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Dota 2 Low GPU Usage = Low FPS

The game usually runs ok (I don’t get 120fps like ever, so screw playing 120hz monitors.)

But whenever a Meepo / Phantom Lancer / Bristle is involved the game runs garbage tbh.

Drops to like 40fps easily occur if I’m playing PL and get max illusions. Now I’ve got a 4690k and a GTX 970 so this really shouldn’t be happening.

I noticed with MSI Afterburner that my GPU usage pretty much never goes past 30%, and my cpu is about 60+%.

Something ain’t right.

Yes I’ve tried Prefer Max Performance in Nvidia control panel, and High performance for windows. Neither has helped this issue.

This occurred both on Source 1 and 2.

I have taken several steps that aveyo has suggested for troubleshooting and will be updating this with my progress.

– GPU-Z
Coming Soon.

2. Benchmarking Results
– Heaven

5. GPU Tracer
Coming soon

Last edited by Jacob29; 12-14-2016 at 04:06 PM .

hi jacob29
check the power in your control panel put it on High performance
btw your gpu usages and cpu is ok dont worry about that part
but about the fps part you are right there is something wrong with new client
you can try open Gl in dota properties > DLC that can fix it for you
dont forgot to put – gl (runs on opengl) in your launch option after downloading it

you can try – high in your launch option too its puts the game in high priority in system tasks so you will have less fps drops

Last edited by Sorena; 09-11-2015 at 08:44 AM .

Sorry about the delay in response I couldn’t get to my computer over the weekend.

I tried openGL and – high.

Hero like PL still makes my fps drop to 50s still. It states 20 something on the screenshot but that was due to the screenshot software, it was actually around 50-60 bouncing around.

I tried it by watching a regular game and for the most part the openGL seems to perform slightly better, enough to stable me out at pretty much 60.

Without vsync I get max like 90fps so my 120fps dreams are still dead.

it may be possible that Dota 2 is using your iGPU. check you bios settings and make your dedicated GPU as Primary.

I don’t believe this is the case.

Within my BIOS IGD Multi-Monitor is set to Disabled, and the default is PEG (which I believe should be my GPU).

well my friend has titan x and still has the same problem i heard even ppl with x2 gtx 980 have some problems

this is game that is not optimized you can do some optimization in your nvidia control panel for best performance this can increase your fps also try my setting

animate portrait( if you turn off this it will give you +10 fps) + specular + high quality water + texture on high + shadow on high + render on high
turn everything else off until they fix the problem idk how much ram you have but if you have less than 4 i recommend using higher virtual memory also add – map dota in your launch option you can search about this
i did those stuff and getting same fps as you with a slower cpu (q9650) and gpu gtx960
this will help you until they fix the problem

Last edited by Sorena; 09-22-2015 at 04:54 PM .

Make sure you’ve set the option in the video settings to “exclusive fullscreen”. If its borderless or whatever it will not utilize your GPU properly and thus you might be getting the lower performance.

well my friend has titan x and still has the same problem i heard even ppl with x2 gtx 980 have some problems

this is game that is not optimized you can do some optimization in your nvidia control panel for best performance this can increase your fps also try my setting

animate portrait( if you turn off this it will give you +10 fps) + specular + high quality water + texture on high + shadow on high + render on high
turn everything else off until they fix the problem idk how much ram you have but if you have less than 4 i recommend using higher virtual memory also add – map dota in your launch option you can search about this
i did those stuff and getting same fps as you with a slower cpu (q9650) and gpu gtx960
this will help you until they fix the problem

I noticed that no matter the settings I still drop below 60fps most of the time, it just lowers the gpu usage. So instead of 50fps with 20% usage, i’ll instead get 52fps with 8% gpu usage. Might as well run 4k if I’m going below 60fps no matter what.