For some reason, the most usage I can get out of my GPU is 70-75 percent, and I have a heavily modded Skyrim with the frame rate capped at 30 FPS so that it doesn't go all over the place. Without the cap I put with RivaTuner, my FPS is around 30-50 on exterior cells and 60 at all times in interiors. Here are my specs.
MSI Twin Frozr GTX 970
Intel i5 4690k 3.5ghz
8 gigs of RAM
Now I am not sure if my GPU absolutely has to be at 99 percent usage while running the game. Maybe everything is actually working fine therefore the usage doesn't need to exceed 70 percent. However I highly doubt that's the case, because as far as I can recall, even without the FPS cap the usage would be the same and I still wouldn't be able to run this particularly heavy setup at a constant 60 FPS.
Not that I expect it to run at 60 FPS but shouldn't the frame rate improve at least a little bit as the usage rises? Well obviously yes, and that's my problem. I never exceed 70 percent usage, so I feel like I could squeeze more FPS out of my 970.
I am using MSI Afterburner to monitor my performance. So far I have tried doing the following:
- Setting "Power management mode" from Adaptive to Maximum Performance
- Creating a custom profile for Skyrim in Nvidia driver settings and choosing the maximum performance option for it as well.
- Downloaded Nvidia Inspector and navigated to the overclocking settings to set the performance level to P0, which should be the maximum. However it was already defaulted at that value.
None of these managed to solve the issue, so I am posting this here as a last resort. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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