What is bottlenecking my PC?

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I have been playing Dark Souls 3 recently and no matter what I do, I can't get 60fps. Monitoring the usage, I get 70% GPU usage and 60% CPU usage while playing. I get around 45 fps on average, but changing the graphics setting doesn't do anything to the framerate. I even changed it to 800x600 and set everything to low and was still getting 45 fps. I have tried overclocking my gpu and my cpu to a significant degree, but neither affects the performance. I am really left scratching my head at this one.

My build:
ASUS GTX 680
AMD FX-8120
Gigabyte 970A-D3 motherboard
240 gb SSD and 1TB HDD (the game runs off the SSD)
8GB ram
 
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Do you use any GPU software? I use EVGA precision and have it set to a "target" frame rate so that once that frame rate is achieved, the card backs off in power. Do you have a similar setting in the game you are playing or a similar program? Is your monitor running at 60FPS? Do you have vertical sync turned on? You should download the newest Nvidia drivers and do the "custom installation" check everything and select "clean installation" in case you have settings that have been set incorrectly. That might fix your problem. If it doesn't work, look for a "reset default settings" in the game you are playing and try that, then tweak stuff from there. If that still doesn't work, post more information so people can help you further like your OS, what programs you have running, your monitor and it's settings, etc, etc...

Edit- While the 680 is showing it's age, there is no way you could only squeeze 45 fps on 800x600 without there being a problem. It's not that weak of a card.
 
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I've been using ASUS GPU Tweak to monitor and overclock the 680 (up to 150 extra core clock and 300 mem clock), and I've done bios overclocking of the CPU (3.1 Ghz to 4Ghz) but both have no effect. I tried the clean install of the graphics driver and also tried using EVGA precision but neither had any noticeable effect either. I will usually have open: Steam, Skype, Coretemp, ASUS GPU Tweak, and Razer Synapse. I am running Windows 7 64 bit.

 
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I did a good search and this came up:

"Many Nvidia users are currently facing issues with frame rates. At 1080p max setting they are getting around 20-25 frames even after meeting the recommended system requirements. The problem isn’t with your hardware, it lies within the latest Nvidia driver update.

Revert back to Driver 314.22 of Nvidia that may help fix low framerate issues."

Here is a link to that driver:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-win7-winvista-64bit-314.22-whql-driver.html

I have no idea if this will work, but it's worth a shot I guess. If it doesn't work, you can just update your drivers again.
 
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While his gear is aging and not scaling well, he said he was stuck at 45fps on normal settings and lowering it to 800x600 and putting it on low didn't change it. If lowering the specs gives you the same fps, then it's a software problem, because that's not how bottlenecking works. Plus you linked some charts that were at 1440p... which is way above 1080p or even the 800x600 this guy was trying it on.
 
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I can see why it would be true for max graphics 1080p, but it still remains at the same framerate even if I lower the resoultion to be ridiculously small, and turn the graphics to the lowest.
 
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No good, the driver lowered my fps by about 15 and then had the same issue, couldn't get it to go higher no matter what I did.
 
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Still no luck 🙁
 
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