CPU utilisation at 100%?!?!?

[SwagMaster]

So I'm sure this isn't anything new, but what gives? I don't have any other app running in the background and this game just eats up all of my cpu. I am running on a 3090 and an i9-10850k on 32gb of 3600 Ram and I feel like my PC will fry my room.

I've all forms of ray tracing off, so is there a setting that is just eating all of my resources? This game doesn't look good enough to completely destroy my resources like it is so I wonder what I am missing?

[SwagMaster]

Originally posted by בתאניה:

Originally posted by SwagMaster:

So I'm sure this isn't anything new, but what gives? I don't have any other app running in the background and this game just eats up all of my cpu. I am running on a 3090 and an i9-10850k on 32gb of 3600 Ram and I feel like my PC will fry my room.

I've all forms of ray tracing off, so is there a setting that is just eating all of my resources? This game doesn't look good enough to completely destroy my resources like it is so I wonder what I am missing?

Somethings wrong with your CPU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TUZRd1TeNo <-- my CPU and GPU usage, GPU at 100% ..CPU isn't maxed, I do see some weird fluctuating percentages up into the 80% range though, and those CPU temps are normal for a OCed 7700X

If that were the case then my issue should be replicated easily across many apps and games, yet this is the first and only time it has EVER happened to me. Looking through the comments of this post, other posts on reddit, and a few people I know I can say with certainty that this issue is consistent across a wide variety of systems and specs.

I recently tested limiting the fps to 60 and that drastically lowered the cpu strain which means there is something wrong with how the game handles the uncapped frames or something is causing this issue happen. I thought it was very weird that in their twitter post of the specs 1440p was listed at "30 fps". I don't have the technical background to dig deeper but something is rotten with the port.

Upon looking at your video, I you are AMD spec'd which seems that this game is a lot more tolerant towards. Intel and Nvidia appear to be not optimised for or they didn't work with their framework which is causing issues? Either way this is an unacceptable release state of the game

[SwagMaster]

Originally posted by Denka:

I have 2080ti and i7-8700k and can get 144fps in Cyberpunk.

Forspoken however something is seriously wrong. It runs at 100% cpu and only 6% GPU. Only 50fps and stutters like mad

Do me a favour and try limiting the fps from the menu at 60 or even 30 fps. For whatever reason it seems to lower the cpu load and allows the gpu to do its job. Even if it's just to test I'd like to see if other's are finding temporary success with this. It lowered my cpu load by a decent percent.

That said for what this game is, and how it looks , it has no right to be this demanding, which likely it really isn't, it's just not gone through any proper testing which is how that "recommended" spec was allowed into the wild.

[Voy]

Originally posted by FrontlinerDelta:

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Weird my CPU usage is very low with a i9 9900k and 4090
GPU around 96-99%

That is interesting. 9700k here but also a 4090, CPU maxed out 100% on all cores, 4090 sitting at 30% (at 4k no less...). Game manages to stay close to 60 in the open world zones but in the city it can tank down to as low as 25, though it averages probably 45.

Toggling ray tracing and most other settings seem to not affect this CPU bottleneck at all for me either (tried going 1440p, no change either). Very, very weird. This doesn't happen in games like Cyberpunk or Darktide. Cyberpunk I'm getting 100% GPU utilization, same in Darktide and getting 60FPS at 4k in CP and over 140 FPS in Darktide (due to DLSS 3).

I have NO idea why this game is maxing my CPU, nothing else ever has. Even the CPU heavy titles (Darktide, Total War for example).

I have the exact same issue, gpu at 30%, CPU at 100%...
If you manage to fix it please DM me xD

[S.Kro]

13900 k 5.8 ghz use 100% full ultra with 3080 ti ^^

[Chaosprinz]

Same here if somone know a fix pls share...
i7 12700k 100% 3080 ... sucks so hard.... this Game have big problems

[Xengre]

Game uses CPU decompression with DirectStorage. This could possibly be why CPU utilization is so high unlike traditional games. They didn't include GPU decompression for the game.

