Question My PC won't run simple games like LoL or LoR at above 110-150fps

[Bembi]

Hi All!
First time poster here, so be gentle c:.

My PC, which is fairly high end (i9 9900k, 2080ti, won't run LoL or any other game at the same intensity at above 150 fps.. even at low settings.

This is an issue because I use a 165hz monitor, and plan on buying a 280hz to relegate this monitor to my secondry (long story, 280hz was actually cheaper).

This may seem like a super first world problem, but I'm sort of worried! I spent a lot of time on this PC and seeing it not performing as well as I thought it would hurts my heart
Is there anything else I can try besides updating drivers? See my part list below,

Thanks in advance you guys!

PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/z4RFMc

CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor (£491.99 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid CPU Cooler (Purchased For £140.00)
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390 GAMING EDGE AC ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£149.96 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory (£193.30 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£121.39 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Kingston KC2000 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive (£94.79 @ Scan.co.uk)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 6 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (£120.97 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB WINDFORCE Video Card (£1099.99 @ CCL Computers)
Case: NZXT H710i ATX Mid Tower Case (£169.99 @ Amazon UK)
Power Supply: Corsair RMx White (2018) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£108.59 @ Amazon UK)
Monitor: Asus ROG SWIFT PG278QR 27.0" 2560x1440 165 Hz Monitor (£701.35 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £3392.32
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

[Phaaze88]

1)LoL... well, it's LoL... what are these other games?

2)If fps does not increase even after lowering settings, that usually indicates a cpu limitation - USUALLY. There is likely something else at work.

3)If you are going to do a multi-monitor setup, connect the secondary screen to the motherboard. Do not connect multiple monitors of different native refresh rates to the gpu.
It causes a de-sync of the frame buffers, and that causes stuttering.

4)Is this a fresh build, or an upgrade - aka, you carried over your old C drive? If this is the latter, did you reinstall Windows? You will have to reinstall the motherboard drivers again though.

5)Try updating your monitor's driver. It can be found on the monitor support page. Download... extract... open Device Manager, click on the arrow next to monitors...
Right-click Generic PNP Monitor, update driver, choose to update with a file from your PC... then check Windows Display settings that the correct resolution and refresh are displayed.

6)Set an fps cap, or go into Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Vertical Sync, and set it to Fast, then click Apply.

7)The games are on the slow 5400rpm drive? Not ideal for games that have to access the stored files frequently. Try it on faster SSD.


That's all my ideas for now.

 

[Bembi]

1)LoL... well, it's LoL... what are these other games?

2)If fps does not increase even after lowering settings, that usually indicates a cpu limitation - USUALLY. There is likely something else at work.

3)If you are going to do a multi-monitor setup, connect the secondary screen to the motherboard. Do not connect multiple monitors of different native refresh rates to the gpu.
It causes a de-sync of the frame buffers, and that causes stuttering.

4)Is this a fresh build, or an upgrade - aka, you carried over your old C drive? If this is the latter, did you reinstall Windows? You will have to reinstall the motherboard drivers again though.

5)Try updating your monitor's driver. It can be found on the monitor support page. Download... extract... open Device Manager, click on the arrow next to monitors...
Right-click Generic PNP Monitor, update driver, choose to update with a file from your PC... then check Windows Display settings that the correct resolution and refresh are displayed.

6)Set an fps cap, or go into Nvidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Vertical Sync, and set it to Fast, then click Apply.

7)The games are on the slow 5400rpm drive? Not ideal for games that have to access the stored files frequently. Try it on faster SSD.


That's all my ideas for now.

Incredibly detailed! Thank you so much for the time you spent on this!

I'll answer your questions/suggestions in the same order,

1) I only mention as far lesser rigs are hitting 300-400 fps at parts of the games that I'm maxing out at around, 130 maybe? It's less than ideal for competitive games either way.
Other games include;

• Modern Warfare (Max settings, 110fps, Low 165fps, both are fine
• Assassins Creed (Max settings 90-110fps, Low 122fps)

I use these two games as examples that the PC can run intense games without issue, but for some reason when it comes to something easier to run, League, or runeterra, hearthstone, Heros of the storm, Valorant, Overwatch, etc...it chokes!

2) Generally whilst playing League, CPU usage is in the 30 percentile range, and almost always due to other programs, Chrome, discord etc.

3) What you say sounds plauseable.. but other threads I have read have exclaimed not to do this, for their own fairly good reason.
https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...nitors-one-in-gpu-one-in-motherboard.1958466/

4) This is an upgrade, everything was the same, apart from the CPU/Motherboard. Carried over the same C drive, as well as the other two storage devices.
League is on the C drive, which is the Samsung SSD, whilst other games (MW, AC) are on the HDD, I'm happy with the load times (expected), and the framerates are fine also. But League, which is stored on the SSD... not so good.

5) I downloaded and installed the following; https://www.asus.com/uk/Monitors/ROG-SWIFT-PG278QR/HelpDesk_Download/ , updated them (thanks, they probably needed that!) but it didn't seem to fix the issue.
Thank you for that though! Didn't know how to before

6) Would an FPS cap not be counter intuative? Since I want higher FPS, capping it at, say, 130, would limit that from happening even if I was able to find a solution..

7) I answered this one in number 4 Hope this helps!

Again, thank you so much for your help, I really appreiate it!