Low FPS On Good PC

[ProperlyPsychotic]

Hello, today I got Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 and the FPS was about 40 on low and ~25 on very high. I have a GTX 1060 and an i5 - 4590. I've seen 1060 benchmarks and they run much better than mine. I think the culprit is that my GPU and CPU never goes over 50% load when only playing that game. How would I make the GPU and CPU be able to do higher load?

NOTE: All of the CPU cores stay around 30% load except for one which stays around 70%

 

[feelinfroggy777]

What are your full system specs? Are you playing at 1080p? How are your CPU temps?

I suggest going to userbenchmark.com and run a bench. It will test all of your hardware and compare it to other entries. Then post a link here to your results and let us take a look.

 

[SgtScream]

Change Windows 10 power settings to high performance in control panel.

 

[ProperlyPsychotic]

What are your full system specs? Are you playing at 1080p? How are your CPU temps?

I suggest going to userbenchmark.com and run a bench. It will test all of your hardware and compare it to other entries. Then post a link here to your results and let us take a look.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/6414734

 

[ProperlyPsychotic]

Change Windows 10 power settings to high performance in control panel.

Didn't help :/

 

[SgtScream]

When did this start happening?
Did this happen when you upgraded to a gtx 1060?

 

[ProperlyPsychotic]

When did this start happening?
Did this happen when you upgraded to a gtx 1060?

I've had my 1060 for a year and this is the only game where it happens. I just got the game.

 

[SgtScream]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/579800/discussions/0/135508031953501301/

 

[ProperlyPsychotic]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/579800/discussions/0/135508031953501301/

Already did that before. Didnt work.

 

[SgtScream]

Disable v-sync in the game's graphical settings.

 

[ProperlyPsychotic]

Disable v-sync in the game's graphical settings.

Tried that.

 

[SgtScream]

Ok, what else have you tried then?

 

[ProperlyPsychotic]

Ok, what else have you tried then?

Changing settings in game, turning NVIDIA Vsync to fast, rebooting, changing power plan on PC and in NVIDIA control panel, turning up power and temp limit in Precision X, turning off shadowplay, that's all I remember.

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Ok, what else have you tried then?

Changing settings in game, turning NVIDIA Vsync to fast, rebooting, changing power plan on PC and in NVIDIA control panel, turning up power and temp limit in Precision X, turning off shadowplay, that's all I remember.

You have 22% background usage on your userbenchmark. That is pretty high for a 4590. It will hurt performance but that performance hit should be spread out on all your games, not just this one. I would check your background processes and see if you have any running that should not be there. Your CPU is scoring in the 26th percentile, which is not very good at all. Given you have a locked chip, most of the 4590 scores should be very similar. This could be due to the high background activity

Too be fair, I have not played Sniper Ghost Warrior, so I cant comment on how it should perform nor how CPU heavy the title is. But the Recommended CPU requirements for the game are chips with 8 threads. So it would lead me to think that it scales well with more threads. While the minimum is only a 3240, you easily meet the minimum requirements with your 4590. But with the high background activity coupled with the fact that the game seems to like at least 4 threads, there may be your issue.

If you cant track down the high CPU usage in task manager, then run a Anti Virus scan and a Malwarebytes scan. It does not sound like a virus, but there are some cryptocurrecy bugs running around that work in the background at a low level which makes detecting it difficult.

 

[ProperlyPsychotic]

Ok, what else have you tried then?

Changing settings in game, turning NVIDIA Vsync to fast, rebooting, changing power plan on PC and in NVIDIA control panel, turning up power and temp limit in Precision X, turning off shadowplay, that's all I remember.

You have 22% background usage on your userbenchmark. That is pretty high for a 4590. It will hurt performance but that performance hit should be spread out on all your games, not just this one. I would check your background processes and see if you have any running that should not be there. Your CPU is scoring in the 26th percentile, which is not very good at all. Given you have a locked chip, most of the 4590 scores should be very similar. This could be due to the high background activity

Too be fair, I have not played Sniper Ghost Warrior, so I cant comment on how it should perform nor how CPU heavy the title is. But the Recommended CPU requirements for the game are chips with 8 threads. So it would lead me to think that it scales well with more threads. While the minimum is only a 3240, you easily meet the minimum requirements with your 4590. But with the high background activity coupled with the fact that the game seems to like at least 4 threads, there may be your issue.

If you cant track down the high CPU usage in task manager, then run a Anti Virus scan and a Malwarebytes scan. It does not sound like a virus, but there are some cryptocurrecy bugs running around that work in the background at a low level which makes detecting it difficult.

I usually go around 10% CPU usage idle if that helps, userbenchmark was just at a bad time for CPU load test. I have all the programs I want running running. I'll redo a benchmark.

EDIT: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/6421550 redid it

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Yeah, your bench there is exactly how it should run. Your hardware is not the issue. This is a software problem.

I would do a clean install of drivers and a clean removal of your old drivers. Use this DDU tool to remove the drivers you have and then reinstall the new drivers.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

If that does not work, I would uninstall Precision X and Geforce Experience. Geforce Experience is terrible in its own right and precision X maybe causing an issue. Basically, I would remove any software that has potential to change the performance of the game (good or bad).

It sounds like you have tried all of the obvious things, but it may be worth a shot to try these.