980 Cant push LOL at 144 fps?

[Guest]

Whenever i play LOL my 980 cant keep my league at higher then 90 fps. Before you ask the cpu usage is 25% so its not a cpu bottleneck and i am running a 8350 at 4.6 ghz. The GPU Usage is only around 15-20% and it doesn't go higher then that which is why the low frames. I'm running a 2720z benq monitor so that's why i want 144fps. In Nvidia settings v-sync is adaptive, league v-sync is off and its not capped. I don't know what to do as it seems in almost every game the gpu usage doesnt reach higher then 60% except TES:V (Skyrim for those who don't know) with mods and enb's which it hits 99% no problem. I am at the point of RMA'ing this card if i cant find a solution, any know bugs or glitches that can be causing this?

 

[thor220]

I know you said your CPU usage is only at 25% but the 8350 is known to bottleneck much less powerful cards. Have you tried this video card in a rig with a better CPU?

 

[Guest]

No i haven't but normally a cpu bottleneck is 60% or higher usage isnt it?

Edit:I just hopped in a game and i think you may be right because league is using my 3rd core at around 70%. Is there a way i can make it use all my cores?

 

[Stevan Galonja]

LoL uses 2 cores i believe. So if the CPU usage is 25% that might mean that the 2 out of your 8 cores are stuck on 100%.

 

[nukemaster]

Not quite.

CPU bottlenecks can happen at 12.5 percent with your current cpu.

Not all programs will use all cores so if a program can only make use of a single core. an 8 core(4 module in this case) cpu would give all it can at only 12.5%. A program that can only use 2 cores would MAX at 25% and so on.

While Windows will try to allow anything to run on as many cores as it can, not all programs are multi threaded in such a way to take advantage of extra cores. This is VERY common with older games as most newer ones use more than 1 core, but many still place almost all the load on a single core(main thread for the game).

If you are not maxing out the GPU chances are something else is holding you back OR the game has a frame rate limit built in(v-sync is also a frame rate limiter so to speak.). I almost wonder if the game has any FPS cap built into the engine, but I have never played that to be honest.

 

[Guest]

It is a CPU bottleneck, Core 3 is getting all the work according to afterburner, so now the question is do i upgrade to a 6600K or 4690K. Thank you all for the help

 

[Dapanji]

If you go for a 6600k you're gonna need to dish out more money for a mobo and DDR4 RAM. If you have a limited budget, go with 4690k, it's still a great CPU to have.

 

[thor220]

It is a CPU bottleneck, Core 3 is getting all the work according to afterburner, so now the question is do i upgrade to a 6600K or 4690K. Thank you all for the help

6600k, it's newer and a bit faster per clock.

 

[nukemaster]

This review indicates that LoL is not demanding even on your CPU(with a slower gpu), but I am not sure how much effect online play has.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/league-of-legends-performance-benchmark,3484-8.html