GTX 970 low GPU load, and low FPS

[Doughnutnator]

Hi! I've been getting low GPU usage with my GTX 970, and low FPS in games like Watch Dogs, because the card is at 50% load. It's annoying. I already uninstalled the drivers and installed 344.48 again, like 4 times.

Here's a screenshot:

My system:

- Core i5 4570
- Cooler Master V550 80+ Gold
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bits
- 8GB RAM HyperX Fury

Do I need to re install windows? I don't want to. I didn't had this problem with my GTX 760, I just swapped and boom, this appeared.

Thanks in advance

 

[anti-duck]

Have you compared your GPU usage and framerate to others'?

 

[Thaisnang]

Overclock the GPU and Go into control make sure your pc is in high performance mode.

 

[Borge80]

Might not work, but try this. Go into nvidia control panel, manage 3D settings, find Watchdogs. Find power management in the list, set it to prefer maximum performance. If it doesn't give you 99% gpu usage then not sure what the problem is. Is the i5 at 100%?

 

[Borge80]

Overclock the GPU and Go into control make sure your pc is in high performance mode.

Shouldn't have an issue if he's on balanced. I'm on balanced and get 100% usage in watchdogs. Also overclocking won't fix anything.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Have you compared your GPU usage and framerate to others'?

Kind of, anyways my 970 is getting 30FPS in some parts of Watch Dogs, is annoying.

 

[quandao93]

Overclocking the card when the card is malfunction is the worst advice, I've ever heard LOL.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Overclocking the card when the card is malfunction is the worst advice, I've ever heard LOL.

The card is stable 1540Mhz at Heaven Benchmark, but I don't sit and benchmark all the day, I play games.

 

[Thaisnang]

Overclock the GPU and Go into control make sure your pc is in high performance mode.

Shouldn't have an issue if he's on balanced. I'm on balanced and get 100% usage in watchdogs. Also overclocking won't fix anything.

He can be on power saver which will lower his CPU clocks. At balanced also CPU clock gets lowered but not as much as the power saver mode.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Might not work, but try this. Go into nvidia control panel, manage 3D settings, find Watchdogs. Find power management in the list, set it to prefer maximum performance. If it doesn't give you 99% gpu usage then not sure what the problem is. Is the i5 at 100%?

Nope, look, the top graph is GPU Load, the bottom one is CPU1 Load (pretty much the same in all the cores)

As you can see, it's fine, the CPU is below 70°C, and the GPU is close to 68°C.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Overclock the GPU and Go into control make sure your pc is in high performance mode.

Shouldn't have an issue if he's on balanced. I'm on balanced and get 100% usage in watchdogs. Also overclocking won't fix anything.

He can be on power saver which will lower his CPU clocks. At balanced also CPU clock gets lowered but not as much as the power saver mode.

Windows 7 is on "max performance" in Energy options...

 

[Borge80]

Screenshot wasn't coming up but I see it now.. cpu usage is a bit high but it's not topping out so you should be getting 100% gpu usage..looks like you're averaging around 60-70 which is weird although you did hit 99%.

What is your AA setting in watch dogs?

 

[Doughnutnator]

Might not work, but try this. Go into nvidia control panel, manage 3D settings, find Watchdogs. Find power management in the list, set it to prefer maximum performance. If it doesn't give you 99% gpu usage then not sure what the problem is. Is the i5 at 100%?

Nope, look, the top graph is GPU Load, the bottom one is CPU1 Load (pretty much the same in all the cores)

As you can see, it's fine, the CPU is below 70°C, and the GPU is close to 68°C.

Not sure if it's just me but there's nothing showing for the screenshot.

Here it is:

I hope that now you can see it. It's a screenshot of MSI Afterburner, the GPU Load is fluctuating, a lot, even dipping in 30-40-50% and then going up to 84-90% and getting back again. The card is stable on Heaven Benchmark and 99% all the time, I had a GTX 760, and the 760 had 90-99% Load in almost all the games,

 

[Thaisnang]

Hi! I've been getting low GPU usage with my GTX 970, and low FPS in games like Watch Dogs, because the card is at 50% load. It's annoying. I already uninstalled the drivers and installed 344.48 again, like 4 times.

Here's a screenshot:

My system:

- Core i5 4570
- Cooler Master V550 80+ Gold
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bits
- 8GB RAM HyperX Fury

Do I need to re install windows? I don't want to. I didn't had this problem with my GTX 760, I just swapped and boom, this appeared.

Thanks in advance

Might not work, but try this. Go into nvidia control panel, manage 3D settings, find Watchdogs. Find power management in the list, set it to prefer maximum performance. If it doesn't give you 99% gpu usage then not sure what the problem is. Is the i5 at 100%?

Nope, look, the top graph is GPU Load, the bottom one is CPU1 Load (pretty much the same in all the cores)

As you can see, it's fine, the CPU is below 70°C, and the GPU is close to 68°C.

Not sure if it's just me but there's nothing showing for the screenshot.

I can't see it either.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Hi! I've been getting low GPU usage with my GTX 970, and low FPS in games like Watch Dogs, because the card is at 50% load. It's annoying. I already uninstalled the drivers and installed 344.48 again, like 4 times.

Here's a screenshot:

My system:

- Core i5 4570
- Cooler Master V550 80+ Gold
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bits
- 8GB RAM HyperX Fury

Do I need to re install windows? I don't want to. I didn't had this problem with my GTX 760, I just swapped and boom, this appeared.

Thanks in advance

Might not work, but try this. Go into nvidia control panel, manage 3D settings, find Watchdogs. Find power management in the list, set it to prefer maximum performance. If it doesn't give you 99% gpu usage then not sure what the problem is. Is the i5 at 100%?

