Hard FPS drops, but GPU a CPU low uses

[MystiX]

My average FPS is around 25-30, because my FPS often drops to zero.
However, my CPU and GPU usage never gets above 75%.
I know that the game has a CPU bottleneck, but I don't even have 100% CPU usage. It is around 75%.
GPU uses is even lower at around 50%.

I have nVidia 4070 and i9 9900K.

The technical processing of this game is a real hell.
For the first time, the game did not want to start at all and crashed when starting. I solved this by changing the resolution from my ultrawide resolution of 5120x1440 to 2560x1440 directly in the config.ini file and I play game in a window.
Then I didn't have walls and floors in the game. I solved this again by resetting directly in the config.ini file.
And now I deal with the big drops FPS to 0. I've already tried everything possible. In-game graphics settings do not affect this. Even if I set the low settings, I have the drops there.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Change something directly in the 3D application settings in the nVidia control panel?

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

The game is cpu bound and your cpu is the ♥♥♥♥ ancient.

Very simple. You don't have enough L3 and no amount of "settings" will change that.

[SkidaRu]

Runs really well even on my

Windows 10 Pro [Ghost Spectre]
1 x Boot SSD + 2TB Game drive [Seperate]
Corsair 16gb 3600Mhz CL16
Asus Formula Z270
i7 7700k @4.7ghz
1080ti Stock

- What's your memory & speed?
- Do you have [Above 4g Decoding] enabled in the bios?
- Last Time you reinstalled your OS & which OS you using?
- Do you have your game directories on a separate drive?

Changing my memory from Corsair 16gb 3600Mhz CL18 to Corsair 16gb 3600Mhz CL16 helped alot with stuttering & 0.1% Lows.

Also had constant crashing two patches ago... Decided to go back to Windows 10, the latest Ghost Spectre edition. Doing this & installing the latest nvidia drivers completely solved the crashing issue.

[Barden]

I fired up the game today with my new PC, and was getting 180+ FPS in town (2560 x 1440):

GPU: 4070 TI Super
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700KF

[Rabbit King]

Originally posted by SkidaRu:

Runs really well even on my

Windows 10 Pro [Ghost Spectre]
1 x Boot SSD + 2TB Game drive [Seperate]
Corsair 16gb 3600Mhz CL16
Asus Formula Z270
i7 7700k @4.7ghz
1080ti Stock

- What's your memory & speed?
- Do you have [Above 4g Decoding] enabled in the bios?
- Last Time you reinstalled your OS & which OS you using?
- Do you have your game directories on a separate drive?

Changing my memory from Corsair 16gb 3600Mhz CL18 to Corsair 16gb 3600Mhz CL16 helped alot with stuttering & 0.1% Lows.

Also had constant crashing two patches ago... Decided to go back to Windows 10, the latest Ghost Spectre edition. Doing this & installing the latest nvidia drivers completely solved the crashing issue.

Define well getting 30fps ya but I have basically the same but better cpu, and more ram and def getting hit with low fps. Note I can adjust for 30 fps but Im pretty sure folks here are talking about not hitting the 60 fps.

[Compy439]

I run a laptop I7 10750H
32 GB ram @ 2900 mhz
RTX 2070 Max Q
Turn off DLSS and Frame Gen
in Vernworth your FPS will always be crummy but in the other towns and open world FPS will be fine.

[MystiX]

Thanks guys, but the problem can't be in HW performance as Grr writes. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah. In addition, Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah you write nonsense. If the problem was in the CPU, then my CPU is loaded at 100% and it is not. My brother plays on a much less powerful HW and does not have FPS drops in the game.
So the problem is elsewhere.
I have
Windows 10
32GB RAM Kingston Fury Beast (2x16GB) DDR4 3600 CL18
NVMe SSD WD Blue SN550
NVMe SSD Samsung SSD 980
SATA SSD 850 EVO

Other games included Cyberpunk are OK. No problems with them.

