Bottleneck?

[DoctorHamm]

I just got all my pc parts together and bought a game I really enjoyed on console, Destiny 2. When I loaded into the game and started playing the I noticed that my fsp was awful, juttting and jagging anywhere from as low as 30 to as high as 65 but never consistent.At first I did what anyone would and lowered the settings in hope that what the preset was wrong (I increased the resolution cause it started at 720p) No matter the settings the fps remained awful and jaggy. I sarted browsing the web for answers and could hardly find anything to do with my cpu. I did find however find my worst nightmare. I found that my situation described perfectly what bottlenecking was as when I went into the game the cpu usage went through the roof and the gpu hardly broke a sweat. I did go ahead and turn on max turbo frequency in the bios of my motherboard as well.

 

My Specs: GPU- GTX 1060 6gb,CPU- i5 8500 3.0 base clock and 3.9 max turbo clock, RAM- 8gb ddr4 2400 mhz, MOTHERBOARD Z370 HD3P by Gigabyte,POWER SUPPLY- 650w 60 gold plus fully modular, CASE- Corsair Carbide 275r series. I have a stock cooler on my cpu and as you might expect the whole system is air cooled.<Maybe temps are keeping the cpu from reaching the max turbo consistently?

[DoctorHamm]

Sorry if there are any grammar issues.I'm a dumb bottleneck boy, cut me some slack.

[samcool55]

Because it seems that the CPU is causing the problems. Can you get hwinfo to check temps and run cinebench 15 and post us the scores and temps?

[Od1sseas]

Single Channel RAM? Maybe that's the problem

[Spotty]

Did you plug your monitor in to the HDMI cable on the back of the motherboard or the back of the graphics card? Sounds like you might be running Intel integrated graphics. Make sure the display cable to the monitor is plugged in to the graphics card and not the motherboard.

[DoctorHamm]

[DoctorHamm]

I plugged hdmi into the back of the gpu.

 

[DoctorHamm]

4 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Because it seems that the CPU is causing the problems. Can you get hwinfo to check temps and run cinebench 15 and post us the scores and temps?

 

[DoctorHamm]

2 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Did you plug your monitor in to the HDMI cable on the back of the motherboard or the back of the graphics card? Sounds like you might be running Intel integrated graphics. Make sure the display cable to the monitor is plugged in to the graphics card and not the motherboard.

I plugged the hdmi into the back of the gpu.

[DoctorHamm]

5 minutes ago, Od1sseas said:

Single Channel RAM? Myabe that's the problem

If that's the case then I'll just buy some more RAM. Hopefully thats it.

[samcool55]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

 

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Those are idle temps, while they look fine, it doesn't tell us much.

We need to know what the temps are when the CPU is under full load, which is why i recommend running cinebench because if it is a temp issue, we will know.

Also the score will give us an indication of how good it's actually performing. If the score is below what it should be, we know something is causing the cpu to not run as it should be.

[DoctorHamm]

 

2 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Those are idle temps, while they look fine, it doesn't tell us much.

We need to know what the temps are when the CPU is under full load, which is why i recommend running cinebench because if it is a temp issue, we will know.

Also the score will give us an indication of how good it's actually performing. If the score is below what it should be, we know something is causing the cpu to not run as it should be.

Sorry about that, downloading cinebench off a website called maxon.net as we speak.

[Od1sseas]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

 

Sorry about that, downloading cinebench off a website called maxon.net as we speak.

You should be getting at least 960cb on Cinebench

[DoctorHamm]

9 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

Those are idle temps, while they look fine, it doesn't tell us much.

We need to know what the temps are when the CPU is under full load, which is why i recommend running cinebench because if it is a temp issue, we will know.

Also the score will give us an indication of how good it's actually performing. If the score is below what it should be, we know something is causing the cpu to not run as it should be.

Here are my results after the cpu bench mark, and yes I have to activate windows lol.

