GPU usage Drops to 0% , is that bottlenecking? (GTX 1060 + G3250)

[Alberto Bj]

Hello im playing assassins creed syndicate, assassins creed unity and witcher 3, my cpu usage is often at 100% , and gpu usage only around 40-70 , sometimes gpu usage drops to 0% that causes the game to freeze( observed using msi afterburner, the freeze will happen when the gpu usage drops to 0) and get back after 2-3 seconds.. is that bottlenecking? or something might be wrong? or i just dont meet the minimum requirements for the game.. ? on games like League of legends and CS:GO it doesnt stutter or freeze. , i tried reinstalling the OS, installing windows 8.1, moving games to ssd, still experiencing freezing i want to know if something is wrong with my pc or its normal to experience this because my CPU is too weak ? tried testing Prime 95 + msi kombuster 1m particle for 15 mins, no problems, tried running valley benchmark, no problems too, tried windows memory diagnostic no problems , the freezing only occurs on these mentioned games : (witcher 3, AC:S and AC:U)

Specs:

ASUS H81M-D
GTX 1060 3GB
G3250
12GB DDR3 Ram (8+4) 1866mhz @1400mhz (downclocked because motherboard only supports 1400)
ADATA SP550 120 GB SSD
500 GB laptop HDD Seagate momentus thin
Seasonic m12 520w Powersupply

 

[InvalidError]

GPU usage dropping to 0% either means that there was a hardware/driver error that caused the GPU to stall or something else went wrong in the software/OS side that caused the GPU not to receive new frames to render.

A bottleneck is when you are at 100% CPU usage (CPU bottleneck) or 100% GPU usage (GPU bottleneck), which is clearly not the case here when your GPU drops at 0%. Check Windows' event logs to see if there was a GPU driver crash, that's the only thing I can think of that would cause the game to freeze for a few seconds.

 

[Alberto Bj]

GPU usage dropping to 0% either means that there was a hardware/driver error that caused the GPU to stall or something else went wrong in the software/OS side that caused the GPU not to receive new frames to render.

A bottleneck is when you are at 100% CPU usage (CPU bottleneck) or 100% GPU usage (GPU bottleneck), which is clearly not the case here when your GPU drops at 0%. Check Windows' event logs to see if there was a GPU driver crash, that's the only thing I can think of that would cause the game to freeze for a few seconds.

then whats wrong? im not getting any kernel driver crashes or notifications.. i saw some people having the same problem because they have a dual core cpu

 

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Another possibility is that more heavily threaded games running on a dual-core/thread CPU are running into deadlock situations due to threads not finishing their tasks in a timely and orderly fashion. Many of the more intensive newer titles outright refuse to run on 2C2T CPUs.

 

[Alberto Bj]

Another possibility is that more heavily threaded games running on a dual-core/thread CPU are running into deadlock situations due to threads not finishing their tasks in a timely and orderly fashion. Many of the more intensive newer titles outright refuse to run on 2C2T CPUs.

i see. i almost had an heart attack so ur implying my cpu is just too weak for those games? im afraid something is wrong with my hardware. i just wanted to clarify

 

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The Assassins Creed and Witcher series are among the more CPU-intensive ones. You won't get an enjoyable experience out of those with anything less than an i3, with an i5 or Ryzen 5 being much preferred.

 

[Alberto Bj]

The Assassins Creed and Witcher series are among the more CPU-intensive ones. You won't get an enjoyable experience out of those with anything less than an i3, with an i5 or Ryzen 5 being much preferred.

i see thank you.. can you recommend me some games that i can enjoy ? rather than csgo or league of legends