Long load times after gpu swap? And pop in?

[slim01]

Hey guys, really weird one here and I'm at a total loss.

I recently sold my 2080 thinking I could get a 3080, after 4 months of having no pc I gave up and got a 1080 again (I had a 1080 up to only a few months before the 2080).
Nothing else changed.
**edit - I should note I had to use a riser cable (phanteks ultra premium) as 1080 ftw is massive**

Performance seems pretty good, getting 4k @ 60 most of the time, but loading times have gone through the roof and noticed more pop in than before.

Subnautica - around 3 minutes to load game, and deffo don't remember being so annoyed with crazy pop in: massive structures, flora/fauna popping in from around 15 metres away.

Forza horizon 4 - again, around 3 minutes to load in, and going into the menu from freeroam takes a good 6 seconds (used to be almost instant).

What could cause this? I got newest gpu drivers of course, and have tested my Samsung evo 950 ssd with ASSD, reading 500MB/s as before.


Thanks in advance

Specs...
R5 3600
Asus x570-p prime
32gb Vengeance 3200
Samsung 960 evo ssd 500gb
Wd blue ssd 1tb (sata)
Evga 1080 ftw attached with phanteks premium shielded riser cable

 

[Joxeon]

Did you DDU the old drivers before installing the new ones?

 

[slim01]

Did you DDU the old drivers before installing the new ones?

Yup. Even had to google how to run in safe mode for the second try lol.

It's really odd... Not seeing any artifacting so I'm guessing the gpu is fine.

 

[Joxeon]

Yup. Even had to google how to run in safe mode for the second try lol.

It's really odd... Not seeing any artifacting so I'm guessing the gpu is fine.

Try underclocking the GPU core + memory by 200 or so and see if this changes anything.

You could try reseating the GPU and give the PCIe slot a blast of compressed air since you didn't have a GPU installed for 4 month it might have built up dust.

 

[slim01]

Try underclocking the GPU core + memory by 200 or so and see if this changes anything.

You could try reseating the GPU and give the PCIe slot a blast of compressed air since you didn't have a GPU installed for 4 month it might have built up dust.

Yeah always give them a blow with air.

One thing that is different, and I hope it's not what's causing the issue but might be, is this particular evga ftw 1080 is so massive I can't actually fit it in my case (it's too tall so it hits the top of the rear of the case where outputs are ) so I've used a riser cable - a phanteks premium riser cable pcie 3.00

Could that be the issue?
Damn thing if it is, knew I might be wasting £40 odd quid, but HTPC cases are tight for space and thought I might need to horizontally mount a 3080 in the same way if I got one so got it. Even the 3070 are super tall.
Tbh without it I wouldn't be gaming at all atm .

I can downclock it later although my intention was to do the opposite and overclock it. Guess it might reveal an issue with the stock ftw evga oc though? Temps are around 78 at full whack.

 

[slim01]

Damn... Starting to think it's likely the riser cable actually... Might explain why
A) ASSD benchmark app shows ssd at full speed, but when the gpu is loading from the ssd its slow.
B) once everything is loaded in, fps is still good, however there's pop in (as it must be waiting on the extra stuff it needs to load in).

Could be wrong but that seems a bit suss to me. What you rekkon lads?
No way to test it without one though... Unless I take everything out of the damn case (very annoying in a small HTPC build after you've cable managed)

 

[slim01]

Guess I could just unscrew the mobo and see if I can shift it across enough to get gpu in. It might even JUST about slide back in then without hitting the top of the case