Issue running games

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ScottytooHotty

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Hi All,

I have a werid issue when running games, it started yesterday but when I run games my gpu usage is all over the place causing games to stutter and have really unstable frame rates.

I have tried updating to latest driver and have rolled back to the driver begore that I knew worked fine and nothing has worked.

Not sure if this is relevant but it was fine the day before but when I loaded up GTAv yesterday I alt tabbed out and turned on discord streaming which is the first time I have used the software but I hadn't run any games before that yesterday so not sure if there was an issue beforehand.

Any help appreciated.
 
Since this appears to possibly be a conflict with discord, have you tried removing discord and starting a game?
 
I have the overlay disabled anyway and have now uninstalled it just to test but that didn't change anything, I didn't think it was discord but mentioned it as I know the streaming part of discord is new and wondered if anyone had heard of any issues
 
There are so many background apps on PC now it's a joke. I could not run Borderlands 2 because of a combination of MSI AB and my mouse pad software. Ended up taking me four hours to figure it out.
 
If you are streaming, did you try it with OBS/Xsplit and twitch? Are you getting the same problems? Could just be discord streaming services are not entirely bug-free yet.
 
As I said I don't think it is discord as I have only tried streaming once with it but i'm not sure if the issue arose before I tried it.. also I have now completely uninstalled discord and am still getting the same issue.
 
Well if we go back to the original issue with a clear mind
it started yesterday but when I run games my gpu usage is all over the place causing games to stutter and have really unstable frame rates.
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Can we rule out hardware as an issue? Might be worth checking the voltages reported to your motherboard from your PSU (12v/5v/3.3v) are within spec, maybe it's also CPU throttling causing your GPU to choke? Which could be caused by maybe an OC going a bit off, of course temps is one I'm sure you've checked already but could be that too if not, or maybe the OC or power settings on your GPU if any, possible a driver update resetting something.
 
tgrech said:
Well if we go back to the original issue with a clear mind Can we rule out hardware as an issue? Might be worth checking the voltages reported to your motherboard from your PSU (12v/5v/3.3v) are within spec, maybe it's also CPU throttling causing your GPU to choke? Which could be caused by maybe an OC going a bit off, of course temps is one I'm sure you've checked already but could be that too if not, or maybe the OC or power settings on your GPU if any, possible a driver update resetting something.
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I'm not sure if its hardware or not TBH, I have noticed that my CPU seems to be constantly jammed at max frequency even though it's just sitting here idling, with my OC on it was constantly at 4.7ghz on all cores and now I have update the bios an my OC is off t's just sat at 4.3ghz on all cores.

I give up though I have spent enough time trying to find out whats wrong.. I'm gonna rebuild it and hope for the best.
 
Try rolling back the BIOS or try a different newer version than your previous if you want a newer one. Though I would stick with what you know works first.
 
Ok so I re-installed Windows on my PC and that didn't change anything, and annoyingly after that remembered I had a old spare graphics card (R9 270X) so I put that in and the issue is no longer present.

I am going to take my 1080 to a friends to test it in their PC tomorrow.
 
ScottytooHotty said:
Ok so I re-installed Windows on my PC and that didn't change anything, and annoyingly after that remembered I had a old spare graphics card (R9 270X) so I put that in and the issue is no longer present.

I am going to take my 1080 to a friends to test it in their PC tomorrow.
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Have you been playing for the firmware of the GPU?
 
I had this exact issue when my PSU started to go off, changed GPU and it was fixed, but it was not to do with either GPU, rather because that GPU swapped in was lower end with lower power draw and didn't strain the PSU as much, it's not massively likely this is the issue but to be safe I'd still check the voltages reported from the motherboard(Check if they're low of varying heavily particularly with load), can usually find quite quickly in your mobos software or bios, as the GTX1080 is indeed a higher draw GPU than that RX270 under load.
 
tgrech said:
I had this exact issue when my PSU started to go off, changed GPU and it was fixed, but it was not to do with either GPU, rather because that GPU swapped in was lower end with lower power draw and didn't strain the PSU as much, it's not massively likely this is the issue but to be safe I'd still check the voltages reported from the motherboard(Check if they're low of varying heavily particularly with load), can usually find quite quickly in your mobos software or bios, as the GTX1080 is indeed a higher draw GPU than that RX270 under load.
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Ok, So as far as I can tell all voltages seem to be fine, temps are fine, the only thing I can see wrong is that the cpu inconstantly at 4.4 ghz instead of dropping at all when idleing, and my gpu clocl is idleing at 1.1ghz and the memory clock is stuck at 10ghz.
 
Ok So I just tried the card in the other pci express port and it seems to be working flawlwssly now.. although my CPU clock is still constantly maxed and the gpu is idleing at 1.1ghz.
 
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