Wierd Issue

[Maskinen]

It all started about 2 years ago. I had just bought an xb241h g-sync display, and noticed that it was not working properly. When i booted up my computer for the first time of the day. G-sync appeared to be broken, i could not get it to work. The indicator was gone in game and i felt stutters in game. The only way to get g-sync to work again was to restart my computer. I tought it was a monitor issue. I lived with that for about a year, when i then realised that i could get g-sync to work without having to restart my computer. All i had to do was to change my g-sync display to secondary in nvidia control panel. Then it seemed to be working. But then i started to see drops in frames. At the time, i was running an i7-8700k and a gtx msi gaming 1070. Just figured that it was time to upgrade my pc. So i bought a rtx2080 ti and a 240hz g-sync compatible monitor. Still i was having issues. I'm, currently getting drops in frames from 250 to 180 in fights in overwatch, and running other games very poorly. I checked my graphics card and noticed that it was only being used around 40%. Why would it only run at 40% and give me terrible frames instead of bumping up usage and give me good frames? I checked cpu usage, but only around 40% there as well. So it's not a bottle neck. Ram seems fine as well. I'm also noticing stutters every 4 seconds or so, almost like a rythm to it. The only way to get g-sync to work on my monitor, and to get rid of stutters is to restart my computer. I have not checked if gpu usage goes up after restart, but i tihnk it does. Everything feels good again. But, after around 2 hours of pc being on. Suddenly everything feels weird again, i see that g-sync is gone, frames is being droped and i'm getting stutters again. If i do a restart it's fine again for 2 hours, then back to problems. I tried uninstalling nvidia drivers with ddu, but with no resluts. I've even done a factory reset on my computer, but problem is still here. The only specs that have tagged along and could be causing this issue, if it's an hardware one. Is my cpu, and my ram

 

My specs are following:

 

i7 8700k

Rtx 2080 ti 

Z370-A Pro motherboard

Corsair 750 watt psu

2x8g ram 3600mhz

 

 

[Stu_Bear]

Well, you could use the latest driver feature for Nvidia and lock the refresh rate to 180fps on the card itself...see if that stops the stutters and random frame drops.  If it does then bump up the refresh rate to 200fps...so on and so on.  You playing over wifi or ethernet?  I'd try ethernet to eliminate wifi issues.  

[Maskinen]

11 minutes ago, Stu_Bear said:

Well, you could use the latest driver feature for Nvidia and lock the refresh rate to 180fps on the card itself...see if that stops the stutters and random frame drops.  If it does then bump up the refresh rate to 200fps...so on and so on.  You playing over wifi or ethernet?  I'd try ethernet to eliminate wifi issues.  

I''m using a cable. Internet is not a problem, i'm living in sweden and is prety spoiled with internet here. I have 5 ping in most games. Why would capping the frames help? And a restart fixes it already, but only for 2 hours. It's really wierd

[Stu_Bear]

Well, capping the frames might eliminate the stutters and drops.  You may be thinking "but I want maximum frames or at least those matching the Hz of my panel".  It might not be possible sad to say.  Also, by capping your frames on the card itself it "might" help you trouble shoot the underlying problem.  We use to change setup on hardware all the time to try and find a bug in our enterprise systems...you'd be amazed at how odd ball changes to hardware can help you detect bugs.  Not suggesting it is guaranteed to fix/debug your problem.

[Maskinen]

1 minute ago, Stu_Bear said:

Well, capping the frames might eliminate the stutters and drops.  You may be thinking "but I want maximum frames or at least those matching the Hz of my panel".  It might not be possible sad to say.  Also, by capping your frames on the card itself it "might" help you trouble shoot the underlying problem.  We use to change setup on hardware all the time to try and find a bug in our enterprise systems...you'd be amazed at how odd ball changes to hardware can help you detect bugs.  Not suggesting it is guaranteed to fix/debug your problem.

Guess i'll try that. Just wierd that i can not run overwatch on 240fps on a rtx2080 ti. And a restart fixes all my problems, but just for 2 hours.