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Hello there! I recently purchased a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 2GB OC Edition, and i'm having surprisingly low FPS in games like Battlefield 4 or GTA V. That "low FPS" is around 40-42 in BF and 35-42 in GTA. The interesting thing is that in half of the playing time, it is the expected 55-62 FPS, which I think would be the perfectly normal. These low FPSs occur randomly.
Here's an example:

I'm driving through Los Santos in GTA V, I'm having a good ~60 FPS, and suddenly it goes down to ~40 FPS. After 1-4 minutes of doing this, it suddenly goes back up to that ~60 like nothing happened.

Same in BF4:

I'm running in some village's ruins, the picture is being perfectly fluent with ~65 FPS, and.. BAM! it's down to ~42. Goes back to ~60 in 2-5 minutes.

Using Open Hardware Monitor, I recorded the GPU temperature, the GPU Load and the CPU Load:

https://imgur.com/a/dhHIM

This was recorded during around 1 hour 40 minutes of Battlefield 4 gaming. The huge down spikes in the GPU Temp are loading screens.

So, it appears that the GPU stayed at ~60 ˙C at all times.
The GPU Load was jumping all the way from 55% to 96%, but on average, 75%.
The CPU Load was mostly stable around 80%, so it seems like it didn't even want to perform better, if I can say such thing.
I didn't took a picture of the VRAM usage, but it was absolutely stable at ~1600MB out of the 2048MB.

Could you give me advice how to stop the FPS going down from 60 to that 40-ish?

ASUS A88X-PLUS
AMD A8 7600
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1050 2GB OC Edition
Kingston HyperX Fury 2x4GB (8GB) DDR3 1866MHz
FSP 400W
Windows 10 Pro 64bit with latest NVIDIA graphics driver

P.S.: Sorry for my english not being the best.


 
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I would be happy with it. 65FPS at 1080? THat is with a bottom end 1050? And that's when...
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But according to Open Hardware Monitor, the CPU Load was mostly stable at 80%. And, according to http://www.thebottlenecker.com/, this CPU with this GPU is not a bottleneck at all

 
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In that case, I think you just cannot expect more from that GPU. GTA V is a demanding game and so is BF4.
 
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But then why do I have 65 FPS for like 8 minutes then 40 FPS for 5 minutes then back to 65-ish for a couple of minutes?

 
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I know that not every place in the game require the same GPU and CPU power to render, but I can stay in the exact same spot having 65 FPS, and some minutes later, 40. And yes, when it's 60 FPS it's 60 FPS and when it's 40, it's 40, so it is absolutely stable when having 60 or 40. It feels like a big switch switching when it changes form 60 to 40, and the other way. Not like it climbs down, or up.

 
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I would be happy with it. 65FPS at 1080? THat is with a bottom end 1050? And that's when you're playing GTA V? 40FPS is normal.

Have you watched youtube videos of those with identical systems and PC settings and in game settings that you do?

Sounds normal to me.

You seem to know about gaming sooooo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH4MU-ZKP1A. Yes, there's a more recent version of Asus GPU Tweak. Why that video? Because it's in depth. With your knowledge you should be able to ignore the clocks and apply that guy's wisdom to your perceived issue. The log is so very important.

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Your OSD is showing all that info?

I would also use HwInfo while you play.
 
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Yes, I've watched videos with the same GPU and with a CPU near the performance of this one. They have 60 FPS with EXACT SAME settings. And yeah, 40 FPS would be good in GTA V, but GeForce Experience is showing 40fps, and it's actually more like 35, and I forgot to mention that there is also screen tearing when it goes down from ~60. So, the screen tearing makes it much worse. i tried with a bunch of different graphic settings, but no, it's just there.
 
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About that video, I'll try. If I can't solve the issue, I might do a Windows reinstall, so all the junk from the 2 years I've been using this install. If nothing helps I probably just accept it. Anyways, thanks for your help.
 
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https://imgur.com/a/C04nJ
There you go. For some reason it thinks it's Windows 8 instead of 10, and that its CPU has 2 cores instead of 4, but that's not true, ignore that.
 
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Your system seems to be performing BETTER than some https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRaJwRyQfU&t=346s 5:45. I am still leaning towards no problem. There are those inconsistancies but they are not a clear representation of the big picture. A picture of your system looks good. Nothing wrong imo. The min. FPS will vary due to other things your PC needs to do. Most likely the max FPS is 20FPS above that guy because you have the OC model.

Thoughts?
 
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Well, I've played some BF4 in the last 1 hour, and was amazed to see that now my framerate didn't go under 50 FPS and sometimes it even went up to 82!
So it kinda solved itself... At least I hope it did and will stay the same.
 
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Good. Sounds like background programs might be affecting it. I use Ccleaner to clean my Start-up tasks. If I am not connected to the internet I don't have to be worried about security so much.

A Hail Mary? The PSU is causing issues. Most likely not.


Still, nice to hear it's good for now.
 
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