Bottlenecking? I think?

[tgottschalk22]

Alright so to start this off im just gonna let everyone know i am very new to PC gaming and owning a pc in general. Not totally sure if i even fully grasp the concept of bottlenecking. But to get to the point, when i first built my gaming pc I had a ryzen 3 2200 g w radeon vega 8 graphics, GIGABYTE B450M DS3H, corsair vengeance 16gb 300mhz, and a geforce 1060ti. Last week i upgraded my gpu to a RTX 2070 and ever since then my game has been randomly freezing for up 5-7 seconds(i only play fortnite if this helps.) i run the game at 144fps cap and i play with all settings on low except for textures(epic) and view distance(one setting lower then epic i forget what its called) other then random "freezes" my game has also been crashing a few times a day and i have no idea why. With my old gpu i never got this issue and thats why i think it is my new gpu but i also have no idea what im talking about XD any help is appreciated and if you need any more information i would gladly give u what youre looking for

[Fasauceome]

Try increasing all of the settings to maximum.

2 minutes ago, tgottschalk22 said:

up 5-7 seconds

This specific behavior doesn't sound like a bottleneck, so you should see what changing graphics settings does for your experience.

[KarathKasun]

Sounds like GPU driver crashes.

 

What is your PSUs wattage?

[Skiiwee29]

You can try running DDU to re-do your drivers, but that CPU definitely will bottleneck the 2070. 

[tgottschalk22]

@KarathKasun I am running corsair cx750m

[tgottschalk22]

@fasauceome i will try but i am confused on how making the graphics better will fix my issue since they seem to be struggling with the already lowered graphics

[Fasauceome]

10 minutes ago, tgottschalk22 said:

@fasauceome i will try but i am confused on how making the graphics better will fix my issue since they seem to be struggling with the already lowered graphics

if the CPU is struggling then make the graphics card work harder, sometimes it lessens the load.

[SkilledRebuilds]

1 hour ago, Skiiwee29 said:

You can try running DDU to re-do your drivers, but that CPU definitely will bottleneck the 2070. 

Not every user with a problem knows what a "DDU" is.

 

Chalk - Display Driver Uninstaller removes junk traces left behind between driver installs/swaps/hardware changes.

 

It's advised you google and download DDU display Uninstaller and progress through its prompts or even YouTube search a DDU guide.

It's a few minutes or less process.

 

Then you reinstall the display driver again and it will be a much cleaner install and can rule it out somewhat as the issue and we can delve deeper into the issue.

 

Pairing 4threads with a powerful GPU and chasing HIGHFPS updates from said 4cores can be an ask.. Not all games exhibit the issue, but you'll find more do as you play more games chasing higher and higher FPS.

 

Your thread usage limited.

Also. Games don't need to use a CPU to 100% to create a bottleneck,   programming rendering to only 1 thread was so common a few years ago...

 

Games will absolutely in more cases than they used to,.. using more threads than ever. #NotallGames but still many modern engines are tuned for 6+ threads or greater, and chasing HIGHFPS even at low details can maximize thread load and you can likely mitigate some of this by setting a lower fps cap from 144 down to 75fps and monitor your gaming freezes.  Or upping graphical details or supersampling (creating a lowered CPU load by it only processing half the amount of frames)  and greater gpu load doing so.

 

Main point,.. Removing stutters and freezing on a healthy 4 core system by moving to 8threads or higher (hyperthreading/smt) or capping the CPU load via fps caps or more GPU loads.

Again.. Not all Games..

 

Hope this gives an idea to more avenues of thought.