Hi All,
I've got an odd problem and I'll try to provide as much information as I can, I will be adding a little to this when I get home (I'm at work at the moment).
I have two systems. My main PC and my Media/Gaming on the TV PC. Specs are as follows:-
Main PC:
Windows 8.1
Core i7 2600k @ stock speeds with HT turned off
12GB Corsair XMS memory
4GB Asus STRIX GTX970 - STRIX-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5
Gigabyte motherboard (will get model number later)
DGM Monitor @ 1920x1200 resolution
Media PC:
Windows 7/10 (it was previously running 10, I've reverted to 7 simply because I was fed up of updates - performance was the same under both)
Core i5 2500k @ stock speeds
8GB Corsair XMS memory
2GB ASUS GTX660 Ti-DC2O-2GD5
MSI P67A-GD53 motherboard
Samsung 40" TV @ 1920x1080 resolution
The issue I'm having is with GTA V.
I can get it to run at a nearly flawless 60fps on the Media PC, when I run it on my theoretically more powerful Main PC I get drops to around 45-50fps when in the city even when using identical graphics settings. I get drops even when I lower the settings to normal.
I'm using Riva Tuner to monitor everything and my 970 rarely hits 50% usage with these settings, the CPU hangs around 45-80% utilization based on whether it's city or wilderness. I've tried with and without hyperthreading, seems to make no difference. I've tried some modest overclocking to 3.8GHz on the CPU although I'm not a fan of overclocking stuff (unless it's overclocked out of the box). I've made sure my motherboard bios is up to date and I've also reset to optimal defaults (in case I'd cocked some setting up somewhere).
Both machines are running the nVidia 350 drivers for GTA V with the same driver settings.
I am suspecting a couple of things might be at play but I wanted some additional thoughts.
My theories are:
1. Memory - the 12GB Ram in the main PC is made up of 2 pairs of mixed speed (one 4GB pair and one 2GB pair). I would have assumed it would just down clock the faster memory to the slower). This is admittedly an easy one to test which I'll be doing later by removing the slower 2GB pair.
2. Motherboard - the Gigabyte motherboard I have in the main PC wasn't cheap when I bought it, it was around £90-100. When I have the exact model number I'll post it.
3. Display - could the display be causing the drops? I know it's a silly idea but the monitor I'm using is very very old (although it does have HDMI). Again this would be an easy test to hook my main PC up to the TV to test.
4. Hard drives - both machines are running on much the same hard drives. They aren't especially outstanding drives, just normal 7200rpm drives - cache etc unknown - I'll be checking on this later as I hadn't considered this before writing this thread.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Pegsta
I've got an odd problem and I'll try to provide as much information as I can, I will be adding a little to this when I get home (I'm at work at the moment).
I have two systems. My main PC and my Media/Gaming on the TV PC. Specs are as follows:-
Main PC:
Windows 8.1
Core i7 2600k @ stock speeds with HT turned off
12GB Corsair XMS memory
4GB Asus STRIX GTX970 - STRIX-GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5
Gigabyte motherboard (will get model number later)
DGM Monitor @ 1920x1200 resolution
Media PC:
Windows 7/10 (it was previously running 10, I've reverted to 7 simply because I was fed up of updates - performance was the same under both)
Core i5 2500k @ stock speeds
8GB Corsair XMS memory
2GB ASUS GTX660 Ti-DC2O-2GD5
MSI P67A-GD53 motherboard
Samsung 40" TV @ 1920x1080 resolution
The issue I'm having is with GTA V.
I can get it to run at a nearly flawless 60fps on the Media PC, when I run it on my theoretically more powerful Main PC I get drops to around 45-50fps when in the city even when using identical graphics settings. I get drops even when I lower the settings to normal.
I'm using Riva Tuner to monitor everything and my 970 rarely hits 50% usage with these settings, the CPU hangs around 45-80% utilization based on whether it's city or wilderness. I've tried with and without hyperthreading, seems to make no difference. I've tried some modest overclocking to 3.8GHz on the CPU although I'm not a fan of overclocking stuff (unless it's overclocked out of the box). I've made sure my motherboard bios is up to date and I've also reset to optimal defaults (in case I'd cocked some setting up somewhere).
Both machines are running the nVidia 350 drivers for GTA V with the same driver settings.
I am suspecting a couple of things might be at play but I wanted some additional thoughts.
My theories are:
1. Memory - the 12GB Ram in the main PC is made up of 2 pairs of mixed speed (one 4GB pair and one 2GB pair). I would have assumed it would just down clock the faster memory to the slower). This is admittedly an easy one to test which I'll be doing later by removing the slower 2GB pair.
2. Motherboard - the Gigabyte motherboard I have in the main PC wasn't cheap when I bought it, it was around £90-100. When I have the exact model number I'll post it.
3. Display - could the display be causing the drops? I know it's a silly idea but the monitor I'm using is very very old (although it does have HDMI). Again this would be an easy test to hook my main PC up to the TV to test.
4. Hard drives - both machines are running on much the same hard drives. They aren't especially outstanding drives, just normal 7200rpm drives - cache etc unknown - I'll be checking on this later as I hadn't considered this before writing this thread.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Pegsta
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