Hey folks, I've been having a problem with my GPU for over a week and I've been trying to get support to help for almost as long with no success.
At the launch of Dark Souls 3 I noticed I couldn't run the game at a steady fps, granted I was trying to run the game at 4k so I turned the settings and the resolution down.
Unfortunately there was no improvement, and as I tried out other games the same problem persisted, even in games I had previously played just fine.
Through support I've updated drivers, uninstalled and reinstalled them multiple times and in a variety of ways. I've checked the temperature of the GPU which would peak at 77°C, swapped RAM around, and checked malware to no success.
I'm concerned it is my CPU, however the temperatures for that never go over 60°c, 4670k without any overlooking. I've updated my BIOS as well. I have a 750watt PSU, which I would think would be plenty.
I rolled back to the 361 drivers last night and noticed that while the problem persists it's not quite as noticeable. Instead of dropping to 7fps it won't go lower than about 23 in Arkham Knight. I used to be able to push 60fps at 1080 and 30 at 4k so I guess I'll just have to deal with this sudden performance hit.
Yup I did that. My first thought was that the fans aren't turning on and that's why it was running a bit warm but that's luckily not the case. Fans are fine, and I used some air to clean them off as well.
I was having some major issues with my 980ti and Premiere pro recently. Fixed by rolling back my drivers, but I rolled back to 364.72, so obviosly that won't help you.
My CPU usage doesn't go over about 75% in any game in particular. The temperatures stay low for my CPU if I'm playing any game, never hitting over about 60C.
What's kind of annoying is I got into the Mirror's Edge Beta, but I had to have newer drivers to run the game. I'm wondering if there isn't enough power going to the GPU, so when it has to process these more graphically intensive sequences it's simply not getting enough power to the GPU.
I forgot that I recently added another harddrive to my computer, I'd be surprised if that was causing the problem though. I would think that a 750watt PSU would allow enough headroom for all my peripherals, but perhaps I'm mistaken.
The GPU doesn't wine and the fans are working properly, temperatures for the GPU do get a bit high in really intensive games but nothing critical in my opinion. CPU usage seems just fine and with 16gb of RAM I doubt that's the problem. However I have two monitors, speakers, an audio interface, a microphone, mouse and keyboard, external HDD, 1 SSD and 3 internal HDD, printer, controller... Maybe I have too much stuff being powered? Is that even really a thing?
What is the cable method used to run the pci-e to the gpu? Are you using 2 single head cables or one cable with the 8+8 split on the end? If you're running a double headed cable, try swapping to two singles.