1080 TI - Low FPS / FPS Drops in Overwatch

mrkyle1983

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Hi!
My old 980 TI just bit the dust so I decided to upgrade to a 1080 TI, expecting to see a pretty significant jump in FPS in Overwatch.

However what I am finding is that the FPS is even more volatile than with my 980 TI, which would settle in the high 200's with the same settings. It is jumping from 220-240fps all the way down to 130-140fps and stuttering a bit as well.

I pretty much only play Overwatch - have all the settings on low with 100% render scale on my Acer Predator 144hz monitor.

Comp specs:
1080 TI Strix OC Edition
i7-5930k 3.5 ghz
16 GB - Vengeance® LPX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz C15 (CMK16GX4M4B3000C15)
Acer ‑ Predator XB271HU
Asus X99 Pro Mobo

Any ideas? I had swapped my mobo out when my graphics card died as I hadn't pinned it down to the GPU at that point and when I put the 1080 TI in with the new mobo I bought (Gigabyte X99 Phoenix) the framerate was much better and stable.

Could the mobo be bad or have something set up incorrectly that is causing the problems?

Appreciate any insight!
 
Solution
I should've asked this earlier, did you reinstall OS when you swapped motherboards? That's what the suggested action is. Driver conflicts can happen, and other issues.

ClubSpade12

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Is it only Overwatch experiencing performance issues? If so, then it's clearly an issue with Overwatch. Or, if you went from Windows 7/8 to 10 I've heard that causes problems sometimes, so turn off DX12 if it's on. If it's not just OW, then clearly it's something hardware related or maybe driver related.
 

mrkyle1983

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Not sure if it is only OW as unfortunately that is all that I play. The only baseline I have is running OW immediately prior to reinstalling the old mobo and then having the FPS problems after that install.
Been on Win10 for quite a while now, I can try the DX12 fix.
I wouldn't think a motherboard would cause these kind of FPS issues from doing research into it, but I guess you never know!