Poor in game performance

[CeJay]

I've been noticing performance issues with my pc.  These issues occur in all my games but I'm using Battlefield 1 as the main example.  

 

I have pretty poor GPU usage in Battlefield 1, which causes my frame rates to be less than what I should be getting with my setup.  Sometimes dipping as low as 50 fps.  

 

Attached are afterburner graphs that were monitoring my system while I was playing.

 

My Build:

i7 4790k @ 4.7ghz

MSI z97 g45 gaming

MSI 980 ti 

Corsair Vengeance Pro 16gb 8x2 1866

EVGA 750w 80+ Gold

1080p 144hz

[Guest]

Did you try oc it?

[DELTAprime]

Your CPU is throttling cause of heat by the looks of it. Not sure how to troubleshoot that myself, but try looking at that.

[CeJay]

36 minutes ago, Ellen_orangecloud said:

OP, what cooler are you using for your CPU? 

 

40 minutes ago, DELTAprime said:

Your CPU is throttling cause of heat by the looks of it. Not sure how to troubleshoot that myself, but try looking at that.

There is no way it is throttling at 55C...

 

I have a h110i

[DELTAprime]

Edit: I might be reading the wrong line. Not familiar with this GPU software.

[DrM]

judging by your really high cpu usage, that may be the limiter. bf1 is pretty cpu intensive, but you should check load on individual cores. if its maxed on any single core, then you are indeed limited by cpu

[DELTAprime]

What resolution are you playing at BTW? There is big difference in expected frame rate between 1080p, 1440p and 2160p.

[CeJay]

1080p 144hz

16 minutes ago, DELTAprime said:

 

[DELTAprime]

See what your CPU usage per core is. This is what BF1 CPU usage looks like on a OCed 6700k.

 

 

[CeJay]

Here is the per core.  Each core is averaging around 70-80% at around 50-60C

[DELTAprime]

Well I'm out of hardware related ideas. I take it you have the latest Nvidia drivers and have your power profile set to performance.

[CeJay]

Yup, and I clean installed windows and that did nothing.  

 

Last night I put a different 980 ti in my pc and got the same performance.   So I guess it isn't hardware related.

[Diceair]

Battlfield 1 raises my cpu to 100% and temps to 80C

 

I'm in South Africa and being struck with a heatwave it's super hot here. About 30C in my room. BMy 4.6ghz overclock isn't even stable anymore but yeah 4.4ghz vs 4.6ghz is not a big issue. 

 

I'm running the following system

 

i7-4790k @ 4.4GHZ (stock bios settings and actually 4.4GHZ in games) 1.19V

H100i CPU cooler

ddr4 2400mhz 16GB

windows 10 64 bit latest updates

Galax gtx 980 ti hof

 

 

I can't understand why my h100i can't even cool a 4790k at stock bios settings and not even high volts. In other games it's fine and cinebench it's fine. My gpu runs only 74C and that's fine as I overclocked it to about 1418mhz 1.175V. So far no crashes so that's one positive thing but a h100i should be cooling better than this. My old thermalright silver arrow was a bit big so memory didn't fit so I gave it to my DAD to be used with his 4690k. On his pc when doing a stress test with ASUS realbench the max temps is about 70C @ 4.6GHZ 1.275V. I know it's a i5 but still much better than mine cause it's overclocked vs mine stock.

[NeoFrux]

On 10/29/2016 at 10:02 AM, CeJay said:

Yup, and I clean installed windows and that did nothing.  

 

Last night I put a different 980 ti in my pc and got the same performance.   So I guess it isn't hardware related.

Well, there is one other thing I'd check: Grab GPU-Z and check to be sure that the PCI-E link is x16 @ 3.0 while under load. It should also give you a "PerfCap Reason" in the Sensors tab that might help diagnose the issue.

[DELTAprime]

15 hours ago, Runefox said:

Well, there is one other thing I'd check: Grab GPU-Z and check to be sure that the PCI-E link is x16 @ 3.0 while under load. It should also give you a "PerfCap Reason" in the Sensors tab that might help diagnose the issue.

While yes a single PCI-E card system should be set to 16x and it should be checked (maybe 8x + 4x + 4x if you have a M.2 drive or two), PCI-E lanes make little difference as the bottleneck is not PCI-E lanes.

[NeoFrux]

8 hours ago, DELTAprime said:

While yes a single PCI-E card system should be set to 16x and it should be checked (maybe 8x + 4x + 4x if you have a M.2 drive or two), PCI-E lanes make little difference as the bottleneck is not PCI-E lanes.

It can be if it's running at something ludicrous like 4x @ 1.0, which I've had happen before while I was running my Gigabyte Z77X-UP5 TH (iffy WiFi adapter was the culprit).

[CeJay]

Yup it's running on 3x16

 

This is getting irritating

[CeJay]

On 10/30/2016 at 10:28 AM, Runefox said:

Well, there is one other thing I'd check: Grab GPU-Z and check to be sure that the PCI-E link is x16 @ 3.0 while under load. It should also give you a "PerfCap Reason" in the Sensors tab that might help diagnose the issue.

Yup it's running at 3x16.

 

This is getting irritating.