Skyrim low frame-rate, low GPU usage GTX 980s

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DrexelDragon

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Hey guys - question. Anyone playing Skyrim?

I have 980s in SLI and I am getting low framerate but my GPU usage on both are under 50%. Is this a known bug? Yes SLI is enabled lol I am running some mods but like I said my GPU usage is really low so it doesn't make sense. Frame-rate in the 40-50s in Whiterun.

It even happens when I disable SLI and run it off one GTX 980, GPU usage at 50% and low frame-rates.
 
Can you see what your CPU usage is at and if it is causing a bottleneck somehow?
 
Vsync is always on in Skyrim unless you edit the .ini file and force it off, in which case the physics engine will freak out. If you're having low frame rate and low GPU usage, check your CPU usage. Is this vanilla Skyrim or EnB mods or what? What is the rest of your system?
 
lets see the points.. low frame rate: check, low GPU utilization: check, vsync off: check, PSU: check. diagnosis? CPU bottleneck... thats all.. depending on your CPU you have to disable Hyperthreading, depending on the CPU you have to overclock the hell out of it, the game just run in 2 cores. so high amount of mods cause severe frame drop due to CPU bottleneck.. even my 3770K which i use at 4.8ghz with no HT while playing skyrim make some bottleneck with lot of mods specially in Whiterun with T.A.V.E. mods..
 
Araxie said:
lets see the points.. low frame rate: check, low GPU utilization: check, vsync off: check, PSU: check. diagnosis? CPU bottleneck... thats all.. depending on your CPU you have to disable Hyperthreading, depending on the CPU you have to overclock the hell out of it, the game just run in 2 cores. so high amount of mods cause severe frame drop due to CPU bottleneck.. even my 3770K which i use at 4.8ghz with no HT while playing skyrim make some bottleneck with lot of mods specially in Whiterun with T.A.V.E. mods..
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Seriously? I could have sworn on my 780 Ti and 4770k I never had framerate drops like this. Now I'm on 980s and a 5930k.. no way it could be worse.. right?
 
a 5930K will not offer any performance increase in those kind of games that run in one or two cores.. in fact if you had overclocked the 4770K and you don't overclock the 5930K at the same speed the single threaded performance of the 4770K will be superior because its the same haswell architecture. most of the things in skyrim run more in the CPU than the GPU so thats the problem with mods in that game...
 
Araxie said:
lets see the points.. low frame rate: check, low GPU utilization: check, vsync off: check, PSU: check. diagnosis? CPU bottleneck... thats all.. depending on your CPU you have to disable Hyperthreading, depending on the CPU you have to overclock the hell out of it, the game just run in 2 cores. so high amount of mods cause severe frame drop due to CPU bottleneck.. even my 3770K which i use at 4.8ghz with no HT while playing skyrim make some bottleneck with lot of mods specially in Whiterun with T.A.V.E. mods..
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I'm going to reinstall vanilla Skyrim to see if it's mods that are the issue. Although I don't think that they are.
 
Araxie said:
a 5930K will not offer any performance increase in those kind of games that run in one or two cores.. in fact if you had overclocked the 4770K and you don't overclock the 5930K at the same speed the single threaded performance of the 4770K will be superior because its the same haswell architecture. most of the things in skyrim run more in the CPU than the GPU so thats the problem with mods in that game...
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This. Skyrim only runs on 2 CPU threads max, IIRC. Even though you have 12 logical threads with that CPU, each core is clocked lower than the 4770K. In games like Skyrim that depend on single core performance, the 5930K is going to be slower than a 4770K at stock settings. You'll need to overclock that sucker to 3.4GHz (3.8 Turbo) to see comparable performance to a 4770K in Skyrim. Unless you have or are going to a 3- or 4-way SLI configuration, I think you wasted your money on the 5930K for gaming purposes.
 
Skyrim and Fallout 3 just have bad engines.

If you are going to play those games you have to accept that if won't be the best experience.
 
Spazturtle said:
Skyrim and Fallout 3 just have bad engines.

If you are going to play those games you have to accept that if won't be the best experience.
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Creation Engine (skyrim) and Gamebryo (fallout 3 or New vegas) are very good engines.. highly and easy moddable.. yes the physics implementation by havok its crap.. but the engines as itself is good..

Actually i have a great experience in Skyrim with ton of mods in any of my cards.. but that's it, that game need a lot of CPU single thread performance when mod are involved.. I have about 70-80mods between steamwork and nexus and the experience its great still pegged at 60fps with some drops in heavy modded Whiterun Riften and Solitude cities to about 52-55FPS for a couple of seconds and done.. :D that's enough good for me for this magnitude of modification..
 
Araxie said:
a 5930K will not offer any performance increase in those kind of games that run in one or two cores.. in fact if you had overclocked the 4770K and you don't overclock the 5930K at the same speed the single threaded performance of the 4770K will be superior because its the same haswell architecture. most of the things in skyrim run more in the CPU than the GPU so thats the problem with mods in that game...
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So basically what your saying is the 5930K is for Milk Drinkers :p J/K
 
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