[DreadEye2020]

RTX 4070
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32GB DDR5 RAM at 6000
Win 11
Samsung Pro 990
@ 1440p running around fountain in town.

With DLSS at quality and frame generation:
105 FPS, GPU usage 95 - 100%, CPU usage around 50%

DLSS and frame generation off:
65 FPS, GPU and CPU usage more or less same as with DLSS

[Kurobon]

Did you start a new game? I found that in NG and NG plus the CPU hits harder when you start discovering NPCs but then settles down as you continue the save.

[MystiX]

Originally posted by DreadEye2020:

RTX 4070
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
32GB DDR5 RAM at 6000
Win 11
Samsung Pro 990
@ 1440p running around fountain in town.

With DLSS at quality and frame generation:
105 FPS, GPU usage 95 - 100%, CPU usage around 50%

DLSS and frame generation off:
65 FPS, GPU and CPU usage more or less same as with DLSS

Amazing ... I dont understand, why i have problem.

[Echorion]

The game just runs like ass on a lot of hardware due to poor optimisation. I just gave up on it pretty much.

[Mr Matt Dude]

I'm just throwing this out there, I'm sure you've thought about it but, do you have other power hungry programs open while you play? Do you set DD2's "priority" to high in task manager after opening the game?

[StardomPlays]

Originally posted by MystiX:

Thanks guys, but the problem can't be in HW performance as Grr writes. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah. In addition, Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah you write nonsense. If the problem was in the CPU, then my CPU is loaded at 100% and it is not. My brother plays on a much less powerful HW and does not have FPS drops in the game.
So the problem is elsewhere.
I have
Windows 10
32GB RAM Kingston Fury Beast (2x16GB) DDR4 3600 CL18
NVMe SSD WD Blue SN550
NVMe SSD Samsung SSD 980
SATA SSD 850 EVO

Other games included Cyberpunk are OK. No problems with them.

Your cpu and gpu are two different components so utilization readings mean different things. For your CPU, different cores and threads are scheduled and tasked to handle specific functions when running a game, so the usage utilization is variable and dependent on the total number of cores and threads the game engine is using on your CPU. A modern 6 core and above processor will not be bound at 100 percent EVEN if the CPU is the bottleneck because core speed, frequency, bandwidth, and L3 cache are the most important factors independent of utilization. If you load up Fortnite right now in performance mode settings, you will find that your both your CPU and GPU under 100 percent utilization because of a CPU bottleneck of the game merely sensitive to single core performance and cache. Grr. is correct, your CPU is several generations old and is not an good pairing for your 4070 GPU in some of the newest games because it does lack the sufficient L3 cache to sufficiently stream data throughout these large open worlds. That's why overclocking won't help as well. For Dragon's Dogma 2, check out Gamer Nexus's channel to see the hiearchy of CPU performance relative to yours:

https://youtu.be/twEERkUyAXE?si=RkxbNUqf_G8-TvKu

[StardomPlays]

Originally posted by MystiX:

Thanks guys, but the problem can't be in HW performance as Grr writes. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah. In addition, Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah you write nonsense. If the problem was in the CPU, then my CPU is loaded at 100% and it is not. My brother plays on a much less powerful HW and does not have FPS drops in the game.
So the problem is elsewhere.
I have
Windows 10
32GB RAM Kingston Fury Beast (2x16GB) DDR4 3600 CL18
NVMe SSD WD Blue SN550
NVMe SSD Samsung SSD 980
SATA SSD 850 EVO

Other games included Cyberpunk are OK. No problems with them.

Cyberpunk is one of the few games that scale beyond 8 cores and threads so the more cores and threads available means using more of your CPU by parallelizing task efficiently which is incredibly complex; CDPR has been patching and optimizing Cyberpunk post development for over 3 years and just recently enabled SMT for Ryzen CPUs to effectively utilize 8 cores and threads. Most games don't do this. Most games engines are optimized around 6 cores and 12 threads which again, won't be fully utilized if the CPU is quite modern. So clock frequency and L3 cache are still the number one factors for gaming performance.