GPU Problems... Usage will not go past 35%.

[Azation]

Hey all,

 

I'm having trouble with my GPU, I've searched the web multiple times and found nothing that really helps me on it. I have owned a PC for about 4 years now, started out with a "trashy" rig, An Intel Pentium and a GTX 1060 3Gb. It worked fine for games like Fortnite at medium settings, about 80-100 FPS. It was like that for most games. I upgraded some more over the years, and eventually got a new motherboard, CPU and GPU. I grabbed an ASRock X570 Gaming 4, a AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, and a Radeon RX 5600XT. I expected better performance, but it didn't really change, only got 20 more fps on the same settings for most games. I then decided to change back to Nvidia, since AMD's cards have a history of bad drivers (which I had my fair share of problems with...) I now have a GIGABYTE RTX 2060 6Gb OC Edition. 

 

I got waaaay better fps, with ultra settings on fortnite getting about 120fps and it was like that for most games. That was 3 months ago, now I still get those frames for Fortnite, but other games are not looking to good. Warzone for example, I used to get 80fps with 100% render resolution (1440p) and with medium to high settings. Now, I can barely get 60fps on all low settings, no anti-aliasing and 100% render resolution. This is happening with almost every game I play. 

 

2 more odd things that happen is that, I used to pull up Task Manager and see about 40% CPU and 99-100% GPU at about 70 degrees Celsius for both CPU and GPU. Now, its about 20% CPU and almost 15% GPU, and my CPU still runs at about 70 degrees Celsius, but my GPU runs at a solid 80-85 degrees Celsius... with fans at 100% (2 "Windforce" fans)... I know anything above 80 isn't good for your parts too. 

 

Now that I have said all of that, my question is: Why does this happen?? Is something bottlenecking my rig all of a sudden, it was fine when I first installed it but now its awful. At the time of writing this, I just downloaded Control. I know its graphics intensive, but at medium settings, no ray tracing, I don't even get 50FPS.. It's highly irritating, since I spent good money on parts that should give a good boost and good performance.. All of this happens with the Task Manager percentages all sitting below 30%, except for my RAM. 

 

I'd like to get back to good frames and good graphics, even just good fps so I can play Warzone without lagging all over the place!

 

Thanks for taking the time to read/help me with this! I'll list my specs in case it helps in some way. 

 

Also, I attached an image of my Task Manager when playing Control on medium settings no ray tracing.

 

SPECS:

Mobo: ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8 Cores

GPU: GIGABYTE RTX 2060 6Gb OC Edition

RAM: 4x4 2600MHz 16GB HyperX Fury

PSU: Rosewill 550W 80+ Bronze

 

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

9 minutes ago, Azation said:

4x4 2600MHz

This is way too slow for ryzen. You want 3200mhz or 3600mhz cl16 for Zen 2

[Mark Kaine]

2 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

This is way too slow for ryzen. You want 3200mhz or 3600mhz cl16 for Zen 2

Yeah but that can't be the reason for this issue... there are plenty of people with stock RAM settings and it's not bothering them, we're talking a couple of frames here, maybe 5-10, it's not that big of a deal really. 

 

Though im stumped I don't know why there would be such a low usage issue to be honest. 

 

This seems to be a good system, maybe the psu isn't up to snuff however? 

 

 

2 hours ago, Azation said:

Also, I attached an image of my Task Manager when playing Control on medium settings no ray tracing.

BTW if you've minimized the game while looking at taskmanager this is completely normal... 

 

I think the first step should be to stop using taskmanager to monitor your games, it's unsuited for the job, impractical and also not accurate at all. 

Use something like Afterburner overlay or GPU / CPU Z... 

 

And can you summarize what the problems really are that you encounter? Do you get slow framerates or anything like that? 

 

What are benchmarks like Firestrike, Superposition or Timespy saying? 

[Azation]

20 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

Yeah but that can't be the reason for this issue... there are plenty of people with stock RAM settings and it's not bothering them, we're talking a couple of frames here, maybe 5-10, it's not that big of a deal really. 

 

Though im stumped I don't know why there would be such a low usage issue to be honest. 

 

This seems to be a good system, maybe the psu isn't up to snuff however? 

 

 

BTW if you've minimized the game while looking at taskmanager this is completely normal... 

 

I think the first step should be to stop using taskmanager to monitor your games, it's unsuited for the job, impractical and also not accurate at all. 

Use something like Afterburner overlay or GPU / CPU Z... 

 

And can you summarize what the problems really are that you encounter? Do you get slow framerates or anything like that? 

 

What are benchmarks like Firestrike, Superposition or Timespy saying? 

Thanks for your reply, currently not at my PC so I’ll have to try some benchmarks later. I had Control in full screen on my main monitor with task manager open on my second monitor so that was the actual usage... the problems are I just get very low FPS in any game except for Fortnite (not sure why). Warzone is almost unplayable at all low settings, getting around 40-50Fps. This shouldn’t be the case regarding what parts I have installed. Main problem, in short form. I have very low FPS regardless of graphics settings and almost no GPU usage (according to Task Manager). I’ll download GPU-Z later as well and try that out. 
 

I’ll reply again once I run some benchmarks. And again, thanks for replying

[Azation]

22 hours ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

This is way too slow for ryzen. You want 3200mhz or 3600mhz cl16 for Zen 2

Yeah, I’ve had the same RAM for a couple years now, I plan on upgrading soon anyway.

[IkeaGnome]

7 minutes ago, Azation said:

Yeah, I’ve had the same RAM for a couple years now, I plan on upgrading soon anyway.

Did you DDU your AMD drivers when you went to NVIDIA or do a completely fresh windows install(format all drives and start over new)?

[Azation]

3 hours ago, Voluspa said:

Did you DDU your AMD drivers when you went to NVIDIA or do a completely fresh windows install(format all drives and start over new)?

I completely reinstalled windows, saved important docs and other things to a flash drive then wiped my drives and started fresh. I just ran the AMD Cleanup Utility tool as well in case somehow there was something, but it detected nothing.

[Azation]

Ok, thanks for the help. I fixed what was happening, installed Afterburner and saw that it actually was running at about 99-100% GPU usage. Then to fix my frames, I reinstalled NVIDIAs drivers and changed some settings and that seemed to have fixed it (not sure how). 

 

Again thanks to those that replied and helped!