35 fps max on solid rig

[TehPleb]

Hi guys,

I've been having a problem for the past few weeks, which makes my game unplayable.
I've been having around 35 fps MAX. Like it's bottlenecked from the moment I enter a game. Pretty crazy considering my hardware and really frustrating. I've been playing CoD since it came out at about 120 fps.
No other game is having this issue, only CoD:MW (and Warzone). I have a stable wired internet connection and a 144Hz 1440p monitor. Playing game with RTX turned off and everything on low - still no difference. I used to play with everything on high without a problem.

I already repaired the installation, uninstalled and reinstalled, changed the priority in task manager and am currently out of options. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Setup:
RTX 2080
i9-9900KS at 4GHz
32Gb of DDR4 RAM
MSI MEG Z390 Godlike mobo

PS: Added speedtest and benchmark results.

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Your benchmark result is showing that there is an issue that is not just down to Call of Duty, look at the text next to the Overall PC Status red box where it shows that your PC is in the bottom 38% for similarly specced PCs.

Running CInebench will test to see if the issue is with your CPU, 3dMark will test both CPU and GPU giving you 3 scores for CPU, GPU, and an overall score, using these scores and comparing to other similar PCs you might be able to highlight where the issues are.

You can also test your RAM to make sure that this is running correctly with Memtest+ though bad RAM usually leads to stability issues causing software crashes and blue screens.

Depending on your confidence with technical matters, you might want to dig through the BIOS on your motherboard to make sure that this is correctly set.

Also, things like high temperatures might be causing your CPU or GPU to throttle, leading to low benchmark scores.

By far the easiest thing to check is settings, use this video as a guide:

 

[bizzyVaping]

Im guessing you most likely have a ton of background processes running.

Try shutting down all unnecessary 3. party processes (You can force them into sleep mode with most antivirus programs or programs like AVG PC Tune Up,)

Change your Windows power plan to performance plan

Disable all windows background processes.

Go to the MW.exe right click it, go to compatibility and mark "disable fullscreen optimizations"

 

[KeyboardDemon]

You might also want to try CCleaner that can clean up your PC by removing temp files and obsolete registry entries.

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To add to my previous post, here's a link where you can get CCleaner from their website.

 

[bizzyVaping]

Using the "ultimate performance" plan would most likely be better than the normal performance plan.

If you dont have it under your power plan section then open Powershell, type in "powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61" and hit enter.

After that you should be able to pick and activate the ultimate power plan

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Using the "ultimate performance" plan would most likely be better than the normal performance plan.

If you dont have it under your power plan section then open Powershell, type in "powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61" and hit enter.

After that you should be able to pick and activate the ultimate power plan

There is no doubt that moving your power plan to a higher performance setting will return higher frame rates, but even in the Power Saver mode with my Ryzen 5 3600 CPU running at 2200Mhz, I am getting around 180-230fps, @TehPleb is running an i9 processor and that was the most powerful gaming CPU available in 2019.

I know that from my own tests, my PC running on Power Saver at 1440x2560, game settings on low quality and a Render Resolution set to 66% I get between 130-180fps on Rust, with the game running mostly over 160fps, while I get 200-250fps in the Ultimate Power plan on the same map. That's around a 28% to 35% difference in frame rate performance.

An i9 9900KS should be able to produce close to 200fps in Ultimate settings at 1080p and about 130fps at 1440p with that GPU but the OP is only seeing 35fps at 1440p which is at least 70-75% drop in expected performance, so the Power Plan settings alone will not pick that up but it is a good place to try and recover some of that lost performance.

It is a relatively new build, so I am assuming that it is a fresh Windows 10 installation and not an SSD/HDD that was carried over from a previous build, however, I have suggested using CCleaner above to check the registry, it's an automated process that even lets you back up your Registry before you make any changes to your system.

The picture below shows how easy it is, a cluttered registry can impact performance far more seriously than your power plan settings.

 

[Carlos]

I second the recommendation of CCleaner.

 

[TehPleb]

First off: thanks for the replies.
I ran all benchmarks (except for the RAM checkup as I'm not technical enough I guess..) and everything got out fine. I'll add the results as attachments. Maybe you guys see something I don't.
I used CC Cleaner and did everything the free version could, but still no changes in fps.
I started up a game of Battlefield V just to check, and there are no problems at all. No stutters, no nothing.

I even marked "disable fullscreen optimizations" and nothing too crazy was running in the background. @DizzyDemon, it is a fairly fresh rig. About a year old tops.

 

[bizzyVaping]

Try to go to task manager when the game is open and find the MW.exe. I had a problem in season one where MW would switch back and forth between "Below normal" and "high" resulting in major framedrops.

The priority should be set to normal.

 

[TehPleb]

Just checked and priority is set to normal.

One odd thing I just encountered: my game wasn't set to 1440p, but to 1080, which makes it even stranger for me to be getting these fps. I changed it to 1440 and the fps remained the same, which is ridiculous!
It feels like something is capping my fps and it's starting to piss me off.

I'm really considering wiping my entire pc, just to see if it works.

 

[bizzyVaping]

Oh so you're getting 35fps constantly?!

I thought you ment you were getting drops down to 35.

 

[KeyboardDemon]

Just checked and priority is set to normal.

One odd thing I just encountered: my game wasn't set to 1440p, but to 1080, which makes it even stranger for me to be getting these fps. I changed it to 1440 and the fps remained the same, which is ridiculous!
It feels like something is capping my fps and it's starting to piss me off.

I'm really considering wiping my entire pc, just to see if it works.

That sounds like you have V-Sync locked on at 35fps

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[KeyboardDemon]

To add to my reply, this is where you can check to see if V-Sync is enabled/disabled, if it is enabled, then disable it immediately and set your frame rate to unlimited.

I can't believe I didn't go straight to V-Sync before, but if you have V-Sync on or a custom framerate set to 35 then you will struggle to get a different frame rate at any setting unless it happens to be lower and that's not the effect we're looking for right now.