Poor gaming performance on good PC

[MADMINK]

I have been experiencing low performance on Overwatch for the past year. I have a monitor that operates at 120hz. My main goal is to have aconsistent frame rate at 120 fps. Task manager is red with 85 to 94 percent cpu usage, 60 percent of my 8gb RAM, and 35 to 60 percent gpu usage. When I use high or max settings (I have a RX 480 8gb with latest drivers and i5 6420p), I get around 90 to 115 fps that fluctuates rapidly. If I set everything low with the exception of ultra SMAA and 16x anistrophic filtering, I get 60 fps to 150 fps uncapped mid game. Right now, my fps cap is set to 135 to give me some room for stutter, but the fps crash lands  when in the heat of battle. 

My processor and graphics card should be handling better especially on low settings. My PC runs cool, is cleaned monthly, and has plenty of RAM. The Internet is connected via lan and my HDD is less than half full free of any viruses. What is wrong with my setup?

[bleedblue]

18 minutes ago, MADMINK said:

Task manager is red with 85 to 94 percent cpu usage, 60 percent of my 8gb RAM, and 35 to 60 percent gpu usage.

That's a pretty obvious CPU bottleneck. Your i5 is having trouble keeping up with your GPU.

Keep games on highest settings, lowering them makes your CPU have to work harder.

[MADMINK]

25 minutes ago, SnowWolf370 said:

Has Overwatch been updated lately? I don't play the game so I wouldn't know, but sometimes updates can "slaughter" performance in some games.

 

Have you tried doing a defragment your drive and stuff? Maybe download new drivers for your graphics card? Have you updated those lately?

Yes, I've done all of that. I even turned off superfetch.

[Majestic]

 

21 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

That's a pretty obvious CPU bottleneck. Your i5 is having trouble keeping up with your GPU.

Keep games on highest settings, lowering them makes your CPU have to work harder.

 

Not necessarily. Lowering settings also lowers settings like Physics interations with Objects, the amount of physics particles on-screen, Geometry complexity of the scene/objects, draw distance (and therefor also more geometry). Yes you run the risk of lowering GPU load and therefor increasing the distribution towards the CPU, but it does not increase CPU load by lowering settings, quite the opposite. It's one of those memes/myths of PC gaming that is impossible to get rid of, not necessarily blaming your for it.

 

37 minutes ago, MADMINK said:

I have been experiencing low performance on Overwatch for the past year. I have a monitor that operates at 120hz. My main goal is to have aconsistent frame rate at 120 fps. Task manager is red with 85 to 94 percent cpu usage, 60 percent of my 8gb RAM, and 35 to 60 percent gpu usage. When I use high or max settings (I have a RX 480 8gb with latest drivers and i5 6420p), I get around 90 to 115 fps that fluctuates rapidly. If I set everything low with the exception of ultra SMAA and 16x anistrophic filtering, I get 60 fps to 150 fps uncapped mid game. Right now, my fps cap is set to 135 to give me some room for stutter, but the fps crash lands  when in the heat of battle. 

My processor and graphics card should be handling better especially on low settings. My PC runs cool, is cleaned monthly, and has plenty of RAM. The Internet is connected via lan and my HDD is less than half full free of any viruses. What is wrong with my setup?

Check my topic on the subject here and post results in your startpost and tag me afterwards:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/894384-stutters-framedrops-lag-how-to-provide-detailed-information-with-your-bottleneck-question-as-well-as-a-few-solutions/

 

[MADMINK]

13 hours ago, Majestic said:

 

 

Not necessarily. Lowering settings also lowers settings like Physics interations with Objects, the amount of physics particles on-screen, Geometry complexity of the scene/objects, draw distance (and therefor also more geometry). Yes you run the risk of lowering GPU load and therefor increasing the distribution towards the CPU, but it does not increase CPU load by lowering settings, quite the opposite. It's one of those memes/myths of PC gaming that is impossible to get rid of, not necessarily blaming your for it.

 

Check my topic on the subject here and post results in your startpost and tag me afterwards:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/894384-stutters-framedrops-lag-how-to-provide-detailed-information-with-your-bottleneck-question-as-well-as-a-few-solutions/

 

What settings do you think have the most impact on my cpu? It's a shame I get very poor performance.

[Majestic]

13 hours ago, MADMINK said:

What settings do you think have the most impact on my cpu? It's a shame I get very poor performance.

Things like Model Detail should be low.

[MADMINK]

Aw man