Gpu usage low

[Technicaltops]

When playing my gpu usage is low or goes from something like 70-80% down to 30%-40% and my frames drop slowing down my game. This happens when playing a minecraft mod called rlcraft through curseforge(with shaders) but I've also noticed it in vanilla minecraft(with the same shader) but it's not as big of a difference, other games might have this too but its hard to tell since all the games I play aren't very demanding. 

I've tried setting maximum performance in windows power settings and Nvidia control panel. It's a gtx 970 zotac and my cpu is a ryzen 5 2600(not oc'd). I tried setting the gtx 970 to default settings in msi afterburner but the problem persist. 

I tried lowering ram speed from 3600 mhz to 3200hz. Maybe a bios update?? I'm not sure what good that could do but my motherboard is the B450m S2H and I believe I'm on verison f51 last I checked it I'll do so again when I have the time to. 

 

Edit: I've contacted overwolf(people who run curseforge I guess) and they told me that it might just be an issue with software called RivaTuner Statistics Sever and that I need to update it. I'll see what happens then

Edit 2: what is going on??

Edited June 20, 2021 by Technicaltops

[Mando772004]

9 minutes ago, Technicaltops said:

When playing my gpu usage is low or goes from something like 70-80% down to 30%-40% and my frames drop slowing down my game. This happens when playing a minecraft mod called rlcraft through curseforge(with shaders) but I've also noticed it in vanilla minecraft(with the same shader) but it's not as big of a difference, other games might have this too but its hard to tell since all the games I play aren't very demanding. 

I've tried setting maximum performance in windows power settings and Nvidia control panel. It's a gtx 970 zotac and my cpu is a ryzen 5 2600(not oc'd). I tried setting the gtx 970 to default settings in msi afterburner but the problem persist. 

I tried lowering ram speed from 3600 mhz to 3200hz. Maybe a bios update?? I'm not sure what good that could do but my motherboard is the B450m S2H and I believe I'm on verison f51 last I checked it I'll do so again when I have the time to. 

what are your temperatures? also is your game on a hdd or ssd?

[Fasauceome]

Is it only the GPU usage that drops? It could be a power limit issue, you might try a tiny overclock on the GPU to force the performance to stay high.

[Technicaltops]

1 minute ago, InfernalClaw said:

what are your temperatures? also is your game on a hdd or ssd?

Usually around 70 degrees celsius and my game is on an m.2 ssd. 

[Technicaltops]

2 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Is it only the GPU usage that drops? It could be a power limit issue, you might try a tiny overclock on the GPU to force the performance to stay high.

I'll try that, thanks.

[Technicaltops]

1 hour ago, Fasauceome said:

Is it only the GPU usage that drops? It could be a power limit issue, you might try a tiny overclock on the GPU to force the performance to stay high.

Just tried it and there was no change, I even put default settings(in msi after burner) and fps and gpu usage is still low.