1) full system specs (new build):
2) Full description of the issue:
I'm trying to game at 1920x1200, trying to play both BF4 and Far Cry 3. NVidia Experience indicates I should be able to play these on High/Utlra. This proved very quickly to be false, and I dropped the graphical settings very quickly to low (AA off) on both games, which has made little difference.
I'm able to sometimes run decent framerates (60-100) as soon as I start a new session of BF4, but they are very short lived, and I'm in short order running in the teens or worse. FC3 is no better -- I cannot even have an engine rendered cutscene play smoothly. I don't know the setting to doublecheck my fps in FC3, but to my eye it's maybe 30, then stutters under 15-20, and goes back and forth.
I see similar results in Uengine Heaven benchmarking (particularly with AA on), but with a better base frame rate (go/stutter/go/stutter):
Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic
FPS: 61.2
Scores: 1541
Min FPS: 9.0
Max FPS: 141.7
3) Attempted resolution steps
- Updated driver firmware
- went from win 8 to 8.1
- reduced graphical quality to low
- checked process monitor to make sure there weren't any competing resource hogs/startup items
- checked power management, disabled energy saving on the GPU and set CPU minimums to 100%
- installed EVGA precision and set a target FPS
- confirmed Ram is in DC config, the 770 is in PCIE1 and the monitor is plugged into the 770.
I'm at my wit's end here. Any help would be appreciated. I have a worthless $1,100 computer right now. I'd rather keep the hardware if there's an available solution than ship it back -- if you fix the issue I'll paypal you $20, dead serious.
tl;dr can't play games on low that I should be able to play on high/ultra
■ make and model of the motherboard - ASRock Z87M Extreme4 LGA 1150 Intel Z87
■ power supply - Coolmax 240-Pin 900W Power Supply with Active PFC (ZU-900B)
■ SSD - Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE120BW
■ HDD- Seagate Barracuda 2 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST2000DM001
■ Memory (Set up Dual Channel in A1/B1) - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL
■ NVIDIA Drivers - 331.82 and 332.21
■ OS - Win 8/8.1
■ Video Card - PNY 770 GTX 2gb plugged into PCIE1 (monitor is plugged into the GTX via HDMI)
2) Full description of the issue:
I'm trying to game at 1920x1200, trying to play both BF4 and Far Cry 3. NVidia Experience indicates I should be able to play these on High/Utlra. This proved very quickly to be false, and I dropped the graphical settings very quickly to low (AA off) on both games, which has made little difference.
I'm able to sometimes run decent framerates (60-100) as soon as I start a new session of BF4, but they are very short lived, and I'm in short order running in the teens or worse. FC3 is no better -- I cannot even have an engine rendered cutscene play smoothly. I don't know the setting to doublecheck my fps in FC3, but to my eye it's maybe 30, then stutters under 15-20, and goes back and forth.
I see similar results in Uengine Heaven benchmarking (particularly with AA on), but with a better base frame rate (go/stutter/go/stutter):
Heaven Benchmark v3.0 Basic
FPS: 61.2
Scores: 1541
Min FPS: 9.0
Max FPS: 141.7
3) Attempted resolution steps
- Updated driver firmware
- went from win 8 to 8.1
- reduced graphical quality to low
- checked process monitor to make sure there weren't any competing resource hogs/startup items
- checked power management, disabled energy saving on the GPU and set CPU minimums to 100%
- installed EVGA precision and set a target FPS
- confirmed Ram is in DC config, the 770 is in PCIE1 and the monitor is plugged into the 770.
I'm at my wit's end here. Any help would be appreciated. I have a worthless $1,100 computer right now. I'd rather keep the hardware if there's an available solution than ship it back -- if you fix the issue I'll paypal you $20, dead serious.
tl;dr can't play games on low that I should be able to play on high/ultra
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