GPU & CPU in game usage questions

[CyoN_]

I built my PC yesterday with all new components except my PSU, which I took from my old PC. I am starting to test different games to see how my computer is performing and I am noticing some interesting things that I am not sure are normal.

 

On some games I get very high usage on my GPU and on others I get very low GPU usage. On Apex Legends and Escape From Tarkov I get very low GPU usage/power consumption and low FPS. Then on Overwatch I get very high GPU utilization and I can run the game at high settings and have a lot of FPS.

 

On top of using MSI Afterburner to show my FPS, usage and temps I also used the program Core Temp to check if only a select few of my cores were being maxed out in Tarkov and it seems they were not.

 

Nothing seems to be bottlenecked and I'm not sure if there is a bios, Windows or in-game setting that I need to adjust or not.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

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[Zenny232323]

1 hour ago, CyoN_ said:

I built my PC yesterday with all new components except my PSU, which I took from my old PC. I am starting to test different games to see how my computer is performing and I am noticing some interesting things that I am not sure are normal.

 

On some games I get very high usage on my GPU and on others I get very low GPU usage. On Apex Legends and Escape From Tarkov I get very low GPU usage/power consumption and low FPS. Then on Overwatch I get very high GPU utilization and I can run the game at high settings and have a lot of FPS.

 

On top of using MSI Afterburner to show my FPS, usage and temps I also used the program Core Temp to check if only a select few of my cores were being maxed out in Tarkov and it seems they were not.

 

Nothing seems to be bottlenecked and I'm not sure if there is a bios, Windows or in-game setting that I need to adjust or not.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

(PC Part Picker List: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/CyoNvideos/saved/#view=4LBZFT)

Do you have any sort of FPS cap?
Check nvidia's fps cap, I don't have an nvidia gpu anymore, only used the new app for a little bit, see if you can find some sort of fps cap involved, either in-game or by nvidia's app,

[CyoN_]

4 minutes ago, Zenny232323 said:

Do you have any sort of FPS cap?
Check nvidia's fps cap, I don't have an nvidia gpu anymore, only used the new app for a little bit, see if you can find some sort of fps cap involved, either in-game or by nvidia's app,

I do have "Max Frame Rate" off in the Nvidia App and in Overwatch and Tarkov, but I am not sure about Apex Legends. There is no in-game setting for it, so I made it unlimited in my launch options, but I cannot see if that works because I cannot hit over 144 fps regardless in that game.

[Zenny232323]

20 hours ago, CyoN_ said:

I do have "Max Frame Rate" off in the Nvidia App and in Overwatch and Tarkov, but I am not sure about Apex Legends. There is no in-game setting for it, so I made it unlimited in my launch options, but I cannot see if that works because I cannot hit over 144 fps regardless in that game.

Wait, what's your ram speed like? Could it be that by any chance?
 

[CyoN_]

On 12/13/2024 at 8:05 PM, CyoN_ said:

I built my PC yesterday with all new components except my PSU, which I took from my old PC. I am starting to test different games to see how my computer is performing and I am noticing some interesting things that I am not sure are normal.

 

On some games I get very high usage on my GPU and on others I get very low GPU usage. On Apex Legends and Escape From Tarkov I get very low GPU usage/power consumption and low FPS. Then on Overwatch I get very high GPU utilization and I can run the game at high settings and have a lot of FPS.

 

On top of using MSI Afterburner to show my FPS, usage and temps I also used the program Core Temp to check if only a select few of my cores were being maxed out in Tarkov and it seems they were not.

 

Nothing seems to be bottlenecked and I'm not sure if there is a bios, Windows or in-game setting that I need to adjust or not.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

(PC Part Picker List: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/CyoNvideos/saved/#view=4LBZFT)

I have found what I belive to be the solution and I will just comment here what it was incase anyone else is having the issue. 

 

For some reason, the Windows setting "optimizations for windowed games" was on, and turning it off seemed to allow my comments to not be bottlenecked or FPS capped. It also removed very bad stutters I had in multiple games. On top of this, I also updated my bios to the most recent non-beta version.