970 GTX SLI Source Engine Issues

[Splitzer]

Hi,

 

As the title says I seem to be having major issues on Source Engine games such as Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: series, Left 4 Dead 2. Yes, I love all the Valve games. I bought the 970 GTX SLI to play newer single player games, and so far with a few tweaks I've been able to get 60 FPS at 1440P. I have had to switch maximum performance and rendering on in the control panel on some of the games.

 

I tend to enjoy the higher slot servers on the multiplayer games that I play and the issue I seem to be experiencing the most is everytime I turn around I drop a massive amount of frames. I was on the game Source just last night and had 100FPS on a 64 slot server, I turned around and it dropped to 30 FPS, a second later it boosted back to 70 FPS.

 

How can I fix this sort of thing? It's ruining my gaming experience. Seems to be happening on every Source Engine game. This is the first time I have bought a dual GPU. In the past I never worried about FPS, I blamed the single GPU card or map optimization, surely with 2 cards I should be able to get at the very least 60 FPS on old games such as the Counter-Strike games including GO at all times.

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What CPU do you have? Are they overclocked? How much ram do you have?

Check your GPU usage and temps. Check your running programss and startup items.

Scan for malware using malwarebytes & eset online scanner.

[nikolaizombie1]

Have you diagnosed the possibly faulty card?

[Briggsy]

Welcome to delta compression.

[nikolaizombie1]

Welcome to delta compression.

What do you mean?

Is delta compression bad?

[Splitzer]

What CPU do you have? Are they overclocked? How much ram do you have?

Check your GPU usage and temps. Check your running programss and startup items.

Scan for malware using malwarebytes & eset online scanner.

I have the I7 3770. I have unparked my cores, under some advisement from GO players. I have 32GB 4x8 of dual channel RAM.

 

I have not overclocked no, even at stock settings the games above should run at 60 FPS surely, more so at a stable framerate. Mass drops is not what I envisaged when I bought the cards.

 

Is MSI Afterburner monitoring good enough to monitor in-game? and how would one check for a faulty card? The SLI is enabled, Heaven Benchmark had me at 65FPS at 1440P.

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I have the I7 3770. I have unparked my cores, under some advisement from GO players. I have 32GB 4x8 of dual channel RAM.

 

I have not overclocked no, even at stock settings the games above should run at 60 FPS surely, more so at a stable framerate. Mass drops is not what I envisaged when I bought the cards.

 

Is MSI Afterburner monitoring good enough to monitor in-game?

 

Yeah it will show your GPU usage. Honestly I don't know what would cause that, last time I had an issue that was similar but it was to do with malware.

Try resetting the games video settings to default.

[Briggsy]

What do you mean?

Is delta compression bad?

 

no, just means if you are sitting still in a game and then turn sharply, you are going to have a larger fps drop than without any color compression. It helps pump out more frames by reusing pixels that don't change from frame to frame, but in turn you get larger dips and spikes in framerate than you would normally get.

[nikolaizombie1]

no, just means if you are sitting still in a game and then turn sharply, you are going to have a larger fps drop than without any color compression. It helps pump out more frames by reusing pixels that don't change from frame to frame, but in turn you get larger dips and spikes in framerate than you would normally get.

nice to know thanks

[Splitzer]

GPU 1 Power: 55% slight fluctuations

GPU 2 Power: 53% slight fluctuations

GPU 1 Usage: Anywhere between 25 and 60% kept fluctuating

GPU 2 Usage: Anywhere between 25 and 60% kept fluctuating 2nd always a bit lower

GPU 1 Temperature: 50-55

GPU 2 Temperature: 47-52

RAM Usage: 5GB

Framerate: 30 - 299... this is the one that troubles me the most. Heavy fluctuations

CPU 1 - 8 usage. None of them maxed out at 100%. All fluctuating.

 

That was a test on UK.CS (58 out of 62 players)

[Splitzer]

Any suggestions on how to keep the FPS afloat?

 

NVIDIA control panel is set to max performance, SLI Nvidia Recommended, Single Display. I have tried lowering the video options in-game, I'm still feeling the effects of FPS drops between each scene. 100+, 200+ FPS and in a single moment mass drops. I really don't get it. All of my other games seem to be performing fine, yet the ones I'm most active on in a multiplayer sense are working terribly at the moment.

 

I can understand not being able to get 299 FPS in every moment. Heck, I'm playing on 40-50-60 slot servers, sometimes on big arse maps. I understand the FPS not maxing out at the fps limit. What I still can't understand is how it can fluctuate between 30 FPS and 300 in one round. It makes it really hard to play.

 

It is even hard finding a workaround because of the age of all the games. If we speak about any newer game like Far Cry, Dying Light, Shadow of Mordor there are far many more problematic threads and always a solid answer as most suffer from the same thing.