Low GPU usage and FPS drops RTX 3060

  • Cap Barbossa262
    Ship Mate

    Hello,

    Recently I upgraded my graphics card from a 1070 GTX to a 3060 RTX.
    I reinstalled windows alongside this including the latest Nvidia drivers (as I have to in order make the card work).
    I experience severe FPS drops because of the GPU usage. MSI afterburner shows me it drops from 80~90% back to 50~60%. This happens when coming close to islands, but the worst part is when there is combat going on and a lot of other stuff around your character happens, like 3 galleons ram each other on arena. From a stable 100 FPS (on common/cursed settings by the way) back to 40 FPS on the moment you really need a fluent gameplay.

    I tried to play other games with Unreal Engine 4, and there is no problem what so ever. I benchmarked my entire computer and it had above average results.

    Next to this I tried a lot of software tweaking such as put your power management to high performance in windows and in Nvidia control panel. And even more settings I never heard of by googling.

    Nothing on my computer is overclocked, its not overheating. My CPU isn't bottlenecking. I met people in game using the same setup but with a 3070, they experience no FPS drops and no GPU usage drops.

    The game like this feels unplayable, and considering to return the card back and reinstall the 1070 GTX as that performed better.

    Are there any known issues going on about the latest Nvidia drivers supporting the 3060 card ?
    Am I the only one experiencing this ?

    My setup:
    Ryzen 5 3600x
    MSI Tomahawk MAX
    Corsair LPX vengeance 2*8GB
    Corsair RM650 (eu)
    LG 32GK650F (144fps monitor)
    Samsung EVO 850 (sata ssd)

    Thanks in advance

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  • Cap Barbossa262
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    I don't have to explain this I hope

  • Bizi Betiko
    Commander
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    @xassflamex Try using Nvidia FrameView to diagnose any potential bottlenecks in your hardware. With you doing a fresh OS install, you will need to rework your Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings, any OC settings and BIOS updates that may have reverted RAM timings.

    Based on your graph, it seems like you may have a CPU bottleneck. A simple test for CPU bottlenecking is changing your in game resolution to something low, like 480p and see if you are getting the same FPS drops. With all cursed settings, you should be getting a minimum on 240 FPS in open water.

    Ensure that your resolution specified by Nvidia is being matched by in game settings and all CPU intensive video settings like Particle Quality are lowered. Also make sure that your render resolution is set to 100% or lower.

    If you are able to provide the following data, I may be able to offer better assistance:

    Frame Time
    Game Thread Time
    Draw Thread Time
    GPU Time

  • Cap Barbossa262
    Ship Mate

    @bizi-betiko said in Low GPU usage and FPS drops RTX 3060:

    @xassflamex Try using Nvidia FrameView to diagnose any potential bottlenecks in your hardware. With you doing a fresh OS install, you will need to rework your Nvidia Control Panel 3D settings, any OC settings and BIOS updates that may have reverted RAM timings.

    Based on your graph, it seems like you may have a CPU bottleneck. A simple test for CPU bottlenecking is changing your in game resolution to something low, like 480p and see if you are getting the same FPS drops. With all cursed settings, you should be getting a minimum on 240 FPS in open water.

    Ensure that your resolution specified by Nvidia is being matched by in game settings and all CPU intensive video settings like Particle Quality are lowered. Also make sure that your render resolution is set to 100% or lower.

    If you are able to provide the following data, I may be able to offer better assistance:

    Frame Time
    Game Thread Time
    Draw Thread Time
    GPU Time

    The 3600X isn't bottlenecking the graphics card.
    I met a player in game who used a 3070 RTX on a 3600 non x version who dint had this issue.
    I updated the BIOS already and manually changed the RAM speeds back to their manufacturer speed which is 3200Mhz, next to that A-XMP is turned on.

    Before installing this GPU I used a windows build 2004, 4 months ago I plugged in a 3060 Ti on that windows install with a lot better stability GPU use.
    The CPU itself isn't bottlenecking in anyway. thou are the CPU threads used awkwardly. I tested my CPU with cinebench and the results was above average without any overclock. I do use afterburner to max out the power limit and monitoring the graphs.

    I do not know how to give you the data you ask for.

    Edit:
    By the way, lowering the resolution doesn't change anything to the low FPS and GPU usage. 1440p, 1080p, 1200p. It behaves exactly the same.

  • Cap Barbossa262
    Ship Mate

    I found the problem.
    Its the latest windows build 20H2.

    Everyone else with this rig and equal GPU I know without any problems are using an older windows build.

    Be aware that microsoft soon force release this update. Hope they come on time with a patch/update either Nvidia drivers or Rare. Have fun ^^

  • Cap Barbossa262
    Ship Mate

    I plugged back in my 970 GTX. Besides from lowering the graphics from mythical to cursed I got the equal amount of performance on 1440p and a more stable GPU usage graph

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