Minor FPS drops looks unplayable

[WuirdDuggo]

Hi everyone! I have a question i need to ask.

Is there any chance that my CPU could bottleneck my GPU?

Specs:

AMD FX-8350 4Ghz

GTX 1050ti OC

16GB ddr3

 

I noticed that i only get good fps when i run games at 1080p (my max res) at pretty much the highest settings. But thats not the problem. The thing is that in some games fps drops are always there. In CSGO for example i run max settings at 1080p (without vsync, motion blur and antialiasing), and even though the fps drops are like 150-80 it literally looks like it drops to 30, and at some point, it seems unplayable... Can please anyone explain me why does this happen? Does it have to do with the monitor? Please lemme know.  

[WereCat]

Bad frame times with that CPU. Its not really suited for high refresh rate gameplay.

You are likely encountering scenarios like for example... 

150FPS

But 80FPS get rendered in 300ms, then you have a frame time spike for another 300ms which is the noticeable stutter (basicaly a static picture for 300ms or 0.3s), then the rest of the frames get rendered... so even if you get 150FPS, you dont get them delivered consistently.

 

[WuirdDuggo]

2 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Bad frame times with that CPU. Its not really suited for high refresh rate gameplay.

You are likely encountering scenarios like for example... 

150FPS

But 80FPS get rendered in 300ms, then you have a frame time spike for another 300ms which is the noticeable stutter (basicaly a static picture for 300ms or 0.3s), then the rest of the frames get rendered... so even if you get 150FPS, you dont get them delivered consistently.

 

Oh, i see. Thank you soo much!

[DakotaWebber]

1 minute ago, WereCat said:

Bad frame times with that CPU. Its not really suited for high refresh rate gameplay.

Definitely frametimes, personal experience with GTA V and my old Pentium, even though it was over 60fps there was constant stuttering as it just couldnt handle displaying it smoothly

 

Best you can do is try to limit your fps to something your cpu can handle until you maybe upgrade

[WuirdDuggo]

1 minute ago, DakotaWebber said:

Definitely frametimes, personal experience with GTA V and my old Pentium, even though it was over 60fps there was constant stuttering as it just couldnt handle displaying it smoothly

 

Best you can do is try to limit your fps to something your cpu can handle until you maybe upgrade

Can i ask you how can i see the framerate that i should be able to display with low delay? Like how do i know at what framerate should i lock it

 

[HD1 star wars]

1 hour ago, WuirdDuggo said:

Hi everyone! I have a question i need to ask.

Is there any chance that my CPU could bottleneck my GPU?

Specs:

AMD FX-8350 4Ghz

GTX 1050ti OC

16GB ddr3

 

I noticed that i only get good fps when i run games at 1080p (my max res) at pretty much the highest settings. But thats not the problem. The thing is that in some games fps drops are always there. In CSGO for example i run max settings at 1080p (without vsync, motion blur and antialiasing), and even though the fps drops are like 150-80 it literally looks like it drops to 30, and at some point, it seems unplayable... Can please anyone explain me why does this happen? Does it have to do with the monitor? Please lemme know.  

What motherboard do u have

[WuirdDuggo]

32 minutes ago, HD1 star wars said:

What motherboard do u have

Gigabyte 970A-DS3P

 

[HD1 star wars]

1 hour ago, WuirdDuggo said:

Gigabyte 970A-DS3P

 

That's board has a 4 phase vrm u should check the cpu clock speeds in the game and see if it's throttling. Sometimes the problem can be the motherboard since most people didn't buy the boards with decent vrns. U should also check the vrm temperatures

[i_build_nanosuits]

27 minutes ago, HD1 star wars said:

That's board has a 4 phase vrm u should check the cpu clock speeds in the game and see if it's throttling. Sometimes the problem can be the motherboard since most people didn't buy the boards with decent vrns. U should also check the vrm temperatures

970A-UD3P was the better board for this BUT then the problem was the CPU performance in itself...applications and games couldn't care less if that thing was running 3.8 or 4.7ghz...it pretty much either performed fine (when no real CPU performance prowess were required) or...most of the time...it just struggled to keep up...OC or not. 

[-rascal-]

41 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

970A-UD3P was the better board for this BUT then the problem was the CPU performance in itself...applications and games couldn't care less if that thing was running 3.8 or 4.7ghz...it pretty much either performed fine (when no real CPU performance prowess were required) or...most of the time...it just struggled to keep up...OC or not. 

 

Agree with you there...

BUT, if the CPU is being throttle down to something much lower, that might be a problem...

(e.g. in Linus' recent video, his FX-8150 dropped down to 1.4 GHz)

[i_build_nanosuits]

10 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Agree with you there...

BUT, if the CPU is being throttle down to something much lower, that might be a problem...

(e.g. in Linus' recent video, his FX-8150 dropped down to 1.4 GHz)

probably...but then again in that case i would just try to adjust the voltages lower while remaining stable until i can get my hands on a cheap ryzen 5 kit.

add a fan over the VRM...clock it to 3.9ghz and starve it for power basically

Most systems have seen feed way too much voltages on default settings also...some boards can use 1.4v as stock on those older sockets.

[DakotaWebber]

9 hours ago, WuirdDuggo said:

Can i ask you how can i see the framerate that i should be able to display with low delay? Like how do i know at what framerate should i lock it

Well base it off either one of two things

 

Your monitors maximum refresh rate (usually 60) - You can also do this with vsync which may make it better but can introduce input lag if youre playing a competitive game

 

Whatever you can with your own testing to have smoother gameplay (try 30 (ew) then 40, then 50, then 60 etc)