High end rig, cannot get stable 60fps

[Kurt101]

Hello, first lets start this off by saying, i have a high end rig with the following specifications:

-intel 6700k

-gtx 980 ti (msi white oc edition to be accurate)

-16gb of corzair ram 2400hmz

-msi gaming pro motherboard

-intel 750ssd 400gb

-1tb western black harddrive

-2tb harddrive

-corsair 750watt psu

I have monitored both my cpu and gpu settings and they are always under 80 degrees celsius. Any game i play i cannot get a stable 60 frames per second ( fps constantly dropping from 60 downwards) on medium settings, at a resoultion of 2560x1440. Here are the games i am having the issues with:

-the witcher 3

-total war WARHAMMER

-dying light

-dark souls 3

-even minecraft (yes i know, i have not played it for a long time but still, seriously minecraft?)

I would appreciate any help, also please note i have had to reinstall windows 10 many times because of other problems, ive used diskpart everytime, (windows not letting me install to disk) king regards Kurt

[Kurt101]

Sorry forgot to mention windows 10 is installed to ssd drive.

[Guest Kloaked]

Did you install the video card drivers?

[Kurt101]

Thankyou for responding, yes i have latest aswell

[Guest Kloaked]

3 minutes ago, Kurt101 said:

Thankyou for responding, yes i have latest aswell

Can you look at your CPU and GPU usage while in game, not just your temps?

[Kurt101]

Yes i will run totalwar brb 5mins

 

[Kurt101]

Gpu usage average 44% cpu 24% medium settings, and noticing huge fps spikes from 60-44 

[Kurt101]

Also tested the witcher 3 on high settings this time, 85% average gpu 37% average cpu, constant lag and fps drops every few seconds. I tested this yesterday btw for about 45mins

[Guest Kloaked]

2 minutes ago, Kurt101 said:

Gpu usage average 44% cpu 24% medium settings, and noticing huge fps spikes from 60-44 

Okay so for some reason your system isn't using your hardware to it's fullest. I would do a CMOS reset, go back and overclock your CPU again, and then see what happens when you try running a game. Resetting the CMOS won't affect your video drivers if you don't already know, so don't worry about that.

[Cavi]

As far as I know a 980 Ti won't run Witcher 3 on stable 60 fps at all times on ultra settings. 

[Kurt101]

Im experienced with computer i am aware of the cmos jumper, thanks for the reply also to cavi, its not ultra but high, even when i set it to low it still lags awfully

[Kurt101]

computers* sorry

[Kurt101]

I would also like to ask, could faulty hardware be the issue? my computer was shipped with a broken harddrive and i had to get a replacement so it is very likely something else could of got damaged.

[Lord_Karango17]

@Kurt101If the gpu usage isnt close to 100% then there is something funny going on with the video drivers. Also I doubt it is hardware related, as hardware usually works, or it dosent. there isnt usually an in between where a faulty gpu for example would give you bad fps.

[Guest Kloaked]

1 minute ago, Kurt101 said:

I would also like to ask, could faulty hardware be the issue? my computer was shipped with a broken harddrive and i had to get a replacement so it is very likely something else could of got damaged.

Maybe, but if the game even boots and doesn't crash on it's own then I don't think it's a hardware issue per-se, personally. Unless something is up with the PSU not putting out enough power, but I doubt that's the case.

 

I'm 99% sure it's something software related.

[Kurt101]

ok thankyou, i will try the cmos reset and i will also completely uninstall my nvidia drivers, thankyou for your time and help, honestly i spent alot of hard earned cash on my pc, and to see so many problems come with it is ashame. Have a nice day

[Guest Kloaked]

2 minutes ago, Kurt101 said:

ok thankyou, i will try the cmos reset and i will also completely uninstall my nvidia drivers, thankyou for your time and help, honestly i spent alot of hard earned cash on my pc, and to see so many problems come with it is ashame. Have a nice day

Issues happen. Nothing you can do to avoid it, sadly. I sat in front of an Ubuntu machine I built for a company for about five hours trying to figure out why it was stuck in a login loop. I neglected to look at the troubleshoot log and when I did, I discovered it was a simple fix by reinstalling video drivers. I felt like an idiot.

 

You might discover what it is and it'll be so simple, haha.

[Kurt101]

Thanks haha, oh wait did i accidentally switch to my internal gpu in the bios settings, woops oh well  got to go know however, its 1am bye