- Jan 2, 2017
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I've been working on this problem for the last week and haven't nailed down the root of the issue. Open to ideas and plan on responding...
PC:
- AMD FX-8320 8-core
- GTX 1080 FE
- 16GB DDR3 RAM
- Game installed on 240GB SSD Kingston
- Windows 10 64bit
- 1080p monitor
- Board- ASRock 980DE3/U3S3
Noticing the problem:
- Bought Forza Horizon 3, noticed huge frame drops all the way down to 8-14 FPS for a period of about 10 seconds. Happens even with graphics turned down to low in game. Happens at least every 10 minutes even on circuit races where I've already passed that part of the track more than once.
- Also noticed while playing STEEP. Graphics set all the way up, having drops to the 15-25 FPS range in the same pattern. Thought this was normal at first until I noticed the pattern was identical to Forza.
- Afterburner graph with both games: (Left = Horizon 3 lowest graphic settings. Middle = Break between games. Right = STEEP with highest graphic settings) http://imgur.com/gvyTrVY
- The graph is was lead me to believe it might be something apart from the graphics card. The dramatic dips in both games seem to happen in the same time intervals. Since the GPU isn't being worked hard, it didn't make sense that the FPS dropped so much (as if it would be overheating and dropping in clock speed, but it sits happily in the 40 degree's C range). When the FPS drops, I think the 1080 has even less to worry about computing since there's fewer frames for it to process. Overall, just trying to figure out where the bottleneck is happening. Buying a new SSD or something isn't a huge deal if it fixes this.
What I've tried so far from other forums/posts:
- Have turned it off and on again several times in the following
- As I mentioned, turned down graphics to lowest settings possible, should be no issue for a 1080 but still seeing FPS drops to the point of being unplayable. I don't have high expectations of gaming with over 100 FPS all the time, I'd be happy with the minimum of 30 FPS with little tiny dips into the upper 20's during high load times. But a 1080 with lowest graphics shouldn't struggle like that.
- Set Nvidia control panel to 3D max performance, and turned off shader cache.
- Reinstalled game on SSD, removed old games and defragged drive.
- Removed graphics driver completely and reinstalled from Nvidia, verified up to date via GeFroce experience.
- Set horizon .exe process to CPU priority high.
- Turned off CPU0 for horizon .exe process (affinity), one person playing horizon found that helped.
- Turned off Xbox DVR services.
- Thus far, testing all these solutions have not had a change in the issue's frequency or magnitude.
- As I write this, I'm letting Forza reinstall on my spare E: drive which is a terabyte HDD for storage. That should have slower transfer speeds than the SSD but I'm interested to see if it has any difference, better or worse.
Feel free to ask for any other details. I am forever grateful if we solve this together!
-Rickeywinterborn
PC:
- AMD FX-8320 8-core
- GTX 1080 FE
- 16GB DDR3 RAM
- Game installed on 240GB SSD Kingston
- Windows 10 64bit
- 1080p monitor
- Board- ASRock 980DE3/U3S3
Noticing the problem:
- Bought Forza Horizon 3, noticed huge frame drops all the way down to 8-14 FPS for a period of about 10 seconds. Happens even with graphics turned down to low in game. Happens at least every 10 minutes even on circuit races where I've already passed that part of the track more than once.
- Also noticed while playing STEEP. Graphics set all the way up, having drops to the 15-25 FPS range in the same pattern. Thought this was normal at first until I noticed the pattern was identical to Forza.
- Afterburner graph with both games: (Left = Horizon 3 lowest graphic settings. Middle = Break between games. Right = STEEP with highest graphic settings) http://imgur.com/gvyTrVY
- The graph is was lead me to believe it might be something apart from the graphics card. The dramatic dips in both games seem to happen in the same time intervals. Since the GPU isn't being worked hard, it didn't make sense that the FPS dropped so much (as if it would be overheating and dropping in clock speed, but it sits happily in the 40 degree's C range). When the FPS drops, I think the 1080 has even less to worry about computing since there's fewer frames for it to process. Overall, just trying to figure out where the bottleneck is happening. Buying a new SSD or something isn't a huge deal if it fixes this.
What I've tried so far from other forums/posts:
- Have turned it off and on again several times in the following
- As I mentioned, turned down graphics to lowest settings possible, should be no issue for a 1080 but still seeing FPS drops to the point of being unplayable. I don't have high expectations of gaming with over 100 FPS all the time, I'd be happy with the minimum of 30 FPS with little tiny dips into the upper 20's during high load times. But a 1080 with lowest graphics shouldn't struggle like that.
- Set Nvidia control panel to 3D max performance, and turned off shader cache.
- Reinstalled game on SSD, removed old games and defragged drive.
- Removed graphics driver completely and reinstalled from Nvidia, verified up to date via GeFroce experience.
- Set horizon .exe process to CPU priority high.
- Turned off CPU0 for horizon .exe process (affinity), one person playing horizon found that helped.
- Turned off Xbox DVR services.
- Thus far, testing all these solutions have not had a change in the issue's frequency or magnitude.
- As I write this, I'm letting Forza reinstall on my spare E: drive which is a terabyte HDD for storage. That should have slower transfer speeds than the SSD but I'm interested to see if it has any difference, better or worse.
Feel free to ask for any other details. I am forever grateful if we solve this together!
-Rickeywinterborn
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