970m utilization in Black Desert Online - help needed

Hi Everyone!
I have MSI GT70 ONE upgraded to 970m (Windows 8.1, 51x S7 BIOS, Prema vBIOS, 0.993, OC +250/450). Game Black Desert Online. First standing in the field - then running into the city- then back to the field.
You could see that while CPU utilization does not change and seems to stay low (below 70%, so probably no bottleneck there?) - GPU utilization goes down instead of increasing as workload increases, and hence FPS drops from 50 to 20. ThrottleStop running at "performance" setting. Temperatures seem fine.
Wondering if anything can be done about it/squeezed from the GPU/CPU?
Thanks for all the hints!

Quote from: Stanjarensky on 19-May-15, 21:26:23
While I'm not exactly sure of my ping, I'm VPN'd into a Japanese server while playing so it can't be that high...
But yes, I average around 90-100 FPS. I don't know the exact numbers when in cities and out but just like any MMO, I'd imagine it goes down to around 60-70FPS while surrounded by a large amount of other players. At no time does it drop noticeably, though.
Would it be too much to ask you to do a quick 5 minute run of BDO, and post afterburner or nvidia inspector graph with - GPU load, FPS, CPU load?  My usage for GPU now stays at 40% in cities (and fps is 20-25).  That is a drastic difference, as we have same video card...
I really want to get to the end of this issue...
Did you try GTA V by the way? What other games you playing? (I am trying to bridge how different are our systems in other games due to different CPUs).
I have older GT70 - upgraded to 970m from 680m. And kind of starting to worry if some other components (ram, mobo? cpu?) bottlenecking the card..

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    Why can Apple not provide a clearly marked EMAIL address and Telephone number at a Help Desk with real people to respond to requests for help?
    If that is your question, the answer is at the bottom right of this web page. It is clearly marked "Contact Us" and is the best way, really the only way, to contact Apple.
    If there were a publicly posted email address for concerns such as yours, it would be quickly filled with spam in about three minutes, thereby becoming instantly useless to you and everyone else. Apple would need to change it hourly, if not more often. That is also the reason you ought not to post your name, location, and what appears to be your iPad's serial number on this publicly viewable website.
    Apple does not respond here and I can find no other questions for your fellow Apple users to answer.

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