Am I being bottlenecked?

[EBTwitts]

I have what in my opinion is a great system, but often times in the games I play (Battlefield 4, League of Legends) I see my fps drop down to the 30's which I don't see why.

My setup is:

AMD FX-8350 OC'd to 4.8ghz (With liquid cooling)
2 EVGA GTX 680 4gbs (Sometimes OC'd, sometimes not) in SLI
16 gbs of RAM @1866mhz (Trident I think is the brand)
ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z motherboard


The two games I mentioned are on my SSD. I also play Skyrim a lot, but don't notice much issues with that one.

Both games are played at max settings (With AA off, or turned down low, and shadows at medium)

So am I being bottlenecked? What's the issue here? I've tried overclocking both the CPU and GPU, but I really don't see any improvements. I know BF4 is new, but I really don't understand why my fps is dipping so hard in it AND League of Legends.

 

[epicoverclock]

this could be caused by core parking. battlefield 4 has a problem where cpu cores park and it causes quick fps drop. this can be fixed by a program that disables core parking

 

[epicoverclock]

heres the link for the cpu core parking control utality http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility

 

[EBTwitts]

this could be caused by core parking. battlefield 4 has a problem where cpu cores park and it causes quick fps drop. this can be fixed by a program that disables core parking

So I just Unpark All and reboot?

 

[epicoverclock]

this could be caused by core parking. battlefield 4 has a problem where cpu cores park and it causes quick fps drop. this can be fixed by a program that disables core parking

So I just Unpark All and reboot?

dont reboot, it does it instantly on the go

 

[EBTwitts]

this could be caused by core parking. battlefield 4 has a problem where cpu cores park and it causes quick fps drop. this can be fixed by a program that disables core parking

So I just Unpark All and reboot?

dont reboot, it does it instantly on the go

I disabled core parking and now when I try to load up League of Legends, my computer freezes.

 

[epicoverclock]

try restarting. thats strange because no one else has similar problem with this program

 

[EBTwitts]

I'm still freezing as soon as I load up the login page of League of Legends. I'll try BF4 out.


EDIT: I've noticed a bit of an improvement in BF4, but I don't know why LoL is freezing on me.

 

[epicoverclock]

I'm still freezing as soon as I load up the login page of League of Legends. I'll try BF4 out.


EDIT: I've noticed a bit of an improvement in BF4, but I don't know why LoL is freezing on me.

try parking cores to see if it was actually caused by unparking cores

 

[EBTwitts]

I'm still freezing as soon as I load up the login page of League of Legends. I'll try BF4 out.


EDIT: I've noticed a bit of an improvement in BF4, but I don't know why LoL is freezing on me.

try parking cores to see if it was actually caused by unparking cores

Still freezing on me now. Never had a problem with it until I unparked the cores. =/


I repaired the installation and that fixed the freezing. I'm going to try unparking the cores again.

 

[burdenbound]

While playing BF4 I had really crud performance, my GPU would only use 50%-70% of it's power and I was getting fps in the 30s and 40s. I reinstalled my OS for an unrelated issue but once I did that my GPU started working at 97%+ and the game has been running really smooth since.

So not sure if reinstalling the game or the entire OS fixed the issue but if you have the time try reinstalling the game and if that fails and you want to try one step further go for a fresh OS install.

 

[EBTwitts]

While playing BF4 I had really crud performance, my GPU would only use 50%-70% of it's power and I was getting fps in the 30s and 40s. I reinstalled my OS for an unrelated issue but once I did that my GPU started working at 97%+ and the game has been running really smooth since.

So not sure if reinstalling the game or the entire OS fixed the issue but if you have the time try reinstalling the game and if that fails and you want to try one step further go for a fresh OS install.

I've already done that (For an unrelated issue, but still) and didn't notice any improvements.

League is working for me again, but not really noticing an improvement in the fps.

I really don't know what the problem could be, I'd imagine (Maybe I'm wrong on this?) that I should be getting good fps with the system I have. I can't see why I'm dropping into the 30-40's constantly.

 

[epicoverclock]

maybe try running prime95, open cpu-z and see if your cpu is throttling (underclocking)