Here we go again: A GTX 1080 + 4770K

[TaaLooN]

Hey Guys, hope someone can help me around!

So, i recently upgraded my PC with a GTX 1080. My old setup was: GTX 770 + i7 4770K on a Mpowermax z87 Mobo and 750 PSU with 32 gigs of ram.

I did a load of research, or at least i think i had, about bottlenecking and other supportive questions if my pc would handle this out-of-this-world graphics card. Overall conclussion: A 4770k, even factory clocked, would NOT bottleneck a GTX 1080. So i bought the card, and everything is fine.. Right?

Well, no. I bought it to play Battlefield 1 on ULTRA with the highest possible frames. But sadly, it didnt gave me any insane high performance increase to justify its high price. Currently running ULTRA on 80 frames on highly populated zones till a maximum of 120 on empty servers. But the strange thing is, that setting it to LOW gives me even WORSE frames....? Watch Dogs 2 on ultra with the ultra texture pack gave me around 80 to tops 100. How can this be a future-proof GPU if i allready gave these kind of fps on current games?

Since i have a 144 hz monitor i was expecting the 1080 to totally nail this high refreshrate on 1080p with everything on ultra. But it just doesn't.

Some information for you guys to make sure i did some of my research:
- I did a clean installation with DDU
- I did install drivers manually, and yes, the good one
- I did enable the maximize performance thingy in the nvidia control pannel
- I did not overclock
- CPU is around 70% when playing the game, so its not fully loaded
- Did the Xbox Windows app - Disable DVR option
- Unparked my cores
- Disabled Shadowplay
- Disabled Origin Ingame

- And all that hard work didnt even had the smallest effect on my overal FPS rate.

So, did i make a wrong descission to invest so much money in my hobby and should i refund, did i had to much expectations or are those games just poorly optimized and should i wait around? Or should i try to overclock my 4770k(from current 3.5 to maybe 4 or even higher?)

If the answer is that i need to upgrade my CPU, thats ONLY a sollution if that really guarantees better performance.

 

[TaaLooN]

- Update. For those other battlefielders amongst you guys, i did try to switch between DX11 and 12, this also gave almost 0 impact on my overal experience.

 

[sarwar_r87]

I think multiplayer frame rates are locked. U can confirm this by checking your campaign fps or your GPU usage during multiplayer.

But multiplayer performance are CPU intense and depends on how your ram is configured. I.e dual channel vs triple

 

[TaaLooN]

Thank you for your answer, sarwar_r87.

I will test out my FPS in the singleplayer of Battlefield 1 but as i mentioned earlier i also get this rates in Watch Dogs 2. But i will try it out!
About my ram, i do not exactly know what you mean. I am not really a hardware specialist, sadly. But in order to atleast try to answer your question:

I Currently have:

2 times:
Corsair Vengeance Pro Series - memory 16 GB : 2 x 8 GB - DIMM 240-pins - DDR3 - 2400 MHz

and 2 times:
Kingston HyperX Beast - memory 16 GB : 2 x 8 GB - DIMM 240-pins - DDR3 - 2400 MHz

 

[spdragoo]

Do a quick search of the forums here, as well as on the Internet in general, & you will find that everyone, from those trying to run an FX-4300 or Core i3 chip, all the way up to the fastest Skylake Core i7 chips, are having FPS issues with BF1.

Your Haswell Core i7 is a monster, & maybe lags behind the Skylake Core i7 in performance by 5%. In this case, when BF1 says, "it's not you, it's me", it's telling the truth.

 

[TaaLooN]

Haha, laughed quite a bit there spdragoo 🙂.
I did quite some research myself already. But the fact that its not only in Battlefield 1 made me doubt since WD2 is also getting lower frames than i had expected. But atleast its good to hear that my CPU aint the problem, that would have been a expensive upgrade.