- Nov 22, 2015
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With some exceptions, most games I play don't seem to be running my GPU at its fullest. I cannot figure out whats going on for the life of me. In many games I play they perform fine in parts then in certain areas or events my GPU usage will plummet, and so does the performance. At first I thought it must be my CPU bottle necking my system, but unless I'm missing something that doesn't seem to be the case. In these moments where the performance drops the CPU usage doesn't seem to change, and is almost always nowhere near 100%. It can be anywhere from 20-80% and still happen. Some particularly egregious examples of this is Red Faction Guerilla (plummets to ~30fps with anywhere from 20-35 GPU usage on LOW) and Dirt Rally (~35 fps with 40-50 GPU usage on med-low settings during rallycross). This happens in many other games, but I feel these two are good examples of what's going on. I thought the performance of Dirt Rally could be due to the fact that it's an Early Access game, but I couldn't find any other forum posts out there complaining about similar problems as mine.
I've tried nearly everything I can think of, but nothing seems to have have a difference. I'm currently running the latest drivers and have cleanly uninstalled and reinstalled them multiple times, but to no avail. I've fiddled with the settings in Nvidia control panel such as turning on/off v-sync, but that also doesn't make any major difference. I thought it could be from playing games off my slower 7200rpm HDD, so I some to my SSD, which also did not make a difference. I always make sure very few backgound programs are on while I game. There was also a point where I tried overclocking my CPU, but the fps difference was almost negligible (granted, I'm a bit of a noob and I didn't overclock very much).
Also my temps all seem to be within reason. The max my GPU reaches is ~70 degrees C (normal for the mini GPU I have) and my CPU seems to max out at ~55 C.
What is going on here? Are all of these games just poorly optimized for my system? Is there a problem with my GPU or other components? Is there something obvious that I missed?
One final thing I want to add: Occasionally when I'm on my desktop (particularly when I'm in Chrome), my entire system can hang up at random intervals for 30+ seconds where I can't click of activate anything. The only solution is to wait it out until it goes back to normal. I know it could be a stretch, but could this have anything to do with it? I have had this problem since the day I got this machine this summer.
Here's my specs:
Gigabyte GTX 960 with 2 GB VRAM (the mini version: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5369#ov )
fx-6300 at 3.5 GHz
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
8 GB DDR3 ram
600W PSU
120 GB Kingston SSD (as operating system drive)
2 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM HDD (what I install my games on)
I've tried nearly everything I can think of, but nothing seems to have have a difference. I'm currently running the latest drivers and have cleanly uninstalled and reinstalled them multiple times, but to no avail. I've fiddled with the settings in Nvidia control panel such as turning on/off v-sync, but that also doesn't make any major difference. I thought it could be from playing games off my slower 7200rpm HDD, so I some to my SSD, which also did not make a difference. I always make sure very few backgound programs are on while I game. There was also a point where I tried overclocking my CPU, but the fps difference was almost negligible (granted, I'm a bit of a noob and I didn't overclock very much).
Also my temps all seem to be within reason. The max my GPU reaches is ~70 degrees C (normal for the mini GPU I have) and my CPU seems to max out at ~55 C.
What is going on here? Are all of these games just poorly optimized for my system? Is there a problem with my GPU or other components? Is there something obvious that I missed?
One final thing I want to add: Occasionally when I'm on my desktop (particularly when I'm in Chrome), my entire system can hang up at random intervals for 30+ seconds where I can't click of activate anything. The only solution is to wait it out until it goes back to normal. I know it could be a stretch, but could this have anything to do with it? I have had this problem since the day I got this machine this summer.
Here's my specs:
Gigabyte GTX 960 with 2 GB VRAM (the mini version: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5369#ov )
fx-6300 at 3.5 GHz
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
8 GB DDR3 ram
600W PSU
120 GB Kingston SSD (as operating system drive)
2 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM HDD (what I install my games on)
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