Abysmal Performance in AC Origins with Great Hardware

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Hello folks, I would really appreciate any tech savvy advice you guys can provide because I'm about to tear my hair out.

I've spent a lot of money and time upgrading my rig in order to enjoy this season's latest AC title in glorious 60 fps 2k. But to my dismay I'm currently getting ~30 fps at 1080p. WTF???

Here is my current setup:
GTX 1080 FTW edition with 388.0 drivers (I've tried with 388.13 as well)
Intel I7 7700 (non k)
16 GB Crucial RAM
500 GB SSD
Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition

Now I've heard that this game is hammering CPU'S and all that, but my case seems to be a lot worse than others. Online benchmarks are showing much better perforomance with the same hardware (here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFvyaViEsvA&t=158s).

This generally happens in heavily populated areas of the game like Alexandria and Siwa, but the fps going down to low 30s and even high 20s is generally disheartening. Lowering resolution and graphics settings also does little to alleviate this problem.

I am starting to feel concerned that there is something wrong with my new hardware. Can you guys give any advice to determine what's wrong with my system? Please let me know what stats or benchmarks I should provide to help troubleshoot.
 
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I've looked around regarding this game and your not the only one having troubles. https://steamcommunity.com/app/582160/discussions/0/1480982338956934086/

388.xx drivers haven't been performing well, it's enough but the ball has been dropped with these driver sets. Hope we get better drivers soon. Wolfenstein 2 is having trouble also.

@ 2k Anti aliasing isn't really needed and should increase performance.

Locked cpus can be a bottleneck not being able to overclock all cores but these days cpus at their base clocks are very much adequate and not really an issue if games are optimised properly. By the looks of it AC Origins isn't optimised well. Hopefully improvements are made through patches and video drivers updates.

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Have you benchmarked or tested with other games? It's hard to pinpoint an issue when the problem, at least as you've described, is one specific game.
 
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Hi nik121 :)

Benchmark your system with Cinebench R15 to be able to compare performance scores.

Go to Nvidia control panel>Manage 3D Settings>Power management mode>Prefer max performance.
Using EVGA Precision OC use K boost to OC your 1080.
With these two simple changes I got a 112% increase approx in performance.

What is the difference now?
 
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Hi folks, thanks for the contributions. Sorry I haven't responded in a while, I've been busy.

@volkgren, I'm typically seeing GPU temps at around 60 and CPU temps that hover around 67, but can get as high as 75.
@DSzymborski, Sorry I hadn't provided any other benchmarks. So far with this computer, which I've build very recently, I've only played two major stressing games: Assassin's Creed Origins and Battlefield 1. I've noticed that framerates can drop below 60 in Battlefield 1 but it's nowhere as bad as Assassin's Creed. Either way, I'm comfortable in saying that it's consistently under-performing in typical gaming situations.
@MeanMachine41, I haven't run Cinebench R15 before, so I'll give that a shot. I've tried setting the power management mode to Prefer max performance but that made no improvement. I am not comfortable in OC'ing my 1080 yet, but I should be getting better performance on standard clock speeds, so I'd like to start by troubleshooting that.
@boju, I've disable XBox DVR app right after installing Windows 10, I'm aware of how bad of a performance hit it can be.

Also, for reference, here are the exact specs I have.
Motherboard: GA-Z270-HD3- LGA1151 ATX
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB GDDR5X
CPU: CPU Intel Core I7-7700 3.6 GHz
SSD: Saamsung 850 EVO 500 GB
HDD: 1TB ST31000524AS
Memory: DIMM DDR4 16 GB 2133 Crucial @ 1 Channel
PSU: Modular TX750M — 80 PLUS® Bronze Certified 750 Watt

I'll post additional stats and monitoring results that I've found. I'll try to be comprehensive but let me know if there is something in particular I should provide.
Thanks!
 
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Your Cinebench scores in Open GL @123.63 FPS is very good nik121 and to be expected. So your GPU is performing well.

The bottleneck would appear to be the CPU and UserBenchmark would seem to confirm this.

Your CPU has its cores locked and from what I understand the none "K" version will turbo on one core only to 4.0-4.1GHz. The i7-7700K variant can be OCed beyond 4.0GHz on all cores and with today's AAA games this can make considerable difference with games that are more core intensive.

I have AC Origins and FPS are generally 60FPS average however v-synced to the monitor refresh.
 
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@MeanMachine41, I can understand that unlocked CPUs would be a bottleneck, but I will still argue the fact that I am severely underperforming despite the fact, considering that other users out there are getting performance far better than mine with similar (if not worse) hardware. Again, this video shows that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFvyaViEsvA&t=158s. What could be so different about this individual's system that makes it perform so much better than mine?
 
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Yes I understand your frustration with you having 30FPS and the system in your vid at 70+FPS however these are some of possible reasons. Looking at his specs they are similar to yours however:

1. No two CPUs perform the same and he may have hit the Silicon Jackpot.
2. His system specs has different RAM and may be Overclocked beyond 2133Mhz which also can make a difference with DDR4 although not so much with Gaming.
3. The other system has a differant MB and Bios. Sometimes updating Bios can help.
4. Nvidia and Game settings can make substantial performance increases.
5. The Vid indicates DDR3 RAM so I don't know what's going on there. I don't trust it. His shadowplay specs indicate an Asus H110m-a which uses DDR4 and DDR3 can't be used on that MB.

Without the ability to swap out components, it's difficult to determine why your system is underperforming
 
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I've looked around regarding this game and your not the only one having troubles. https://steamcommunity.com/app/582160/discussions/0/1480982338956934086/

388.xx drivers haven't been performing well, it's enough but the ball has been dropped with these driver sets. Hope we get better drivers soon. Wolfenstein 2 is having trouble also.

@ 2k Anti aliasing isn't really needed and should increase performance.

Locked cpus can be a bottleneck not being able to overclock all cores but these days cpus at their base clocks are very much adequate and not really an issue if games are optimised properly. By the looks of it AC Origins isn't optimised well. Hopefully improvements are made through patches and video drivers updates.

As MeanMachine41 has indicated with your Cinebench score is normal.

Run 3Dmark Firestrike and compare results to other people's physics(cpu) and Graphics scores. https://www.3dmark.com/search#/?mode=advanced&url=/proxycon/ajax/search/cpugpu/fs/P/2183/1085/24049?minScore=0&cpuName=Intel%20Core%20i7-7700&gpuName=NVIDIA%20GeForce%20GTX%201080

Number of gpus selected doesn't change in the link so you'll need to change it to 1 if you want to compare evenly.

I don't think theres anything wrong with your system. Try no Anti aliasing @ 2k and see how you go. Also try Fast sync also and if the game has Vsync options try half, not use an option that is described as on or full. Full Vsync will cap your frames to 30 if you can't maintain 60, even if it goes down to 59fps, it'll still cap to 30.
 
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