Low FPS, high end PC, low resource usage.

[TechSquidTV]

Title says it all. If I do some large scale destruction, the FPS will drop to roughly 8fps usually and it never seems to recover. The annoying bit is, I have a 5950x and a 3090, but also, my resource usage isnt even that high. With this 8fps or so, only 7% of the GPU is being used and 20% of the CPU.

The game doesnt appear to be take advantage of extra available resources. IS there any way to improve this?

[ONSVRG]

Sure sounds like you should get more frames, have you tried running the game in windowed mode or borderless full screen?

[Luigi]

I have the same problem

10% CPU
2% GPU

[Ozzuneoj]

Part of the problem is that you are looking at the average CPU usage. You need to right click the graph in task manager and show logical processors.

When there is a ton of destruction the game will heavily load only a handful of cores\threads so your 32-thread CPU will overall have an extremely low average usage, while maybe only one to four "cores" are at 80-90% which causes performance to drop.

It is always a CPU bottleneck when destruction causes performance to drop.

Can we PLEASE have a sticky to explain this? 90% of the performance complaints could be addressed by telling people this.

You can be fairly certain it isn't a GPU bottleneck if you can look at the ground or sky and still have poor frame rates... which is exactly what happens when there's a lot of destruction going on. The only solution is to use less janky mods while also using performance mods that reduce debris.

8-12 thread CPUs with higher per-thread performance will most likely perform better during lots of destruction than CPUs with 32 threads and lower boost clocks.