I usually have very bad FPS drops during heavy teamfights but it sometimes occurs seemingly for no reason.
Here are some of my system specs:
GPU: NVidia GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 1600 MHz
CPU: i7 4790K @ 4.3 GHz
OS: Windows 10
I have tried a lot of things to fix this. I have been playing on this specs for about 2 years now, but the FPS drops became noticeable after I got a 144Hz monitor. For what I have noted by using Rivatuner and watching a replay of one of my latest matches in which I complained about low FPS (lower than the refresh rate), my computer had both CPU and GPU usage below 40% most of the time.
I run the game on the lowest graphics settings except for resolution, render scale set to 75%.
Some of the things I have tried:
- Change the power management of my GPU to āprefer maximum performanceā;
- Checking if XMP was enabled in the BIOS (unfortunately, there isnāt even the option to enable it);
- Disabling hardware acceleration in any applications running in the background;
- Updating drivers;
- Updating even the BIOS;
- Monitoring GPU temperature to check for thermal throttling;
- Setting the power limit in MSi Afterburner to the maximum I could;
- Testing performance with HPET disabled and enabled;
- Changing some values in the registry following a YouTube tutorial.
I have also started playing with Reduce Buffering set to off, but I havenāt noticed any significant changes.
Edit/Fix:
After some testing around, I figured out my performance is way better with Reduce Buffering set to off. Spectating the replays in problematic matches got 170 FPS average.