GPU usage not at 100%

[xnoobftw]

Hey guys i have an r9 290x (paired with a i5 4440) and i have been experiencing some stuttering in bf4 recently (like this afternoon) and i realised that my GPU usage never went above 40%! How do you fix this?

[Levent]

you dont.

[Faaa97]

Maybe it stuck in power saving mode, check it at the amd driver.

[CCap]

When people say "This game isn't optimized at all." That's what they mean.

 

DayZ Rarely uses 40%. (In DayZ you can have quad-sli Titan Blacks and still be lagging on max settings for this reason.)

[Jey R.]

Hey guys i have an r9 290x (paired with a i5 4440) and i have been experiencing some stuttering in bf4 recently (like this afternoon) and i realised that my GPU usage never went above 40%! How do you fix this?

Is the gpu overclocked? Is you power supply giving enough juice? When doing and stress testing open up gpuz and go to sensor tab, the second to last part there will be a graph with 5 readings options. It'll tell you if it's have Vol, ulti, Vrop, etc. you can hover the left tab so that you can see what each readings means. And when doing the stress testing it will exactly tell you why gpu is not giving enough power. I think it gives you reasons like; for the lack of power, for the lack of voltage ( when you overclock too high) for the lack of voltage reliability ( gpu vcore stability ), for gpu utilization, when cpu is bottleneck to gpu. Etc.

Go check it out.

[Jamdude]

What is your CPU usage?

 

When people say "This game isn't optimized at all." That's what they mean.

 

DayZ Rarely uses 40%. (In DayZ you can have quad-sli Titan Blacks and still be lagging on max settings for this reason.)

Who mentioned DayZ?

[xnoobftw]

Is the gpu overclocked? Is you power supply giving enough juice? When doing and stress testing open up gpuz and go to sensor tab, the second to last part there will be a graph with 5 readings options. It'll tell you if it's have Vol, ulti, Vrop, etc. you can hover the left tab so that you can see what each readings means. And when doing the stress testing it will exactly tell you why gpu is not giving enough power. I think it gives you reasons like; for the lack of power, for the lack of voltage ( when you overclock too high) for the lack of voltage reliability ( gpu vcore stability ), for gpu utilization, when cpu is bottleneck to gpu. Etc. Go check it out.

Ah i saw frequent dips in voltages... Is that why?

[Sklo]

Drivers are the bottleneck here. A sports car will not perform great with a new "driver".

I also asume that stuttering are not the same as fps drops, right?

[xnoobftw]

What is your CPU usage?

 

Who mentioned DayZ?

96-100%

[xnoobftw]

Drivers are the bottleneck here. A sports car will not perform great with a new "driver".

I also asume that stuttering are not the same as fps drops, right?

nope, i went from a usual 140 fps to like 40 fps constant during this afternoon

[MegaDave91]

Your cards will never be at 100% all of the time.

 

Thought you were xfiring

[Jey R.]

Ah i saw frequent dips in voltages... Is that why?

Okay, first make sure you update driver and such. And try to do a stress test with unigine Valley or heaven 4. See if the gpu usages stages on load 99%. And check the tab that I showed you ( in the perfcap reason) for normal use you should see vrel and vop. But the vddc voltage should stay stable. Of it dips down. Then try down clocking your gpu clock speed,

[Jey R.]

96-100%

Wait, your cpu usages reaches 100% when playing bf4?

[xnoobftw]

Okay, first make sure you update driver and such. And try to do a stress test with unigine Valley or heaven 4. See if the gpu usages stages on load 99%. And check the tab that I showed you ( in the perfcap reason) for normal use you should see vrel and vop. But the vddc voltage should stay stable. Of it dips down. Then try down clocking your gpu clock speed,

the VDDC dips from 1.156 to 1.055 quite freqently.... 

[xnoobftw]

Wait, your cpu usages reaches 100% when playing bf4?

In the test range....

[xnoobftw]

Wait, your cpu usages reaches 100% when playing bf4?

the problem is that i didnt had this problem till just now. I had my r9 290x for a week now and the performance has been great since day 1!

[Jey R.]

the VDDC dips from 1.156 to 1.055 quite freqently....

Okay, that's a huge drop. When you playing the game and voltages drop like that, the performance will drop as well as you not giving enough power for the card to push all those frequencies. Did you install a bios or a driver or something? Make sure that in you video card panel you set the power management as: performance!,

[xnoobftw]

Okay, that's a huge drop. When you playing the game and voltages drop like that, the performance will drop as well as you not giving enough power for the card to push all those frequencies. Did you install a bios or a driver or something? Make sure that in you video card panel you set the power management as: performance!,

I have quite a shitty PSU (g600w) but my EVGA g2 850 watts is on it's way... Where do you find that?

[Jey R.]

I have quite a shitty PSU (g600w) but my EVGA g2 850 watts is on it's way... Where do you find that?

Well it also could be psu, Okay it in amds control panel or catalyst control center and navigate to your 3d settings or video graphic settings. There should be an option to select power power management and select it as : performance ( sorry i don't have amd)

Also you may want to go to Windows power plan in control panel and select performance profile as well.

[xnoobftw]

Okay, that's a huge drop. When you playing the game and voltages drop like that, the performance will drop as well as you not giving enough power for the card to push all those frequencies. Did you install a bios or a driver or something? Make sure that in you video card panel you set the power management as: performance!,

I didnt install any custom bios or driver! (although i did change from a nvidia GPU to an AMD one... I uninstalled every trace of NVIDIA shit on my comp...)

[Jamdude]

96-100%

There's your problem.  Your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU.

[xnoobftw]

Well it also could be psu, Okay it in amds control panel or catalyst control center and navigate to your 3d settings or video graphic settings. There should be an option to select power power management and select it as : performance ( sorry i don't have amd)

Also you may want to go to Windows power plan in control panel and select performance profile as well.

I have my power plan on samsung high performance (for my ssd!) The problem is that i only got this problem this afternoon tho! (I didnt had an issue with my GPU ever since ive gotten it!) I cant find a power management for AMD D:

[xnoobftw]

There's your problem.  Your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU.

But my cpu is an i5 4440! (I only recently got this problem and i had no issues with my games till this afternoon)

[Jey R.]

Well for you vcore to drop while you play, or doing extensive gpu test it'll Def drop performance to your game. Maybe it's set to adaptive mode or not getting enough power. You said you didn't overclock right?

Sometimes things like that has happened to me and I had to restart the pc and lower gpu core clock.

[Lingering]

IT could be the CPU but it could be lack of cooling throttling back the Gfx.