while playing LSPDFR tonight I was monitoring my computer and I notice as I play the GPU usage will randomly drop to around 40% from 98%-99%..... why is this happening? temps are fine @~60C for GPU and ~45C CPU and everything looks to be fine, it just randomly drops. I can usually play this game with no problems at about 100 FPS, but it will drop to about 30-40 when the GPU usage drops. I already tried deleting my graphics driver and doing a "clean" install. I have no idea where to go from here. any advice would be greatly appreciated. thank you

my setup-

i7-5820k @3.3ghz

Asus STRIX 980ti

16gb quad channel ram

 

 

 

sorry forgot PSU

its a EVGA Supernova 850G2

 

What environment are you in when your frame-rate drops? Is it at specific locations or during specific times of day? How much traffic is there? What settings are you running the game on?

And what OS do you run? Windows 8 & 10 are considered parallel processing operating systems. They are designed to use the graphics card to do calculations under some circumstances, and the processor to do them in others. This could come into play when certain ambient effects pop up on screen such as particle effects, transform & lighting, high dynamic range, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, motion blur, shadow effects, motion effects, high polygon models appearing/disappearing etc.

the gpu drops would be random, didn't really seem to be specific to any time of day or situation going on around me. I run the game at fairly high settings (I don't know every setting off the top of my head) in 2560x1440p @ anywhere between 80-100+ fps depending on what's going on in game. when the gpu is at 98-99%, I have no issues. its just the gpu usage percent will randomly drop for no reason, then return to normal after a few seconds

I am using Windows 10 OS. I make sure no backround programs are running before I launch the game also