gtx1060 GPU is not using 100% [no bottleneck]

[LoweredHippo]

@i_build_nanosuits I have an I5-6500 3.2GHz

[i_build_nanosuits]

1 minute ago, LoweredHippo said:

@i_build_nanosuits I have an I5-6500 3.2GHz

That's a pretty fast CPU and it should held up fine with a GTX 1060...
Are you rendering games at 1080p resolution?
is Vsync on or do you have any other form of framerate cap active?

[LoweredHippo]

@i_build_nanosuits I always have Vsync off. My resolution is 1080p. I don't have any other framerate caps active.

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, LoweredHippo said:

@Princess Cadence I use the OC mode in Gigabyte Xtreme Gaming Engine. When I press OC Mode the only thing that changes in the program itself is the GPU Clock. It adds +26MHz.

 

 

Try leaving it back to stock and do the Heaven, sudden drops in core clocks in Heaven indicate the GPU not being capable of keeping it that high and it falls down in order to keep stability, if the overclock is ahead the GPU capacity you will face decrease in performance.

[LoweredHippo]

@Princess Cadence I put it back to normal and even lowered it. Both doesn't work.

[Narnash]

52 minutes ago, treeroy said:

RAM is not a bottleneck. If the program needs more RAM than is available it should just crash.

Hm ... in my book will Windows begin to shove stuff in the pagefile unless he disabled it.

[Somnax]

54 minutes ago, treeroy said:

RAM is not a bottleneck. If the program needs more RAM than is available it should just crash.

Slow ram can cause a bottleneck as shown in Witcher 3. Stock i5 7600k with ddr4 3000 MHz ram outperforms i5 7600k 4.8ghz with stock ram

[Somnax]

Are you frame rate capped?

 

Edit: See you said you aren't frame rate capped. I've had this happen with my GTX 1080 before. Sometimes I only get 20 fps in games no matter what. Restarting my PC seems to fix it.

 

I've also seen this happen in fallout 4 when my monitor is set to 144hz. Setting it to 60hz fixes it. Bethesda connecting game physics to frame rate makes me want to rage at them

[treeroy]

1 hour ago, Somnax said:

Slow ram can cause a bottleneck as shown in Witcher 3. Stock i5 7600k with ddr4 3000 MHz ram outperforms i5 7600k 4.8ghz with stock ram

just because it's a factor in performance doesn't make it a bottleneck... why does no one on this forum know the meaning of that word??

[treeroy]

1 hour ago, Narnash said:

Hm ... in my book will Windows begin to shove stuff in the pagefile unless he disabled it.

sure, Windows will try and find more room but the program itself will just crash when there's not enough room for it. You either have enough memory to run it or you don't.

[LoweredHippo]

@Narnash  @treeroy @Somnax I have 2 x 8gb DDR4 2133MHz ram in my PC. That should be enough as far as I know.

 

EDIT: @Somnax My monitor is 75Hz. I put it back to 60Hz and played for a while. It didn't do anything.

 

 

[App4that]

You should be able to overclock that RAM, probably won't solve the problem but free performance never hurt anyone.

 

And if your CPU is hitting 100% utilization, and the graphics card isn't causing you to get an fps drop. That's a bottleneck. Are you on a Z170?

[LoweredHippo]

@App4that My cpu isn't always hitting a 100%. Games like Insurgency and Rocket League only use around 70%. So it shouldn't be bottlenecking. My mobo: ASUS B150M-A/M.2

 

 

[App4that]

70% os all it takes. It's a misnomer that it takes 100% CPU utilization to cause fps drops, it's game to game.