[SOLVED] Graphics card only running at 25%

[pkru]

So i recently just bought a new pc pre built from PLE, and noticed alot of stuttering also while i'm not playing a game it's a 1080 ti , my last pc was 1060 and it never caused stuttering which i find really odd
i took it back into PLE and they said that my graphics card was running at 25% and that they'd change it to 100% and that should stop the problem,
So after receiving my computer back it was still causing the same problem so i took it back to them again , i just received a call from them saying it was back on 25% though i never changed anything
I will recieve my pc tomorrow and hope they would've fixed it this time.

but incase it is running at 25% i was wondering how to change it to 100% myself would really appreciate any tips

 

[Darkbreeze]

The rate of GPU usage should be entirely dependent on the demands upon the GPU based on your game settings and the demands of the game. You should not need to "SET" it to 100%. It should simply use it's resources as needed and automatically make adjustments to the amount of GPU, memory and power that is necessary to meet those demands.

I know this isn't probably what you're going to want to hear, but places like that tend to provide a pretty crappy job of the Windows installation and often include a lot of unnecessary BS bloatware and other crap that just kills system performance not to mention rarely do they ship them with current bios versions or update any of the drivers to the proper versions.

My recommendation would be to update the motherboard bios to the most recent version, first.

Then, do a clean install of Windows.

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3567655/clean-installation-windows.html

Then go to the product page for your motherboard model. Download the most recent driver versions for the motherboard chipset, audio, LAN/Network adapters and storage controllers and then install them.

Lastly, I'd install the very latest Nvidia drivers available from the Nvidia website that are specified for your graphics card.

Obviously, this might mean needing to re-download some game files afterwards, so back up anything important that might be on the OS drive before you proceed and it is highly recommended that if there is more than one drive attached to the system that you disconnect all drives except the one you will be installing the OS on before proceeding with the clean install of the OS. You can reattach them afterwards.