big cpu usage problem

[Kenway]

gw, whenever I play have a 35-40 percent cpu usage without reason ...I hav a good pc and I play better game without problems ....can you tell me why this is happening ...maybe some setting ingame that is bugged ???

[Q]

Originally posted by Kenway_tv:

gw, whenever I play have a 35-40 percent cpu usage without reason ...I hav a good pc and I play better game without problems ....can you tell me why this is happening ...maybe some setting ingame that is bugged ???

gw2 is very cpu intensive, more than gpu so its normal. try to lower character model limit to medium or low that can probably improve things, that option is the biggest fps killer in this game and even with top tier potato you will get low fps during big events like seitung meta boss or svanir shaman or wvw etc.

[Kenway]

Originally posted by Berries and Cream:

Originally posted by Kenway_tv:

gw, whenever I play have a 35-40 percent cpu usage without reason ...I hav a good pc and I play better game without problems ....can you tell me why this is happening ...maybe some setting ingame that is bugged ???

gw2 is very cpu intensive, more than gpu so its normal. try to lower character model limit to medium or low that can probably improve things, that option is the biggest fps killer in this game and even with top tier potato you will get low fps during big events like seitung meta boss or svanir shaman or wvw etc.

i have all the option to medium and low and some of them deactiavted and still ...I have high fps but cpu problems ...I'll try that though thanks!!

[Daniel]

GW2 like most old MMOs puts a lot of the workload on a single cpu core.

[Kenway]

i have all the options on low ...its not normal to have 40 percent usage only from gw

it wasnt like that before ...and its not my pc problem ...

[Persnicketous]

It's a very intensive game, both on CPU and on GPU, but more on the GPU. That's not because the game is badly optimized, but it is doing things that most games and engines struggle with: rendering a lot of different players, each with a ton of customization options.

Due to that, it has some heavy CPU usage because most of those calculations aren't really suited for a GPU. The best thing to do here is to limit the amount of players to Lowest, even on high-end rigs. That alone will have the biggest impact.
Lowering shadows to low or medium can also have an impact, as does disabling reflections since the GW2 engine doesn't do that in a very efficient way (it renders everything twice to do so).

If you still have issues, you can go in your BIOS/UEFI and try to disable MultiThreading if your PC has it. It might sound nice, but Intel's multi-threading can in reality lead to extra scheduling and some slow-downs for many use-cases (but it can be an advantage on other, extremely optimized multi-threaded software.. but games never benefit from it).

This should at least help a little :)

[Kenway]

Originally posted by Persnicketous:

It's a very intensive game, both on CPU and on GPU, but more on the GPU. That's not because the game is badly optimized, but it is doing things that most games and engines struggle with: rendering a lot of different players, each with a ton of customization options.

Due to that, it has some heavy CPU usage because most of those calculations aren't really suited for a GPU. The best thing to do here is to limit the amount of players to Lowest, even on high-end rigs. That alone will have the biggest impact.
Lowering shadows to low or medium can also have an impact, as does disabling reflections since the GW2 engine doesn't do that in a very efficient way (it renders everything twice to do so).

If you still have issues, you can go in your BIOS/UEFI and try to disable MultiThreading if your PC has it. It might sound nice, but Intel's multi-threading can in reality lead to extra scheduling and some slow-downs for many use-cases (but it can be an advantage on other, extremely optimized multi-threaded software.. but games never benefit from it).

This should at least help a little :)

thanks for your help ,I'll try all this and I hope my problem will get fix

[Kenway]

thank you everyone for your help!!!

[Q]

Originally posted by Kenway_tv:

Originally posted by Berries and Cream:

gw2 is very cpu intensive, more than gpu so its normal. try to lower character model limit to medium or low that can probably improve things, that option is the biggest fps killer in this game and even with top tier potato you will get low fps during big events like seitung meta boss or svanir shaman or wvw etc.

i have all the option to medium and low and some of them deactiavted and still ...I have high fps but cpu problems ...I'll try that though thanks!!

dont worry about it, 30-40% usage its fine for this game, your cpu wont explode or anything like that, just check your cpu and gpu temps with hwmonitor or hwinfo, it's free, safe software btw. Leave character quality high, with high res character textures etc just lower character model limit to medium or low, that it, leave all the rest in medium or high.

ppl try to get more fps by lowering shadows, shaders, character textures and they uglify the game just to get 5 fps but they forget about "character model limit" as i said thats the biggest fps killer option, a low value in character model limit improves fps A LOT

[Haru ツ]

Get a ryzen X3D :]

[Cyanmurder]

Im running this on a potato, everything at max setting. No issues. My PC is a 4th generation, so I'm sure its a potato. The graphic card is a dual Titan xp.

