GTX 970 Frame Drops

[Tofite]

Hello all,

 

Lately (starting a few weeks ago) I have been experiencing frame drops from 60 down to 30fps on my Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 gaming. This occurs in most games except for CS:GO. I am running the latest drivers and my card temps never reach above 65 degrees Celsius.

 

The rest of my system is as follows:

 

Intel Core i5 4590

ASRock H97M-Pro4

Kingston HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3

Corsair CX-750M

 

Months ago I also had a problem where my PC would black screen during gaming but that problem seemed to fix itself. I am concerned that the current frame drop problem is related to this problem. You may be able to find a link to the black screen thread by searching through my profile.

 

Any help would be appreciated,

 

Tofite.

[Prastupok]

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What resolution are you playing at?

[Tofite]

I play at 1680x1050 but my second monitor is 1360x768.

[Darkman]

Hey, tell me this, install GPU-Z, right click at the top where it has the icon at the very top of the window, right click and choose, "Read ASIC quality..." and tell me what the score is... GTX 970s throttle at their ASIC quality...

@Gofspar had to make a bios to fix his, and mine is too high for me to hit it.

[sgloux3470]

Clean reinstall of drivers.

 

if you're overclocked (which I hope you are, if you have a G1 Gaming) then try resetting it to stock.

 

Monitor the clock speed with afterburner in the game, this sounds like a case of an overclocking/driver issue setting the clock speed lower than it should be.  

 

Is it random or does it happen after a certain amount of time?  Could you possible run something like 3Dmark to compare your score with similar systems?

[Tofite]

I play at 1680x1050 but my second monitor is 1360x768.

I do upscale some games though (play at higher res) as I don't have the money for a new monitor at the moment.

[Gofspar]

Yeah I had an issue with this I just forced the GPU to use its max set voltage at clk74.

[Tofite]

Clean reinstall of drivers.

 

if you're overclocked (which I hope you are, if you have a G1 Gaming) then try resetting it to stock.

 

Monitor the clock speed with afterburner in the game, this sounds like a case of an overclocking/driver issue setting the clock speed lower than it should be.  

 

Is it random or does it happen after a certain amount of time?  Could you possible run something like 3Dmark to compare your score with similar systems?

First of all, I have not really taken the time to OC yet so it's at stock anyways (I'm kind of getting used to the new afterburner with the +0 and so on).

 

The frame drops happen at random intervals.

 

I will attempt a driver reinstall this afternoon (I'm in Australia) when I return home from work.

[Prastupok]

I do upscale some games though (play at higher res) as I don't have the money for a new monitor at the moment.

 

Upscale by how much?

[Tofite]

Upscale by how much?

I usually upscale to 1920x1200 16:10.

[Prastupok]

I usually upscale to 1920x1200 16:10.

 

In that case, I'd follow Darkman's instructions.

[Tofite]

Hey, tell me this, install GPU-Z, right click at the top where it has the icon at the very top of the window, right click and choose, "Read ASIC quality..." and tell me what the score is... GTX 970s throttle at their ASIC quality...

@Gofspar had to make a bios to fix his, and mine is too high for me to hit it.

Will do as soon as I return from work.

[Doughnutnator]

Set the RAM speed to the max speed manually, that fixed it for me and I have pretty much the same system as you (i5 4570, G1 Gaming 970, Hyperx Fury 8GB/2 4GB sticks).

 

I set it to 1600Mhz and boom.

 

EDIT: Do that in the Mobo BIOS:

[Tofite]

Set the RAM speed to the max speed manually, that fixed it for me and I have pretty much the same system as you (i5 4570, G1 Gaming 970, Hyperx Fury 8GB/2 4GB sticks).

 

I set it to 1600Mhz and boom.

 

EDIT: Do that in the Mobo BIOS:

When I built the PC I checked the speed and both DIMMS were at 1600Mz.

[Doughnutnator]

When I built the PC I checked the speed and both DIMMS were at 1600Mz.

Yup, me too, but it was set to "Auto" in the BIOS.

 

Set it manually to 1600Mhz, you're not going to break anything. That fixed the issue for me /:

[Tofite]

Yup, me too, but it was set to "Auto" in the BIOS.

 

Set it manually to 1600Mhz, you're not going to break anything. That fixed the issue for me /:

Alright I'll change this as soon as I return from work.

[_SNOWMAN_]

Yup, me too, but it was set to "Auto" in the BIOS.

 

Set it manually to 1600Mhz, you're not going to break anything. That fixed the issue for me /:

 Mine wont let me change from auto. What to do?

[Doughnutnator]

Mine wont let me change from auto. What to do?

Whats your mobo?

[mathijs727]

Turn vsync of. And crappy games or high aa in combination with scaling/dsr can cause framerates below 60fps, with vsync that means 30fps.

[_SNOWMAN_]

Whats your mobo?

Gigabyte 990fx

[Tofite]

Hey, tell me this, install GPU-Z, right click at the top where it has the icon at the very top of the window, right click and choose, "Read ASIC quality..." and tell me what the score is... GTX 970s throttle at their ASIC quality...

@Gofspar had to make a bios to fix his, and mine is too high for me to hit it.

The ASIC quality of my card is 59.2%....is this good?