Low FPS GTX 1060

[dessy]

hi all

 

hope you're all well, had donated to me a pc for my pincab project, i7 4770 on a gigabyte H81M-D2V board, 500w psu, 16gb ddr3 ram, 256gb ssd and wait for it...... a gtx645 😵,   i connected it to my 3 screen setup as was curious on the results. surprisingly it faired better than i thought, ok but stutter with a b2s screen but pup pack was a no go lol. only getting between 5-20 fps on a good day it was a no go. being the trusting person i am, i knew the 645 was a pcie 3 card so assumed, doh! the board had a pcie 3 slot, so i purchased a used gtx1060 to fit  and thought here we go, not a super build but would get me up and running on a 1080p set up for me to slowly upgrade as i go.

 

 Fitted the 1060 no problem, it was a clean install of win10, removed the 645 driver using DDU, then installed the latest nvidia 512.15 driver and reconfigured. started pinup popper with low settings and....... my fps had increased to a massive 40-50 fps  😖, removed the vsync from vpx and no real improvement, checked the monitor settings, all good on 60hz, hmmm, then tried with just pf monitor (samsung 32" led 1080p) same result. then tinkered with nvidia settings to no avail. tried fp same results. i then thought is it the new nvidia driver so tried with an older driver and installed the 472.12, to get the same results.

 

i then did what i should have done at the start and checked the bios and hardware, to find the mb is only a pcie 1.1/2.1 at best, its detecting in the system info in NCP as connected to pcie x16, so assuming looking at the mb manual its connecting on the 1.1 bus at x16, as i think it says pcie x1 for the 2, i may be wrong here? either way though, is the drop that drastic in fps from pcie 3 that it wouldn't even get a steady 60hz? the bs is a acer 24" 1080p monitor set at 1920 x 1080, the dmd is a 11" 1366 x 768 led monitor.

 

thanks for any help or advice, currently looking for a better pc lol

[markmon]

I don't think this is your problem. I am running an i5 4690 and a 2060. I run 2560x1440p 40" monitor at 165hz and generally see 160-170 fps for everything. The bus speed  between pcie 2.0 anjd pcie 3.0 is only important for transfers over the bus. The processing on the GPU is still the same speed. It shouldn't make that much of a difference. I believe I'm also running an H81 board.  I run my second monitor off the motherboard Intel onboard graphics (it's a VGA only monitor). 

 

Is your video card set to "prefer maximum performance" in nvidia control panel? Windows 10 has a good performance tab in task manager that shows both cpu and gpu usage. Perhaps drag that onto your second monitor and see if anything is even maxing it out.

[dessy]

hi @markmon

 

yes i have setup NCP for high/max performance, thanks for the advice ill try the task manager and see what its reading.

[vogliadicane]

do you have exclusive full screen enabled in VPX? Increases usually fps a lot.