Specs:
Gigabyte B660M D3SH AX
GTX 3060
Intel i7-12700k with Lian Li Galahad cooler
16gb Corsair Ram in channel a with 8gb MSI in channel b
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W
I do have 2 monitors (165hz and 60hz for work) in but the 60hz one is always idle when I am playing games
PC was built brand new in August 2022 with the parts from a Memory Express.
I'm definitely not tech illiterate but I'm by no means an expert on Windows or hardware and I'm kinda stuck on how to proceed further. I've always had bad performance or random fps drops on this pc for the hardware but just ignored it because I had more urgent matters (work, school stuff) but I've seriously decided to crack down on this issue because I've been playing a lot recently and I don't mean to sound like a hyper competitive nerd or anything but I am watching the frames being drawn on my screen sometimes and it feels like sandpaper is being dragged across my eyes. I play games in waves and the games I've been playing recently are TF2, Payday 2 and the Finals beta, and recently when I ran TF2 recently on med-low settings in normal casual games I am getting about 80-110fps. When I ran Payday med settings solo no mods I am getting around 70-100fps, but I noticed when running The Finals with all high graphics and med raytracing I am averaging 140-160fps. It doesn't make sense to me how I can knock whole buildings to the ground in a colossal map with stunning shadows but am struggling to win gunfights in games from 2007 because my screen is tearing across my eyes. Is this just an optimization thing? I feel like my old rig (GTX1060, i5-5600) would run the same games better and I don't understand what is happening here. Sorry for the tirade but I've been trying to test stuff all day and I don't know what else to do haha
These are just some recent examples but every game I've played on my old rig runs the same if not worse than the newer rig. I never bothered to check because I haven't been gaming on this rig a lot but I've been running task manager on my 2nd monitor the past few days and while I am playing games task manager says both my CPU and GPU are always being utilized at about 20-25%. Bottleneck calculator sites say there should be a 3.1% CPU bottleneck so I get that but that doesn't explain both parts running at 25% power when games get hectic. Might also be worth mentioning that ram isn't affected by this throttling and the CPU and GPU have no problem spiking up when rendering stuff like in Sony Vegas or Stable Diffusion, just doesn't seem to want to work when playing games of any kind.
Some things I have done to combat this (~2week timeframe) are:
Tested all ram with Memtest86
Debloated and updated GPU drivers using DDU and NVcleanstall
Updated bios
Reconfigured NVIDIA control panel and some other smaller graphic settings
Wiped drives and changed from Win11 to Tiny11
I run the windows ultimate power performance plan or the Bitsum highest performance plan with x game's process states on high. All games are written to an SSD.
Please let me know if I am missing any vital information here to helping this problem. Obviously this isn't earthshattering stuff and I can tolerate sparing fps but I can't even get 165 frames for my monitor on titles from over a decade ago, and not meeting my native refresh rate tears the screen in front of my eyes and actively hurts my performance and enjoyment of whatever I'm doing. I just want my computer to run games over 160 frames 🙁 I really don't understand why The Finals with ray tracing on medium runs beautifully but I can't even make it through a payday heist (on med-low graphics) without my eyes actually hurting. Is there any chance this is just an optimization issue for these older games I have only been playing recently? I seriously am lost because I have noticed all games run pretty poor from what I've seen(like gta, overwatch, call of duty titles, even games like league) and I feel like even though I do have a pretty standard mid-tier setup nowadays I should not be pushing 100 frames in TF2. Please help me if you have any suggestions! This is my first forum post ever so please let me know if any further info is needed. Thank you
EDIT: Here is a recent UserBenchmark test https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/65452282
It says my CPU is performing below expectations and my GPU is performing below potential.
Put here incase someone can make sense of maybe why this is. I could also run cinebench or another similar benchmarking program if that would help.
Gigabyte B660M D3SH AX
GTX 3060
Intel i7-12700k with Lian Li Galahad cooler
16gb Corsair Ram in channel a with 8gb MSI in channel b
Thermaltake Toughpower 850W
I do have 2 monitors (165hz and 60hz for work) in but the 60hz one is always idle when I am playing games
PC was built brand new in August 2022 with the parts from a Memory Express.
I'm definitely not tech illiterate but I'm by no means an expert on Windows or hardware and I'm kinda stuck on how to proceed further. I've always had bad performance or random fps drops on this pc for the hardware but just ignored it because I had more urgent matters (work, school stuff) but I've seriously decided to crack down on this issue because I've been playing a lot recently and I don't mean to sound like a hyper competitive nerd or anything but I am watching the frames being drawn on my screen sometimes and it feels like sandpaper is being dragged across my eyes. I play games in waves and the games I've been playing recently are TF2, Payday 2 and the Finals beta, and recently when I ran TF2 recently on med-low settings in normal casual games I am getting about 80-110fps. When I ran Payday med settings solo no mods I am getting around 70-100fps, but I noticed when running The Finals with all high graphics and med raytracing I am averaging 140-160fps. It doesn't make sense to me how I can knock whole buildings to the ground in a colossal map with stunning shadows but am struggling to win gunfights in games from 2007 because my screen is tearing across my eyes. Is this just an optimization thing? I feel like my old rig (GTX1060, i5-5600) would run the same games better and I don't understand what is happening here. Sorry for the tirade but I've been trying to test stuff all day and I don't know what else to do haha
These are just some recent examples but every game I've played on my old rig runs the same if not worse than the newer rig. I never bothered to check because I haven't been gaming on this rig a lot but I've been running task manager on my 2nd monitor the past few days and while I am playing games task manager says both my CPU and GPU are always being utilized at about 20-25%. Bottleneck calculator sites say there should be a 3.1% CPU bottleneck so I get that but that doesn't explain both parts running at 25% power when games get hectic. Might also be worth mentioning that ram isn't affected by this throttling and the CPU and GPU have no problem spiking up when rendering stuff like in Sony Vegas or Stable Diffusion, just doesn't seem to want to work when playing games of any kind.
Some things I have done to combat this (~2week timeframe) are:
Tested all ram with Memtest86
Debloated and updated GPU drivers using DDU and NVcleanstall
Updated bios
Reconfigured NVIDIA control panel and some other smaller graphic settings
Wiped drives and changed from Win11 to Tiny11
I run the windows ultimate power performance plan or the Bitsum highest performance plan with x game's process states on high. All games are written to an SSD.
Please let me know if I am missing any vital information here to helping this problem. Obviously this isn't earthshattering stuff and I can tolerate sparing fps but I can't even get 165 frames for my monitor on titles from over a decade ago, and not meeting my native refresh rate tears the screen in front of my eyes and actively hurts my performance and enjoyment of whatever I'm doing. I just want my computer to run games over 160 frames 🙁 I really don't understand why The Finals with ray tracing on medium runs beautifully but I can't even make it through a payday heist (on med-low graphics) without my eyes actually hurting. Is there any chance this is just an optimization issue for these older games I have only been playing recently? I seriously am lost because I have noticed all games run pretty poor from what I've seen(like gta, overwatch, call of duty titles, even games like league) and I feel like even though I do have a pretty standard mid-tier setup nowadays I should not be pushing 100 frames in TF2. Please help me if you have any suggestions! This is my first forum post ever so please let me know if any further info is needed. Thank you
EDIT: Here is a recent UserBenchmark test https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/65452282
It says my CPU is performing below expectations and my GPU is performing below potential.
Put here incase someone can make sense of maybe why this is. I could also run cinebench or another similar benchmarking program if that would help.
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