Sudden low performance

[Nuclearius]

it's been around 1 or 2 weeks by now, i suddenly started having low performance in games, Rainbow six siege is the best example, i used to play around 130+ FPS, but suddenly i went to 45-60 FPS, forcing me to play windowed to be able to play; reinstalling geforce experience and the driver improved the performance, R6 was running 80 FPS but not stable, I tried setting to prefer max performance, didn't work too, reducing graphics didn't help too; I believe it's the graphics card because i noticed the GPU is being a lot less used on fullscreen, the temps seem to be normal.

my setup:
windows 10 pro
cpu: i7 6700k
gpu: ASUS GTX 1080 ti
Motherboard: ASUS Z170-A
the setup is pretty new, got it this year

i tried:
reinstalling geforce experience and the driver
setting power management to max performance
reducing graphics quality in the games

thanks

 

[Mark RM]

just FPS drop, can't say exactly how much, is it normal to have higher FPS after restarting the PC?

It can be if the system is thermally throttling.
This leads us to the next issue, what are the temps of the CPU while you are gaming?

 

[Nuclearius]

just FPS drop, can't say exactly how much, is it normal to have higher FPS after restarting the PC?

It can be if the system is thermally throttling.
This leads us to the next issue, what are the temps of the CPU while you are gaming?

i will check it with open hardware monitor

 

[Nuclearius]

well got some screeshots of right after restarting:

and a while after restarting

i noticed the temps were going up an down right after restarting and then went low after a while
gonna see gaming now

 

[Mark RM]

Those temps so far seem reasonable actually, I don't think it's throttling right now, gaming or higher stress may change that. A cheap easy way to test it to remove the side panel from your rig and get it some more cool air and view the result change.

 

[Nuclearius]

I didn't have any FPS problems yet, I really can't say when it starts

 

[Nuclearius]

do you think i should change the settings with the CPU fan so it gets 100% before reaching 70C or even let it 100% all the time for some days to see how it goes?

 

[Nuclearius]

battlefront 2 may be heating up it a lot

 

[Mark RM]

70 isn't really an issue actually. Your complaint about the 1080 Ti dropping performance in BF6 isn't uncommon though, a few people seem to have gone through this when I read the steam forums.

 

[Nuclearius]

70 isn't really an issue actually. Your complaint about the 1080 Ti dropping performance in BF6 isn't uncommon though, a few people seem to have gone through this when I read the steam forums.

BF6? Do you mean R6 or BF2? Probably R6 since you mentioned steam

 

[Mark RM]

Sorry I mean RB6 Siege

 

[Nuclearius]

Sorry I mean RB6 Siege

If it was only in R6 we could say the game is the problem

 

[Nuclearius]

i'm feeling the FPS starts high and then starts to drop slowly while i'm playing

 

[Nuclearius]

yeah, spent the whole day playing GTA V and noticed the FPS slowly drops, i was over 100 when started and by the end of the day i was around 45-60
and now i played some BF2 and went for GTA V and the fps went down too

it's like the computer gets slowly tired and bf2 pushes it too far

 

[Nuclearius]

but today... i played a lot of bf2 and my fps started to go really bad, went to GTA and fps is fine.... i don't get it

 

[Nuclearius]

I really can't find a pattern in this, is there anything I could test?

 

[Mark RM]

I literally have no idea what is going on here. Everything should be good. I really don't know what else to possibly look at.

 

[Nuclearius]

I literally have no idea what is going on here. Everything should be good. I really don't know what else to possibly look at.

I will try to monitor my CPU during a whole day of GTA V and try to take screenshots

 

[Nuclearius]

it is normal to the whole CPU go 100% during a loading screen?

 

[Mark RM]

it is normal to the whole CPU go 100% during a loading screen?

It's possible, because during the loading screen it's setting up the game map etc as it distracts you with the presentation on screen.

 

[Nuclearius]

is it normal to the CPU always stay like this?
in game or idle

 

[Mark RM]

If you have the power options on the system set to high performance , then yes, the CPU won't downclock, but that doesn't mean all the cores are fully utilized, that's a separate section of the HWmon screen.

 

[Nuclearius]

If you have the power options on the system set to high performance , then yes, the CPU won't downclock, but that doesn't mean all the cores are fully utilized, that's a separate section of the HWmon screen.

Damn I just can't find what is lowering the performance

 

[Nuclearius]

is everything normal?

 

[Nuclearius]

i feel it is getting worse and worse everyday

 

[Mark RM]

your CPU's are half loaded there, what's running?