my 770 can't get stable fps in any game on 1440x900 ac brother hood 47-90 fps all the time it lags ac4 30fps watch dogs 45-52 fps the witcher 49-70 fps skyrim 15-120 fps wtf.
generally speaking there are only a couple of things that can cause this issue.
cpu bottleneck - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your CPU usage is for each core (detach the graph and keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)
gpu power - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your GPU usage is (keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)
driver issues - do you have the most recent drivers
game optimization - are there any game updates available
If nothing is maxed out then there may be something that can be done but you have to find out what is going on...
I just want to add to this what when the video card is not maxed out at slowdowns it may be the cpu holding you back. That said, you may not see 100% cpu use because if the game only uses 2 cores Windows will see 50% use, while in fact you are maxing out what the game can do with said cpu.
Also it is important to know some games hit one part harder than the other or even bounce back and forth. Guild Wars 2 for instance can go from max gpu to max cpu depending on what is happening. Large battles hit the cpu so hard the video card has to wait for work. And this is with the cpu overclocked to 4.4 ghz. This effects MMO type games much more.
generally speaking there are only a couple of things that can cause this issue.
cpu bottleneck - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your CPU usage is for each core (detach the graph and keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)
gpu power - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your GPU usage is (keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)
driver issues - do you have the most recent drivers
game optimization - are there any game updates available
If nothing is maxed out then there may be something that can be done but you have to find out what is going on first. If even one of the cores is maxed out then you know it is the game not being optimized for quad cores and the only thing that can be done is an overclock to the CPU.
generally speaking there are only a couple of things that can cause this issue.
cpu bottleneck - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your CPU usage is for each core (detach the graph and keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)
gpu power - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your GPU usage is (keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)
driver issues - do you have the most recent drivers
game optimization - are there any game updates available
If nothing is maxed out then there may be something that can be done but you have to find out what is going on first. If even one of the cores is maxed out then you know it is the game not being optimized for quad cores and the only thing that can be done is an overclock to the CPU.
Newest drivers cpu per core is like 60-80 in games like tw2 skyrim in watch dogs ac4 etc 100% game optimizations well only ac4 and watch dogs aren't well optimizated
when looking at your HW monitor what is your amount of GPU memory usage. I do not think it should be an issue at your resolution but it is a bottleneck I run into with my 2x 7950's.
when looking at your HW monitor what is your amount of GPU memory usage. I do not think it should be an issue at your resolution but it is a bottleneck I run into with my 2x 7950's.
I run a 1440p monitor and some of these games cripple the 6 gigs of GDDR (only 3 really since it is shared).
In some games when I hit that GDDR limit my fps just stops eventho I am not using all of the GPU. If I lower some textures and generally play with settings the things get better. the msaa 8x and 16x are devastating on my setup.
There is that program from nvidia that allows nvidia to adjust your game settings for you. you may want to try that and see if helps. nvidia experience or something like that.
I also run into problems in games that are CPU intensive on a single core. most recently it has been rome total war 2 that is killing a single core (just spent the last 30 minutes cranking the CPU back up to 4.8).