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Problems with low FPS with GTX 780! Please Help!

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March 25, 2014 1:56:27 PM

Hello guys and gals,
People report that their FPS with an 780 on 1080 is 60-100 fps. My fps goes up to 120 but dips into the 40s quite often. Sometimes it dipped into the teens (ouch)
I have the Gigabyte Ghz edition of the 780 and I did overclock it a bit (slight OC using OC guru) and it got an error. Then I restored the clock settings to stock. This lasted all but five minutes.
How do I fix this problem?

Steps taken to solve:
Disabled power saving technologies (made computer go to high performance in Power Settings) and turned performance preference on in Nvidia Control Panel and disabled EUP Power saving tech in BIOS!
*Maybe turn off Shadowplay when I get home?

Do I need to wipe my drivers again? (did that with Driver Sweeper)
Need to Overclock?
Uninstall and reinstall BF4?

My Specs
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670k at STOCK Speeds Turbo Boost enabled.
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 780 GHZ edition
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Blue 8 GB
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 750 Watt
HDD: Western Digital 1 TB Blue 7200 RPM
Motherboard: MSI Gaming MSI Z87-G45
Monitor: ASUS 24 inch 144 Hz monitor

What can be wrong? Thanks! In comparison, my old AMD HD 7950 ran the game at a constant 50-60 fps, no drops no problems.

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March 25, 2014 1:57:56 PM

What game?
What are your temperatures while running a game?
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March 25, 2014 2:02:43 PM

Rationale said:
What game?
What are your temperatures while running a game?


The game I'm running is Battlefield 4. The temps while in game is 45 C for the CPU and 35 C for the GPU.
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March 25, 2014 2:19:01 PM

Are capping at144 fps with vsync, or lower? The higher a framerate gets, the faster and harder it drops when something happens to overtax the hardware.
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March 25, 2014 2:36:46 PM

BF4 is one of the games nice enough to give you a framerate cap option in the menu, try capping it at 60. The problem with a 144Hz panel is that you are likely never going to be stable at 144 fps, 120Hz panels are better because 60 goes evenly into 120.
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March 25, 2014 2:40:01 PM

At that high of a refresh you barely need vsync anyway at lower framerates. Could just cap the framerate at 30 or 60 fps and be done with it. Wouldn't have to deal with mouselag either, that way.
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March 25, 2014 2:45:10 PM

I'd recommend capping the framerate at 60 fps. It will look gorgeous, plus you can jack up the AA and every other setting! And if you don't want to do that, you can fun 60 fps likely at 70% load most times, and your heat would be really low.
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March 25, 2014 2:49:28 PM

Yeah, I'd recommend a 60 fps cap. I do 30 fps, but there's no way that's necessary on a 780.
Still, it's worth exploring more options to make sure something isn't actually wrong with his components that's making the framerate drop so far.
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March 25, 2014 2:51:59 PM

I could just be a BF4 issue. That game likes the Red Team's drivers better:p 
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March 25, 2014 2:56:31 PM

Definitely try turning off ShadowPlay, and make sure you're not running a ridiculously pointless amount of AA like 16x or something. There's virtually no difference past 4x at 1080p.
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March 25, 2014 6:28:11 PM

If I cap my frames at 60 then what would have been the point of spending extra on my VG248QE monitor?
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March 25, 2014 6:34:25 PM

There is literally no point in buying a 144Hz panel unless you can hold 144 fps (ie. Tri/Quad SLI), a 120Hz panel makes more sense cause many of them can easily scale to 60 FPS. But since you already have it, I suggest to increase performance you cap at 60fps.
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March 25, 2014 6:45:25 PM

TheCoachChen said:
If I cap my frames at 60 then what would have been the point of spending extra on my VG248QE monitor?


The ability to be free from mouselag, mostly. Vsync is awful for mouselag, but not having vsync on a 60hz monitor is even worse.

That said, I don't think there's a big point to 144hz to justify the cost. I'm one of the crazy people who thinks higher than 30 fps is barely worthwhile as long as there's a good way to kill screen tearing and mouselag. Hence I am eagerly awaiting gsync.
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March 25, 2014 7:32:31 PM

Well I did spend the money on the 144 hz monitor.
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