Fps drops

[Leon1403]

Hello,

 

My friend is having troubles with fps drops. Gpu usage is not 100% but it is using almost all VRAM (gtx 1050). CPU is sometimes 100% but there is not fps drop then. Fps drops are about 10 seconds long. Thanks for help.

[Max Caulfield]

Which processor? 

Does it happen in all games? 

 

[Leon1403]

AMD fx 8370

gtx 1050 2gb

8gb ram

 

All games

[Max Caulfield]

Drivers updated? 

[Leon1403]

Drivers are updated.

[Darkseth]

What Game? What settings?

 

If your GPU is not running at 100%, and you do NOT have fps-limiter ac tive like V-Sync, your GPU is beeing bottlenecked. Maybe by the CPU (depends on the Game and Settings), maybe the Vram (because it's full).

 

Set Textures to LOW (or at least 1-2 steps down), so Vram is NOT full. Do the problems vanish? If yes, your setting was simply too Vram-heavy for this Card.

Problems still there? Your CPU is most likely the Bottleneck.

 

 

 

Let MSI Afterburner run in the background while you game and have these Problems. Upload the Log file please. That gives us all the information we need. ^^

[Jurrunio]

Use lower settings then. This isnt the most powerful hardware so settings to high can kill the frame rates.

[Leon1403]

Mostly COD WWII and GTA V(25-70fps), sometimes Rocket league. GTA V GPU is not 100% but it is going up and down (higher usage more fps, lower usage lower fps ONLY IN GTA), but in gta vram usage can be 2gb and 1,5gb(lower settings) and fps is same. Vsync is off. CPU is not 100%.

[Darkseth]

CPU doesn't need to be at 100% in order to be a hard bottleneck

That's a 8 core CPU, maybe the Game only uses up 2-3 Cores really hard, and that's where the Bottleneck is. FX 8xxx has a crappy IPC --> Bottleneck. It jsut can't keep up.

 

 

Example: Run Prime95, a multithread CPU Benchmark.

But only use 1 single Thread!

And then open Task manager. You wno't see 1 Thread at 100%, and 7 at 0.  You will see all 8 Threads at like 13-20% only. Windows also shedules it as it pleases

None of the Cores has more than 20% usage, yet what you see here in Prime95, is a hard CPU Bottleneck.

 

 

GTA5 is quite CPU heavy. Many objects, and DX11 (which demands much of a single Core).

 

Lower Textures with only 1.5 - 2gb Vram usage do NOT change your fps --> Your GPU Vram is not the issue.

 

Try reducing Graphic settings. If you play on High, go down to medium. Or simply set everything to the lowest. Do your fps go up? If they don't go up by alot, The CPU is bottlenecking.

 

However, there can be settings, that only affect CPU demand. Such as shadow draw, Distance draw for objects shown, etc etc.

[Leon1403]

He still has fps drops after changing settings. I forgot to tell that he upgraded from r7 240 to gtx 1050.  Before there were no fps drops.

[Darkseth]

Probably because the 1050 is strong enough, for the CPU to get fps drops.

 

I guess, with the 1050 he has much higher average fps, but still drops?

 Example, he has 60 fps, btu drops to 25.

The R7 240 only delivers 20 fps, so there are no drops because its below the point, the fps would drop to.

 

Edit: Did he uninstall the AMD driver before? I would suggest using DDU, removing AMD + Nvidia driver remainings, reboot, and reinstall the Driver. Might already fix it.

[Leon1403]

Thanks for help! I noticed that I wrote gtx 1050 TI but he has gtx 1050. He will try to reinstall Windows 10 and maybe fps will be stable. In GTA V on r7 240 he had 30fps and on gtx 1050 drops were below 30fps. When graphic settings are the lowest fps is same but he still has fps drops worser than on r7 240.