Question FPS not as high as I think it should be ?

[MartoAfro03]

hello, I'm not getting as much FPS in games as I should. In "the finals" I get 50-60FPS whereas a friend of mine with a worse setup (i5 7500 and RX 580) gets around 100FPS. It's the same in other games although not as bad as in the finals (valorant, overwatch, apex). Idk what I'm doing wrong.
Should I reinstall my windows? (if yes, do I need to actually reinstall it or can I just reset through the settings?)
I try to really only have my windows installed on my ssd, right now I have about a 100GB free space on it. Is that too little? do I need a bigger ssd?

My specs are:
X470 Aorus ultra gaming
Ryzen 7 2700X
RTX 2070 8GB blower edition
DDR4 2x8GB 2933MHz corsair vengeance
Samsung 250GB SSD
5+TB HDD (WD and Seagate)
alim 650W 80+gold

I bought it all in 2019.

Any and all help is appreciated. I am running out of things to try and I would really know if I can do something or if I just gotta upgrade my PC (and if so, what parts could be the ones that are slowing it down).

Thanks in advance <3

 

[Nine Layer Nige]

Please run UserBenchMark and post a link to the results page. This will compare your performance to everyone else with the same spec.

 

[General_Cool]

Go to startup apps in your system settings and turn everything off. Restart your PC and immediately boot into your game of choice and start playing like you normally would. If you get more FPS, its likely that your current issue is running too many background programs that are eating CPU and RAM and preventing the game from using it.

We also need to know your monitor...are you gaming at 4k and your friend at 1080p? Right off the bat that would be main issue...

 

[MartoAfro03]

Please run UserBenchMark and post a link to the results page. This will compare your performance to everyone else with the same spec.

Hey I ran the Benchmark:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/66930877

I then realized that my RAM weren't in dual channel, which I fixed. I now got about 20FPS more in "the finals" which is already nice. (I didn't re-run the benchmark coz when I try it it says "server full")
In the benchmark it also says that my gpu is "Performing below potential". Not sure if that is relevant.

I used MSI afterburner in game and my CPU and GPU usage is around 60%-70%. Correct me if what I'm saying doesn't make sense but I would like it to use more of my CPU GPU (let's say to like 90%) if it allows me to get better performances. How could I proceed?

I also checked the temperatures and they were around 60° to 70°. I imagine those are fine right?

 

[MartoAfro03]

Go to startup apps in your system settings and turn everything off. Restart your PC and immediately boot into your game of choice and start playing like you normally would. If you get more FPS, its likely that your current issue is running too many background programs that are eating CPU and RAM and preventing the game from using it.

We also need to know your monitor...are you gaming at 4k and your friend at 1080p? Right off the bat that would be main issue...

I have pretty much nothing enabled on startup so I dont think that could be it. The only things that are usually running when I'm playing would be firefox, discord and wallpaper engine, none of which take up much resources I think.

I have two 144Hz 1080p screens. I am playing on one of them and have discord or something open on the other. My friend too play at 1080 fps.

 

[Nine Layer Nige]

Maybe if your games are stored on the slow HDD, consider getting a cheap SSD to store games on as load times will be affected.
Your GPU performance is only a little bit below the mid range so its not poor and quite acceptable.
If you get a chance to run UserBenchMark again having enabled XMP (or the AMD equivalent) in the BIOS, that would be helpful.
You could also run CrystalDiskMark and CrystalDiskInfo to check that your storage is healthy.

 

[MartoAfro03]

Maybe if your games are stored on the slow HDD, consider getting a cheap SSD to store games on as load times will be affected.
Your GPU performance is only a little bit below the mid range so its not poor and quite acceptable.
If you get a chance to run UserBenchMark again having enabled XMP (or the AMD equivalent) in the BIOS, that would be helpful.
You could also run CrystalDiskMark and CrystalDiskInfo to check that your storage is healthy.

Thanks for the quick reply!
I managed to do a benchmark again: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/66933061
No more issues there I think. My games are stored on my ssd already so that shouldn't be an issue.
I also ran CrystalDiskMark and CrystalDiskInfo and the speeds seem fine and it also indicates "good" on all drives (on the C drive it indicates "good (43%)", not sure what that means. )