Is PC running slow when it shouldn't be?
Is PC running slow when it shouldn't be?
I have a PC that feels way too slow for its parts. Here is what I see: Ryzen 9 3900XT running at 4.26ghz, an RTX 2080ti GPU, 32gb of RAM, and a B550I AORUS PRO AX motherboard with NVME SSD. There isn't one specific thing that makes me mad, but several things stand out. First, most VR games don't reach 120fps no matter how I lower graphics or resolution. Half Life Alyx stays between 70 and 90fps even when maxed out. Second, some games stutter in a way that isn't shader cache related. The big offenders are Hitman 3, No Man's Sky, and the Resident Evil remake after the engine update. If I turn textures down to low settings, these games stop working completely. Since these games have tiny file sizes, it sounds like an uncompression problem. Third, emulators run slower on my PC than on other PCs with weaker specs. Pokemon Legends Arceus runs at 22fps on Yuzu while most others with similar parts hit between 45 and 60fps. Fourth, I get lower FPS in games than I should. Elden Ring stays way below 55fps, usually hovering around 50. My CPU and GPU are still not maxed out. Fifth, Minecraft gets heavy and lags at a chunk render distance over 20. It's not just low FPS, it's stuttering too. Even with performance mods this problem keeps coming back, though Sodium helps a little. Memory allocation doesn't fix it either. My temps aren't terrible but they are fine. At idle my GPU is around 50C and between 75-80C at full load. My CPU also stays warm, never going above 75C. I even tried a fresh Windows install and the OS felt snappier, but games ran exactly like before. Is there something missing? Does my CPU just get defective somehow? I'm really confused.
Hey, do you have a specific power supply unit (PSU) that makes and what it is called? Is this thing old enough to need a reboot? Also, which version of Windows or other software ran on this setup? Do you want me to look up the BIOS date for your board too?