Question Low FPS, and GPU usage only 40% while in game ?

onemoretimex

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Hi guys,

I've spent nearly 3 days trying to figure out whats going on with this setup and completely stumped.

I'm currently trying to help my little cousin via Teamviewer and been unable to figure out whats happening.

These are the specs.

intel core I5 10400
medion B460H6-EM
Samsung DDR4 3200 - 8GB single channel
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 Super

Power mode set to performance, confirmed games/apps using GPU by Nvidia GPU activity, and a whole other load of tweaks.

But despite all this when testing the game they wish to play Fortnite.

Medium setting - Cpu usage 40-60%, GPU usage 30-40% and FPS max 70 fps.
Ultra settings - Cpu usage 60-70%, GPU usage 50-60 and FPS drops to around 40-50 fps max.

I've confirmed the above in MSI stats, HW monitor and other things.

However I task master its confirming both CPU and GPU are nearly maxed out by the Fortnite game...

To me it appears the GPU is not being fully utilised and I cant for the life of me figure out why.

According to bottle neck checker my GPU and CPU should be a very good match ?.

So that leave the single channel ram but others have confirmed it should be fine...

Any ideas guys I've spent 3 going on 4 days tinkering and having no idea where to turn for them next ?.

Thanks
 
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did they try gaming without teamviewer active after your tweaks?
on which settings is the game running? try lowering the resolution and details to have a look

Yeah made sure to run and keep eye on stats when I was no longer connected, and tried all different settings the GPU just isn't being fully utilised but doesn't appear to be a CPU bottleneck.

Userbench posted above also if it helps.
 
Single channel ram does not help.

Running the ram at 2666 does not help.

Gaming with 8GB of ram does not help.


Thanks so the advice to give them would be buying another samsung 8gb ram so they have dual channel and then maybe getting into bios remotely some how to make sure it s been set up to run correct timings ? and this should resolve the low gpu use in games ?
 
Thanks so the advice to give them would be buying another samsung 8gb ram so they have dual channel and then maybe getting into bios remotely some how to make sure it s been set up to run correct timings ? and this should resolve the low gpu use in games ?
No idea if it will solve the game issue just pointing out some problems that show.

Buying another ram stick will be a coin flip if the 2 sticks will play nice together.

Best to get a 2x8GB kit.
 
No idea if it will solve the game issue just pointing out some problems that show.

Buying another ram stick will be a coin flip if the 2 sticks will play nice together.

Best to get a 2x8GB kit.

As for the timing issue is this something similar to the issue I had with my own pc of the XMP profile just not being loaded in bios and needing set, or would it require manual input ?

My knowledge ends at bios config but think i remember reading some motherboards can limit a ram stick from running at it's full advertised timings, gonna have to attempt this over a whatsapp video call eeek
 
Also to mention they had a medion motherboard that is extremely limited, there is zero options for gpu and no memory options at all, their 3200 ram is limited to 2688 or something around that number... so not only is it single channel but not even full 3200.
 

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