According to HWMonitor, the clock speed is exactly what it should be, and the VRAM usage (assuming that’s what it is) is at 31%.
Everything looks normal. The GPU utilisation is 99% which suggests the GPU is working more or less flat-out, delivering all it can deliver… but that can’t be right, because I know a GTX 1080 Ti can deliver a lot more than 20 FPS at very high settings, 1440p.
You really think my GPU isn’t seated properly? If that were so, wouldn’t it just not work?
And no other games are running anywhere near as poorly as Kingdom Come.
What would be the telltale signs that the GPU isn’t seated properly?
Anything out of place there? I can’t see anything suspect.
I suggest a reseat of your gpu card.
Might as well try it, but I don’t think that’s the issue.
By reseat, you mean take it out and put it back in, or place it into a different PCIe slot?
I’m quite sure. You need 16x for optimal performance of your system.
Check your main board manual. Plug in to a 16x slot. If you are already in a 16x slot. Just take it out an put it back it.
It is in a x16 slot, according to the mobo manual.
Turn off
Take it out
Reseat it.
Check result with gpuz
Sure, like I said, I doubt that’s the issue but I will try it anyway. Thanks.
Well, I took it out and reseated it, and now my problem seems to have disappeared. 60 fps, v.high settings. Thanks!
Good to hear. Have fun
Strange. I thought there should be beeps coming out at the post check when booting and possibly blue screens too if the gpu isn’t properly seated. Instead going to x1 mode and working otherwise properly is weird. Glad you got it working.
I would have thought the same liuhu77, but hey, it worked. The only other thing I did was clean out the dust filters on the PSU, but I very much doubt there’s any causal relationship there.
It was ‘fully working’ but reverted to a slower timing on transfers to maintain reliability.
Reseating it fully allows the slot and card to try the handshake at the highest speed again, though if it has the same failure (possibly a ‘power saving’ feature which is bugged in driver, a voltage sag due to dust/grease, possibly a vibration loosened connection) it may negotiate back down to x4 or x1 as it was in the beginning here. (PCIe x16 3.0 @ x1 3.0)
I’m not sure what the fault is, or why reseating the card fixes it, but I have seen dozens of reports of this sagging of the bus transfer rate, all fixed by physically reseating the card. This also applied to earlier generation cards, and I know of one ‘dying card’ 980TI with no fan spin up and iffy performance being fully ‘fixed’ by physically moving the card. (In this case it was to a different slot, but the ‘original slot’ functions perfectly with another card - it wasn’t my system to try putting the 980 back into the original slot to confirm a reseat would have been sufficient, but it does appear that the attempt to reseat a card fixes some types of problem where that seems improbable as the solution, and the attempt is probably worth the effort in most cases).
Can confirm reseating my GPU worked wonders and upped my FPS from around 20FPS (with a GTX 1060) in Skalitz to around 40-45FPS on High Settings. Thank you very much @Urquhart and @Kill3rCat!
