12th Gen Intel CPU Recommendation

[zielritter]

I recently built a new gaming PC on the cheap, relatively speaking: 12600k (stock speed), 6800xt, NVMe SSD, 32gb DDR4, 1440p. I'm tied into the Alder Lake architecture unfortunately due to lack of foresight.

I know the game recommends a 12600, yet during games I still get pretty sluggish performance when things get really booming. GPU stays around 60-80% and system memory usage around 16gb (I've heard of memory leaks, doesn't appear to be my issue).

Is my CPU the bottleneck here despite it not appearing to be from performance monitor? Would I benefit from the additional cores of a 12700 or 12900 in this game? I love playing it and want to make sure I can maximize my performance. TIA

[Stix_09]

yes the cpu will eventually bottleneck the game as single core performance in more complex scenarios comes into play.

However game needs more optimising as this will only get u so far and still be an issue.
There is also a memory use problem (continual growth) which is also still an issue and in complex scenarios . It may get to the point disk thrashing occurs when you start running out of available physical ram. Google disk thrashing. When disk thrashing starts I have to exit the game at present.

For now until they optimise game some more even a super powerful PC will have problems with performance. They have been working hard on this still so I'm confident they will solve these during the EA period.

This still is WIP and they are aware of these issues.

[zielritter]

Originally posted by Stix_09:

yes the cpu will eventually bottleneck the game as single core performance in more complex scenarios comes into play.

However game needs more optimising as this will only get u so far and still be an issue.
There is also a memory use problem (continual growth) which is also still an issue and in complex scenarios . It may get to the point disk thrashing occurs when you start running out of available physical ram. Google disk thrashing. When disk thrashing starts I have to exit the game at present.

For now until they optimise game some more even a super powerful PC will have problems with performance. They have been working hard on this still so I'm confident they will solve these during the EA period.

This still is WIP and they are aware of these issues.

Thanks, so in your opinion going for a CPU with more cores/threads at present probably wouldn't be worth it since the bottleneck is in unoptimized single threaded workloads currently?

[buckoff124]

Its a game issue your hardware is fine. Some people are reporting issues with 7900X3Ds and 4090s.

I just switched form 1080P to 1400p on a 1700H/3070 laptop and there is no performance difference because the game engine is just lagging.

[Stix_09]

Originally posted by zielritter:

Tanks, so in your opinion going for a CPU with more cores/threads at present probably wouldn't be worth it since the bottleneck is in unoptimized single threaded workloads currently?

no , it's not going to help having more cores, the bottleneck is the single core performance and game optimisation in general esp in more complex scenarios

there is always a bottleneck somewhere, but in this game if its not the graphics card (and it will not be unless u run high resolutions and/or have a low spec GPU) it will then be the CPU single core performance.

The main issue right now is optimisation though unless u have a very old setup.

[Bobby]

lol and i'm playing 1440 max settings on an i5-13400f (13th gen 10 core 16 thread) DDR5 Corsair Vengeance 32GB dual-channel, MSI MAG Tomahawk B790 WIFI, RTX 4060TI and a plethora of M2 and SSDs, built by myself last Xmas (23) and i have sublime performance.

Whatever GPUs or CPUs people put in systems doesn't magically make it fast.
You need to *build* a system. This was around £800 all in and Win 11

@the OP. Your CPU is perfectly fine for modern gaming and so is your GPU.

Check that your running in x16 on your PCIe slot. That sounds like your issue
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Check your 'Bus Interface' with it PCIe should be x16 4.0 for eg

[SSG Beard [506 IR]]

Dude, I have an i7-14700F. I log core usage and the way this game tries to avoid using multiple cores and hyperthreading is kinda absurd. It is not your PC, it is the game. I even tried playing with heterogenous parking and made all short threads move to the efficient cores. It went from 10-12 frames in my absurdly complex test scenario. The game is creating the most incredible number of mathematical formulae for every ship, plane, missile, sonar, radar, etc. It even models sonar convergence zones and it is actually kinda impressive that they have made one bloody core do all of it at all. Realistically the early access is too early. We all kinda knew this when they said that they haven't figured out how to save games. At present, the program is a ♥♥♥♥ show. But it is the most awesome ♥♥♥♥ show ever to be put on a PC so suck it up and enjoy some shipwrecks :) Don't worry, they will fix it.

[SSG Beard [506 IR]]

Originally posted by buckoff124:

Its a game issue your hardware is fine. Some people are reporting issues with 7900X3Ds and 4090s.

I just switched form 1080P to 1400p on a 1700H/3070 laptop and there is no performance difference because the game engine is just lagging.

I play on a 4k tv and i noticed the same. 1080 makes a difference when there's no ships. When the missiles start flying and the fun really begins, frame rate is destroyed, regardless of resolution.