A high-performance CS:GO experience paired with solid hardware.
A high-performance CS:GO experience paired with solid hardware.
Okay so I have been having a problem recently, and I cant seem to find a solution to it. I've been playing CS:GO for the past few months, and have never had a single problem with it. I've been getting some SERIOUS FPS drops recently and some stuttering as well. I'd say around a week or two ago I started having this issue. Before it would run around in the 200ish FPS zone and never really drop below 150. However now, with all the settings turned down to minimum, the most I can get is around 60, that includes stuttering in certain spots and horrible FPS drops when looking out in places with more detail. To the point I get around 30-40. There is legit no reason for this to be happening. Even with my GTX 570 I have never had this issue. Here's my current specs. AMD FX 8350 Vishera (never overclocked) reference GTX 970 4gb Vram (never overclocked) 16GB of DDR3 Ram 2x1TB HDD's with plenty of space and a 3TB HDD for backups. Everything runs cool, so there is no overheating at all, CPU runs a nice 60c at most, and GPU under full load around 70-80c. I have a similar issue with Gmod as well where it only uses 10% of the GPU and clocks a crappy 40FPS. What might be going on??? All drivers are up to date, and there should be no bottlenecking at all coming from the system. Especially since with the 970 not too long ago it was working just fine. If it makes any difference, I have my 570 hooked up for dedicated PhysX and modeling in Blender.
Your CPU is limiting your GPU performance. The audio drop indicates the CPU is throttling. Check the temperatures on both devices while they run to see how they behave under load.
The limitation doesn't exist since I can utilize full GPU performance even in CPU-heavy titles such as BeamNG. Also, if you're reading this, the problem didn't occur before. All systems were functioning properly. HRTF?