How to tell if my 1060 is throttling?

[riskyfrisky]

Hey all,

Long story short; I've built the new PC in my sig and I'm experiencing major frame drops on it when playing F1 2016. It goes from a stable 60 right down to single digits (using fraps) and I've crashed (the car) numerous times because of it. It does this at least once per race for about 5 seconds then is completely fine again.

The i7 is cooled with an Hyper 212 evo which is more than adequate so is this a GPU problem? Is it throttling? I've never seen temps go higher than 63 degrees (measured with gpu-z) so surely it isn't throttling?

I'm running the latest nvidia drivers and no matter how low I turn the settings it still does it. Doesn't matter if I unlock frame rate or enable v-sync; the problem still occurs.

Any help welcome!

 

[StarShock]

MSI afterburner lets you monitor all sorts of stuff including clock rates and temps, should help rule out throttling at least. As you say it really shouldn't be doing that.

edit - Just a note, small drops in the clock rate as it warms up is normal. Its only really throttling if it takes large drops, less than the base rate of 1600.

 

[riskyfrisky]

MSI afterburner lets you monitor all sorts of stuff including clock rates and temps, should help rule out throttling at least. As you say it really shouldn't be doing that.

Ta, downloading now.

Yeah it's really annoying but it's the only game I've played so far. I've got Crysis 3 here installed so I'll run that later and see how that fares.

 

[StarShock]

did a quick search and it looks like there's an issue with one of the texture settings in f1 2016 that can sometime cause frame rate dips. So it could be that

 

[D1craig]

I had a very similar problem a while ago with my 970. Would give massive frame drops when nothing should have been giving it reason to. One solution I read about easy removing the nvidia hd audio drivers and not installing them again. If my memory is correct it seems to work. This was while playing world of warcraft but I'm guessing for such a random problem It could affect other games.

 

[riskyfrisky]

did a quick search and it looks like there's an issue with one of the texture settings in f1 2016 that can sometime cause frame rate dips. So it could be that

You've done what I'm too lazy to do lol.

I'll give it a try and see.

 

[riskyfrisky]

I had a very similar problem a while ago with my 970. Would give massive frame drops when nothing should have been giving it reason to. One solution I read about easy removing the nvidia hd audio drivers and not installing them again. If my memory is correct it seems to work. This was while playing world of warcraft but I'm guessing for such a random problem It could affect other games.

I'll try the texture option first, if that doesn't work I'll uninstall the hd audio driver next.

 

[riskyfrisky]

Okay the only texture option available is 'texture streaming' which I set to low. The frame rate tanked once during the Baku race so I've set it to very low, that's the lowest option.

I hope it solves the issue but Codemasters need to patch this it's unplayable when this happens.

EDIT: checking msi afterburner shows gpu temps at 64 degrees but I'm not sure about core clock speeds.

 

[Freddie1980]

Okay the only texture option available is 'texture streaming' which I set to low. The frame rate tanked once during the Baku race so I've set it to very low, that's the lowest option.

I hope it solves the issue but Codemasters need to patch this it's unplayable when this happens.

EDIT: checking msi afterburner shows gpu temps at 64 degrees but I'm not sure about core clock speeds.

Set all you game graphics options to low (keep native resolution though) and try again. If that solves the issue start turning up the settings again to high until you encounter the frame drop.

 

[riskyfrisky]

Well turning down texture streaming has made no difference, other than making the game look horrific. I've uninstalled the HD audio driver just-in-case but I can't see that helping to be honest so I'll follow your advice Freddie and eliminate things one-by-one.

Playing Crysis 3 hasn't given me the same frame rate issue; there's been the odd drop but nothing like F1 2016. It's laughable I'm having so many problems with such a game lol.

 

[riskyfrisky]

After going through all the settings nothing helped until I realised anisotropic filtering doesn't adjust with the presets. So I manually changed it from x16 to x4 and I've not had the problem since!

Isn't AF one of the LEAST demanding things to enable on a gpu? Is the 1060 faulty in some way or is it just one of those weird anomalies?

 

[mattyfez]

It's probably an issue to do with how that particular game is coded if you don't experience the same issues in other games..some games just arn't as well optimised as others so you just have to experiment with the settings until you find a 'rogue' and lower that one.

 

[riskyfrisky]

It's probably an issue to do with how that particular game is coded if you don't experience the same issues in other games..some games just arn't as well optimised as others so you just have to experiment with the settings until you find a 'rogue' and lower that one.

Yep no other game does this. I've noticed that even with AF set to x4 though, if I ramp up settings to high or above it also starts chugging along again.

So basically x4 AF and medium settings is the sweet spot for this. Disappointing but at least it's smooth.

 

[fs123]

Yep no other game does this. I've noticed that even with AF set to x4 though, if I ramp up settings to high or above it also starts chugging along again.

So basically x4 AF and medium settings is the sweet spot for this. Disappointing but at least it's smooth.

Keep an eye on how much GPU memory is being used and also system RAM. Dips can happen if there is not enough memory and textures are loaded, etc.