GPU Usage Drops Causing FPS Drops.

BeadyRoller

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Hi, so I have noticed through studying my FPS drops on MSI Afterburner that they are caused by my GPU usage dropping and fluctuating at times. I have a G-Sync monitor but can still feel the drops and stutters. Anyway to help this?

Temps are fine, only hitting highs of about 67 degrees.

Another problem I have is in most games I get a lot of object and texture pop ins even though I have Ultra detail settings and draw distance selected.
 
I am expierencing very similar behaviour on my gtx 1070, very annoying. As i was trying to find out whats up online, i only came across several suggestions - 1 of them was clearing pc of virus/malware if any, and 2nd dust causing gpu/cpu over-heat. I tried such as using different malware scanners (malwarebytes,roguekiller) to remove viruses etc ( one of them is nasty out there - miners virus) luckily i didn't have it. Cleaned the tower completely today, figured maybe a dust could be a factor tho, my pc wasn' that dirty only 1-2 months untouched. I'll be monitoring the gpu today and ill let u know if that helped. I just hope its not psu related, dont wanna buy a new one :D
 
It happens in most games, it's not even really a stutter that it causes as such, it's like it makes the game go in slow motion for a second or two then the frames catch back up. FPS drops every time the usage drops a bit, really want to get to the bottom of this.
 
Do u happen to hear a strange lag sound, while in windows too, say if u are starting to load something like program/game? At first i didnt notice if it wasn't for my 2nd screen which i tend to turn it off for some reason, bad habbit :D
 
Are you running off spinning disks or an SSD? Slow drive read times can certainly cause this issue, GPU usage goes down as the textures load in
 
Well I have always used separate disks to save the hassle of reinstalling all my games if I ever need a clean Windows install. I doubt it would make much difference to gaming performance.

I run games off 2 hard disks in RAID0 (short stroked) because I'm living in 2009 and can't afford a second SSD - they rarely have issues with loading textures in so an SSD should be perfect.

I would suggest using something like Crystal disk mark to make sure your SSD is running as it should because if you have the GPU usage drops combined with pop in that sounds like a texture streaming issue.
 
BeadyRoller said:
Yeah thought there would be no real advantage to have two separate.

I have checked my SSD using Crystal Disk Mark and are running as they should.
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Odd, perhaps your issue lies somewhere else - just seems a coincidence you are getting both pop-in and FPS drops. Unfortunately I’m not knowledgeable enough to help any further but hopefully someone else will be able to help.
 
britain4 said:
Odd, perhaps your issue lies somewhere else - just seems a coincidence you are getting both pop-in and FPS drops. Unfortunately I’m not knowledgeable enough to help any further but hopefully someone else will be able to help.
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Thanks for your help.

Swinbag said:
Sounds quite similar to the mega-thread here; https://forums.geforce.com/default/...fps-drops-since-windows-10-creators-update/1/

Are you on the latest build of Windows 10? Also, before gaming open the resource monitor, go to the 'memory' tab and leave it open in the background - keep an eye on the 'Standby' memory allocation every 10 minutes or so.
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Yeah I have seen something about that, I think I am running the latest edition of Windows yes, is there a fix or something to try?

Here are my results from the resource monitor like you asked for:

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Anything unusual?
 
BeadyRoller said:
Thanks for your help.



Yeah I have seen something about that, I think I am running the latest edition of Windows yes, is there a fix or something to try?

Here are my results from the resource monitor like you asked for:

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Anything unusual?
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There was/ is a bug with standby memory not clearing down, if you leave it long enough while gaming then you would eventually run out of free memory - would be interested to know if that happens for you.

A guy on the Nvidia forums gave a solution which allows the standby memory to be cleared automatically on a schedule, using a 3rd party application - I've been using it for a while & it works well for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/...by_memory_issue_causing_stutters_on_creators/
 
Swinbag said:
There was/ is a bug with standby memory not clearing down, if you leave it long enough while gaming then you would eventually run out of free memory - would be interested to know if that happens for you.

A guy on the Nvidia forums gave a solution which allows the standby memory to be cleared automatically on a schedule, using a 3rd party application - I've been using it for a while & it works well for me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/...by_memory_issue_causing_stutters_on_creators/
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I've done this but no change as I thought there wouldn't be. It isn't a gradual decline of performance, it's just like it from the start.
 
Swinbag said:
It's quite strange, are all of your games installed on the SSD or split between SSD/ HDD?
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I have games that are CPU demanding on the SSD and have a lot of objects loading in like DayZ, PUBG, Miscreated, Rust etc and the rest on my HDD. Its weird because the stutter doesn't happen on certain games, Assassin's Creed Black Flag has no stutter, Metro: Last Light had no stutter and Bioshock: Infinite on the whole had zero stutter, same goes for Just Cause 3 so it's not effecting every single game. Although them games do suffer from a lot of object pop in.

It's weird that even though I got a new rig entirely apart from the PSU and SSD/HDD the problem hasn't gone away.
 
BeadyRoller said:
I have games that are CPU demanding on the SSD and have a lot of objects loading in like DayZ, PUBG, Miscreated, Rust etc and the rest on my HDD. Its weird because the stutter doesn't happen on certain games, Assassin's Creed Black Flag has no stutter, Metro: Last Light had no stutter and Bioshock: Infinite on the whole had zero stutter, same goes for Just Cause 3 so it's not effecting every single game. Although them games do suffer from a lot of object pop in.

It's weird that even though I got a new rig entirely apart from the PSU and SSD/HDD the problem hasn't gone away.
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What graphics drivers are you using? Have you tried running Latency Mon also?

http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon
 
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