Low GPU and CPU Usage with lower FPS

[BNguyen9190]

I'm constantly having a problem when I'm playing games where my GPU and CPU aren't at 100% usage.

COMPUTER SPECS: I7 6700k @4.4Ghz
EVGA 1070 Superclocked
Gigabyte XP-SLI
H100iV2
850Watt SuperNova Power Supply

For example, when I'm playing RUST, my GPU and CPU remain around 50% usage and I only get 30 FPS. I've looked around the forums and people say it's a bottleneck, however, I do not believe so since my I7 6700k is only at 50% usage on all cores, around 45 degrees celsius. My GTX 1070SC is also at 50% usage around 60 degrees celsius. All my components including my RAM are not at full usage and I cannot find out why my GPU doesn't go to 100% usage to increase my FPS, I've tried updating my drivers, reinstalling my drivers, and reinstalling Geforce Experience but they only help my GPU go to about 80% usage for a few hours before going back to the 50% usage. I turned my GPU to prefer maximum performance and still the GPU is not at 100%

Is there any way to have my GPU go to 100% usage for higher FPS, preferably constant 90+?

TLDR: GPU AND CPU usage are at 50%, no bottleneck since nothing is at 100% on either the CPU or GPU. All CPU cores are 50% usage. GPU and CPU temps are relatively low. Tried reinstalling drivers for GPU. GPU on Maximum Performance.

 

[fry178]

bottlenecking has nothing to do with 100% load, but with one part resttricting performance of another.
e.g. a small cpu will bottleneck a 1070 when running below 1080p screen res.
the cards will only get to +90% in stuff like tests/benchmarks, for games its fine to be less,
and technically irrelevant as long as game runs at proper fps.
setting the card to max performance will just burn power and cause the card to get a bit hotter/fans ramp up.

what screen res are you playing at?

turn power to adaptive, turn on vsync and tripple buffer, crank up all settings for games, and turn off "optimizations" for any sampling as well.