Poor performance - diagnostic help!

Bromhead

Bromhead

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Hi all - I mainly play eve online (which will run on a potato) and warzone at 1080p, my current system has the below specs. FPS in warzone is typically 50 to 70 fps at 1080p low settings.

CPU - 3800x
GPU - 6800
RAM - Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit
MOBO - Gigabyte B450M-DS3H AMD B450 (Socket AM4) DDR4 Micro-ATX Motherboard
PSU - Corsair 650w gold
SSD - Samsung 830 or 840 1TB

- I reinstalled windows 2 days ago, made sure all drivers are up to date. I haven't updated the bios since I bought it, it's on F50? Would this make any difference?
- Temps are fine (gpu sits around 60c) to 70c
- AMD adrenaline shows the performance grade as "marginal" incase this is relevant

Any help is appreciated so I can fully enjoy my main game
 
Is your GPU set frame cap or Freesync locked to the monitors display frequency?

also have you made sure the game hasn’t got a frame cap on either to match your display Hz?
 
It seems to be just warzone from what I can tell, but the only other game really I play is eve. I tested eve with unlimited frames and it was reaching over 500 fps.

I've not got any frame caps or freesync at all. Same with the game, display is also a 144hz.

I ran the 3DMark Basic Edition and the results look good. I took some screenshots below.

https://imgur.com/a/TTvLFkd

I'm completely out of ideas and it's driving me nuts. Any help on this is appreciated guys!
 
Bromhead said:
It seems to be just warzone from what I can tell, but the only other game really I play is eve. I tested eve with unlimited frames and it was reaching over 500 fps.

I've not got any frame caps or freesync at all. Same with the game, display is also a 144hz.

I ran the 3DMark Basic Edition and the results look good. I took some screenshots below.

https://imgur.com/a/TTvLFkd

I'm completely out of ideas and it's driving me nuts. Any help on this is appreciated guys!
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What score are you getting in R20?
 
Does your monitor have freesycn and what is the refresh rate. If its a 144mhz screen with freesycn go into AMD Radeon software. At the top select gaming and then go down to select Warzone. In the next screen enable Radeon Chill, set min fps to 75fps to begin with and max fps 120. On the right of the screen make sure AMD freesync says on. Does this keep your fps in the 120 to 75 fps range? If it does you can play around with the min fps in chill to increase it to how you want it
 
Thanks for the suggestion! I wasn't familiar with this setting - sadly it still typically sat around 60 on average. In busy areas it will dip down to as low as 40.
 
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Hey all - thanks so much for the suggestions and help. I have found the issue, though I'm assuming this means a motherboard fault?

So normally I would always put the RAM sticks (I have 2x 8gb) in slots 2 and 4 (away from the CPU). I've tested and retested the RAM in what I've always thought are the "wrong" slots, 1 and 3 have tripled warzone performance from sitting around 50fps to now hovering about 150fps. Any ideas why this might be, or is it simply a motherboard fault?

ASMB - I will still try the above though as performance gains are always appreciated!
 
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Pleased that you have managed to sort it. I think whether you use slots 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 just depends on the make of motherboard so its working normally, eg my Gigabyte uses 2 and 4 like you normally do.
 
Yeah from what I found online this motherboard also uses 2 and 4 first, but either way, glad I can enjoy warzone! :D
 
Bromhead said:
Yeah from what I found online this motherboard also uses 2 and 4 first, but either way, glad I can enjoy warzone! :D
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How strange that moving ths memory to the other channel would triple framerates, you should check eve fps you could be getting 1500 fps as you was getting 500 before ;)
 
So I checked eve and it is hitting 600-650 fps so more of a modest increase :p Very strange though, would this just be a faulty slot on the motherboard do you think?
 
I had that very same thought ASMB! So when it began miraculously working very well, I swapped them back to 2 to 4 to double check they were seated right and it dropped down to the previous bad performance.

Not had that issue on a build before, but I'll know in the future to swap the RAM around if there's some spooky issues going on with performance.
 
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