lampl6ust :
Hello! So recently i bought a gtx 1080 and i have a i5 6400 CPU and i have bad fps and when i lower the settings the fps get worse. Help plz!
Hello lampl6ust,
1. Check for any malware:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/
If there is, remove it instantly.
2. Download Geforce and download drivers from there. You may have installed a wrong driver:
https://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/download
3. One reason why your performance maybe low is because of your parked cores. Simply, a parked core basically means it's disabled and you do not want that. Here is how to identify if your cores are parked/disabled:
Open up windows task manager > Click on the 'performance tab' at the top > at the bottom click on 'open resource monitor' > click on the 'CPU' tab at the top > On the right you will see graphs. Make sure at the top of each graph where it says at "CPU 0", CPU 1 etc.. and make sure it does NOT say "CPU 0 - Parked".
Look at this video too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKxZ1mq9KA
If any of the cores state they are parked or greyed out, do this:
Go to control panel > click on 'hardware and sound' > then 'power options' > then select 'high performance'.
If you can't find it then click on the 'hide additional plans' tab and it should be there.
4. Make sure you're Monitor is plugged into your GPU and not motherboard, you don't want to be running on integrated graphics!
5. Uninstall your driver using DDU:
Download: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uni...
How to use it: hit clean and restart and ensure you download the correct driver after!
6. Download Speccy and see if your all your parts are there and are functional, also check the temperature.
http://filehippo.com/download_speccy/
7. Take out the RAM and play games with each individual one. If the performance is better then you know the RAM taken out is faulty
8. Also ensure there are no viruses using your antivirus scan
9. turn off / decrease godrays and PhysX
Make sure nothing is overlocked.
Post all you specs please.
Post your temps using speccy, Idle and when playing games.
I think your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, I would recommend you upgrade to an I7.