FPS drops

[Paw]

Been noticing a LOT of FPS drops recently when playing all games, here's the kinda basics of them

 

Csgo : only around 260fps

H1Z1 : 125fps dropping to a lowest 55

GTA V: 120 dropping to 70, or 90 dropping to 35

The Forest : 100 dropping to a lowest 56

 

Anyone know what could be causing it?

 

CPU : i7-6700k 4ghz

GPU : GTX 1060 SC 6GB

Mboro : MSI Z170 A-Pro

RAM : Corsair Vengeance 3000mhz 8gb

Harddrive : 1TB Toshiba

Cooling : Corsair H55 Liquid

[tp95112]

I notice a slight difference in fps when I have chrome open with a bunch of tabs. Do you have any back ground programs that could be causing thing?

[biker]

Who cares mate, anything above 30 is fine.

[Paw]

3 minutes ago, tp95112 said:

I notice a slight difference in fps when I have chrome open with a bunch of tabs. Do you have any back ground programs that could be causing thing?

nope, i make sure to close everything down before playing and only have 'Curse' open on my 2nd monitor. (Basically Skype)

[MVPernula]

4 minutes ago, biker said:

Who cares mate, anything above 30 is fine.

If there's a hardware issue things are not fine.

 

It's alright to not care much about fps, but to ignore potential issues is just plain stupid.

5 minutes ago, Paw said:

nope, i make sure to close everything down before playing and only have 'Curse' open on my 2nd monitor. (Basically Skype)

It sounds A BIT like something is eating your RAM, memory leak perhaps?

Do you monitor your hardware usage?

When it drops, does it stay low or just for a short while?

 

Also, WHEN specifically does it drop? Different areas in games take more power to run, that is a huge difference though so I doubt it.

 

Does it dip just at random places? How's your heat/temps?

[Paw]

2 minutes ago, MVPernula said:

If there's a hardware issue things are not fine.

 

It's alright to not care much about fps, but to ignore potential issues is just plain stupid.

It sounds A BIT like something is eating your RAM, memory leak perhaps?

Do you monitor your hardware usage?

When it drops, does it stay low or just for a short while?

 

Also, WHEN specifically does it drop? Different areas in games take more power to run, that is a huge difference though so I doubt it.

 

Does it dip just at random places? How's your heat/temps?

I was wondering RAM tbf because i bought 16gb but I can only use 8gb atm.

 

It drops for like a few seconds and then regains performance like usual, and yes it normally does drop in more crowded places of the game like the cities etc. Temps look perfectly fine tbf

[manikyath]

11 minutes ago, biker said:

Who cares mate, anything above 30 is fine.

get out, *PLEASE* get out...

 

i'm one of the few people who sees no issue with vsyncing some games to 30fps (half refresh rate) to gain some eyecandy, but if CSGO is on the list, you need to go take your 30FPS somewhere else, because i'll be the first one to say that in that game it matters, mostly because its a damn challenge to even get CSGO to vsync to 30.

[MVPernula]

1 minute ago, Paw said:

I was wondering RAM tbf because i bought 16gb but I can only use 8gb atm.

 

It drops for like a few seconds and then regains performance like usual, and yes it normally does drop in more crowded places of the game like the cities etc. Temps look perfectly fine tbf

You should definetly look up your RAM in that case, try using different RAM slots and so forth.

[biker]

Windows 10 could be your problem.

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Paw said:

I was wondering RAM tbf because i bought 16gb but I can only use 8gb atm.

 

It drops for like a few seconds and then regains performance like usual, and yes it normally does drop in more crowded places of the game like the cities etc. Temps look perfectly fine tbf

i'd say try to drop down anti aliasing and/or shadows one or two notches down from where you usually have them, and see what that results in. may just be that you're expecting *slightly* too high settings out of your GPU.

 

the reason i say specificly AA and shadows is because those two are essentially only GPU bound, so if the issue is not GPU sided, they will make no difference and we know to look elsewhere

[Paw]

3 minutes ago, MVPernula said:

You should definetly look up your RAM in that case, try using different RAM slots and so forth.

well i have 4x4 of 3000mhz and my mbo does deffo support them but in the BIOS its at 2133mhz and for some reason when i add the other 1/2 4gb sticks, my comp loads up but nothing on my screen.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, biker said:

Windows 10 could be your problem.

as opposed to windows 8.1 that's pretty much on the same line, or windows 7 that's more of a resource hog?

[MVPernula]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

get out, *PLEASE* get out...

 

i'm one of the few people who sees no issue with vsyncing some games to 30fps (half refresh rate) to gain some eyecandy, but if CSGO is on the list, you need to go take your 30FPS somewhere else, because i'll be the first one to say that in that game it matters, mostly because its a damn challenge to even get CSGO to vsync to 30.

Yeah it matters alot to some people, or most rather.

 

But if the man is fine with 30fps, let him! No reason to tell someone "60fps or more is superior" if it doesn't go noticed in their eyes.

And man, if your PC can't run above 30 FPS on CSGO you should definetly get an upgrade for that 8800 GT

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Paw said:

well i have 4x4 of 3000mhz and my mbo does deffo support them but in the BIOS its at 2133mhz and for some reason when i add the other 1/2 4gb sticks, my comp loads up but nothing on my screen.

well.. that's certainly something odd...

[Paw]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i'd say try to drop down anti aliasing and/or shadows one or two notches down from where you usually have them, and see what that results in. may just be that you're expecting *slightly* too high settings out of your GPU.

 

the reason i say specificly AA and shadows is because those two are essentially only GPU bound, so if the issue is not GPU sided, they will make no difference and we know to look elsewhere

on the settings of my GPU through GTA its only using 2gb of the 6gb so i dont think it'd be that would it? Im running at v high textures

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, MVPernula said:

And man, if your PC can't run above 30 FPS on CSGO you should definetly get an upgrade for that 8800 GT

it's the other way around for me, with anything i try, i cant get CSGO below 30FPS, i was actually doing the scientific thing "do i screw up more at lower framerates" (spoilers: yes, once i finally managed to get the magic 30FPS number, boy did it feel like a playstation one )

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Paw said:

on the settings of my GPU through GTA its only using 2gb of the 6gb so i dont think it'd be that would it? Im running at v high textures

vram isnt all in terms of gpu performance

[MVPernula]

2 minutes ago, manikyath said:

it's the other way around for me, with anything i try, i cant get CSGO below 30FPS, i was actually doing the scientific thing "do i screw up more at lower framerates" (spoilers: yes, once i finally managed to get the magic 30FPS number, boy did it feel like a playstation one )

HAH! That's fascinating, what was your hardware?

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, MVPernula said:

HAH! That's fascinating, what was your hardware?

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[MVPernula]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

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So you underclocked it??

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, MVPernula said:

So you underclocked it??

the fun bit about CSGO is that source engine has an FPS cap built in, so you can make it run at any framerate.. until you try to punch in 30... i had to cap the framerate at 15 to make it run at 30