MSI GTX 970 Twin Frozr not playing at full potencial.

[Jose Almeida]

Hello! So I installed my MSI GTX 970 Twin Frozr yesterday and I went to play some games... I was suprised with the frames. I was playing Battlefield 4 at 40-50 frames and other people play it with worst processors and motherboards at 90-110 frames. I played other games and the same happened, I got half the normal frames. Maybe it doesn't get enough power, maybe isn't working properly. Maybe you guys could help me.

 

[yodudel]

What are your full PC specs?

 

[Jose Almeida]

What are your full PC specs?

Motherboard: Asrock Fatality 990fx Killer
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor 3,90 GHz
PSU🙁don't know the name) 900W
Ram: ^ 16gb
Hard Drive Space: 2000gb

 

[yodudel]

What are your full PC specs?

Motherboard: Asrock Fatality 990fx Killer
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor 3,90 GHz
PSU🙁don't know the name) 900W
Ram: ^ 16gb
Hard Drive Space: 2000gb

Did you install the drivers and/or MSI Afterburner and MSI Gaming App?

 

[Jose Almeida]

What are your full PC specs?

Motherboard: Asrock Fatality 990fx Killer
CPU: AMD FX(tm)-6350 Six-Core Processor 3,90 GHz
PSU🙁don't know the name) 900W
Ram: ^ 16gb
Hard Drive Space: 2000gb

Did you install the drivers and/or MSI Afterburner and MSI Gaming App?

Yeah I installed the drivers, the Gaming app, Afterburner... And I even tryed the OC Mode on the gaming app and it only increases like 1 or 2 fps.

 

[17seconds]

Can you give us some Afterburner info when gaming?
Core clocks, GPU usage, CPU usage, Fan speed, GPU Temperatures.

 

[Jose Almeida]

Can you give us some Afterburner info when gaming?
Core clocks, GPU usage, CPU usage, Fan speed, GPU Temperatures.

Sure 😛 I'll play a bit of far cry 4 and I'll tell you each thing.

 

[17seconds]

Try to play single player to rule out any on-line/network lagging.

 

[Jose Almeida]

Try to play single player to rule out any on-line/network lagging.

So I played one Far Cry 4 misson here are the results:

Power: 78-80% sometimes 60%
GPU Temperature: 60 out of 66
CPU Usage:70% when not loading areas, 97% while loading new parts of the map.
Fan Speed: Around 44%
Fan Tachometer: 994 RPM out of 1174RPM
Core Clock: 1266MHz out of 1266MHz
Memory Clock: 3506MHz out of 3506Mhz
Memory Usage:2694MB out of 3148MB

I'm thinking that my CPU is the problem.

 

[17seconds]

Yep, that was my first thought that you were having some CPU bottlenecking. Those stats confirm that, particularly on Far Cry 4 which should be running at 99% GPU usage in a well balanced system.

Your best courses of action are:
- overclock your CPU
- increase your in-game resolution with DSR
- tweak your in-game and Nvidia Control Panel settings to see if you can squeeze out some more performance

To use DSR, enable all the DSR options in the Nvidia Control Panel, then in your game settings, you will then have access to resolutions above your native monitor resolution. Selecting a higher in-game resolution will place more load onto your GPU versus your CPU.

 

[Jose Almeida]

Yep, that was my first thought that you were having some CPU bottlenecking. Those stats confirm that, particularly on Far Cry 4 which should be running at 99% GPU usage in a well balanced system.

Your best courses of action are:
- overclock your CPU
- increase your in-game resolution with DSR
- tweak your in-game and Nvidia Control Panel settings to see if you can squeeze out some more performance

To use DSR, enable all the DSR options in the Nvidia Control Panel, then in your game settings, you will then have access to resolutions above your native monitor resolution. Selecting a higher in-game resolution will place more load onto your GPU versus your CPU.

Ok so I'll turn the DSR and I'll probably do something in the control panel... If I get more performance I'll tell you.

 

[Vivek Tiwari]

FOUND AN ALTERNATIVE/WORKAROUND TO EVERYONE WHO ARE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE.(GPU NOT OPERATING ON FULL LOAD)

Yep, i Purchased Giagabyte gtx 970 about a week ago and i was facing the same issue with Ryse: Son of Rome where others were getting 70-80fps, i was on getting around 35-50 on everything maxed out, same with far cry 4 due to Low GPU utilization, with all my drivers updated, bios updated and everything you could possibly imagine.

Finally, I got frustrated and literally gave up, so last night I decided to install Dragon Age: Inquisition , and with the installation happening in the background, I resumed playing Ryse: Som of Rome, and the results were unbelievable !!!

Now the GPU was at full load, and the frame rated jumped to 80+ !!, I again tried Far cry 4 and got the same results!!

CONCLUSION: Run a CPU Intensive task in the Background and the fps will speak for themselves. It's a temporary fix until Nvidia release a fresh batch of drivers.

Lemme know if this works for you

Cheers!!!

 

[Jose Almeida]

FOUND AN ALTERNATIVE/WORKAROUND TO EVERYONE WHO ARE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE.(GPU NOT OPERATING ON FULL LOAD)

Yep, i Purchased Giagabyte gtx 970 about a week ago and i was facing the same issue with Ryse: Son of Rome where others were getting 70-80fps, i was on getting around 35-50 on everything maxed out, same with far cry 4 due to Low GPU utilization, with all my drivers updated, bios updated and everything you could possibly imagine.

Finally, I got frustrated and literally gave up, so last night I decided to install Dragon Age: Inquisition , and with the installation happening in the background, I resumed playing Ryse: Som of Rome, and the results were unbelievable !!!

Now the GPU was at full load, and the frame rated jumped to 80+ !!, I again tried Far cry 4 and got the same results!!

CONCLUSION: Run a CPU Intensive task in the Background and the fps will speak for themselves. It's a temporary fix until Nvidia release a fresh batch of drivers.

Lemme know if this works for you

Cheers!!!

Well it's seems kind of odd, but I shall try it... Well is having a youtube video on the background a CPU intensive task?
'Cause I sometimes play while viewing a youtube video on my second screen... And didn't really change much.... Maybe it's not CPU intensive...

 

[Vivek Tiwari]

FOUND AN ALTERNATIVE/WORKAROUND TO EVERYONE WHO ARE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE.(GPU NOT OPERATING ON FULL LOAD)

Yep, i Purchased Giagabyte gtx 970 about a week ago and i was facing the same issue with Ryse: Son of Rome where others were getting 70-80fps, i was on getting around 35-50 on everything maxed out, same with far cry 4 due to Low GPU utilization, with all my drivers updated, bios updated and everything you could possibly imagine.

Finally, I got frustrated and literally gave up, so last night I decided to install Dragon Age: Inquisition , and with the installation happening in the background, I resumed playing Ryse: Som of Rome, and the results were unbelievable !!!

Now the GPU was at full load, and the frame rated jumped to 80+ !!, I again tried Far cry 4 and got the same results!!

CONCLUSION: Run a CPU Intensive task in the Background and the fps will speak for themselves. It's a temporary fix until Nvidia release a fresh batch of drivers.

Lemme know if this works for you

Cheers!!!

Well it's seems kind of odd, but I shall try it... Well is having a youtube video on the background a CPU intensive task?
'Cause I sometimes play while viewing a youtube video on my second screen... And didn't really change much.... Maybe it's not CPU intensive...

No ,its not CPU intensive .