GTX980, Low FPS in games

[Spikey]

Just done heaven myself at the same settings and I get this:

That's again all at stock so I would say yours does seem a bit low when your CPU is slightly faster than mine. I notice I'm on windows 7 and your on NT, maybe that has something to do with it. Just waiting for my 16GB ram to arrive then I'm going to bench again.

EDIT: My 980 is slightly faster than your reference card but I wouldn't have thought the difference would be that much.

 

[ShakeNBake]

Is Geforce Experience enabling DSR?

Low frames could be explained by card rendering at 4k instead of 1080p.

Also, go into nvidia control panel, and set it to "performance" mode, just to check it hasn't enabled any crazy demanding options.
If you know what you are doing, feel free to adjust settings in nvidia control panel manually instead.

 

[Gregster]

Windows 7 loves Heaven (or vice versa) and always gave better scores for me over 8.1. No idea on NT though, so that could be a factor.

 

[Rilot]

He can't be running NT. NT4? The 17 year old OS?

 

[mattcrane]

Not running NT lol No idea why Heaven says NT

Win 8.1 64bit and love it tbh

Yes Geforce Experience does keep changing settings with DSR and I keep turning it back to 1080 before I start a game.

 

[Gregster]

He can't be running NT. NT4? The 17 year old OS?

Spot on and I didn't even think and took what Spikey said as truth 17 years old....Geeez, time flies and only seems like a couple of years ago

Not running NT lol No idea why Heaven says NT

Win 8.1 64bit and love it tbh

Yes Geforce Experience does keep changing settings with DSR and I keep turning it back to 1080 before I start a game.

Like I said, Heaven is better on W7 than 8.1 and that would account for the difference in scores. If you get your CPU clocks up, you should be seeing better overall performance and WoW is quite CPU heavy although I still would expect your CPU to cope perfectly well in that game.

 

[mattcrane]

If you get your CPU clocks up, you should be seeing better overall performance and WoW is quite CPU heavy although I still would expect your CPU to cope perfectly well in that game.

Yeah that's why I was a bit concerned about the sudden drop in FPS, as on my old card it was running perfectly well.

Will try and formulate a post for the CPU/Overclocking sub form and see if I can get some help/advice to get my CPU clocks up a little bit and see if that helps with the fps spikes.

Cheers.
Matt

 

[SouthEastBlue]

I think people assume WoW isn't hard to run because it came out such a long time ago. It's had a lot of graphical tweaks since the old days, but it's still based on an old engine so the game isn't greatly optimized when things get busy (major towns/cities and big raids).

My CPU is clocked fairly decently, and still bogs down to 20fps to 30fps in worst scenarios despite the game running 45 - 60fps (vsync) most of the time. The problem is the game, not your CPU.

 

[alex_123_fra]

There isn't a system that can run wow with all details maxed on busy outdoor areas at 100+ dps. GPU is irrelevant, its a CPU limitation.