considerably low FPS with GTX 1080?

ripharambe

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Hello, I got into PC gaming this year and I decided to buy some top tier components for my PC, but they don't seem to be working very well (compared to what I've heard about the GTX 1080 being a beast and whatnot).

My specs are :
CPU : Intel i7-6700k
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1080 Founders Edition
Cooler: Corsair H100i v2
RAM: Samsung DDR4 8G 17000 (I currently have two 8GB installed resulting in 16GB of total RAM)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A
PSU: XFX PRO 850W Gold

Compared to what I've seen on youtube (FPS tests of games), I've been only getting a maximum of 50 to 60 FPS on games such as Skyrim (modded), Fallout 4, Overwatch, and GTA 5. I am running these games on 1920x1080p and on pretty damn high settings. However, I sometimes (about 10% of my gameplay) get huge FPS drops sometimes to about 30 FPS.

Am I doing something wrong or did I put too much hope into the Graphics Card? Keep in mind that I am not overclocking(because I don't know how). If that FPS (with high settings) can be achieved by stable overclocking, what would be the best solution to do so?

 
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080/17.html

Your FPS is much too low, though I can't comment on a modded Skyrim.

Things to check or do:

1) monitor attached to GTX1080
2) DDU http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
3) then, reinstall NVidia drivers but choose "custom-> clean" install path, then

4) run Unigine Valley benchmark.
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/asus_gtx_1080_strix_review/19

That GPU got about 161FPS average using these settings:
- custom
- DX11
- 1920x1080
- Ultra
- 0xAA

So you should be close to that (over 150FPS).
 

ripharambe

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How would I "reinstall" the nVidia driver? After I did the DDU all nVidia update I could find was from Windows update and that doesn't give me the option to clean install.

Edit: I updated it anyways and ran the program and got mostly 180 FPS from what I saw...
 

ripharambe

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I ran the tests. It seems like GTA 5 seems to have the FPS locked at 60 for some reason but I ran the benchmark test of GTA and got some FPS drops to 30 at one point... Fallout 4 also has a dumb FPS cap of 60 and it seems like increasing that will mess up with the in game mechanics. Overwatch seems fine at about 200 FPS lol. Modded Skyrim also has about 100 FPS+. I guess I'll just have to play around with the settings.
 

Josh_125

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i have the same problem in GTAV getting 60fps down to 19fps
yet i can play DOOM 4k ultra/vulkan/nightmare settings at 70fps... i think its gta

 

Gjunki 619

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I'm having the same issue and when I benched marked it I got 83 FPS with a score of 3474. That is half of what you're getting, I'm using an old 3770k, could that be the issue?
 

Orion172

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Hey ripharambe, i have similar system and have just installed an EVGA gtx 1080 and i am having the same problems. In Unigine Heaven it got a great score 5506 hitting 218fps. also Overwatch and Starwars Battlefront both get 140-190fps, but most games including GTAV get 60fps. rainbow six is stuck at 30!!!!!. Did you find a solution to this? as i have reinstalled the latest drivers several times but still no luck.