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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:10am
Weird Frames
So I don't have the best high-end ultra-new fancy computer like many people these days do, but it still holds its own when it comes to new and demanding games. I play games like Elite: Dangerous, War Thunder, 7 Days to Die, Stranded Deep, and Space/Medieval Engineers. Now these games are going to be what I use to explain my issue with my frames.

Elite Dangerous- High-Ultra 1080: 120/200 FPS Around/Not around planets.
Space/Medieval engineers- Minimum 720: 20-25 FPS (Doesn't matter where) Same FPS on Ultra 1080
Stranded Deep-Minimum 720: 20-25 FPS (Same with Ultra 1080)
7 Days to Die-Minimum 720:20-25 FPS (Same with Ultra 1080) But if I leave an online server and rejoin, I get up to 60.

It had only been recently, as in a week or so, that I noticed that these games with low frames had actually started acting this way. They all used to run fine. I've checked my Disks, Ram, GPUs, anything that I could search up/think of to be causing this massive drop in performance, and everything I check comes back negative on being a cause. Heating is fine, Load is fine, No malicious content, no dead sticks of ram, nothing.

i7 980@ 3.33Ghz 6 cores
2 Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5Gb GDDR5 (One Dedicated to PhysX)
12Gb DDR3 @1333Mhz (3 sticks of 4 Gb)
1Tb HDD 7200RPM
Average Full Load Temp on GPU is 60-75C
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Cathulhu Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:12am 
What you forgot to mention in what exactly the issue is. You talk about weird frames and that it happens in certain games, but not how the issue itself manifests.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's a CPU issue, it's rather old (five years old) and many games can not utilize multiple cores properly. Which means that the single threaded performance is asked for.
Last edited by Cathulhu; Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:13am
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rojimboo Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:14am 
What are your Nvidia Profile Settings? Is DSR on? Did you change anything?

Consider getting Nvidia Inspector and check all settings are reasonable there for each game profile.
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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:17am 
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
What you forgot to mention in what exactly the issue is. You talk about weird frames and that it happens in certain games, but not how the issue itself manifests.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's a CPU issue, it's rather old (five years old) and many games can not utilize multiple cores properly. Which means that the single threaded performance is asked for.

The issue is, they used to run just fine. All of the other games used to run just fine with decent frames. The most demanding one on the list still runs perfectly fine. It's just the not-so-intensive ones run terribly for some odd reason.
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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:19am 
Originally posted by rojimboo:
What are your Nvidia Profile Settings? Is DSR on? Did you change anything?

Consider getting Nvidia Inspector and check all settings are reasonable there for each game profile.

After further looking at it, DSR was indeed on. It must have switched on after doing a clean install of Nvidia Drivers. I'll test to confirm if that may have been my issue.
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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:27am 
DSR was unfortunately not the cause. What should I be looking for in the Nvidia Inspector? Everything seems to be running normally.
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rojimboo Jun 21, 2016 @ 3:30am 
Originally posted by Phantoma:
DSR was unfortunately not the cause. What should I be looking for in the Nvidia Inspector? Everything seems to be running normally.
Take snapshots of the Global Base Profile settings, all of them.

Maybe later we can choose a game and double check there are no weird forced options set to them.

Next up, we monitor GPU and CPU temps whilst stesstesting, as this could be overheating related throttling.
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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 4:10am 
The issue has been found. GPU 2 just failed and GPU 1 is about to go aswell. Theyjust got too old and weathered to go on. It's almost 6 years old after all.. Welp, time to get a 1070
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rojimboo Jun 21, 2016 @ 4:11am 
Originally posted by Phantoma:
The issue has been found. GPU 2 just failed and GPU 1 is about to go aswell. Theyjust got too old and weathered to go on. It's almost 6 years old after all.. Welp, time to get a 1070

What happened? How do you know?

Might be to do with powersupply, what is it?
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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 4:20am 
Originally posted by rojimboo:
Originally posted by Phantoma:
The issue has been found. GPU 2 just failed and GPU 1 is about to go aswell. Theyjust got too old and weathered to go on. It's almost 6 years old after all.. Welp, time to get a 1070

What happened? How do you know?

Might be to do with powersupply, what is it?

The gpu up and died. No output, no fan turning, no power draw. My PSU is a 1Kw supply. I tried disconnecting the other and trying and the card is just dead.
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rojimboo Jun 21, 2016 @ 4:23am 
Originally posted by Phantoma:
Originally posted by rojimboo:

What happened? How do you know?

Might be to do with powersupply, what is it?

The gpu up and died. No output, no fan turning, no power draw. My PSU is a 1Kw supply. I tried disconnecting the other and trying and the card is just dead.

Damn dude, sorry to hear that. But it only affected PhysX games, so there's that.

If you can wait a bit the new r9 480 might be a very good value deal, so the new 1070 too soon.
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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 5:38am 
Aha! Figured out why the other GPU was not performing so well. It was running a fixed half-speed on memory and GPU clock. Fixed it in Afterburner.
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Phantoma Jun 21, 2016 @ 7:56am 
Originally posted by Hanging Chad:
Try doing a 'custom' install and only install the software that you absolutely need (Display Driver, PhysX) and then select a 'clean' install.

I always do clean installs. Funny thing is, just yesterday, I gave that same advice to someone else.
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