Help with poor gaming performance

lozcs · 23 Sep 2020 at 18:27

Hi,

Rebuilt 12 year old son's PC as he was complaining about performance playing Fortnite!

Fresh install of everything and latest firmware/drivers all installed.

Any tips to benchmark and see what may be an issue and able to improve? System seems fairly decent spec but just don't seem to be getting smooth gaming.

Specs are
ASUS X99-PRO
Intel Core i7 5820K @ 3.30GHz
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
3x ASUS MG28U monitor on DP
16 GB (4x Corsair CMK16GX4M4B3000C15)
1Tb SSD

Any tips would be helpful for Dad points!

Thanks.

Resistance · 23 Sep 2020 at 18:29

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Gray2233 · 23 Sep 2020 at 18:30

Are you using three of these monitors:

https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/MG28UQ/ ?

While Fortnite is fairly light on requirements, running 3x4K screens would be rough for most hardware.

lozcs · 24 Sep 2020 at 07:33

Gray2233 said:
Are you using three of these monitors:

https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/MG28UQ/ ?

While Fortnite is fairly light on requirements, running 3x4K screens would be rough for most hardware.

yep, suspected that may be an issue - however, seems to be as poor when just using pc connected to one screen. Also, Only gaming full screen on one monitor if that makes a difference?

RevBillyG · 24 Sep 2020 at 15:45

I managed to get Fortnite running at 45fps on my similar system (I was just testing and was amazed at how badly it now runs).
Try disabling raytracing in the options.

Spikey · 26 Sep 2020 at 21:03

Funnily enough I'm getting seriously bad stuttering / fps with spec in sig, all at stock done a full windows install. Doesn't matter what settings I use the FPS will tank up and down. Even my previous 2080ti did it, no other game causes me issues like this. Any ideas?

Freddie1980 · 27 Sep 2020 at 08:47

3x ASUS MG28U monitor on DP

Your running 3 4k monitors? No wonder performance has tanked.

Try running just one monitor and turn down any advanced settings like Ray Tracing.

Edit
Just looked at some benchmark results for Fortnite and I'm shocked. How can a game that looks like Fortnite run so badly?!? At 4k you should be able to get close to 60fps by dropping settings down to high.

SkillTim · 6 Dec 2020 at 21:13

I believe I'm getting similar issues since the game update 2 days ago. 95% of the time I get 144fps. About 5% of the time it stutters right down to 55, 30, 15 I've seen. It's so bad when in close combat. I've blamed my GPU, CPU (reseated) and now I'm thinking it's bad coding. No amount of lowering settings does anything to help. It might even be server-side stuff.

willhub · 7 Dec 2020 at 13:44

Freddie1980 said:
Your running 3 4k monitors? No wonder performance has tanked.

Try running just one monitor and turn down any advanced settings like Ray Tracing.

Edit
Just looked at some benchmark results for Fortnite and I'm shocked. How can a game that looks like Fortnite run so badly?!? At 4k you should be able to get close to 60fps by dropping settings down to high.

ray tracing.

Saying that, a 3080 is struggling with RTX and DLSS on at 1440p , something is up there.

SkillTim · 9 Dec 2020 at 20:56

willhub said:
ray tracing.

Saying that, a 3080 is struggling with RTX and DLSS on at 1440p , something is up there.

I think I've sussed it. I tried the settings in the video post above. Made no difference. There is a new driver out today, update it. But the main thing for Fortnite is changing it to DirectX 12. Close game and Load it up again. Now adjust display settings as you want and it's better. Not perfect but much better with overall smoothness improved and minimal shuttering. Fortnite is still Fortnite right?!

AyeAyeAhoy! · 9 Dec 2020 at 21:03

Crazy how something that's on the Switch can be so badly optimized

dirtybeatfreak · 9 Dec 2020 at 21:34

lozcs said:
Hi,

Rebuilt 12 year old son's PC as he was complaining about performance playing Fortnite!

Fresh install of everything and latest firmware/drivers all installed.

Any tips to benchmark and see what may be an issue and able to improve? System seems fairly decent spec but just don't seem to be getting smooth gaming.

Specs are
Intel Core i7 5820K @ 3.30GHz
Thanks.

Don't know how confident you are or if you have ever done it, but overclocking that 5820k should hit 4.2 easily. When I had mine I was able to hit 4.6 and stable but kept it at 4.4 for long term usage.