Something's wrong with my System

[Beastlyqt]

So I haven't been doing much with my PC lately in terms of gaming and wanted to play a bit today but now for some weird reason I can't get good fps anymore whereas before I had no problems whatsoever. The Games I tried were Evolve and Fallout 4. And the result of my Benchmark is too low also, I think.

Specs:

GPU: ASUS DirectCU II HD 7970
CPU: i5 2500k @3.3ghz
Motherboard: P8Z68 DELUXE/GEN3
PSU: 550W Cougar S Series 80+
RAM: 8GB-Kit Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 CL9

Sky Diver 1.0 Benchmark: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9530741

DxDiag: http://pastebin.com/aP52avQf

 

[affinitydesigns]

I'm not sure with evolve, but Fallout 4 is super high demanding. Your graphics card is at the pretty much the bare minimum. There's also a lot of performance issues with it. If you downloaded it through steam try to verify the integrity of the cache and a few people saw that helped.

If that doesn't help, can you run the game and use HWMonitor or some application to show your CPU and GPU usage along with voltage and clock?

 

[Beastlyqt]

I'm not sure with evolve, but Fallout 4 is super high demanding. Your graphics card is at the pretty much the bare minimum. There's also a lot of performance issues with it. If you downloaded it through steam try to verify the integrity of the cache and a few people saw that helped.

If that doesn't help, can you run the game and use HWMonitor or some application to show your CPU and GPU usage along with voltage and clock?

HWMonitor data: http://pastebin.com/J2LGz2n3 Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/VcTw2

Going to try to verify the integrity.

Also, what do you think about the Benchmark result?

 

[affinitydesigns]

Don't do the report, it doesn't show everything I'm looking for, just leave it open at idle, then run the game with it in the background. Have it studder and then send me a screenshot of hwmonitor. I need to see the CPU and GPU sections.

 

[Beastlyqt]

I edited my post with a screenshot.

 

[affinitydesigns]

You're getting bottlenecked by your GPU. You'll need to turn down some setting or upgrade the GPU. It's hitting 99% utilization and CPU is only hitting about 55%.

 

[Beastlyqt]

You're getting bottlenecked by your GPU. You'll need to turn down some setting or upgrade the GPU. It's hitting 99% utilization and CPU is only hitting about 55%.

Weird, this never happened before. I use this system for 2~ years. The Game 'Evolve' I have problems with, never had any problems 6~ months ago. Also, the Benchmark result is also messed up, compared to other 7970 users.

 

[affinitydesigns]

Did you ever try to do any overclocking with your card? Compared to a reference 7970 the clock speed seems really low and you're not temperate throttling.

 

[Beastlyqt]

Did you ever try to do any overclocking with your card? Compared to a reference 7970 the clock speed seems really low and you're not temperate throttling.

Never OC'd my GPU/CPU.

 

[affinitydesigns]

Did you install any aftermarket GPU applications like afterburner or something?

 

[Beastlyqt]

Did you install any aftermarket GPU applications like afterburner or something?

Yeah, I use Afterburner most of the time.

 

[affinitydesigns]

It probably altered your clock. You should be able to adjust it back to stock speed without changing anything. Double check your order history to confirm, but I believe that card came pre-overclocked to 1000mhz. You should be able to adjust the dials back or look up the actual stock clocks and voltage. It's safe to set it to that and you should see a performance increase.

 

[Beastlyqt]

It probably altered your clock. You should be able to adjust it back to stock speed without changing anything. Double check your order history to confirm, but I believe that card came pre-overclocked to 1000mhz. You should be able to adjust the dials back or look up the actual stock clocks and voltage. It's safe to set it to that and you should see a performance increase.

Yes, that did the trick. For some reason it showed the onboard gpu on Afterburner, after I switched to my 7970 it showed that it ran with really low clock speeds. Dunno why it did that...

 

[affinitydesigns]

Glad you got it squared away