FE and had a fresh windows 10 install yet I'm still dropping frames like crazy in games.

My build
5600x with 240mm AIO
16GB RAM
3080FE
7 additional cooling fans
750w gold rated PSU

144hz monitor (gsync enabled)

At first I thought it might be down to temperatures but obviously it's not the case as they never hit more than 50ish on CPU and highest I recorded on GPU was 76 during PUBG.

I've tried turning V-sync off but that didn't help.
 
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Just installed my new 3080FE and had a fresh windows 10 install yet I'm still dropping frames like crazy in games.

It doesn't matter what PC system you have. FPS drop in many games, you said it's a 144hz g-sync monitor is it a 1080p or 4K
 
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It doesn't matter what PC system you have. FPS drop in many games, you said it's a 144hz g-sync monitor is it a 1080p or 4K
1440p.
Yes FPS drops do happen but they shouldn't be happening this often on 3 different games.
When I'm saying FPS drops I'm talking about 144 to 20fps and takes like 3 seconds to recover.
 
1440p.
Yes FPS drops do happen but they shouldn't be happening this often on 3 different games.
When I'm saying FPS drops I'm talking about 144 to 20fps and takes like 3 seconds to recover.
Have you got anything that has monitored the GPU/CPU clocks? Need to find out which is causing the problem, or both.

How often do the drops happen? I assume what's happening on screen does not contribute directly?
 
You say it's a fresh install of Windows. Have you disabled all the rubbish? My first suspicion would be it's something in Windows and you should check to see what's running when these dips happen. It helps if you have a second monitor to do that. It's a long time since I have done a fresh install of Windows but I remember when I did there was an issue with the Windows inbuilt virus scanner scanning files downloaded from games servers during gaming ( only for certain games). This caused glitches during play. I'm not saying this is your problem but I would certainly investigate the potential software causes.
 
Have you got anything that has monitored the GPU/CPU clocks? Need to find out which is causing the problem, or both.

How often do the drops happen? I assume what's happening on screen does not contribute directly?
They happen often enough to make the games not enjoyable, sometimes once every 2 minuets? Usually the drops happen when there is firefight going on in the game but just as often it happens when you just walk around on the map.
I have CPU-Z installed and will install GPU-Z and run them both during a gameplay later to see. I've got screenshots of the CPU-Z info and my built if that can help identify something.
 
You say it's a fresh install of Windows. Have you disabled all the rubbish? My first suspicion would be it's something in Windows and you should check to see what's running when these dips happen. It helps if you have a second monitor to do that. It's a long time since I have done a fresh install of Windows but I remember when I did there was an issue with the Windows inbuilt virus scanner scanning files downloaded from games servers during gaming ( only for certain games). This caused glitches during play. I'm not saying this is your problem but I would certainly investigate the potential software causes.
I would need more specifics of what to turn off and where I'm afraid.
 
I would need more specifics of what to turn off and where I'm afraid.

In task manager you can view whats going on with the PC. If you look at the graphs you may be able to see sudden bursts of activity that are accompanied by drops in FPS. It's really handy to view this on a second screen while you are playing. You can usually at least see there is something in Windows that's running that's causing the glitches albeit it can be a little tricky to work out just exactly what is causing it.
 
In task manager you can view whats going on with the PC. If you look at the graphs you may be able to see sudden bursts of activity that are accompanied by drops in FPS. It's really handy to view this on a second screen while you are playing. You can usually at least see there is something in Windows that's running that's causing the glitches albeit it can be a little tricky to work out just exactly what is causing it.
I only have 1 screen I'm afraid, but like I said I'll be doing a gaming session later and have GPU-Z and Task manager running to have a look at the graphs.
 
1440p.
Yes FPS drops do happen but they shouldn't be happening this often on 3 different games.
When I'm saying FPS drops I'm talking about 144 to 20fps and takes like 3 seconds to recover.

It all depends on what games your running please list them, so your monitor is a 2k then but isn't the problem. try turn off V-sync apps in windows 10

You must understand how G-Sync works with V-Sync turn on, framebuffer is a portion of GPU VRAM the back buffer has to wait for the front buffer (your monitor), to refresh and it can’t start rendering the next frame until the frame within is swapped and V-sync will drop the game’s framerate to 50 percent of the refresh rate. But if you need V-sync, just remember the drawbacks. It will cap the framerate either at the display’s refresh rate, or GPU if your display has a super-high refresh rate that your GPU can match, chances are you’ll likely not see tearing anyway. In some cases the CPU will bottlenecking your GPU and holding back your fps.

Monitors are Variable refresh rate based on the rate that the GPU renders frames to the framebuffer.
 
I think I may have identified the problem. Turned on Halo 4 today for some gaming and the game breaking lag spikes came back. Did a quick alt + tab to see what's going on Task manager, and it showed CPU spike every time a lag happened.
I can screenshot the graphs and post it somewhere if someone wants a look and perhaps suggest a solution.
 
Now you need to start monitoring CPU time consumption of stuff that's running.

Process Explorer has CPU history column showing CPU usage of the process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Instead of trashing Windows with more toyphone garbage, Microsoft should be adding that as default feature...

Process Hacker woudl be antother "Task Manager replacement" with CPU history for the processes.
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/


Neither would DPC latency monitoring be bad thing.
https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon
 
Quick update, through narrowing it down to Windows Explorer causing spikes in CPU performance, I managed to find a forum where a guy had the exact same problem. Turns out it was the Wallpaper slideshow that was causing it every time it changed. I've changed to static one now and so far 0 lags, not even 1% drops.
 
Quick update, through narrowing it down to Windows Explorer causing spikes in CPU performance, I managed to find a forum where a guy had the exact same problem. Turns out it was the Wallpaper slideshow that was causing it every time it changed. I've changed to static one now and so far 0 lags, not even 1% drops.
Lol. Love Windows.
 
Now you need to start monitoring CPU time consumption of stuff that's running.

Process Explorer has CPU history column showing CPU usage of the process.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
Instead of trashing Windows with more toyphone garbage, Microsoft should be adding that as default feature...

Process Hacker woudl be antother "Task Manager replacement" with CPU history for the processes.
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/


Neither would DPC latency monitoring be bad thing.
https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon
Came in here to plug Process Explorer, but see I am too late.
System Internals was bought out by Microsoft years ago, and the only evidence is that some Task Manager's new tabs now look a bit more like Process Explorer.
If they don't want to change Task Manager - even in the "More details" view - they could at least install the suite by default.
Remember watching a video by Mark Russinovich years ago about virus removal where he used the Process Explorer option to pause a thread to stop a nasty multi-part virus from respawning itself when one of its threads went down. That guy's a genius, no wonder they gave him a job.
 
I had this problem with Warfare and Doom the other day, Warzone it would only happen in between matches and on loading screens, when usually it would ramp up to 100fps it dropped to 20ish. As soon as gameplay started it went back up again, haven't had time to check doom but that was worse.
 
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