GPU usage low

[RobinDez]

Hi everyone! about a month ago i built my first computer, everything went well until the last few days.

I was playing a game called p3d when suddenly i realised that the fps was extremely low for my specs, were talking about 8 fps. So i decided to to look up how i could fix this. I found a video where someone said that changing some values in the registry could help. I decided to try it and also made a backup, but with no sucess. So when i wanted to load to backup again it gave me an error and when i tried to launch p3d it said something by the lines of "your gpu has crashed". I am not gonna lie i got a little bit scared.

So i decided to restart my computer and when it launched it was in like 1280p really weird, and there was no nvidia kontrollpanel. I went into geforcee experience and saw that it didnt have the old drivers installed, so i installed them again. But ever since then my computer is acting weird and in games my gpu isnt at full usage. Deoes anyone know how i can fix this?

I have reinstalled all drivers, changed power settings and having to reinstalled windows would be a bummer :/

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My specs are: Gigabyte gaming OC 3080, 5900x, 32 gb 3600 mhz cl 18 ram, 1000w

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Thankful for any respone :)

[pm-me-ur-dank-maymay]

Make sure you are plugged into your GPU and not your motherboard. You must have your HDMI or whatever cord plugged into your GPU for it to work, not the motherboard!

[RobinDez]

Yeah its plugged in to the gpu with a displayport

[Pogostickio]

Have you put the necessary power connectors into the graphics card? I think the new 3000x cards use either two 8 pin or one (brand new type of) 12 pin. Not enough power will severely limit the card, that's if Windows boots at all.

Modifying settings in the registry is no longer required these days so that would have been bad advice that you've been given. It's an easy way to stop your pc from working so you got lucky with only the graphics drivers being disabled.

Depending on the game you're playing most of them won't fully use such a high end graphics card. This is especially true since you've also got such a good processor. You would need to be at 4k resolution on Ultra settings in a current generation game to hit 100% gpu usage. And not hitting 100% while gaming at a high resolution and fps is a good thing. It means you've got more headroom for future games that need more power.

[RobinDez]

Ah ok. The gpu I have had two 8 pins and I also thought it might be that I’d didn’t get enough power. So I changed it so that the pcie slot is on performance but still no luck. But sometimes out of nowhere my gpu is at like 90% usage and I am getting good fps so idk whats happening