AMD FX-8120 and GTX 760 Not performing as expected.

[robbivip]

So I've had my rig for about a week. I got an old 8120, motherboard and ram from a friend, and then bought a second hand 760. The performance hasn't been exactly as expected. I saw a video on Youtube with someone running the exact same setup playing Minecraft at a steady 200fps. Mine does do that, but then any particles come on screen it falls down to below 20, which is really annoying. I can't have fireworks/tnt anywhere near me or my fps drops to the unplayable territory. There's also lots of stutering, even with V-Sync on and it running at a stable 60fps.

 

I've checked the temps, my card is definitely running cool, the processor too. I haven't bothered playing around with the clock speed on the 8120 yet, but at stcok speeds it still shouldn't act like this.

 

(I also tried to run NFS Rivals, not a terribly intense game, but it was constantly running at the capped 30fps)

[Moonzy]

check msi afterburner

monitor GPU and CPU usage, see if the cpu cores are capped at 100% while the fps dropped

 

minecraft is a cpu heavy game iirc, so might be cpu bottlenecking issue

[don_svetlio]

did you install drivers at all?

[robbivip]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

check msi afterburner

monitor GPU and CPU usage, see if the cpu cores are capped at 100% while the fps dropped

 

minecraft is a cpu heavy game iirc, so might be cpu bottlenecking issue

It only seems to utilize 4 cores, which is expected, but no they all sit around 30-50% usage.

 

And Moonzy, thanks for helping me plan this build. I'm the guy with the endless pascal questions that ended up with a 760. Also took your advice on a white build. got an s340. I'll send you some pictures later.

[robbivip]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

did you install drivers at all?

Obviously.

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, robbivip said:

Obviously.

Hmmm, did you remove your older drivers via DDU?

[robbivip]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Hmmm, did you remove your older drivers via DDU?

Fresh install of Windows 10, got all the drivers directly from the Nvidia support site.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, robbivip said:

Fresh install of Windows 10, got all the drivers directly from the Nvidia support site.

Remove them and install 361.75

[robbivip]

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Hmmm, did you remove your older drivers via DDU?

Why?/Are they available on the website?

[don_svetlio]

Just now, robbivip said:

Why?/Are they available on the website?

You have to clean all your drivers and install them manually - Kepler doesn't work well with the newer ones - 361.75 is the last stable one

[robbivip]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

You have to clean all your drivers and install them manually - Kepler doesn't work well with the newer ones - 361.75 is the last stable one

I'll try that when I get home. I'll let you know if that works, thanks.

[Djole123]

34 minutes ago, robbivip said:

I'll try that when I get home. I'll let you know if that works, thanks.

Here's the link if you need it:

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97765/en-us

[robbivip]

1 hour ago, don_svetlio said:

You have to clean all your drivers and install them manually - Kepler doesn't work well with the newer ones - 361.75 is the last stable one

 

Sadly it hasn't improved at all after downgrading the driver.

[don_svetlio]

5 minutes ago, robbivip said:

 

Sadly it hasn't improved at all after downgrading the driver.

Is GPU usage at 100%?

[robbivip]

42 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Is GPU usage at 100%?

Never goes above 20%

[robbivip]

46 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Is GPU usage at 100%?

Okay, so it DOES go over 50 at times. Hadn't been playing a lot. I also noticed that rendering doesn't look quite right, it misses out chunks etc.

[robbivip]

55 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Is GPU usage at 100%?

 

[robbivip]

And I uploaded the wrong file, I'm a genius. Anyways it was supposed to show the GPU usage etc, didn't work.

[Thony]

If u get weird looking textures it's deffo a dying card.

 

I own 760 MSI twin frozr OC edition and my driver version has been flawless. Can look it up in about 3hrs if u are interested.

[robbivip]

24 minutes ago, Thony said:

If u get weird looking textures it's deffo a dying card.

 

I own 760 MSI twin frozr OC edition and my driver version has been flawless. Can look it up in about 3hrs if u are interested.

The textures look fine, the chunk loading doesn't.

[K0MP4CT]

5 hours ago, robbivip said:

So I've had my rig for about a week. I got an old 8120, motherboard and ram from a friend, and then bought a second hand 760. The performance hasn't been exactly as expected. I saw a video on Youtube with someone running the exact same setup playing Minecraft at a steady 200fps. Mine does do that, but then any particles come on screen it falls down to below 20, which is really annoying. I can't have fireworks/tnt anywhere near me or my fps drops to the unplayable territory. There's also lots of stutering, even with V-Sync on and it running at a stable 60fps.

 

I've checked the temps, my card is definitely running cool, the processor too. I haven't bothered playing around with the clock speed on the 8120 yet, but at stcok speeds it still shouldn't act like this.

 

(I also tried to run NFS Rivals, not a terribly intense game, but it was constantly running at the capped 30fps)

What's your RAM usage? I'm aware a lack of RAM can cause stuttering if you end up playing for a few hours each time.

[robbivip]

On 5/6/2016 at 3:41 PM, K0MP4CT said:

What's your RAM usage? I'm aware a lack of RAM can cause stuttering if you end up playing for a few hours each time.

RAM usage is completely normal. I even allocated 4GB's to Minecraft to make sure.