Question about my system and low FPS

[Onodacops]

Not super tech savvy but I have tried several different remedies to get my FPS to increase in Rust.The game averages 40 FPS, give or take. I have looked at several YouTube videos, messed with settings and still no improvement. Any advice would be great, thanks.

Ono

 

[Death]

Turn down shadows and shaders in your settings as they have the biggest impact on performance. Lowering your draw distance will reduce VRAM usage but may cause noticeable lag while you're moving quickly.

Cap your fps to 60, so your computer is not overloading to achieve unrealistic goals as well. The only reason you'd want to go higher than 60 is if your monitor supports a higher refresh rate. Ingame FPS should be capped to your monitor's refresh rate. Any frames in excess will not benefit you in any way.

If you provide me your full system's specs, I can help you further with your settings. Download Speccy and screenshot the results.

[Onodacops]

http://speccy.piriform.com/results/FwY6bglEVSGKm7qjzzyOWXs

 

Thanks ! I will make those setting changes now.

Edited December 24, 2020 by Onodacops

[aNoNiM]

Dude, you CPU is thermal throttling. The max sustainable temperature for an Intel CPU is 100 Celcius to my knowledge, so if you reach anywhere near that. the CPU lowers its Mhz. And I think your CPU should be base clock of  3.6GHz when healthy and yours is  an average of just over 2Ghz. It will do this to allow you to continue using your CPU without it killing itself.

It should also be using turbo boost at 4.2Ghz when gaming.

Most of the times there are 3 possibilities, more frequently

1. Bad airflow/something blocking cooling vents. Could even be dust or hair build up. (could also be if computer is up against a heat source, like a furnace vent or heater)
2. You CPU fan, or cooling system such as a Water AIO are dead or  unplugged.
3. Older systems may need to have old thermal paste under the heat sink removed and reapplied, the constant heat or even on and off heat can cause the thermal paste to dry our and bleed to the outer edge of the CPU.

Option 4, is if I am caught offguard and this is a laptop, there are no good cooling solutions for laptops with that generation to give you good performance, Its normal for a laptop to hit 100C when gaming i suppose, not for a desktop, as it will have better airflow. Laptop will generally thermal throttle as part of their design. Buying a Laptop for gaming is like buying a minivan for racing at the track. It will never work good no matter what decals you put on the van. Your specs do show me it's a desktop. I see too many threads of people asking why their laptops throttle on forums/reddit

FYI: I am Systems Analyst who specializes in Windows server,   Subject matter expert for server performance monitoring in large enterprise environments.  I am also Linux+ Certified so not a Windows Fanboy either.
 

Average Temperature:  

98 °C

 

Cores

Core 0

Core Speed:  

2195.7 MHz

Multiplier:  

x 22.0

Bus Speed:  

99.8 MHz

Temperature:  

96 °C

Threads:  

APIC ID: 0, 1

Core 1

Core Speed:  

1996.1 MHz

Multiplier:  

x 20.0

Bus Speed:  

99.8 MHz

Temperature:  

100 °C

Threads:  

APIC ID: 2, 3

Core 2

Core Speed:  

2195.7 MHz

Multiplier:  

x 22.0

Bus Speed:  

99.8 MHz

Temperature:  

98 °C

Threads:  

APIC ID: 4, 5

Core 3

Core Speed:  

2195.7 MHz

Multiplier:  

x 22.0

Bus Speed:  

99.8 MHz

Temperature:  

98 °C

Threads:  

APIC ID: 6, 7

RAM

 

Edited December 25, 2020 by aNoNiM

[aNoNiM]

Wow  

System Temperature:  

121 °C

you got one hot potato on your hands!

[Onodacops]

As soon as I turned the desktop on, motherboard jumped right to 121 C and 98 C on the CPU. Fan is running, I can feel the airflow, not a watercooled machine. Not next to the wall, or heatsource and I keep the office at 70 degrees. "Older systems may need to have old thermal paste under the heat sink removed and reapplied." ?

Thanks for all your help,

Ono

Edited December 25, 2020 by Onodacops

[Onodacops]

Two of the four connections for the fan we not engaged. The fan has come away from the motherboard along with the thermal paste. Going to clean the old paste up and add new.  

Edited December 26, 2020 by Onodacops

[Onodacops]

CPU nice and cool, motherboard still at 120