Nope, look, the top graph is GPU Load, the bottom one is CPU1 Load (pretty much the same in all the cores)

As you can see, it's fine, the CPU is below 70°C, and the GPU is close to 68°C.

Not sure if it's just me but there's nothing showing for the screenshot.

I can't see it either.

i can see it but here it is again

 

[Doughnutnator]

Hmm cpu usage is a bit high but it's not topping out so you should be getting 100% gpu usage..looks like you're averaging around 60 which is weird although you did hit 99%.

What is your AA setting in watch dogs?

SMAA or temporal SMAA.

 

[Borge80]

Hmm cpu usage is a bit high but it's not topping out so you should be getting 100% gpu usage..looks like you're averaging around 60 which is weird although you did hit 99%.

What is your AA setting in watch dogs?

SMAA or temporal SMAA.

If you're getting 30 fps when your cpu hits 100% then it's a cpu bottleneck.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Hmm cpu usage is a bit high but it's not topping out so you should be getting 100% gpu usage..looks like you're averaging around 60 which is weird although you did hit 99%.

What is your AA setting in watch dogs?

SMAA or temporal SMAA.

If you're getting 30 fps when your cpu hits 100% then it's a cpu bottleneck.

I'm getting 30Fps, with the card at 30-40% and the CPU at 70-80%. The CPU is't maxing out.

 

[Borge80]

Hmm cpu usage is a bit high but it's not topping out so you should be getting 100% gpu usage..looks like you're averaging around 60 which is weird although you did hit 99%.

What is your AA setting in watch dogs?

SMAA or temporal SMAA.

If you're getting 30 fps when your cpu hits 100% then it's a cpu bottleneck.

I'm getting 30Fps, with the card at 30-40% and the CPU at 70-80%. The CPU is't maxing out.

I see that but it does max out at one point. The graphs are really inconsistent and what I'm focusing on are the dips in the GPU load that are going into the 30%'s from a consistent 70% usage. The GPU graph is all over the place but it still hits 100% at one point so I highly doubt the gpu is defective. This really doesn't give us much info because you're right the cpu isn't bottlenecking consistently but I notice that when the cpu hits 100% your GPU took a shit, which MIGHT be a sign of bottlenecking. You're saying the card is at 30-40% yet the graph is showing 70-100% usage with dips into the 30%'s.

Does the gpu see 100% usage in other games? Watchdogs is a pretty demanding game.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Hmm cpu usage is a bit high but it's not topping out so you should be getting 100% gpu usage..looks like you're averaging around 60 which is weird although you did hit 99%.

What is your AA setting in watch dogs?

SMAA or temporal SMAA.

If you're getting 30 fps when your cpu hits 100% then it's a cpu bottleneck.

I'm getting 30Fps, with the card at 30-40% and the CPU at 70-80%. The CPU is't maxing out.

I see that but it does max out at one point. The graphs are really inconsistent and what I'm focusing on are the dips in the GPU load that are going into the 30%'s from a consistent 70% usage. The GPU graph is all over the place but it still hits 100% at one point so I highly doubt the gpu is defective. This really doesn't give us much info because you're right the cpu isn't bottlenecking consistently but I notice that when the cpu hits 100% your GPU took a shit, which MIGHT be a sign of bottlenecking. You're saying the card is at 30-40% yet the graph is showing 70-100% usage with dips into the 30%'s.

Does the gpu see 100% usage in other games? Watchdogs is a pretty demanding game.

I've been playing Crysis 2, same story. There are some parts where the GPU goes to 98% Load. But it seems that Crysis 2 is capped at 100FPS. Anyways it's the same as Watch Dogs, Crysis 2 doesn't use the CPU like Watch Dogs, but the inconsistent GPU load is still there.

The first time I installed the drivers I was getting 120FPS. Then I had a problem with EVGA PrecisionX, I enabled K-Boost by accident and I had to reinstall drivers. Since then I get this shitty performance.

 

[Thaisnang]

Have you used any driver uninstaller like this one-->http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html for uninstalling drivers. Sometimes fragments from a previous driver may cause complications, for which we need tools like this which completely removes the drivers and all its components, however in your case it is very unlikely that this might be the issue but you can give it a try.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Have you used any driver uninstaller like this one-->http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html for uninstalling drivers. Sometimes fragments from a previous driver may cause complications, for which we need tools like this which completely removes the drivers and all its components, however in your case it is very unlikely that this might be the issue but you can give it a try.

I used this

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/244282-a-guide-for-uninstalling-drivers-nvidia/#entry3351492

 

[Thaisnang]

Have you used any driver uninstaller like this one-->http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html for uninstalling drivers. Sometimes fragments from a previous driver may cause complications, for which we need tools like this which completely removes the drivers and all its components, however in your case it is very unlikely that this might be the issue but you can give it a try.

I used this

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/244282-a-guide-for-uninstalling-drivers-nvidia/#entry3351492

And that didn't work I suppose.

 

[Doughnutnator]

Have you used any driver uninstaller like this one-->http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html for uninstalling drivers. Sometimes fragments from a previous driver may cause complications, for which we need tools like this which completely removes the drivers and all its components, however in your case it is very unlikely that this might be the issue but you can give it a try.

I used this

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/244282-a-guide-for-uninstalling-drivers-nvidia/#entry3351492

And that didn't work I suppose.

Nope, but it"s pretty much the same as a Driver sweeper, uninstalling one thing at a time and erasing resgistry entries.

I've heard bad things of Driver Sweepers...

 

[Borge80]

That sucks man. I would just reinstall windows.