Hi everyone,
Just a few days ago I upgraded to the above mentioned graphics card and its amazing. I made sure to do a clean new driver install after running AMD's R9 290x series prior. All the benchmarks, stress test etc came out really well and I was like sweet, back to streaming my games on twitch.
But then it started.
Playing Grid Autosport on High settings for the first time on the first race the frame rate dopped to 6 about 3 minutes into a race and every 30 sec to a minute thereafter. The in game bench-test puts its minimum at 87fps
But hey I'm not clueless. I lowered the settings in game and for the stream but alas it still happens and to top it off it continues to occur when not streaming. However it's not just this game. Even my favourite Star Trek Online during space battles during its most intense moments have a dramatic frame drop on 'medium' settings, the only game thus far it has not suffered any performance loss is believe it or not Watch Dogs in ultra settings, unbelievable..
Ok so there is the dilemma and you probably wondering my specs so;
AMD FX 8350 Black Edition 8 core 64x Unlocked non oc
32GB G.Skill RipJaws 1866mhz Ram non oc
ASROCK Fatality A990FX Killer
EVGA GTX980 SUPERCLOCKED
Avermedia Live Gamer HD
AOC G2460P 144hz LED LCD (G-sync compatible/ready and working)
2x SSD 64GB & 120GB
1TB HDD
2TB SSDHD
ThermalTake Bigwater 3.0
ThermalTake PGS R Case
Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
Rapter Stealth Mechanical keyboard
ThermalTake Esports Black Mouse
Creative SoundBlaster Tactic Fury 3D Headset
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Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64x with everything up to date.
OBS current and updated
XSPLIT Broadcaster licensed current version
The only thing I can think of is the ASROCK mobo is Pcie x16 2.0 and not 3.0, but until they release a new revision there is not a lot I can do to change that. But even if it was, I was experiencing this problem with the old R9 which is what prompted the GPU upgrade in the first place.
The AVERMEDIA Gamer Live HD is not in use since I don't have any DP to HDMI conversion and if it did I'm thinking will I loose the G-Sync/144hz (?).. My net speed in Australia is Fibre 100/50 which is plenty for streaming.
Running resource monitors while doing all of this shows no signs of stressing the cpu, ram, hdd etc, all temps are well within reason including the graphics card which does have the fans spinning but still keeping it cool in the 50c's .
So is there anyone that may have some suggestions as to what may be a solution, pls no intel over amd nonsense unless it is something that will directly impact performance. Because prior to the new gpu it was amd cpu amd gpu etc, same problem.
Ok thats enough for now, I look forward to comments.
Cheers.