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FPS Drops to 40 While Idle


Urrox

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Hi. I've been told to ask about this issue here, so hopefully I can get some help.

 

Basically, I've made a discovery about Skyrim on my system: whenever I am not moving my character or my camera, the game drops to 40 fps on a clean install of Skyrim.

 

I've tried everything at this point:

Lower Distant Object Quality

Disable Vsync

Windowed Mode

etc

 

What I've come to infer is that my GPU is not being told to run as fast while idle.

 

After checking, i was wrong but on the right track. Instead, my clock on the core and memory were at max, but my GPU load would significantly decrease when I stood still.

 

So what could be causing this? A setting ingame, telling my GPU it doesn't need to run at full load? Or my GPU itself?

 

I'm super confused, and any help is extremely appreciated.

 

Specs:

Intel i5-6500

MSI RX 480 8GB X Gaming

8GB RAM

Skyrim is on a 1TB 7200 RPM HDD

 

Edit: I have fixed the problem, and wanted to post my solution just incase.

 

Basically, the reason why my system was exerting this behavior was because my dynamic frequency range was messed up in Wattman.

 

MSI Afterburner had essentially kicked only the very highest frequency up, instead of making the dynamic range change with the highest frequency. This made Skyrim tune to a super low core clock speed when my GPU felt it could take it easy.

 

To fix this, I set my dynamic frequency range in Wattman, which adjusted all the other dynamic frequencies to work better with my overclock. After that, Skyrim ran at Ultra High 60 FPS with no dips or stutters.

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Thanks for posting this explanation. Most people would post: "Nevermind, fixed it" -if anything at all.

 

Kudo given for being helpful.

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