low framerate at low gpu usage

[rennerk20]

Hello everyone, to be honest, this probably isnt a “unique” problem, but ive been experiencing a running problem that has me completely stumped. I recently built a new system a healthy mix of used and new parts, (5800x, 3090, 32gb ram) and absolutely none of the games I am playing are a pleasant experience. My most played games are Rainbow six siege, madden 23 and fortnite. All three of these games run at max settings around 150 fps at 1080p. This does not make sense to me because task manager reports cpu usage at only 50% and gpu at around 40%. Why do these games not run better or at higher frame rates? (My monitor is 280hz). Additionally, i am experiencing frequent stutters and flickering mostly in Fortnite, but still apparent in the others. When I first built the system, all of the games i would launch would crash within minutes and report errors that usually associate with ram failures. The crashing has since stopped, but the flickering and stuttering  continue. Is it possible that these are related and could be a ram issue altogether? And if it is, what troubleshooting steps should be taken to confirm this?

 

Thank you all, cheers!

[PDifolco]

Something is clearly wrong you should have like 250+ fps in Fortnite...

If you've used used parts did you reinstall all drivers and WIndows ?

Did a CMOS reset  ?

What's your storage drive ?

 

RAM cannot really slow a game unless it's fully used and it won't be the case with 32GB

 

[FrowningHippo]

This one is going to be quitte hard to break down from a distance. In order to make any useful suggestions, I personally would need more information on the system and what's happening. 

 

My first assumption would be that you have a very poorly performing HDD or SSD that somehow isn't able to feed data fast enough to the other components. 

 

Could you share a screenshot of taskmanager when you're actively playing a game? So we can see drive utilization in the graph? And offcourse the utilization of other components?

 

 

[jaslion]

More specs needed.

 

Full pc in full detail

[Devryd]

Also maybe include some screenshots of HWInfo for temps
 

[jaslion]

More specs needed.

 

Full pc in full detail

[191x7]

A 3090 for 1080p? There isn't a CPU on the market that can feed it not to bottleneck.

A 5800X, for games that mostly use only a couple cores, can't feed the 3090 more than 50-60%. That's normal.

And a 50% utilized 3090 does downclock; if it's not loaded it doesn't need the high clocks - and the downclocking is what causes you stutters.

 

One solution - get a 4K 120Hz monitor. Something that the 3090 was made to be paired with. the 5800X won't be a meaningful bottleneck on 4K.

Other solution - get a 1440p monitor with 144+ Hz and upgrade your CPU to not have a bottleneck. A 5800X3D or an Intel Alder/Raptor lake with a DDR4 motherboard.

 

[zipspence]

So a few things here.
1. get a program like Razer Cortex that will "boost" your system, it will stop processes that arent needed and you can also clean your pc with that tool. 

2. launch your Nvidia GeForce center and click over to the games tab and "optimize" all games to ensure that the settings for each game are being populated correctly. Sometimes Nvidia will override certain settings for silly reasons and reduce framerate for games. 

3. get something like Furmark and HWmonitor and run the tests while HWmonitor is running so you can see if there is any throttling happening due to heat. 

 

Give it a go and let us know the results. 

[rennerk20]

Thanks for the responses everyone. To start out, to respond to a few questions:

1. I have 2 980 pro 1tb nvme drives in the system. So its most likely not these drives causing the problem. 
2. Temps are perfect (65 max on cpu and around 60 on gpu under full load)

 

But wait, its gotten so much worse. 
I am now stuck in a boot-loop in which the system boots to windows, i can log in to my desktop and let it sit and its fine. HOWEVER, i cannot launch anything, every app gives a different error, and on top of that, as soon as i launch any application, it bluescreens with one of the two error codes shown in the pictures. I looked up what each of these stop codes mean and they all point to file or driver corruption of some sort, but “System service exception” is an extremely broad error and is very hard to diagnose. At this point im at a loss and have no clue what to do.