Garbage FPS in games

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Alright. Please help me fix this. When I play CS:GO I noticed my framerate was garbage at certain points (Dropping below 24FPS at times.) Most of the time I sat at ~200FPS. But It will randomly dip. Started testing settings. here they are:

 

Low everything (FXAA, MSAA, EVERYTHING)

Fullscreen windowed (Looks full screen but the mouse can leave and do other things without minimizing the game)

 

I uninstalled and reinstalled my GPU drivers (Using DDU and the AMD thing). Still does it.

Tried GMOD. Also does it

 

My findings: GPU sits around 50% usage on both and will drop to like 2%

[EMENCII]

CPU bottleneck?

Something in the background?

[TubsAlwaysWins]

1 minute ago, EMENCII said:

CPU bottleneck?

Something in the background?

Don't think so. According to task manager CPU is at 45% load at most (usually sits between 1-10%) and according to MSI Afterburner GPU doesn't go above 50% (will jump to 70% rarely).

It used to not do this so idk. Possibly a RAM bottleneck? I have been having RAM issues

[EMENCII]

2 minutes ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

I have been having RAM issues

Like?

[Sreno1]

8GB of ram at 2133Hz is more than enough. Only thing I can think of is the GPU? Try restoring your computer and reinstalling windows to get any malware off your system.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

8 minutes ago, Sreno1 said:

8GB of ram at 2133Hz is more than enough. Only thing I can think of is the GPU? Try restoring your computer and reinstalling windows to get any malware off your system.

I know its enough but windows hardware reserves 4.1GB of RAM. Removing a stick literally does nothing

[TubsAlwaysWins]

11 minutes ago, EMENCII said:

Like?

I know its enough but windows hardware reserves 4.1GB of RAM. Removing a stick literally does nothing

[TubsAlwaysWins]

3 minutes ago, Fooshi said:

As nice as windowed borderless is in games, I've noticed it ruins my FPS in most games and introduces ridiculous stutter at times.

 

Tried full screen instead?

Doesn't do anything

[TubsAlwaysWins]

@EMENCII @Fooshi @Sreno1

Noticed my GPU will drop to 450Mhz (Those ridiculous spikes). Heres some stats:

The highest point is 80% load

 

Just ran 3D mark firestrike. Score was 5,201. CPU didn't really go any higher than ~30% except for one point where it jumped to about 70% and then back down.

[EMENCII]

No clue about the spikes... Sorry :c

It's a problem, but I wouldn't know what causes it if not the driver, the game, the OS or the card itself... So...

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Just now, EMENCII said:

No clue about the spikes... Sorry :c

It's a problem, but I wouldn't know what causes it if not the driver, the game, the OS or the card itself... So...

Shit

[Sreno1]

You said the card isn't under full load but it could still be thermal throttling. Set a custom fan curve in the settings.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

7 hours ago, EMENCII said:

No clue about the spikes... Sorry :c

It's a problem, but I wouldn't know what causes it if not the driver, the game, the OS or the card itself... So...

It was a driver

[TubsAlwaysWins]

23 minutes ago, Sreno1 said:

You said the card isn't under full load but it could still be thermal throttling. Set a custom fan curve in the settings.

Doubt its thermal throttiling. 60C isn't enough for that

[EMENCII]

10 hours ago, TubsAlwaysWins said:

It was a driver

So you solved it? What a relief