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[Solved]Really bad performance with 1080 Ti Aorus Xtreme

BlackDragon

BlackDragon

BlackDragon

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Hi,

I've had my Aorus Xtreme for a while now, but it is performing terribly.

I've noticed in most games I am getting frequent and noticeable FPS drops. I've noticed the drops on Battlefield 1, Overwatch, and Ryse: Son of Rome. On Overwatch, the FPS tends to stay around 80 FPS, and dropping down to 40-50FPS in a fight, although I'm sure it is getting lower at some points because it's like playing in a slideshow. Witcher 3 I get 20-30FPS. This is worse than the 1070 I had before!

I've tried uninstalling drivers with DDU, then reinstalling the nvidia drivers. Also updated my motherboard firmware to the latest.

I'm playing at 2560x1440 with a 144Hz monitor, with the following specs:
  • i7-6700K @ 4Ghz
  • Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare
  • Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4
  • EVGA SuperNova G2 750W PSU
I'm completely at a loss as to where the problem is, and would really appreciate some help!

Here are some graphs of my system which may or may not be useful. The only thing that sticks out to be is the GPU usage isn't maxed out. I saw the same stats through the Aorus monitoring utility.
This is during Overwatch:
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This is Witcher 3:
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Here are some more graphs that shows GPU load being quite low and erratic while playing various games.

Witcher 3 (suffering constantly bad FPS, with some severe drops to 20FPS):
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BF1:
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Overwatch:
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3D Mark Time Spy is the only exception:
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Rroff said:
Are you using Windows 10? did it update to the creators update between those 2 GPUs if so?
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Yeah I'm using Windows 10. I switched from my 1070 to a R9 290 in March, so I will have had all the Windows updates in between then and now. I do seem to have the Creators Update as I can bring up the game bar and enable game mode, which makes no difference.
 
Hi, I do have xe for few days now and can't see any bad sides. Using windows 10, 4790k and games run much better than on my old 980. Cooling is really good. Playing PUBG with fps jump from average 50-60 to 100+. I know this game engine is not optimazed yet but still. Gpu usage dont go above 60% same as temp 60. In BF1 will let you know today when I will run small test. I do play 1080p with 144mhz then your res might be diffrent. No coil whine which I could hear. Only when close my head next to the card. No gigabyte software on my pc as I heard its bad at the moment. Using afterburner but dont know how to control rgb on this card as at the moment it's change colours all the time. Meaby problem is with heat on gpu or psu? Best is to try this card in other pc. Let me know if want me to run some tests and can tell you how its with mine.
 
Rroff said:
The creator's update has destroyed GPU performance for some people hence why I'm wondering if it happened between the 1070 and ti - not really kept up on the how/why though - think some have to disable DVR or something and others had to reinstall.

https://www.howtogeek.com/273180/how-to-disable-windows-10s-game-dvr-and-game-bar/
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I've had to do this, For me the problem was my hands are big and I kept accidently turning the bar on in games that I use with the 360 controller, We now have good recording devices available with AMD and Nvidia driver software, We didn't really need this being added, A feature to minimize other OS usages while gaming is great but the rest of it is just bloat.
 
Another problem with the creators update is that even on a pc the power mode is now nerfing performance in some cases. Please make sure your power profile is set to performance and not balanced.

Are your drivers fresh since the swap & is the card/its power seated correctly?
 
I had more stuttering and frame drops with the last few Nvidia drivers. Went back to 378.92 drivers and it was all good again. As others have said disable game mode and DVR.
 
Finally found the issue, which is a little embarrassing! Turns out my memory was not in dual channel configuration. :o I must have misinterpreted the manual and put them in the wrong slots. As soon as I corrected this, the benchmark tests I've run have improved significantly.

Somehow this didn't have a noticeable affect since building this machine in November, until I upgraded to a 1080 Ti recently, where I suppose the bottleneck shifts away from my graphics card in some situations.

Thanks for your suggestions. I've gone through them all anyway :)
 
Thanks for reporting back - too many people just hit and run :s

Reminds me recently of a problem I had with my laptop - set it up for gaming on a projector and couldn't for the life of me understand why it was running at 5fps when before hand testing it at my desk it had been running fine - turns out one of my nephews had played with the switch that enables "library mode" and never using that feature it didn't even occur to me for a good 20 minutes.
 
Unfortunately, despite what I had posted previously, the problem was not resolved :(

The RAM not being in dual-channel configuration did cause an issue with the CPU benchmarks (e.g. Cinebench), but didn't improve my gaming performance. GPU usage was not anywhere near maximum, CPU usage was generally high, but FPS was generally than expected and would keep dropping significantly or stuttering

For example in Overwatch, my FPS was around 80-100, and constantly dropping to 20-40 or stuttering, which made for an unplayable experience. Dropping from Ultra settings to High had absolutely no impact.

I couldn't figure it out, so decided to just reinstall Windows 10. Somehow this has resolved whatever issue I had. To be sure, I fired up Overwatch on Ultra, and my FPS did not dip below 144 for the whole game!

Very pleased that I have resolved this issue now :D
 
Not the first person who has had to reinstall Windows 10 post the creators update to get their performance back again :s
 
I was having Windows issues and going back a few weeks with system restore didn't solve them (start menu for one thing wasn't working), but I then clicked on update which caused Windows to do a cumulative update and all the issues were solved.
 
Thanks for your suggestion Itron, but I've had those settings turned off from the first time I installed. So for me the performance issues weren't down to that.

I came across another forum post that Gigabyte EasyTuner could have caused issues with CPU usage. I wasn't using it but I think the AppCenter tried to install it in an update. Unfortunately I can't test whether it was the cause now that I've completely reinstalled.
 
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