I have just recently purchased a new card, which is my newest upgrade in like three years, but I'm having some problems with only one game. In overwatch, my GPU bounces around in terms of usage, like from 0 to 100 all the time, and it gives me really bad frame drops! Please help me.
It would be helpfult to know what your setup is.
Anyway, taking a guess that the power policy you have set is causing the GPU to aggressively downclock.
Assuming you own nVidia, go to nVidia Control panel>Manage 3D settings>Program Settings>Find Overwatch>select Power Management Mode and change to "Perfer Maximum Performance"
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I have a radeon rx 460 nitro with an athlon 750k at 4.1 GHz
everything else is in my profile
Sorry, I don't have a solution for you, but maybe this will give you a bit of hope.
I remember having this problem in some of my AMD GPUs before, and eventually it stopped happening, I can't remember if I figured out how to fix it or just fixed it with dumb luck. But I do remember it eventually got solved.
EDIT: Just a thought, might help, try shutting down everything else, everything other than Radeon settings, Battle.net and Overwatch.
After that, screw with your system some more, you won't break it, you can always undo it later, and you might fix it in the process.
Is it just GPU usage or is there CPU spikes as well?
just GPU
Ok, well its sort of the same idea. I think for Crimson, it's called Power Efficiency
I cant vouch for solving this issue with an AMD card, but back when I upgraded to a GTX 970 on my Q9550 rig(old ass CPU from 2008), I would encounter routine choppiness in some games; the culprit was "Adaptive" power management policy, which would cause the GPU to jump between clock states frequently. Changing this value so the computer doesn't downclock the GPU while in the game essentially fixed this issue for me.
Yeah, this has been a known issue for a while. If you don't limit your fps to under a specific number(can't recall the number), like with v-sync or frame lock, then the engine uses all cpu /GPU that it wants. Either lock your frames in a range or if that doesn't work try it with v-sync.
I will definitely try it out!
I tried that out and I have to say, it really did not help. At first it seemed like it did thought, but after about 5 mins it just got to being bad again. Like I said, any other game does fine, it is only Overwatch that does this odd thing, I can even run the witcher 3 at high settings and the GPU doesn't seem to have a problem.
Odd, hopefully someone else can help you because I'm depleted. Sorry man.
Yeah, me too man. Thank you for trying to help though!
I may have found my issue, when I got my drivers, I let the website pick one for me, and it gave me an odd one. So now I'm going to install some new drivers and see if that helps.
That's still an issue? I remember having to do that on my 6950. I've been nvidia since then since AMD products have been meh when I've upgraded.
I have fixed the issue! I had to install a new driver a couple of times and restarted like three times, but now everything seems happy, and I can play at 60 locked with no problem, even on epic settings. Seems like it may have definitely been a driver issue.
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driver issues happened to me too, last week i got random stuff happening, like when i played games it was randomly switching fullscreen/borderless mode and framedrops were insane, few reboots fixed it, but mostly going arch fixes all isuues except -50%performance :S
What specific driver did you have vs what did you use to solve your issue, might be helpful if someone searches this later.
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At first I had the minimal setup driver, which is what the amd site automatically picked. The one I got afterwards was just the newest x64 driver they had, and I had to uninstall it once, and then reinstall, rebooted about three times after the install and it's working now!
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Good job! GOOOOO TINYYYYRIIIIIIIICK!
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