[DoctorHamm]

3 minutes ago, Od1sseas said:

You should be getting at least 960cb on Cinebench

I look to have been below at 916

[Od1sseas]

1 minute ago, DoctorHamm said:

I look to have been below at 916

Your CPU is performing fine. I don't think that is the cpu that it's causing the problem

[samcool55]

1 minute ago, DoctorHamm said:

I look to have been below at 916

That might be because you are running single-channel ram.

I was more looking into the 930-940 area so the score seems fine.

 

Is there maybe a different game you can try?

[DoctorHamm]

Just now, samcool55 said:

That might be because you are running single-channel ram.

I was more looking into the 930-940 area so the score seems fine.

 

Is there maybe a different game you can try?

I have tried a few actually, Pay day and Pay Day 2 run pretty good with Pay Day 2's frametiming not being perfect but pretty close. Borderlands 2 seems to have the same issue as Destiny 2 and I even ran Wolfenstein 2 and Doom 2016 and they both seemed great. Doom has the same slightly less than perfect frame timing just like Pay Day 2 but again it's playable.

[samcool55]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

I have tried a few actually, Pay day and Pay Day 2 run pretty good with Pay Day 2's frametiming not being perfect but pretty close. Borderlands 2 seems to have the same issue as Destiny 2 and I even ran Wolfenstein 2 and Doom 2016 and they both seemed great. Doom has the same slightly less than perfect frame timing just like Pay Day 2 but again it's playable.

That's, weird. I personally only have experience with Borderlands 2 and i know that it should run at ultra@1080p at 100-ish fps once you remove the limiter. (by default there's a 62fps limit)

What i would do then is use DDU to uninstall the driver for your gpu, download the latest driver from the Nvidia website and install that one.

[DoctorHamm]

1 minute ago, samcool55 said:

That's, weird. I personally only have experience with Borderlands 2 and i know that it should run at ultra@1080p at 100-ish fps once you remove the limiter. (by default there's a 62fps limit)

What i would do then is use DDU to uninstall the driver for your gpu, download the latest driver from the Nvidia website and install that one.

I'm just curious what will happen when I uninstall the driver, will I be forced to plug my hdmi into my motherboard or...?

[Od1sseas]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

I'm just curious what will happen when I uninstall the driver, will I be forced to plug my hdmi into my motherboard or...?

No. Windows will use your CPU (Intel HD Graphics with the Microsoft Basic Display Driver)

[DoctorHamm]

3 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

That's, weird. I personally only have experience with Borderlands 2 and i know that it should run at ultra@1080p at 100-ish fps once you remove the limiter. (by default there's a 62fps limit)

What i would do then is use DDU to uninstall the driver for your gpu, download the latest driver from the Nvidia website and install that one.

I noticed actually that I failed to mention that I recently upgraded all the parts from a family members old amd based gaming rig from the mid 2000's, maybe I need to uninstall the amd stuff first???

[samcool55]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

I noticed actually that I failed to mention that I recently upgraded all the parts from a family members old amd based gaming rig from the mid 2000's, maybe I need to uninstall the amd stuff first???

Just to be clear, did you just whack the SSD or HDD from the old system into yours and just used it like that?

[Od1sseas]

1 minute ago, DoctorHamm said:

I noticed actually that I failed to mention that I recently upgraded all the parts from a family members old amd based gaming rig from the mid 2000's, maybe I need to uninstall the amd stuff first???

Oh. That's the problem. You need to make a clean install of Windows. This is always recommended when you upgrade your hardware (Different mobo/cpu)

[DoctorHamm]

Just now, DoctorHamm said:

I noticed actually that I failed to mention that I recently upgraded all the parts from a family members old amd based gaming rig from the mid 2000's, maybe I need to uninstall the amd stuff first???

I did delete most of everything I could find but I still noticed some amd stuff running in task manager from time to time. I did end them but maybe that could be the answer?