PC Gaming FPS drop

[Atlas Wonder]

windows 10 (newest) ...I miss windows 7
Motherboard: h110m gaming
graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
RAM: 16

I saved for a long time to build this PC and its been really disappointing. Since I started playing games (LoL, dark souls 3, far cry 4, no mans lie(sky)) The fps have always been crazy shaky from 200-20fps all randomly.
Lately it's been more annoying and i've gone through alot of posts here looking for answers and have actually seen insane improvements. But I think I know what I must do.

When initially setting up the PC I couldn't install my video card drivers. It keeps giving me "you do not meet the requirements to install" and I cant figure how to solve this.

Both my screens run off my video card and I'm sure if i could get htem running off the motherboard I'd relief plenty of stress on the pc. Please help, im hurting here! ;.;

 

[DRagor]

Liked 'no mans lie'
But could not really get the rest of your post. Correct me if I got you wrong:
- you have two monitors, both connected to gtx 960
- you could not install nvidia drivers for gtx 960 for some reason

 

[Atlas Wonder]

Liked 'no mans lie'
But could not really get the rest of your post. Correct me if I got you wrong:
- you have two monitors, both connected to gtx 960
- you could not install nvidia drivers for gtx 960 for some reason

I have both screens running on my graphics card, causing stress.
I want to run them on my motherboard, but upon trying to install the drivers for it I get "this computer does not meet minimum requirements for installing the software."

 

[Atlas Wonder]

Liked 'no mans lie'
But could not really get the rest of your post. Correct me if I got you wrong:
- you have two monitors, both connected to gtx 960
- you could not install nvidia drivers for gtx 960 for some reason

Sorry, to be clear. My motherboard drivers are being dicks and knocking my icecream out my hand. And i'm telling.

 

[Sam Poland]

The monitors need to be connected directly to the GeForce card.

 

[DRagor]

I would not recommend running monitors from motherboard. That would cripple your FPS in all games to unplayable level. If anything, you could connect gaming monitor to GPU and non-gaming to motherboard, but I don't think that would give you any noticeable FPS boost.
But if you insist: most motherboards turn of integrated GPU when dedicated GPU is connected. So first thing to do is to go to BIOS and turn on iGPU there (details depend on motherboard). Once iGPU is enabled, you should be able to install it's drivers without problem.

 

[Atlas Wonder]

I would not recommend running monitors from motherboard. That would cripple your FPS in all games to unplayable level. If anything, you could connect gaming monitor to GPU and non-gaming to motherboard, but I don't think that would give you any noticeable FPS boost.
But if you insist: most motherboards turn of integrated GPU when dedicated GPU is connected. So first thing to do is to go to BIOS and turn on iGPU there (details depend on motherboard). Once iGPU is enabled, you should be able to install it's drivers without problem.

Ah crap. No listening to dad. Cool.
Okay I won't do that. But still the issue of I've never been able to install motherboard drivers exists and i think it may be a reason for issues.

 

[Atlas Wonder]

The monitors need to be connected directly to the GeForce card.

Ah okay, scratch that idea then.

 

[Atlas Wonder]

I would not recommend running monitors from motherboard. That would cripple your FPS in all games to unplayable level. If anything, you could connect gaming monitor to GPU and non-gaming to motherboard, but I don't think that would give you any noticeable FPS boost.
But if you insist: most motherboards turn of integrated GPU when dedicated GPU is connected. So first thing to do is to go to BIOS and turn on iGPU there (details depend on motherboard). Once iGPU is enabled, you should be able to install it's drivers without problem.

Or would the Drivers listed here[/u] even make a difference?

If not what should I do to improve frames? I've gone to nividia control panel and set everything for performance already. And already set my system min cpu of the default 5% in power savings.

I've been looking into this fps thing forever!