[𝒞𝒶𝓉𝓎𝒶♡]

Originally posted by Haru ツ:

Get a ryzen X3D :]

This is very good, i have it myself ^^ I am no tech expert, but for me this has been feeling probably best gaming purchase i have got, every game so far been playing really good and never any issues (that my big brother has to fix for because i have no clue what is happening lmao)

I run every setting maxed. I don't even have 4090, but 4070TI now and it's good enough for sure. :)

I know the game runs with lower specs too, but it's nice for other more intensive games also. And did not cost a fortune, but quite affordable combo.

I play GW2 in 1440p resolution (with 165Hz monitor), game looks good and smooth. ^^

[Percello]

Originally posted by Kenway_tv:

gw, whenever I play have a 35-40 percent cpu usage without reason ...I hav a good pc and I play better game without problems ....can you tell me why this is happening ...maybe some setting ingame that is bugged ???

Sounds about normal. Adjusting your GFX settings "might" help.

[Sneaky_Koala]

Originally posted by Persnicketous:

try to disable MultiThreading if your PC has it. It might sound nice, but Intel's multi-threading can in reality lead to extra scheduling and some slow-downs for many use-cases (but it can be an advantage on other, extremely optimized multi-threaded software.. but games never benefit from it).

Funny you mentioned that. I thought everyone had forgotten. the I5k's were *always* gaming machines... only sheep with more money than cents bought the i7 which was aimed at the small time home office server market.

Those that bought i7's disabled multithreading and still couldn't achieve what an i5 could because of it's inherently limited lower clock rate. I'm to still on an i5 7600k@5ghz and the only thing that pushes 100% is x4 foundations. This game sits around 50-60%.

To OP directly - you are aware chips of any kind are designed to run at 100% right? or it wouldn't be 100%. Here's a hint - that sound card (or onboard chip if you're happy with it as most people are these days) is running at 100% all the time in game. Guess you better break out the water cooling it might not be able to hack it!

Edit to add: Games will *always* be limited on single core performance.. you can have 50 arms to make a coffee.. sure you can take the cup out while getting the spoon, get the milk out of the fridge, prepare everything.. but you still have to wait for the kettle to boil. I can't believe how many don't understand this.

Oh and up until recent times - say the 486DX (DX not SX) it was running at 100% all the time.. non stop. That goes for graphics cards as well where only the rich could afford to tick the vsync option in settings because 99% of peoples cards would never reach the monitors refresh rate.

[Jin-]

Originally posted by Persnicketous:

It's a very intensive game, both on CPU and on GPU, but more on the GPU. That's not because the game is badly optimized, but it is doing things that most games and engines struggle with: rendering a lot of different players, each with a ton of customization options.

Due to that, it has some heavy CPU usage because most of those calculations aren't really suited for a GPU. The best thing to do here is to limit the amount of players to Lowest, even on high-end rigs. That alone will have the biggest impact.
Lowering shadows to low or medium can also have an impact, as does disabling reflections since the GW2 engine doesn't do that in a very efficient way (it renders everything twice to do so).

If you still have issues, you can go in your BIOS/UEFI and try to disable MultiThreading if your PC has it. It might sound nice, but Intel's multi-threading can in reality lead to extra scheduling and some slow-downs for many use-cases (but it can be an advantage on other, extremely optimized multi-threaded software.. but games never benefit from it).

This should at least help a little :)

It barely uses any GPU. Let's be real here. As long as you have a mid tier GPU from the past decade you will be more than fine even on higher resolutions.

[SinisterSlay]

Gw2 worked my 9600gt pretty hard. But that's about it