Ive been trying for a week now to get smart smoothing working but it will not activate at all. Ive tried 90 hz all the way down to 64hz, Ive changed the fov from smallest to largest. Ive reduced the render scale from 0.5 all the up to 2.0. Turned PP on and off. Nvidia drivers are up to date as of today’s release. NOTHING I do in ANY game turns smart smoothing on. On top of that when my frames start to drop I get I get terrible screen artifacts and after images that flash in and out and basically make the headset unusable. Ive got a 2080ti and a 6700k.
Have you checked it when a game is actually running? I don’t think it’s shown as enabled unless it is actually in use. (Since I don’t use it, I don’t know if the behavior has changed since the first beta of the feature.)
Hey folks, thanks to everyone that had responded. I have found out the problem. I installed the fpsvr app to actually see what my frames were and they were extraordinarily low. Like 20 to 30 fps in most games. Ive checked my gpu usage and I’m only getting 30 to 40 percent gpu usage in any game, some games as low as 20 percent! Ridiculous. Ive got a 2080ti and I’m getting the performance of a 980 or even less.
Naturally I tried swevivers gpu hack that is supposed to help but it does nothing. Ive also downloaded the latest Microsoft insider build as that was reported to have fixed the gpu utilization bug but that didnt work either. It also messed my computer up bad so I recommend people stay away from insider builds.
So in the end it looks like smart smoothing isn’t the issue but my computer physically cant reach the frames required to activate it.
My Rtx2080ti isnt showing that behavior. I hope you can find out what is wrong with yours. To rule out a hardware issue right away, you can take a secondary (old or new) hdd/ssd and install Windows10 there as well as a fresh secondary, PiTool, updates, etc, and test if it shows similar behavior. If it doesnt, youre lucky and it’s the software. If it does, it will be very unlucky, like many other RTX2080ti users. Mine lately started microstutters. I hope you’ll be spared from such issue.
I’ve linked a good, free app which can help you identify your PC problem(s). In the past, I used it and discovered my RAM was misconfigured and was only running at half the speed it should have been. I got an ~20-30% framerate boost when I fixed it. If a problem is determined, click the “? in a circle” icon associated with the problem (on the results web page).
It looks like you may have the same problem I did. If so, you should see a large framerate boost, once it’s fixed. Your CPU is starved for memory access, so that should also improve.
Installing RAM can be confusing. I’ve looked up your motherboard info (Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7). Since you only have 2 modules installed, you should use slot DDR4_1 and DDR4_2 (the red ones). Please verify that.
If the modules are already installed correctly, then we’ll need to dig into the BIOS.
A huge improvement for sure, went from 40 to 70 percent! But I’m still getting a note sayings its performing below its potential. Looks like Ill need to look into this bios profile it is recommending.
