GTA 5 LOW GPU USAGE

[laushik]

My gpu usage is around 60% and my cpu usuage is at 50%. I know this is not a bottleneck, so why is this happening? I have reinstalled my graphics drivers numerous times. I'm playing at 2560x1080 (ultrawide) at medium-ish settings (I want a lot of frames), but no matter what settings I choose, It's like an equilibrium and gets me back to 70-80 fps. Pls help.  

 

System

• CPU
  I7 6700K
• Motherboard
  ASUS PRIME Z270-A
• RAM
  GSKILL RIPJAWS V DDR4 16GB 3000MHZ
• GPU
  RTX 2070 SUPER
• Case
  NZXT S340 RED
• Storage
  WD 1TB BLUE AND SAMSUNG EVO 250GB SSD
• PSU
  EVGA 650W GQ
• Display(s)
  LG 25UM58-P ULTRAWIDE and LG 29UMP58-P ULTRAWIDE
• Cooling
  CORSAIR H100I GTX
• Keyboard
  CORSAIR K70
• Mouse
  LOGITECH G502
• Sound
  ASTRO A40
• Operating System
  Windows 10 PRO

[MartinKweh]

Did you check the power mode in the nvidia control panel? Have you set it to high performance? Did you also set the power settings in the windows power options to high or ultimate performance?

[laushik]

Just now, MartinKweh said:

Did you check the power mode in the nvidia control panel? Have you set it to high performance? Did you also set the power settings in the windows power options to high or ultimate performance?

Yes these are both in the max performance settings. 

[MartinKweh]

Did you check the temps when you are gaming? Or the cpu/gpu frequencies during gaming?

[laushik]

Just now, MartinKweh said:

Did you check the temps when you are gaming? Or the cpu/gpu frequencies during gaming?

Yes temps are very good. GPU at 65c and CPU not exceeding 70C. I don't have anything overclocked, but all of the speeds are running at where they should. 

[MartinKweh]

Now thats odd. How about the vram usage? Since ultra wide kinda makes the game render more stuff compared to regular 1440p.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Use HWMonitor or MSI Afterburner to monitor usage. Task Manager numbers can be deceiving.

 

If you see the same there, do you have 1 or 2 CPU threads with high usage (100%) and the others lower? I do not recall how multi-threaded GTA V is, but this could be a CPU bottleneck due to low multi-threading support.

[laushik]

14 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

Use HWMonitor or MSI Afterburner to monitor usage. Task Manager numbers can be deceiving.

 

If you see the same there, do you have 1 or 2 CPU threads with high usage (100%) and the others lower? I do not recall how multi-threaded GTA V is, but this could be a CPU bottleneck due to low multi-threading support.

Those are the softwares I’ve been using. There are no single cores/threads that are being overwhelmed and all of them hover around 50% when playing gta. 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

11 minutes ago, laushik said:

Those are the softwares I’ve been using. There are no single cores/threads that are being overwhelmed and all of them hover around 50% when playing gta. 

You don't have any frame-rate targets or FPS caps setup anywhere do you?

[laushik]

34 minutes ago, MartinKweh said:

Now thats odd. How about the vram usage? Since ultra wide kinda makes the game render more stuff compared to regular 1440p.

I'm only using about 50% (4gb) of my total VRAM, so I don't think that's the problem. 

[laushik]

2 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

You don't have any frame-rate targets or FPS caps setup anywhere do you?

Nope not at all. 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Have you tried punching your monitor? 

[laushik]

Just now, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

Have you tried punching your monitor?

lol that might be the next step

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Maybe try Windowed mode to see if you get different results.

[xAcid9]

1 hour ago, laushik said:

My gpu usage is around 60% and my cpu usuage is at 50%. I know this is not a bottleneck

GTA:V only use 4 cores max, that mean the game already "maxing" your CPU.
You can overclock your CPU to confirm this and also make sure your RAM is running @3000mhz with XMP enabled. 

[laushik]

19 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

Maybe try Windowed mode to see if you get different results.

Nope this didn't change anything. Any more ideas?

[laushik]

2 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

GTA:V only use 4 cores max, that mean the game already "maxing" your CPU.
You can overclock your CPU to confirm this and also make sure your RAM is running @3000mhz with XMP enabled. 

My cpu has 4 cores with hyper-threading so it has 4 threads too. How is it maxing my cpu if the usage is not high at all? And yes my xmp is enabled. 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

1 hour ago, laushik said:

I have reinstalled my graphics drivers numerous times.

Did you use DDU?

[laushik]

6 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

Did you use DDU?

Yup

[laushik]

15 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

GTA:V only use 4 cores max, that mean the game already "maxing" your CPU.
You can overclock your CPU to confirm this and also make sure your RAM is running @3000mhz with XMP enabled. 

I also tried overclocking my cpu and it did not increase my gpu usage at all. 

[xAcid9]

27 minutes ago, laushik said:

My cpu has 4 cores with hyper-threading so it has 4 threads too. How is it maxing my cpu if the usage is not high at all? And yes my xmp is enabled. 

Doesn't matter, GTA:V game engine only capable of scaling up to 4 cores, adding more cores will only make u gain or loss a few fps. 

14 minutes ago, laushik said:

I also tried overclocking my cpu and it did not increase my gpu usage at all. 

Then run some synthetic benchmark like 3DMark Firestrike to make sure your system is actually ok. 

[laushik]

7 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Doesn't matter, GTA:V game engine only capable of scaling up to 4 cores, adding more cores will only make u gain or loss a few fps. 

Then run some synthetic benchmark like 3DMark Firestrike to make sure your system is actually ok. 

I have ran a benchmark and my system is very similar to other systems of the same specs. 

[xAcid9]

Did you try playing the game at absolute minimum graphic setting? How many fps?