Multiple games limited to 20-30 fps while GPU usage pegged at 100% without temp increase

[Gan.]

Specs :
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700x
- KFA2 RTX 3060 12gb 1-click OC
- 16 GB ( 2x8GB ) DDR4 @3.6GhZ CL18 ( Corsair Vengeance LPX )
- ASUS Prime B550M-a WiFi II
- Win10 Pro 64-bit

- BeQuiet ! Pure power 11fm 850W
- SAMSUNG 980 EVO 1TB NVMe
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Issue : I have had my PC, custom-built for about a month. Nothing too important to note, everything was working fine on the highest settings in every game I played (Fortnite, Just Cause 3, Spider-Man: Miles Morales). Every single game ran at a steady 60 FPS with VSync on and could surpass the 120 threshold without it on easily. However, since yesterday, after first booting up my computer, every single game I open runs at a mere fraction of the framerate my PC can normally handle, which caps at about 30 FPS and lower. I have also noticed that when playing these games, my GPU usage is pegged at 100% while its temperature doesn't surpass the 35°C. My CPU is used as much as usual, nearing the 15% usage for a game such as Fortnite.

Troubleshooting : First, I'd like to say that nothing here has worked even in the slightest.

• I have uninstalled and reinstalled drivers for my graphics card, as well as rolled them back
• I have optimized my games in GeForce Experience
• I have checked my 3D settings in the NVidia control panel
  • Power management mode - max performance
    • Threaded optimization - ON
      • Triple buffering - OFF
      • Vertical Sync - OFF

• Turned on high performance mode on Windows
• Turned off game mode and then back on
• Turned off every single process running in the background at boot

After nothing worked, me and a friend tried to use the GPU on another system, and everything worked as intended, perfectly fine, so we can most likely rule out the GPU as being the main issue. We have also uninstalled and reinstalled Windows 10 on a clean SSD, which rules out any third party involvement/software involvement. We have checked the BIOS and reset to default settings, with and without XMP on, and nothing changed. Could the issue be coming from a different component such as the CPU? Or is it something else entirely? Your help is always appreciated, thank you.

 

[veeg]

Hello

I would check those sites and hopefully that they have a forum of some kind and check for issues there as well.. These sites are known to have issues from time to time..

@Evan Omo @Bruce

 

[Gan.]

Checked the site for PSU requirements and my graphics card meets all of them.
Sorry, but what do you mean by sites?

 

[Bruce]

when you reinstalled Windows, at which point did you then install the game and check it's poor FPS rates?
that is, had any other drivers (apart from the required ones) or software been installed?
my thought is you have a background service or process that could explain it, especially since it was all fine until a few days ago, maybe after a Windows Update?

let's get all you specs....
get Speccy from here; https://www.piriform.com/speccy/builds

in Speccy, click File > Publish Snapshot > Copy to Clipboard > Close.
now you can paste (Ctrl+V) that link into a post.

 

[veeg]

Checked the site for PSU requirements and my graphics card meets all of them.
Sorry, but what do you mean by sites?

The gaming sites. There problems are known from to many people online to poor maintenance.

 

[Evan Omo]

Hi,

Have you updated your motherboards BIOS to the latest version? Have you tried taking out all but one stick of RAM to see if its possibly a memory issue? You can try plugging another perfectly working GPU into your motherboard and see if that makes any difference. If another perfectly working GPU does not help at all then it could be a hardware issue related to the power supply, CPU or motherboard.

Do you have another power supply you can swap and test with?

 

[Bruce]

@Gan. - where we at?

 

[Bruce]

abandoned