The game is running slow on a strong PC with low frame rates.
The game is running slow on a strong PC with low frame rates.
So basically I've been having this issue for over a year now but I used to be able to play rust at over 144 fps consistently last year, for some reason now I cannot go beyond 80fps I literally get 80 fps with max settings as well as lowest settings (i have checked both nvidia control panel and rust setting to see if vsync is on or some fps cap is on but there isnt any. Here is my specs: RTX 2080, 32gb (brand new) 3600mhz ram, b350-f motherboard and ryzen 7 2700X. Any help would be much appreciated.
Follow these steps one by one from start to finish: Turn off your internet connection. Remove the GPU driver using DDU so you have a clean setup and do not restart yet. On the computer's settings screen (Device Manager), take out every processor, make sure there are only 16 of them installed on the device, and keep clicking "no" when asked to restart while uninstalling all processors. In your Control Panel, uninstall AMD Chipset Software if it exists (skip it if there isn't one). Restart your PC and go into BIOS mode; disable AMD FTPM and Secure Boot if you had those turned on by default, then save and exit. Go back into BIOS, flash the latest BIOS file, then check the BIOS again. Load default or optimized settings, turn off CSM, enable Above 4G Decoding, and enable Resizable Bar option if you want (these options only show up if you disabled CSM). Save your changes and exit. Turn on your PC and install the newest Chipset driver; aim for version 4.03.xx or higher, then restart again. If an AMD Ryzen Power Plan is available, use it; otherwise, nothing matters much. Install the latest Nvidia driver, then connect back to the internet. *Do all these things while offline until you reboot after installing the chipset driver, and also go back into BIOS if needed to set XMP and your previous settings.* Before starting step 1, download any highlighted files first, then follow each step in order. You might want to slow down your RAM from 3600 MHz down to 3533 or even lower (like 3466 or below) because Zen+ cannot usually handle 3600 MHz. Simply enable the fastest DOCP Profile and reduce the frequency of your RAM. Make sure your RAM is installed in slots 2 and 4 only. Open Command Prompt as Administrator, then run chkdsk /x /f /r, followed by sfc /scannow to check for problems. Also check Windows Update to see if there are any updates available (except the optional ones), install them if they exist. Do not forget to turn on Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in your graphics settings, since this only works with Nvidia GPUs. Make sure your power supply is connected correctly: use one main PCIe cable for each slot and do not use split cables or branches.
Hey Koe, it really made a lot more sense for me! Thanks so much.
did you actually follow every single step in order? did that fix your problem? If you're using ethernet, installed Armoury Crate along with other ROG apps, and then removed them all, uninstalled the ethernet driver, and replaced it with an Intel LAN driver before rebooting, you should reinstall Armoury Crate just in case. I don't know if that includes the lan optimizer thing from the installation.
After playing for about two hours, my game goes back to being smooth at 70 frames per second that i used to get before. I had to lower my ram to 2600 because it kept crashing the computer. Would you think it would be better to upgrade my motherboard to an x570?
If you don't want to mess with overclocking, a cheap B550 board is totally fine, just like the B450M Pro4 or a regular B450 card if you aren't using PCIe 3.0. But honestly? upgrading your CPU is usually the best move. You can jump straight to Zen 3. You could buy something as cheap as the Ryzen 5 5500, or even better than that with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Pair it up with some RAM and you might get 3600 MHz performance without a problem! Performance jumps are huge here. My friend went from a 2600 CPU to a 5600G one, and games ran much smoother while compiling code faster too (he said that). The real limit isn't just the RAM; it's because of the new Zen+ architecture. If you want to push your RAM high or are planning on getting RAM over 4000 MHz and sticking with factory settings for XMP, then aim for a Ryzen 5 5500. It'll run at 5600 GHz but won't have an integrated GPU, which is okay if you don't care about that. Intel Comet Lake CPUs actually handle overclocking like this setup well. For the best gaming CPU though? The 5800X3D is top-notch. But be warned: it's hard to overclock RAM easily compared to the 5500 because of the architecture. Internet or ISP problems could also break things, a router issue might cause delays, and even if you plug in another gaming machine with your new RAM and there are no problems, that motherboard issue is still possible.