Black Ops 3/Fallout 4 Performance

[iMurd]

So I bought Black Ops 3 despite reports of it running poorly, I saw some videos and others with the same specs as me running it high/maxed out with smooth 60 fps. So I assumed I was fine. I'm running it on a mix of low-medium settings and I get fps drops in the zombies mode, but not as often in multiplayer.

Fallout 4 is running on High/Ultra settings and I get 60 fps in most smaller/indoor areas, but it drops a lot during battles and in cities. (Understandable).

I was talking to a friend about Black Ops 3 and says with my specs, it should be running fine maxed out, same with Fallout.

Specs:
Windows 7
GTX 770
FX 8350
8 GB of RAM

I had huge FPS drops in every game a few months back, but I turned off AMD Turbo Core Control and it fixed the problems, but I was told back then and now with Black Ops 3 that it might be a heat issue. I have the stock fan that came with the cpu and it gets really loud when playing games.

Is it possible that all I need is a new fan to fix these fps issues?

 

[tstebbens]

I don't know about Fallout 4 but for BLOPS3 make sure you have the latest Nvidia driver and in the game video settings, make sure you have limit frame rate turned on and set to 1 less than the refresh rate of your monitor (i.e. for a 60Hz monitor, set it to 59.) I kept getting massive frame rate drops from 120 fps to about 10 fps every few minutes in BLOPS3 until I did that.

 

[dudeman509]

What motherboard? What are your CPU temps and speeds while playing?

 

[iMurd]

I don't know about Fallout 4 but for BLOPS3 make sure you have the latest Nvidia driver and in the game video settings, make sure you have limit frame rate turned on and set to 1 less than the refresh rate of your monitor (i.e. for a 60Hz monitor, set it to 59.) I kept getting massive frame rate drops from 120 fps to about 10 fps every few minutes in BLOPS3 until I did that.

Just tried that and it was playing better than in the past, but it would still drop throughout. I was also getting 62 fps as the max even though I set it to 59, not sure if that's normal.

But I tried to crank up the graphics to see if maybe that would fix the problems (I've had this happen in the past) and it killed my PC. It was stuttering a lot and freezing, but then it kind of smoothed before my whole PC went to hell. Shift key didn't work, headphones just stopped and didn't come back, and in any typing field wouldn't work once out of the game. Had to restart my PC.

 

[iMurd]

What motherboard? What are your CPU temps and speeds while playing?

I have an ASRock 970 Extreme4, and the core speed jumps all over the place when out of game. It's going from 1396 MHz to 4090 without me really doing anything and I'm pretty sure it's the same way ingame. Not sure about the temps yet while playing, but I just restarted my PC and it's ~40° C (according to AMD OverDrive).

 

[dudeman509]

Speed jumping all over when not in-game is normal - it ramps up speed as needed, then downclocks again to reduce heat and power consumption when CPU power is not needed.

Can you run the game in windowed mode and bring up overdrive or HWMonitor while it's open?

That motherboard also only has a 4+1 phase VRM, which is why I asked. Usually these struggle to run the 8-core chips at max power, as the VRMs themselves overheat easily trying to provide that power, and will underclock the CPU to prevent damaging the motherboard/VRMs.

 

[iMurd]

Speed jumping all over when not in-game is normal - it ramps up speed as needed, then downclocks again to reduce heat and power consumption when CPU power is not needed.

Can you run the game in windowed mode and bring up overdrive or HWMonitor while it's open?

That motherboard also only has a 4+1 phase VRM, which is why I asked. Usually these struggle to run the 8-core chips at max power, as the VRMs themselves overheat easily trying to provide that power, and will underclock the CPU to prevent damaging the motherboard/VRMs.

Just played for a while and had AMD OverDrive up, the thermal margin for my cpu was around 15 C. The speed was about the same. But while I was playing I bumped the textures up to Extra and multiplayer was looking great and ran smooth, no issues there. But when I played zombies all I was getting was fps drops. No smooth 60 fps there, constantly dropping to 40, 30, and stuttering a lot.

 

[dudeman509]

Speed jumping all over when not in-game is normal - it ramps up speed as needed, then downclocks again to reduce heat and power consumption when CPU power is not needed.

Can you run the game in windowed mode and bring up overdrive or HWMonitor while it's open?

That motherboard also only has a 4+1 phase VRM, which is why I asked. Usually these struggle to run the 8-core chips at max power, as the VRMs themselves overheat easily trying to provide that power, and will underclock the CPU to prevent damaging the motherboard/VRMs.

Just played for a while and had AMD OverDrive up, the thermal margin for my cpu was around 15 C. The speed was about the same. But while I was playing I bumped the textures up to Extra and multiplayer was looking great and ran smooth, no issues there. But when I played zombies all I was getting was fps drops. No smooth 60 fps there, constantly dropping to 40, 30, and stuttering a lot.

Temps and speeds were pretty much the same in Zombies? Wondering if that works the processor slightly harder and pushes it over the thermal edge.

The stock fan is a screamy turd, but not to the point I really ever throttled down on my build.