[Sxkxnx_666]

Same here
i7 13700K
RTX 4090
32GB 3600 mhz RAM
GPU 50-60 % Usage at Ultra / Maxed out
CPU 88-95 %

I‘m not having any issues with FPS but since the 13th Gen Intel CPUs is very well known for cooking up a bit I’m not really down for temperatures to almost 90 degrees even though it’s running on 360mil aio. I mean a wattages up to 200 wtf? For what? No other game’s eating that CPU that much 🤦🏻‍♂️

[SwagMaster]

Originally posted by xXFacewalkerXx:

Same here
i7 13700K
RTX 4090
32GB 3600 mhz RAM
GPU 50-60 % Usage at Ultra / Maxed out
CPU 88-95 %

I‘m not having any issues with FPS but since the 13th Gen Intel CPUs is very well known for cooking up a bit I’m not really down for temperatures to almost 90 degrees even though it’s running on 360mil aio. I mean a wattages up to 200 wtf? For what? No other game’s eating that CPU that much 🤦🏻‍♂️

I honestly suspect that the devs inexperience making pc ports is at play here. Their only other released game is FF15 which got its pc port 2 years after the console release. My main guess is that just like the Cyberpunk issues that came to light, this was likely not tested, or if it was it wasn't by an experienced team. Mix that with a team not able to handle the task, and you get a spec release of 4080 for 30 fps and thinking "yeah that's ok" when graphically this game looks somewhat dated.

[Kaldaien]

Windows 11 can't even measure CPU usage correctly anymore, it's not a useful metric :)

[MugHug]

Originally posted by Tali Zorah N7:

Just a bad port and awful optimization + Denuvo... I got a 4080 and can't play more than 30-40 fps, same performance on super low than super high with all ray tracing on. As usual they don't care about PC players, I don't even know if a patch can fix this...

You do realize the the PC and PS5 versions were 'developed' at the same time, using the same core. Basically the PS5 is an AMD PC.

Then two versions were made - one for the limits and specs of the PS5 and the more open spec one for the PC.

And they were released at the same time.

So where did you see the PC version is a 'port' of the PS5 version?

You may have a point about Denuvo:
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-version-of-drm-software-denuvo-is-coming-to-squat-on-your-games/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social

[Kaldaien]

Ah, yeah. Their DLC anti-piracy product is great, it's much more stable than the proprietary ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that CAPCOM uses in their games.

Denuvo anti-tamper by itself cannot do anything to solve DLC piracy, so most games that make all their money through DLC invent their own anti-piracy solution for it.

They're not using Denvuo's DLC anti-piracy for this game, it barely has any DLC.

[SleepyDroid]

awful port and probably use Denuvo too, on top of that.

[MugHug]

Originally posted by Kaldaieℵ₀:

Ah, yeah. Their DLC anti-piracy product is great, it's much more stable than the proprietary ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that CAPCOM uses in their games.

Denuvo anti-tamper by itself cannot do anything to solve DLC piracy, so most games that make all their money through DLC invent their own anti-piracy solution for it.

They're not using Denvuo's DLC anti-piracy for this game, it barely has any DLC.

Think before posting.

You really think Irdeto would develop and market such a product if they did not see a market for it.

Linked because on top of Denvno for games like Forspoken we now look forward to possibly finding it in DLC.

AND, hold onto your pants:
Included in the Forspoken Digital Deluxe Edition:
Prequel Story DLC ‘Forspoken: In Tanta We Trust’ (Summer 2023)

Plus, if Forspoken survives long enough and creates enough revenue, there may well be additional DLC released.

[MugHug]

Originally posted by SleepyDroid:

awful port and probably use Denuvo too, on top of that.

It was not a port. Why do people keep saying that.

[amisianer]

Because they're misinformed parrots without an opinion of their own just regurgitating everything their influencer overlords say.