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Seasoned Novice

20 days ago

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FPS drops and CPU Bottlenecking on Official Servers only, no issues on Portal

So I’ve been dealing with this issue for months and I’m just about ready to call it.

I am experiencing huge, unplayable frame rate drops/stuttering on official servers due to 100% cpu useage. I have googled and tried just about every fix imaginable with no improvement, and so I’m totally at a loss.

I have a RTX5080, an intel i7 9700 cpu, 32gb 3600MhZ ram. I don’t know what to do anymore? I know that official servers are run at 60Hz while portals are only 30Hz, but there is no way I can be having such major issues on official while mates with lesser quality cpus don’t have anything.

I’ve done the user.cfg, I’ve reduced graphics to potato quality, I’ve installed latest drivers, verified game files, reduced background cpu load, uninstalled/reinstalled… no change.

If I cant fix it soon, I’ll just give up trying. Makes absolutely no sense.

crashing

goldenwenus
19 days ago
3600mhz but had a greater issue when reducing it, put too much strain on the VRAM of the card itself I think.
Also running an 850W power supply.
Nevertheless, I was playing around with Gemini last night and I think it’s found a solution. I played for the first time without issue on official servers last night and it ran with only occasional, minor stutters no more than you’d expect anywhere else, and only on the winter offensive maps.
first fix I did was limit FPS to 75 through Nvidia with future frame gen set to 2. This made everything much smoother without as many dramatic drops. Second thing I did was limit the amount of times my mouse communicates with my computer from 1000 to 500 through the Logitech G-Hub app. think this was the main culprit, and apparently a big issue on 60hz games.

Anyway, will play again tonight and see if there’s still no issue and if not then I think I can put this to bed.

fingers crossed!

8 Replies

Mexicola9302
Rising Hotshot
20 days ago
Go "Offline" in your Steam Friendslist.
goldenwenus
Seasoned Novice
20 days ago
Tried - no improvement. Disabled steam overlay as well.
9e6935d4069386f2
Seasoned Scout
20 days ago
Your cpu can only handle 2666mhz ram speed. Enable your auto xmp profile and it should fix your problem. Let me know if not i got more fixes for this issue
goldenwenus
Seasoned Novice
20 days ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I actually already checked that and can confirm my XMP profile is enabled but unfortunately, the stuttering issue is still there. Appreciate the help though
9e6935d4069386f2
Seasoned Scout
20 days ago
The auto profile at 2133mhz frequency is enabled? If thats not it you may want to enable the ultimate performance power plan via command prompt. Google it its easy. Your issue sounds like power throttling, i have the same issue but mine is caused by motherboard VRM’s not being able to handle both my cpu and gpu at max power. I also run the game in performance mode through windows settings to ensure windows doesnt throttle it to steal cpu resources
9e6935d4069386f2
Seasoned Scout
20 days ago
Also what are your current motherboard and power supply? That 5080 is a beast you might benefit from manually limiting your gpu’s power to 80% max aswell. Youll still have good graphics but the fps drops should stop/improve
goldenwenus
Seasoned Novice
19 days ago
3600mhz but had a greater issue when reducing it, put too much strain on the VRAM of the card itself I think.
Also running an 850W power supply.
Nevertheless, I was playing around with Gemini last night and I think it’s found a solution. I played for the first time without issue on official servers last night and it ran with only occasional, minor stutters no more than you’d expect anywhere else, and only on the winter offensive maps.
first fix I did was limit FPS to 75 through Nvidia with future frame gen set to 2. This made everything much smoother without as many dramatic drops. Second thing I did was limit the amount of times my mouse communicates with my computer from 1000 to 500 through the Logitech G-Hub app. think this was the main culprit, and apparently a big issue on 60hz games.

Anyway, will play again tonight and see if there’s still no issue and if not then I think I can put this to bed.

fingers crossed!
MikeOhxmul
Rising Novice
16 days ago
That could work, but Your Adding latency on the game, limiting FPS AND FRAMEGEN, it might look smooth and all but Ur at a big disadvantage, I'm sure you noticed that the mouse movement not responding as it should, it's like playing on a controller...