Well, it's certainly not running at it's full capacity. How is your CPU doing? Should be a bit above the NVidia section in HWmonitor. It may be we're zooming in on the wrong bottleneck here.
screenshot is after running for 5ish minutesHow is your CPU doing?
The screenshot was taken at max speed.At what game speed setting are you running Stellaris?
is that a good or a bad thing? to me at least, it makes sense that Sellaris would rely more on the cpu than the gpu.Your CPU certainly is busier than your GPU
Yes, I don't usually play the game on the fastest speed. I did notice an incresed framerate on slower speeds, however the game stutters regardless of the speed. The stuttering gets more intense as the speed goes up, as a result anything other than paused is still difficult to play (and you obviously can't spend the whole game paused lol)Have you tried running the game on speed 4?
I have a brand new 1000W corsair power supply.What kind of power supply unit do you have installed? More specifically, what's the Watt rating of that power supply unit?