Hey guys,
I’m in dire need of some help please.
I’ve just bought a new system:
• Intel Core i7 7700K
• MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk X 11GB
• Corsair Vengeance LED CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4
• Intel 600P Series 512GB M.2 SSD
• ViewSonic XG2703-GS 27in G-Sync 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor
• Corsair Hydro Series H100i 240mm Liquid CPU Cooler
• Western Digital WD Blue 2TB WD20EZRZ
• Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32bit/64bit USB Flash Drive
• Gigabyte Z270-Gaming K3 Motherboard
• Thermaltake 650W Toughpower Gold
Sound like a beast right? It’s actually performing really poorly in gaming situations and I can’t work out why or where the bottleneck is happening.
First up, here is the result of the Heaven 4.0 benchmark and how the CPU/GPU were performing. As expected the GPU was put under pressure, but the CPU was OK.
The GPU is maxing out, but I’m only averaging 82.4 FPS. Here is what happens when I play BF1 with DX11.
CPU sits around 70-80% and GPU is at about 45%. Why am I only getting 50-60 FPS when people with equal and lesser spec’d systems can get 90-100fps avg?
Things to know about BF1:
- G-Sync is on
- V-Sync is off
- All settings on ultra. I refuse to lower the settings when I paid a lot of money for a top of the line system that should be performing better. Also, it still didn’t make much difference to performance when I did.
- All other windows/programs closed when playing
- I initially thought it was a BF1 problem so made a user.cfg file. It has:
o render.drawscreeninfo 1
o Gametime.MaxVariablefps 146
o PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1
o renderdevice.renderaheadlimit 1
o Resolution scale- 100%
o DX12 disabled (I get similar results with it on anyway)
o GPU memory restriction off
- FPS is only slightly better in single player, maybe 5 fps.
I tried playing with an older title, Portal 2, to see how it would go:
As you can see, it was going over 800FPS!! And the GPU and CPU were hardly thinking about it. Hmm. OK, let’s play something newer. The Division….
Sill have a terrible FPS. First time I loaded in, I was having massive frame drops. Changed to DX11 and it smoothed out, but still only averaging around 60-70fps. CPU s maxing out and GPU isn’t working that hard.
I know, I know. Enough of this BS, you want to see the CPU-Z stats….
The only thing noteworthy in there for me is that when comparing with the 7600k in the bench test, is scores a bit lower in the Single Thread score.
Things I’ve done to try and faultfind/fix this:
- DDU and clean driver install (heaps of times)
- Ramtest. All ok.
- Power connectors to PSU (two cables for the GPU)
- Stress test the CPU (Prime95 and CPU-Z). No issues.
- PhysX on and off doesn’t change anything
- High performance is on in Windows Power Settings.
- Unparked cores
I hope you guys appreciate the effort I’ve gone to here and I’m coming to you as my last resort. I’ve used every tool in my toolbox. I’m hoping you guys might be able to give me some ideas about what this problem is.
I’d just love to get to a point where I’m getting the FPS I Deserve!
TL;DR- New gaming PC that is performing way below what is expected of it. FPS is low in BF1 while CPU and GPU usage are low.
I’m in dire need of some help please.
I’ve just bought a new system:
• Intel Core i7 7700K
• MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Sea Hawk X 11GB
• Corsair Vengeance LED CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4
• Intel 600P Series 512GB M.2 SSD
• ViewSonic XG2703-GS 27in G-Sync 165Hz IPS Gaming Monitor
• Corsair Hydro Series H100i 240mm Liquid CPU Cooler
• Western Digital WD Blue 2TB WD20EZRZ
• Microsoft Windows 10 Home 32bit/64bit USB Flash Drive
• Gigabyte Z270-Gaming K3 Motherboard
• Thermaltake 650W Toughpower Gold
Sound like a beast right? It’s actually performing really poorly in gaming situations and I can’t work out why or where the bottleneck is happening.
First up, here is the result of the Heaven 4.0 benchmark and how the CPU/GPU were performing. As expected the GPU was put under pressure, but the CPU was OK.
The GPU is maxing out, but I’m only averaging 82.4 FPS. Here is what happens when I play BF1 with DX11.
CPU sits around 70-80% and GPU is at about 45%. Why am I only getting 50-60 FPS when people with equal and lesser spec’d systems can get 90-100fps avg?
Things to know about BF1:
- G-Sync is on
- V-Sync is off
- All settings on ultra. I refuse to lower the settings when I paid a lot of money for a top of the line system that should be performing better. Also, it still didn’t make much difference to performance when I did.
- All other windows/programs closed when playing
- I initially thought it was a BF1 problem so made a user.cfg file. It has:
o render.drawscreeninfo 1
o Gametime.MaxVariablefps 146
o PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1
o renderdevice.renderaheadlimit 1
o Resolution scale- 100%
o DX12 disabled (I get similar results with it on anyway)
o GPU memory restriction off
- FPS is only slightly better in single player, maybe 5 fps.
I tried playing with an older title, Portal 2, to see how it would go:
As you can see, it was going over 800FPS!! And the GPU and CPU were hardly thinking about it. Hmm. OK, let’s play something newer. The Division….
Sill have a terrible FPS. First time I loaded in, I was having massive frame drops. Changed to DX11 and it smoothed out, but still only averaging around 60-70fps. CPU s maxing out and GPU isn’t working that hard.
I know, I know. Enough of this BS, you want to see the CPU-Z stats….
The only thing noteworthy in there for me is that when comparing with the 7600k in the bench test, is scores a bit lower in the Single Thread score.
Things I’ve done to try and faultfind/fix this:
- DDU and clean driver install (heaps of times)
- Ramtest. All ok.
- Power connectors to PSU (two cables for the GPU)
- Stress test the CPU (Prime95 and CPU-Z). No issues.
- PhysX on and off doesn’t change anything
- High performance is on in Windows Power Settings.
- Unparked cores
I hope you guys appreciate the effort I’ve gone to here and I’m coming to you as my last resort. I’ve used every tool in my toolbox. I’m hoping you guys might be able to give me some ideas about what this problem is.
I’d just love to get to a point where I’m getting the FPS I Deserve!
TL;DR- New gaming PC that is performing way below what is expected of it. FPS is low in BF1 while CPU and GPU usage are low.
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