Why can't I reach 60 FPS? What is the bottleneck?

philakone

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Dec 14, 2012
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I play a game called DOTA and the game is easily maxed out. I've played this game on numerous systems and the lowest end system I've maxed it out on was a G3258 and GTX 550 Ti card on 1080P @ 60FPS.

My current system should EASILY max out the game but it always ranges from 45-60 FPS. I've used far inferior systems and have maxed out DOTA. I've also used this exact setup and have maxed it out on even 120 Hz / 120 FPS monitors. So I'm very confused.

My build is as follows:

CPU - AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2 Ghz 6-core
Mobo - Asus M4A79XTD-Evo
GPU - Asus GTX 750 Ti 2 GB
HDD - OCZ 120 GB SSD Vertex 2
Ram - Kingston DDR3-1333 8 GB
PSU - Coolermaster 460w RS-460

What is the issue? My CPU and GPU usage is never even close to 100%. It hovers around 50-70% usage always. The temperatures are also very low. GPU @ 50 degrees and CPU @ 45 degrees.

So my usage is low and my temperature is low too. MSI Afterburner does not exhibit any signs of bottlenecking.

So what could be causing this issue? My 12V Rail is more than enough to power my GX 750 Ti. And that power supply is also sufficient to power the 1090T system.

Quick notes:

- No crashing issues at all
- Nothing is overclocked. Though when it's overclocked, same frame issue.
- No freezes in game. Just FPS drops with ZERO thermal throttling.
- 12V / 5V / 3V power is consistent
- Clean install of Windows 7.
- All drivers and bios up to date.

Any ideas community?
 
Solution
I found out what was wrong! For some odd reason, CPU priority on DOTA wasn't defaulted to high. I simply used commands -console -high and it solved the issue 100%, maxing out frames every second now.

philakone

Honorable
Dec 14, 2012
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10,520
I found out what was wrong! For some odd reason, CPU priority on DOTA wasn't defaulted to high. I simply used commands -console -high and it solved the issue 100%, maxing out frames every second now.
 
Solution