Computer Specs:
Processor: Intel i9-11900K - OC'd 61%
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus XIII
QVL RAM: 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz
Graphics: EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3
Boot Drive: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB
Secondary Drive: Sabrent Rocket Plus 4TB
Tertiary Drive: Samsung QVO 8TB
PSU: Corsair HXi 1600W
Cooling: Custom EKWB Water Cooling - CPU Only
Operating System: Windows 10 Professional
Games in question:
Baldur's Gate 3
Cyberpunk 2077
No Man's Sky
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
(the last is most concerning, since it's relatively old.)
I am a tech who has been working with computers for nearly 20 years. However, I appear to have a blind spot when it comes to my own system. I have a relatively high end gaming system, but I'm getting poor performance from many games. Some of these games were working well, and then became sluggish. The performance issues have persisted with and without mods. Some of the games have improved with absolute minimum specs, but most have had performance issues even in those situations.
Process and tests so far:
OS, Drivers, and firmware updated
Furmark Stresstest of GPU showed no issues
Furmark and Cinebench CPU tests show no issues
Burnintest showed no issues with a general stress test
Memtest86 shows no issues with or without XMP enabled
All drives show no issues or bad sectors - All operate at around their rated speeds
SFC run without issues
Background applications turned off
Tested with and without mods
Settings dropped to minimum and gradually increased
Note: The over clock is recent, and is in response to the issues I've been having. I'm aware that overclocking is fairly moot.
Note: I have all of the listed games set to "High Performance" in the Graphics performance preference.
My cpu only gets to about 70°C under full load, and the GPU gets to about 75°C. I installed active cooling on the drives because I could, and the hottest tops out around 45°C. So it's not temperatures.
I'm partially inclined to think that it's a software issues. This is mostly because I played all of these games at their current settings without any performance issues.
I'm a little annoyed that I haven't been able to put a finger on what the issue is... So any potential help would be appreciated.
Processor: Intel i9-11900K - OC'd 61%
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus XIII
QVL RAM: 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 3200MHz
Graphics: EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3
Boot Drive: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB
Secondary Drive: Sabrent Rocket Plus 4TB
Tertiary Drive: Samsung QVO 8TB
PSU: Corsair HXi 1600W
Cooling: Custom EKWB Water Cooling - CPU Only
Operating System: Windows 10 Professional
Games in question:
Baldur's Gate 3
Cyberpunk 2077
No Man's Sky
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
(the last is most concerning, since it's relatively old.)
I am a tech who has been working with computers for nearly 20 years. However, I appear to have a blind spot when it comes to my own system. I have a relatively high end gaming system, but I'm getting poor performance from many games. Some of these games were working well, and then became sluggish. The performance issues have persisted with and without mods. Some of the games have improved with absolute minimum specs, but most have had performance issues even in those situations.
Process and tests so far:
OS, Drivers, and firmware updated
Furmark Stresstest of GPU showed no issues
Furmark and Cinebench CPU tests show no issues
Burnintest showed no issues with a general stress test
Memtest86 shows no issues with or without XMP enabled
All drives show no issues or bad sectors - All operate at around their rated speeds
SFC run without issues
Background applications turned off
Tested with and without mods
Settings dropped to minimum and gradually increased
Note: The over clock is recent, and is in response to the issues I've been having. I'm aware that overclocking is fairly moot.
Note: I have all of the listed games set to "High Performance" in the Graphics performance preference.
My cpu only gets to about 70°C under full load, and the GPU gets to about 75°C. I installed active cooling on the drives because I could, and the hottest tops out around 45°C. So it's not temperatures.
I'm partially inclined to think that it's a software issues. This is mostly because I played all of these games at their current settings without any performance issues.
I'm a little annoyed that I haven't been able to put a finger on what the issue is... So any potential help would be appreciated.