Question Higher GPU usage/FPS when the game is out of focus?

[Omar_28]

I am getting higher performance/FPS when I press windows key or alt-tabbing while ingame, I get way less!
Can someone restore my sanity pls? cause its driving me INSANE.

RTX 4090
14900K 5.9GHz
7200MHz DDR5
4K NEO G8 240Hz
2nd monitor using IGPU

So far I've tried everything, from reseting bios to unpluging my 2nd monitor, changed the game from borderless, fullscreen etc..
I've never been this desperate after trying to find everywhere on the internet yesterday..

EDIT: Here's a recording of it

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jw74d_84FII

 

[Colif]

Does it happen in any game or just one? If one, which?

Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

It doesn’t delete anything, it just stops non Microsoft programs running with start. Easy to reverse.

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.

Nvidia overlay has been known to cause it.

 

[Omar_28]

Does it happen in any game or just one? If one, which?

Try a clean boot and see if it changes anything - make sure to read instructions and make sure NOT to disable any microsoft services or windows won't load right - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows

It doesn’t delete anything, it just stops non Microsoft programs running with start. Easy to reverse.

if clean boot fixes it, it shows its likely a startup program. You should, over a number of startups. restart the programs you stopped to isolate the one that is to blame.

Nvidia overlay has been known to cause it.

Nope still the same.. did a full DDU driver uninstall too and changed to a previous drivers and its still the same.

 

[Colif]

is it one game or all?

what motherboard?

 

[Omar_28]

is it one game or all?

what motherboard?

I've tried Overwatch 2, I get high FPS but the 1% suffers a lot. Same for Cyberpunk.

Its Asus Z790 PRIME A and yes, latest BIOS latest everything.

 

[Omar_28]

Also checked GPU Z while playing and I'm getting full PCIE 4.0 X16 lanes

 

[Omar_28]

Tried every power plan and its still the same lol.

 

[Colif]

i can find one person with same problem in Overwatch. link

this problem seems to happen to lots of games.
its possible game caps output but when its alt tabbed its uncapped - link

but chances are it’s entirely due to vertical sync capping your frame rate while focused, and not bothering to synchronize when it’s not the focused window (since that wouldn’t be considered “important” at that time).

Game runs smoothly when not in focus but lags tremendously when focused

Hi guys, I don’t know what to do anymore. My game is running very smoothly in Editor (1000 FPS). When I build it and run the build, if I have the focus on the window, the game runs at 30 FPS. When I click away from the window and it loses focus (I can still play and see it), the game is at 1000...

discussions.unity.com

could be a game engine thing.

 

[Omar_28]

i can find one person with same problem in Overwatch. link

this problem seems to happen to lots of games.
its possible game caps output but when its alt tabbed its uncapped - link

Game runs smoothly when not in focus but lags tremendously when focused

Hi guys, I don’t know what to do anymore. My game is running very smoothly in Editor (1000 FPS). When I build it and run the build, if I have the focus on the window, the game runs at 30 FPS. When I click away from the window and it loses focus (I can still play and see it), the game is at 1000...

discussions.unity.com

could be a game engine thing.

I think my one and only solution is.. to reinstall windows xD I'm going to do it after my new Z790 NOVA from ASROCK, 8000MHz RAM all day!
Been trying to solve it for a while now but always kept it as a last resort.
Funny thing is, It was pretty normal before installing my new 14900K as an "upgrade" to my 13700K. Now I get less performance with my new 14900K YAY!!
I think something got messed up when I changed the CPU.

 

[Colif]

did you try resetting CMOS after swapping CPU?