I recently upgraded from a gtx 1070 where I could easily maintain 240-260 fps in quickplay. With the 1080ti and the same system/software/settings, I cannot consistently get above 200 fps in quickplay. In FFA, custom games, and the training area, I get consistent 300fps. In quickplay, however, the average goes down to around 200 and dips can go as low as 160 or 170 which never happened on the gtx 1070. I want to stress that nothing besides the gpu has changed. I should also stress that I have seen major improvements in my other games. Additionally, I noticed that further reducing the graphics settings did Not lead to an increase in fps during the dips in quickplay, regardless of how low the settings were (including lowering the render scale from 100% to 75% or 50%) they did not alleviate the consistent dips well below 200 fps. During such dips, my GPU utilization is less than 40% and my CPU utilization is less than 70% so it doesn’t seem like my CPU is being bottlenecked. Also temperatures were well within the safe range (less than 70). My drivers are up to date, my system plays other games just fine with much higher performance than the 1070. I should also note that I have found many other people with this exact particular issue involving the 1080ti on both reddit and the overwatch forums dating back as early as July: https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/9chjux/got_new_gpu_1050ti_to_1080ti_and_the_perfomance/
Possible to hit 300fps and maintain it?
I can’t help but think this must be an issue with Overwatch and the 1080ti. The one thing I haven’t done is disable HPET but my bios doesn’t include that option so I have nothing left to try.
I’m more than willing to get any information or game benchmarks that might be helpful to pinpoint the issue.
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When you installed the card, did you DDU the old drivers? Also, make sure your monitor cable is hooked up directly to the card, not the motherboard
About ddu: “On the official nvidia forums, just about everyone warns you NOT to use DDU. It doesn’t really fix any serious driver problems and in some cases prevents you from installing new drivers again until you do a recovery in Windows. That’s basically what I had to do each time I used DDU.
Windows 10 is pretty amazing in recovery features, I use the refresh feature frequently.”
And yes, the monitor is plugged into the GPU, it would be really obvious if it wasn’t.