HELP! New Threadripper build lagging in games

[eoyc.channel]

My new Threadripper build seems to be lagging in games on steam, which is obviously not okay haha. While the Threadripper isnt built for gaming, im a game developer so ofc id be using it for testing games and some other games i like to play. Well i was playing pubg and it kept lagging. Seemed to be high frame drop lagging as the screen was stuttering. I know this CPU can handle ultra settings but even at high and medium it had the lag. In other games too. What could be the issue here?

PC Specs:

Mobo asus prime x399-a
cpu: Threadripper 1950x
gpu: zotac gtx 1080 AMP!
ssd: samsung 850 evo 500gb
ram: 32gb

Notes: all nvidia drivers are up to date and the ssd isnt even half way full so i have no clue.

 

[COLGeek]

Did you perform a full, clean install of Windows when you built this rig, or did you migrate a previous Windows install into this config?

Did you install the AMD chipset drivers?

 

[neatfeatguy]

Do the usual:

Check temps on GPU and CPU
I'd also suggest running something like MSI Afterburner to monitor the use & temps of the CPU and GPU.

This should give you an idea if the issue is perhaps with temps or maybe you're just getting hiccups from the CPU and/or GPU.

If no other game you play on that system is really giving you any issues and it's just PUBG, I wouldn't worry too much about it. The game doesn't run "smoothly" on my system (i5-4670k & 980Ti AMP! Omega). The game settings on medium and on windowed (1680x1050) I hit 90+fps for the most part, but the game still feels like it hitches/stutters at times.

 

[tsnor]

Did you try this: "..one of the features being advertised was Game Mode. This was a special profile under the updated Ryzen Master software that was designed to give the Threadripper CPU more performance in gaming, at the expense of peak performance in hard CPU tasks. .." https://www.anandtech.com/show/11726/retesting-amd-ryzen-threadrippers-game-mode-halving-cores-for-more-performance

"..Game Mode does two things over Creator Mode. First, it changes the memory from UMA to NUMA, so the system can determine between near and far memory...Second, Game Mode disables the cores in one of the silicon dies. This isn’t a full shutdown of the 8-core Zeppelin die, just the cores. The PCIe lanes, the DRAM channels and the various IO are still active, but the cores themselves are power gated such that the system does not use them"


Did you compare your gaming performance with other Threadripper systems on Youtube? Make sure your expectations are reasonable. A large bunch of slow cores is not the best for gaming, but it should not be a disaster either.

"..single threaded tests with Game Mode enabled performed similar to Ryzen 7 and the 1950X, but multithreaded tests were almost halved to the 1950X, and slightly slower than the Ryzen 7 1800X due to the lower all-core turbo.

"The CPU gaming tests were instead a mixed bunch. Any performance difference from Game Mode over Creator Mode was highly dependent on the game, on the graphics card, and on the resolution. Overall, the results could be placed into buckets:

"Noted minor losses in Civilization 6, Ashes of the Singularity and Shadow of Mordor
Minor loss to minor gain on GTX 1080 and GTX 1060 overall in all games
Minor gain for AMD cards on Average Frame Rates, particularly RoTR and GTA
Sizeable (10-25%) gain for AMD cards on 99th Percentile Frame Rates, particularly RoTR and GTA
Gains are more noticable for 1080p gaming than 4K gaming
Most gains across the board are on 99th Percentile data.."

UPDATE: Also http://www.legitreviews.com/pubg-cpu-core-benchmarks-many-cores-need_197719 "..PLAYERUNKNOWNN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) released a patch with optimizations that improved performance for those running a CPU with six or more CPU cores in their gaming rigs. PUBG uses...
Read more at http://www.legitreviews.com/pubg-cpu-core-benchmarks-many-cores-need_197719#SIJtUKm4V36eoiq9.99..."