Gigabyte Gtx 970 G1 low fps

[tiduswong]

I recently purchased GTA V and other Steam game, previously i only play MOBA. My Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 is having very low fps when playing those game with Nvidia optimize settings, even with those GTX 970 G1 setting on youtube (i.e Tomb Raider, Witcher 3). I only have average 30 fps for tomb raider benchmark, and during in game of Wither 3 i in range of 15-25 fps. What is the problem that my card is having such low fps? I had attached my Unigine Heaven Benchmark at below.

 

Computer Spec :

 

BIOS : Amercican Megatrends Inc 1205, 07-Jul-14

CPU: i7-4790k @ 4.00 GHz

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming

Mobo: Asus Z97-A

PSU: CM V750 80 Gold

OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit

RAM: 16gb Kingston Hyperx Fury Black 1866mhz

HDD: 1TB and 450GB blue 

GeForce Driver : Version 359

Resolution : 1920 x 1080 and 1440 x 900

 

[Zhuocheng]

try reinstalling the drivers

[AresKrieger]

My specs are almost identical to yours and I have no issues so it is likely a driver issue, which driver are you using. @tiduswong

[tiduswong]

@Zhuocheng which driver do you mean?

 

 

@AresKrieger if you're asking about nvidia driver then i'm using Version 359

[AresKrieger]

@Zhuocheng which driver do you mean?

 

 

@AresKrieger if you're asking about nvidia driver then i'm using Version 359

I'm using 358.91, and have no issues (this is the fallout game ready update) I haven't updated to any of the 359.xx drivers, (though I don't play gta) for gta I seem to remeber 355.98 being good, as for what drivers Zhuocheng is referring to it is almost certainly your nvidia drivers as they have been funky as of late

[tiduswong]

I'm using 358.91, and have no issues (this is the fallout game ready update) I haven't updated to any of the 359.xx drivers, (though I don't play gta) for gta I seem to remeber 355.98 being good, as for what drivers Zhuocheng is referring to it is almost certainly your nvidia drivers as they have been funky as of late

Had try reinstalling the driver to 355.98 yet still the same, only have 15-25 fps for witcher 3 and same unigine heaven benchmark, have 100+ fps in CS:GO and Heroes of Newerth tho

[AresKrieger]

Had try reinstalling the driver to 355.98 yet still the same, only have 15-25 fps for witcher 3 and same unigine heaven benchmark, have 100+ fps in CS:GO and Heroes of Newerth tho

I don't know what to tell you then, it could be the gpu but most of the time software is to blame, maybe try setting the settings to ultra and then turn off hairworks, but honestly idk what is wrong

[tiduswong]

These are the setting i used in GTA V and the first is the fps range between 15-20. Had try to downgrade the drive to 355.98. Heroes of Newerth and CS:GO both are all max out setting

[Patrick Bateman]

any throttling? temps under load? 

[jcastro_805]

Check MSI afterburner to make sure the clock speed wasn't turned down, sometimes I boot my system and my 290x from gigabyte was at 525 mhz for some reason

[tiduswong]

any throttling? temps under load? 

 

doesn't seem to have any

 

Check MSI afterburner to make sure the clock speed wasn't turned down, sometimes I boot my system and my 290x from gigabyte was at 525 mhz for some reason

 

checked while running benchmark test

 

During benchmark

 

 

 

after benchmark

 

 

 

With this card and setting, other people would get 1k score where i only get half of it and i don't know why

[tiduswong]

Bump

[Craig83]

its not something stupid like a broken fan or the plug for the cooler come off is it? if it heats up itll surely drop fps.

Id also try every recent driver one by one.

[tiduswong]

its not something stupid like a broken fan or the plug for the cooler come off is it? if it heats up itll surely drop fps.

Id also try every recent driver one by one.

 

doesnt have any of those, and the temp are fine, it remains at 60+ which is a decent temp when gaming

 

so are you suggesting i should try nvidia recent released driver one by one?

[SkilledRebuilds]

doesnt have any of those, and the temp are fine, it remains at 60+ which is a decent temp when gaming

 

so are you suggesting i should try nvidia recent released driver one by one?

I also have this card. Your clocks are good, your GPU usage is normal'ish (95+%) and I'd bet its a driver issue.

I'm on 358.91 as the new ones are still buggy for me.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-358-91-whql-driver-download.html

[TW1ST3R]

Your 970 should be destroying Tomb Raider.  It's easily capable of maintaining constant 60fps at 1080p with everything cranked including tressfx and you should be getting way higher framerates in your other tests.  So there's something definitely wrong somewhere, you're literally getting half the performance you should be considering you have pretty much the same hardware as me.

 

Questions:

- did you upgrade from an older card to the 970, if so did you do a clean uninstall of older drivers before installing?

- when was the last time you did a clean install of Windows?  Drivers can sometimes fudge up over time/upgrades, for example I had an issue with my drivers where the frequency would get stuck at 1177mhz and the only a clean windows install seemed to fix it.

 

Since it doesn't seem to be a hardware related issue in regards to temperature/throttling you can:

- try reseating the GPU in the PCIe slot

- try a different PCIe slot

 

I'm not sure what else the problem could be aside from the issues myself and others have mentioned...

 

...it's a long shot but you could try updating the motherboard bios, there's a more recent bios than July 2014, the most recent for the Z97-A is 18 Nov 2015

[tiduswong]

I also have this card. Your clocks are good, your GPU usage is normal'ish (95+%) and I'd bet its a driver issue.

I'm on 358.91 as the new ones are still buggy for me.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-358-91-whql-driver-download.html

 

Will do a clean installation of the nvidia driver after this

 

Your 970 should be destroying Tomb Raider.  It's easily capable of maintaining constant 60fps at 1080p with everything cranked including tressfx and you should be getting way higher framerates in your other tests.  So there's something definitely wrong somewhere, you're literally getting half the performance you should be considering you have pretty much the same hardware as me.

 

Questions:

- did you upgrade from an older card to the 970, if so did you do a clean uninstall of older drivers before installing?

- when was the last time you did a clean install of Windows?  Drivers can sometimes fudge up over time/upgrades, for example I had an issue with my drivers where the frequency would get stuck at 1177mhz and the only a clean windows install seemed to fix it.

 

Since it doesn't seem to be a hardware related issue in regards to temperature/throttling you can:

- try reseating the GPU in the PCIe slot

- try a different PCIe slot

 

I'm not sure what else the problem could be aside from the issues myself and others have mentioned...

 

...it's a long shot but you could try updating the motherboard bios, there's a more recent bios than July 2014, the most recent for the Z97-A is 18 Nov 2015

 

Ye those review/youtube video has more fps than i do. This rig is kinda new, i build it like 4 months ago so don't think it would be the window problem?

 

Yet i'm not sure, clean installation of window will be my last option and i didn't not upgrade from any older card as this is the first card for this new build. For now i will do clean installation to newest nvidia driver if still the same fps > reseating the GPU > different PCI slot > clean install of window

[tiduswong]

Update :

 

After clean installation of driver using Display Driver Uninstaller with latest Nvidia driver, it solve my problem i was able to get a decent benchmark test. But there is one thing i noticeable is that sometimes i will still encounter the fps drop until i restart my computer only then it disappear.