How do you cure fps dips?

[Adtypenegative]

I'm playing fallout 4, and I dip all the way from 144 fps to 60 fps, I did download some games, but changed my mind and bought them, and I have dowloaded avast and  IObit to uninstall it and then I uninstalleed IObit with ccleaner, I bought my pc like 4 days ago do I really have to format it, my specs are EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Ed,AMD Ryzen 7 1700,MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon, Socket-AM4,Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200MHz 16GB,WD Blue 250GB 2.5" SSD and monitor Acer 27" Predator LED G-Sync XB271HU

 

what can it be that caused it and what should I do? any dangoures files to look out for? I won't surf on any sketchy websites anymore, I just buy them, but I already did it once, is it too late or?

 

 

[eira]

Basically, it could be a bottleneck (which seems very unlikely) or temperatures.

Or the silicon lottery is not on your side.

 

[You_are_a_cunt]

I recommend against playing any Bethesda games at more than 60 FPS due to issues with the Creation Engine. The 60 FPS cap is there for a reason

[Mira Yurizaki]

It could be a number of reasons:

• Game is asking too much of the CPU at the time (most games still prefer single threaded performance over multi-threaded)
• You're out of VRAM and there's a bunch of swapping going on
• There's something the game needs to load and you're not using an SSD
• You have a background program that's eating too much processor time
• You're running into thermal throttling issues
• You have VSync on and you're not meeting or exceeding the refresh rate in terms of frames per second.

[Adtypenegative]

19 minutes ago, 1kv said:

Basically, it could be a bottleneck (which seems very unlikely) or temperatures.

Or the silicon lottery is not on your side.

 

How do you check bottleneck?

 

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It could be a number of reasons:

• Game is asking too much of the CPU at the time (most games still prefer single threaded performance over multi-threaded)
• You're out of VRAM and there's a bunch of swapping going on
• There's something the game needs to load and you're not using an SSD
• You have a background program that's eating too much processor time
• You're running into thermal throttling issues
• You have VSync on and you're not meeting or exceeding the refresh rate in terms of frames per second.

Do I have too little VRAM?

[Mira Yurizaki]

9 minutes ago, Adtypenegative said:

Do I have too little VRAM?

No. I would be very curious what application you're running that needs 11GB of VRAM if this were the case

[typographie]

2 hours ago, Adtypenegative said:

what can it be that caused it and what should I do?

There are a lot of possible factors as explained well by the others, but I'll add that some games just don't run as well as others. Fallout 4 isn't exactly known for exceptionally stable performance at ultra-high framerates. Going over 60 FPS in that game can supposedly cause issues with the game physics and make lockpicking and hacking behave strangely. If you can do it, great, but it's not designed like that.

[Adtypenegative]

Now i'm down on 39 fps when I play on 144hz,what the heck, how can I switch fps?

[leelaa14]

Fallout 4 godrays and shadow distance kill fps.

[leelaa14]

5 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

I recommend against playing any Bethesda games at more than 60 FPS due to issues with the Creation Engine. The 60 FPS cap is there for a reason

Game was patched to support 144hz monitors.

[Praesi]

Fallout 4 FPS change alot depending what area you are in. This has nothing to do with your System.

[ivan134]

The hardware is fine. Fallout 4 is not that well an optimized game.

[Princess Luna]

If you want to be sure everything is working right just ddu and reinstall the latest driver fresh new

[WereCat]

1 hour ago, PatrickK said:

Something completely different: I noticed an increase in fps lagg in my Fallout 4 when i delete dsome old save files. i went from about 300 save files to like 30 orso and got an incredible amount of FPS and no more dips.

Similar thing was happening for me with Witcher 2, also the game was very unstable and was crashing often if I had many saves.