Big FPS drops in games

[James730730]

Hello guys, I need some help. I have a 1080ti, a 4770k, 16GB ram, and I am getting huge FPS drops during gaming. Going from 60 fps to 0 for a couple of seconds, this happens a couple of times a minute. I have used DDU to reinstall my graphics driver, and I don't really know what else to try. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Games affected include Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Far Cry 5, plus others.

 

Edit: To add to this, my CPU utilisation and GPU aren't hitting 100%

Edited October 18, 2019 by James730730

[vK 3 1 RON]

What's your Ram usage? Just curious. Also try disabling Windows Game bar, Nvidia Shadowplay (Overlay thing), discord overlay  <-- those 3 are usual suspects for FPS drops.

 

Try running game in windowed borderlands or fullscreen, just choose the one that you're not running in right now and test that out.

[James730730]

Ram usage is about 80%. But I've disabled discord overlay and it seems to be okay at the moment with Assassin's Creed. The overlay was on, but I haven't ever seen a pop up for it. I didn't even realise discord had an in game overlay. 

[Praesi]

If your GPU doesnt get 100%, its often a sign of a Bottleneck from the CPU. Depends on the Game. But 0 FPS is a sign of a problem not relaited to a bottleneck.. With your CPU im sure there is a little bottlenecking here and there, but nothing that would make Gaming serious worse. Did you run a benchmark? Check Temps ect. The usual stuff?

 

Usage:

GPU = more is better

CPU = less is better

[MadAnt250]

9 minutes ago, James730730 said:

Ram usage is about 80%.

Check if there is some unnecessary programs running in the background, this can hurt your performance and slow things down.