Low CPU, GPU and FPS

[Bush Badger]

Hi, I have been plagued by this problem where I have low CPU, GPU usage thus resulting low fps. I was playing killing floor 2 and I realized that my GPU and CPU were barely making over 30% load and I am only getting 200FPS, I really want to achieve stable 240 because I am sure this computer can handle it and it will be a waste of a monitor too as it support 240hz and G-Sync. I uninstalled HPET but I cant find the option to disable it in the BIOS (even before uninstalling) Any help will be appreciated.

 

i7 8700k 5GHZ 

2080TI Lightning Z

16GB Trident Z 3200

Aorus Gaming 7

RM850X

 

[GoldenLag]

is it a constant 200 fps?

[Bush Badger]

3 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

is it a constant 200 fps?

no it fluctuates it tries to stay at 240 but when there are a lot of enemies and explosions it goes down to like 180 or even 120 but the CPU and GPU usage is still really low  

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walks away shaking his head

[GoldenLag]

4 minutes ago, Mr Magic Man said:

no it fluctuates it tries to stay at 240 but when there are a lot of enemies and explosions it goes down to like 180 or even 120 but the CPU and GPU usage is still really low  

do you notice these drops or are they unnoticable? does benchmarks show more fps than what you are getting?

14 minutes ago, Mr Magic Man said:

it will be a waste of a monitor too as it support 240hz and G-Sync

considering a 240hz freesync monitor would do the exact same these days, its sort of a waste, but running below 240hz is exactly why adaptive sync is a thing. 

[Bush Badger]

3 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

do you notice these drops or are they unnoticable? does benchmarks show more fps than what you are getting?

 

they were VERY noticeable, I remember looking at one area it dropped down to 60(?) i was like was that even possible? and because I am very sensitive to frames I can tell if im on 190 or 220 or 240. Because muscle memory and how fast my mouse moves + the screen tearing. 

[GoldenLag]

2 minutes ago, Mr Magic Man said:

Because muscle memory and how fast my mouse moves + the screen tearing. 

are u sure its screentearing. Adaptive sync prevents exactly that from happening. 

 

i would recommend using DDU and reinstalling drivers. sadly ive got no more helpull advice. 

[Nocte]

41 minutes ago, Mr Magic Man said:

no it fluctuates it tries to stay at 240 but when there are a lot of enemies and explosions it goes down to like 180 or even 120 but the CPU and GPU usage is still really low  

CPU might peak at 100% very briefly and hardware monitor doesnt pick it up because its too brief. 

[schwellmo92]

You need to check the per-core CPU usage.

[Bush Badger]

also I somehow made things better by overclocking my ram from 3200 to 3400 not sure how that helped but it did. not smooth 240 but at least no more crazy dips. next up is DDU 

[lordoftime79]

i dont know much about G-sync as I use AMD with Freesync but if they 2 are anything alike I dont think you will ever hit the 240 as the G-sync smooths FPS to remove tearing... in my own experiances my monitor is 144 and most of my games hover around or just under 100 FPS (apart from Guildwars 2 becasue the game engine is utter Gash) :s