Not great fps

[djtazm]

I play a lot of overwatch but I keep on having massive fps drops I don't know if it's the components in the computer or if there's just a simple solution. My system specs consist of a amd a10 7700k processor, gtx 1050ti 8gb ddr3 and a 500w power supply

 

[ComputerGeek21]

hmm call me crazy but your specs look fine
go into task manager while your playing overwatch and read what your processor/cpu utilisation is at
a screen shot or a few would be nice

 

[RARRAF]

make and model 500w power supply??

 

[djtazm]

i can't do that right now as I'm of the system but I will do in the morning but I have looked at that before and it fluctuates between 60 to 100 percent usage

 

[djtazm]

about 1 and a half years old I've just put a 1050ti in and it's made it a lot better but still not smooth I'd say and I don't know about that percentage I'll check with it tomorrow, but what do you think I'll have to do?

 

[ComputerGeek21]

i think you might need a new processor, although the process you currently have is 2.5x more powerful then the recommend processor
i need you to, when you can give me the idle processor usage, i suspect you might have a virus

 

[djtazm]

I 100% do not have a virus as I make it a priority to always run virus scans on my computer, I thought I'd need a new cpu and more ram?

 

[ComputerGeek21]

new ram: i doubt you need new ram; you have plenty
new cpu: this is a real possibility

no virus: you could do all the virus scans with every type of anti virus in the world and you couldn't be 100% positive that you pc would be virus free. for one every anti virus is different and every VIRUS works in different ways, some of which anti virus providers have not thought about. and virus can disguise themselves from anti viruses by hiding in system files and they can infect multiple different files. personally i was infected with ransom ware, my anti virus stopped one instance from installing but the ransom ware installed 3 different viruses so 2 of them got past and locked my computer

 

[djtazm]

I could have a virus then but I just don't see it being that i think I definitely need a cpu and ram because I'm always getting 8gb of ram usage so if I got more ram wouldn't it be able to use more to give me more fps?

 

[djtazm]

I could have a virus then but I just don't see it being that i think I definitely need a cpu and ram because I'm always getting 8gb of ram usage so if I got more ram wouldn't it be able to use more to give me more fps?

 

[ComputerGeek21]

8gb of ram usage
how many damn chrome tabs do you have open while you play overwatch (chrome is just an example, it could be any open program)

 

[djtazm]

None most of the time maybe 1 tab of edge now and again even when I don't I'm maxing out my ram

 

[cryoburner]

Your computer probably shouldn't be using that much RAM. It might be a memory leak, in which case adding more memory might not even help much. A quick search turned up this thread, where some others were having similar problems in Overwatch...

https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/17611941925

One of those affected found that at least in their case, it was due to a memory leak in some software for their network adapter, and linked to this thread here, where a number of people posted about having similar issues with the "Killer Network Suite" filling all their RAM...

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/3yzjyz/killer_network_suite_gave_me_a_major_memory_leak/

If your motherboard has a Killer network adapter, that could potentially be the problem, otherwise it might be some other piece of software causing a similar issue.

 

[djtazm]

Im not maxing out at ram actually so that's my bad but I am getting 80%+ usage on my cpu but only 46% usage of the ram

 

[ComputerGeek21]

hmm idk how this could be possible but maybe your graphics card is slow?
http://www.userbenchmark.com/Software
try this, click free download and select all the tests. it should scan your pc and open some simulations to test your components
take a screen shot of the results please