PC struggling on a lot of games, Looking for advice.

Chadelz

Chadelz

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Hi all,

I'm having FPS issues with my PC and not sure what the problem is, I've had it since August 2022 but even then I was having small issues with simple things like Geforce Experience changing my Screen Res to the incorrect res in games and having to manually change it to allow for 165hz.

At the moment, Even in Overwatch 2 my frames are around 120 average on Mid settings and recently started playing Ark Survival Ascended which is around 50 fps on Medium settings. Games like Minecraft have even given me a few issues even by allocating more ram to the game and having the required version of Java installed.
Even a game like Warframe is giving me issues now and then when I'm loading into missions or when there is a lot happening, tried adjusting some settings but no change, Turned all lighting effects/reflections and shadows off, Changed textures down etc.

Specs are below
MSI RTX 3060 TI Gaming X 8g LHR
Ryzen 7 5700x
Crucial m.2 Drive 2tb
Asus Rog Strix B550-f (Wifi) Motherboard
32gb Corsair Vengeance 3600mhz Ram
Gigabyte M27 Q-P Monitor IPS

Currently nothing is overclocked besides having xmp profile 1, And all my drivers are up to date using windows 10 professional.

I'm really struggling to find what the issue is as with this set up I should be able to run games without constant issues.

Only thing I can think the issue is, Is the GPU however from watching benchmarks in the same games with the same sort of setup they seem to run a lot smoother.

Hopefully someone can help me out because I really just want to enjoy games even if they aren't on max and seems like I may never get there lol.
 
The resolution I'm running is 2560x1440 165hz, Temperatures are never an issue as the curve I've set based on recommendations seems to keep my cpu at around 65-75 on max load.

Psu I'm running is a Corsair Rm750 80 plus Gold fully Modular

The cooler I have on my cpu is the Deepcool Ak620
 
Might be wrong here but given that gpu is slightly slower in raw overall performance vs a 6700XT, and if you were gaming at 1440p, then are those figures not about right on medium ish settings, especially with just 8gb vram? I don't have 3060ti experience but did own a 6700XT and at 1440p I was gaming with a mix of medium-high settings in most games.
 
Firegod said:
Might be wrong here but given that gpu is slightly slower in raw overall performance vs a 6700XT, and if you were gaming at 1440p, then are those figures not about right on medium ish settings, especially with just 8gb vram? I don't have 3060ti experience but did own a 6700XT and at 1440p I was gaming with a mix of medium-high settings in most games.
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the 3060ti from what i have just seen at 1440p will do high settings around 160fps so shouldn’t do 120fps at med.

I wouldn’t use geforce experience to deal with any display settings, always use windows.

Is your motherboard Bios up to date?
Gpu drivers ? which are you on.
Amd chipset drivers?
 
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When you say windows, what do you mean by that? I last updated my bios this year around January, but was having performance issues before then as well so could be something I can look at.. I have my chipset drivers installed and my graphics drivers are the latest, which I think are from the 14th November
 
Chadelz said:
Only thing I can think the issue is, Is the GPU however from watching benchmarks in the same games with the same sort of setup they seem to run a lot smoother.
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Can you run something that produces a score like superposition or 3d mark and have hwinfo sensors tab open while you're gaming. Then we can check if the PC is working as it supposed to be.

Chadelz said:
recently started playing Ark Survival Ascended which is around 50 fps on Medium settings.
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From a look on YouTube, this appears to be normal (or even, uhm, good) at the resolution you're playing at.
 
FloppyPoppy said:
the 3060ti from what i have just seen at 1440p will do high settings around 160fps so shouldn’t do 120fps at med.

I wouldn’t use geforce experience to deal with any display settings, always use windows.

Is your motherboard Bios up to date?
Gpu drivers ? which are you on.
Amd chipset drivers?
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3060ti pushing 160fps at 1440p?
Seems a bit optimistic.
 
What resolution should I be running at if not 1440p? 1080? I'll run a 3d mark now and see what score comes of it but will I be able to post it here or would it generate a link?
 
I had to use the free version so I did time spy, my graphics score was 11711 and cpu score 10160. Graphics test 1 fps was 77.97 and test 2 was 65.92. Cpu test fps was 34.14 average temperature of gpu is 67 and cpu is 53 according to the bench
 
i have a 2080 super i can do 30-60 fps on a medium pre-set in ark ascended at 1440p. the 2080 super is around the same performance as the 3060 ti clock for clock. to be fair ark ascended is in the same state as ark survival evolved was at release. an unoptimized mess. in hunt showdown i get 70-90fps. timespy oddly gets me 11711 on the gpu but 11694 as i have an 10700kf. so it would seem your gpu is running as it should performance and temperature wise. have you used hwinfo64 to check the gpu hotspot temp just in case after a long session your gpu is throttling due to hotspot temp?
 
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Mr Mcgoo said:
i have a 2080 super i can do 30-60 fps on a medium pre-set in ark ascended at 1440p. the 2080 super is around the same performance as the 3060 ti clock for clock. to be fair ark ascended is in the same state as ark survival evolved was at release. an unoptimized mess. in hunt showdown i get 70-90fps. timespy oddly gets me 11711 on the gpu but 11694 as i have an 10700kf. so it would seem your gpu is running as it should performance and temperature wise. have you used hwinfo64 to check the gpu hotspot temp just in case after a long session your gpu is throttling due to hotspot temp?
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Seems about right then, I haven't done hwinfo but these days I only get about 2 hours or so before work and then don't get to play in the evening so not really having long sessions
 
Chadelz said:
recently started playing Ark Survival Ascended which is around 50 fps on Medium settings
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Thats still decent performance for a 3060ti, the game is notoriously heavy on the GPU, for example on ultra settings at 4k even the mighty 4090 only hits around 40fps.

There is a couple of console commands you can use to boost fps a bit r.VolumetricClouds 0 and r.VolumetricFog 0
 
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Alright I'll have to give it a go when I get the chance, I have seen quite a decent performance increase dropping down to 1920x1080 but on the 27 inch it looks a bit pixilated, wondering what a good 24 inch would be to get that can tide me over until I upgrade next year... does anyone have any recommendations? Probably looking at spending max 300 for a monitor
 
If GFE sets a higher resolution then it will be because the testers found that something looked better if the game rendered at that resolution and then scaled down to the monitor resolution. I rarely go with GFE default settings and use the slider to increase performance, and where there is a higher resolution this is usually one of the first "eye candy" features to be dropped.
 
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