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lemywinx

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So long story short I built a new desktop.
Specs: Gigabyte 990FX Gaming Mobo
AMD FX-8350 8 core CPU
2x8gb DDR3 1866 G Skills Ripjaw
1000w Corsair PSU
Kraken x61 Cooling
Gigabyte GTX 1080
With all of these I outright destroy some games on Ultra but when it comes to GTA V I can drop to below 40fps and with the Witcher 3 i get less than 0 fps. I can't for the life of me figure this out because after watching people's benchmarks on Youtube I'm not getting anywhere close to what I should. What should I do? Is this a matter of more RAM? I feel as if i am missing something. I would greatly appreciate some guidance in these trying times.

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lemywinx
 
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amtseung
There are a couple things I would keep an eye on in this scenario, including temps of every sensor you can find (CPU core, CPU socket, motherboard VRM, GPU core, GPU VRM, etc.), the clock speeds of all of these components, and the load on each of the components. I know that GTA5, like GTA4, was very good at utterly destroying every AMD module-based CPU by hammering only one of the two cores per module because Intel-based optimization, although my now defunct FX8320 didn't have issues running either GTA titles with an HD7950 on it at nearly ultra. Had to turn down population density and render distance since they were the biggest AMD CPU-killing settings in the game. I can imagine, if you're running GTA5 on full ultra with the redux mod...
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bwinzey

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Check to make sure that the correct drivers are installed. As of GTA, some settings like AA will massively reduce performance, but if you're talking about 40fps 1080P, it does seem to be under-performing. 16gb RAM is more than enough for any game at the present. Your CPU might slightly bottleneck the graphics card but there's nothing you can do about that. Only other problem that I can think of is that the graphics card is faulty, but generally a faulty graphics card would present with more severe problems than under-performance. I would un-install the drivers and install them again.
 
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There are a couple things I would keep an eye on in this scenario, including temps of every sensor you can find (CPU core, CPU socket, motherboard VRM, GPU core, GPU VRM, etc.), the clock speeds of all of these components, and the load on each of the components. I know that GTA5, like GTA4, was very good at utterly destroying every AMD module-based CPU by hammering only one of the two cores per module because Intel-based optimization, although my now defunct FX8320 didn't have issues running either GTA titles with an HD7950 on it at nearly ultra. Had to turn down population density and render distance since they were the biggest AMD CPU-killing settings in the game. I can imagine, if you're running GTA5 on full ultra with the redux mod, plenty of things will push you down to sub-30fps easily. For GTA at least, this is a matter of balancing your settings with having a relatively weak CPU and really friggin strong GPU in a CPU-heavy game.

Witcher 3 dropping to 0 fps? Something is definitely wrong. I've never played a witcher title (I should, I hear it's great), so I don't know its inner workings at all (I normally tear through the game files of every game I download, force of habit from the early days of fallout 3 modding). A quick google search tells me that it still has ini files in a format very similar to unreal-engine-looking strings, so potentially, it's skimping out on hardware usage because ampcompat (or whatever it may be in redengine, no idea here) is telling itself you only have 2 cores (would be interpreted by the OS as 1 module), 1024mb of ram, and 256mb of vram, despite having much, much more at its disposal. I know for a fact that every unreal engine based game that I've ever played, especially the asian mmo's, had this exact problem.

TL;DR Potential problems include: temps, power delivery, driver conflict, missing driver(s), game files needing to be modified, game file corruption, CPU architecture. I'd check them individually, in that order. At least, my gut feeling tells me so.
 
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