Only using around 60% GPU and 70% CPU

[Spyro]

I have made sure it is on high performance etc. but when I look the usage is not 100%. Is this causing the stuttering and low FPS?

[Spyro]

Any help?

[Spyro]

Originally posted by Deus:

Can you tell us your specs ? It sounds like a CPU bottleneck.

Don't think it could be, other games run fine. I have laptop with i7-10750 @2.6 Ghz, 16 GB RAM and RTX 2060 6 GB

[Brain]

Originally posted by Spyro:

Originally posted by Deus:

Can you tell us your specs ? It sounds like a CPU bottleneck.

Don't think it could be, other games run fine. I have laptop with i7-10750 @2.6 Ghz, 16 GB RAM and RTX 2060 6 GB

Same for me dood. Game just doesn't use your rig at maximum, plus with terrible cache optimization we have 40-50 fps tanking even on fine systems, considering quite average level of graphics outdoors.

[Grill_Sergeant]

It is bottlenecking on memory bandwidth. It has been a LOOONG time since this mattered, which is why no one talks about it and performance monitoring crap like afterburner, fraps, whatever dont display or even have the ability to read and show memory load. My guess is that now, with Intel actually making improvements because AMD is making CPUs good enough to force Intel to do it, AND the increasing ubiquity of NVMe SSDs is going to make main memory bandwidth much more important going forward.

Back in the pre-DX9 days, memory bandwidth was so important, we used to look for specific chips. And I mean the actual DRAM chips, not the whole stick. A Mushkin DDR with Samsung TCCD stepping chips would OC much better than the same stick with Hynix chips, and so on.

Fun fact - this era is the reason that RAM still has heatspreaders that do nothing 90% of the time. Back in 2002, we actually needed them. :D

[DogWater]

The performance issues aren't a hardware bottleneck. It seems pretty standard for the game to leave a bunch of unused CPU and GPU if you have a pretty good system. Maybe running at 4k pushes most GPU to 100% but certainly at 1440 and 1080 modern hardware is barely getting a mild workout to push 60fps. For sure the stuttering is a software problem for most. If you can use VRR (Gsync/freesync) it feels better but it definitely doesn't hide the bigger stutters. >100ms you're feeling that for sure.

I tested these things myself on 2070s 5600x 32GB 3200 RAM installed on NVME SSD. My GPU never goes above 88% or so at 1440p when tons of games just redline it if asked to. CPU barely breaks into a light jog but very very far from saturating all cores. A lot of the time it's <50%. I tried VRR on my 165Hz monitor. Helps a bit but only so much. I switched it to 60fps mode without VRR which does feel better on average, plus freesync has some display quirks I find distracting on this specific one (completely unrelated to the game).

[shitstain]

I'm seeing the same issue with 70% GPU usage cap. I only get about 30-40 fps and I'm using Ryzen 7 1700 CPU and RX 580 4gb GPU. I reduced textures to lowest and the issue persists

[TheDragonKnight]

i got issue where gpu runs around 75% and then randomly the gpu usage will go to 0 and give stutters and fps drops making it really annoying to play

[Spyro]

Originally posted by TheDragonKnight:

i got issue where gpu runs around 75% and then randomly the gpu usage will go to 0 and give stutters and fps drops making it really annoying to play

That sounds like it could be a CPU issue, I had the same thing on a laptop I bought and a game ran fine but every 30 seconds or so it stuttered really bad and FPS dropped low. The CPU wasn't amazing so pretty sure it was because of that and I returned the laptop and got this better one :)

[exchaby]

Originally posted by Grill_Sergeant:

It is bottlenecking on memory bandwidth.

^
I didnt do extended benchmark because the enviroment in open world is constantly changing anyways, but I'd say on DDR3, the difference between 1600Mhz to 2400Mhz was about 5-10+ fps (i7-4790k + rtx 2060, none of them were fully utilized)

[Deykar]

I got an i5 3570k OC to 4.4 gHz.
MY CPU jumps straight to 100%. Is that normal?

[Spyro]

Originally posted by Deykar:

I got an i5 3570k OC to 4.4 gHz.
MY CPU jumps straight to 100%. Is that normal?

Yeah it just means it's using all of your CPU which is good. However your CPU is lower than the minimum requirement (idk about OC though) so I'm guessing it won't run that well

[TheDragonKnight]

Originally posted by Spyro:

Originally posted by TheDragonKnight:

i got issue where gpu runs around 75% and then randomly the gpu usage will go to 0 and give stutters and fps drops making it really annoying to play

That sounds like it could be a CPU issue, I had the same thing on a laptop I bought and a game ran fine but every 30 seconds or so it stuttered really bad and FPS dropped low. The CPU wasn't amazing so pretty sure it was because of that and I returned the laptop and got this better one :)

I don't think it is for me, no other game gives me these problems
r7 2700, rx580 8gb

[shitstain]

I have the same issue even with the latest patch