Driver issues causing low FPS in games?

salmonboyak

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So I’ve been noticing that my FPS in games isn’t quite what it should be, I’ve turned down settings, updated drivers, closed background applications, checked temperatures, nothing availed.

My specs are:

GPU: PNY GTX 1050 2GB
CPU: I5 7500
RAM: 8GB
MB: Asus Prime H270 Plus


There’s two games I play in particular and that’s overwatch and fortnite. In fortnite no matter how low I set my settings it’s going to stay around the 60-90 mark, and if I’m lucky it’ll go above 100 (VSYNC is off as well as frame cap). Same goes for overwatch.

I don’t want to try and reinstall graphics drivers because last time I uninstalled graphics drivers with my old graphics card I ended up having to clean install windows.

Though my graphics card is made by PNY, and instead of downloading the driver from PNY I downloaded it from Nvidia, might this be an issue?

Any advice would be great, thanks!





 

audie-tron25

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What is the refresh rate of your monitor? What many games do (especially newer titles), is limit your FPS to around the refresh rate of your monitor in order to reduce the load on your system. It won't be exact (ie 60FPS) like V-Sync, but the ranges you are listing do sound about right.

You should use the drivers from Nvidia only. Although getting them from the manufacturers site doesn't hurt, they often bundle in other software (like overclocking software) and are also generally older than those available direct from Nvidia's website.

You can use Nvidia Inspector to check GPU usage if you have any doubts:
- http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/nvidia-inspector-download.html

EDIT: Have you also tried using Borderless view?
 

salmonboyak

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My refresh rate of my monitor is 59hz, and I do set most game frame limits to 120 FPS
Also heres my benchmark, which appears to be under-preforming http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8210922
 

audie-tron25

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Your result looks about right to me. It's only under-performing due to background CPU usage (11%, maybe you had a browser open?) and HDD performance (possibly due to HDD fragmentation?). I doubt it would affect your gaming performance.

Maybe try this for Fortnight:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/77suj6/can_we_get_a_144fps_frame_rate_limit_option/dopmbjx/
 

salmonboyak

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I didn't have any applications open while running the test, so that can't be the case.