 

[Atlas Wonder]

I would not recommend running monitors from motherboard. That would cripple your FPS in all games to unplayable level. If anything, you could connect gaming monitor to GPU and non-gaming to motherboard, but I don't think that would give you any noticeable FPS boost.
But if you insist: most motherboards turn of integrated GPU when dedicated GPU is connected. So first thing to do is to go to BIOS and turn on iGPU there (details depend on motherboard). Once iGPU is enabled, you should be able to install it's drivers without problem.

Or would the Drivers listed here even make a difference?

If not what should I do to improve frames? I've gone to nividia control panel and set everything for performance already. And already set my system min cpu off the default 5% in power savings. and to 75%

I've been looking into this fps thing forever!

 

[DRagor]

So, you mean you didn't installed basic motherboard drivers yet? All is running on basic Windows drivers?

 

[Atlas Wonder]

So, you mean you didn't installed basic motherboard drivers yet? All is running on basic Windows drivers?

I installed my graphics card drivers if that's what you're asking. But yeah, no motherboard. Says I dont meet requirements.

Todays sudden spur in needing help was caused by my freind buying my dark souls 3 since i cant afford it and i cant even run it lol, even though I feel like my rig should be fine. (aside from the fact that it's windows 10)

 

[DRagor]

https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/H110M-GAMING.html#down-driver&Win10%2064
So files listed on the link are the motherboard drivers that you need to download and install. Intel Management Engine Driver+Microsoft hotfix is the first to install, the rest in any order.

 

[Atlas Wonder]

https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/H110M-GAMING.html#down-driver&Win10%2064
So files listed on the link are the motherboard drivers that you need to download and install. Intel Management Engine Driver+Microsoft hotfix is the first to install, the rest in any order.

Drivers that didnt work
on board vga - dont meet requirements
intel sgx - platform not compatible check your SGX BIOS (idk)

 

[DRagor]

Vga - as expected, iGPU is off now so you could not install it's drivers
SGX - I think that's irrelevant, probably you don't need it.
Remaining drivers installed ok?

 

[Atlas Wonder]

Vga - as expected, iGPU is off now so you could not install it's drivers
SGX - I think that's irrelevant, probably you don't need it.
Remaining drivers installed ok?

Yeah, everything still has butt quality frames though. X)

League of legends used to run ~200fps but has been having awful drops
farcry 4 runs awful
no mans sky ran okish
and dark souls 3 runs like a snake. (They dont)

Am i wrong to think I have a capable computer? that should run atleast LoL at a constant 60fps ( and not randomly hovering at 20%)

 

[DRagor]

Well, with your setup you should enjoy 60+ FPS easily in any game save the biggest hitters like Witcher or BF1.

 

[Atlas Wonder]

Well, with your setup you should enjoy 60+ FPS easily in any game save the biggest hitters like Witcher or BF1.

This build has always has issue and i've never been able to enjoy any game at good settings. Any idea? 🙁

It's the reason i thought moving screens would work and thought the drivers would do X)
Bur clearly there's something beyond that...

 

[DRagor]

Most likely not a hardware issue. Might be some software running in background that eats away your processor power during play. Unfortunately this kind of problem is very hard to solve without having direct access to your computer. My advice would be to find somebody locally who could take a look at your machine.

 

[Atlas Wonder]

Most likely not a hardware issue. Might be some software running in background that eats away your processor power during play. Unfortunately this kind of problem is very hard to solve without having direct access to your computer. My advice would be to find somebody locally who could take a look at your machine.

how would I do that? Without costing me an arm and a leg.
I know how to keep a clean computer, and all the default bs is gone.

and the only background program running while i play is ge force experience and steam if needed. No other background processes unless im doing crap on the second screen.

Anything I should look for?

 

[DRagor]

Actually with 2 screens, you can start game on one, and run Task Manager on second. Check out the CPU usage if it gets any spikes when you notice that game FPS drops.

 

[Atlas Wonder]

Actually with 2 screens, you can start game on one, and run Task Manager on second. Check out the CPU usage if it gets any spikes when you notice that game FPS drops.

Yea when the frames shit themselves the CPU is usually only at like 25% The frames seems to be happening without really being see-able in the performance tab.