CPU and GPU Utilization below 50%

[Now I Know This Girl]

Just asking to fellow Rome 2 player, is it normal that CPU and GPU Utilization below 50%? Currently using mod DEI. My Spec Intel i5 4460 and GTX 1060 3 GB, 16 GB Ram. Windows 10. Thank You

[Charles XII]

Have you checked your processor is set to use max. power 100% in power settings? Also select "Unlimited video memory" in Rome's graphic settings.

btw: probably doesn't make a huge difference for Rome, but 3GB GPU memory is quite small for most new games, you might want to upgrade to GTX 1060 6GB model or whatever's replacing it. CPU is usually less important for gaming unless you are playing on very low graphics settings.

[Now I Know This Girl]

Originally posted by Charles XII:

Have you checked your processor is set to use max. power 100% in power settings? Also select "Unlimited video memory" in Rome's graphic settings.

btw: probably doesn't make a huge difference for Rome, but 3GB GPU memory is quite small for most new games, you might want to upgrade to GTX 1060 6GB model or whatever's replacing it. CPU is usually less important for gaming unless you are playing on very low graphics settings.

Hi, thanks for reply.. Yup Power Setting already max performance.
Using Afterburner, GPU Usage always below 50%, and CPU Usage individual thread usage sometimes around 50%-70% but overall usage still below 50% percent. Warhammer 2 have better performance on my PC, because use more CPU and GPU Usage.

How's your CPU and GPU Usage using afterburner?

I intend to upgrade my GPU, but after upgrading my CPU.

[Toaster]

The game doesn't use all of your CPU's 4 cores (or at least it doesn't utilize them all equally), instead using mostly 1 or 2. So if you're looking at your overall CPU usage, it's gonna show something around 50%.
If your GPU isn't being fully utilized, that just means that the graphics aren't intensive enough to make it sweat. Throw on some anti-aliasing and that'll change real quick though

[Charles XII]

Originally posted by ;3658515990050142712:

Originally posted by Charles XII:

Have you checked your processor is set to use max. power 100% in power settings? Also select "Unlimited video memory" in Rome's graphic settings.

btw: probably doesn't make a huge difference for Rome, but 3GB GPU memory is quite small for most new games, you might want to upgrade to GTX 1060 6GB model or whatever's replacing it. CPU is usually less important for gaming unless you are playing on very low graphics settings.

Hi, thanks for reply.. Yup Power Setting already max performance.
Using Afterburner, GPU Usage always below 50%, and CPU Usage individual thread usage sometimes around 50%-70% but overall usage still below 50% percent. Warhammer 2 have better performance on my PC, because use more CPU and GPU Usage.

How's your CPU and GPU Usage using afterburner?

I intend to upgrade my GPU, but after upgrading my CPU.

I have all my graphics set to extreme and normally get over 90% on GPU (GTX 1080Ti) (memory only 39%) and 100% on the CPU (i7-5840K) although both are OC'd by about 20-30%. If you're not even utilizing your current hardware 100% why bother upgrading? Get the most out of your current components (e.g. via OC) and then try setting the graphics as high as they'll go and then seen if it changes the utilization levels. Also remember the higher the graphic settings the less work the CPU is doing so it may not even need to be much over 50%.

I would recommend spending the money on a new GPU before a CPU especially as your video memory is quite small (3GB v. 6GB-11GB on mid-top range cards) which may cause bottlenecks. I also assume you have an SSD drive? A CPU's influence on gaming performance is much less than the GPU and the higher the resolution and graphic settings, the more important it is to have a powerful graphics unit. A powerful GPU can manage perfectly well with even an older generation CPU so I wouldn't prioritise upgrading it.

[Now I Know This Girl]

Originally posted by flopster:

The game doesn't use all of your CPU's 4 cores (or at least it doesn't utilize them all equally), instead using mostly 1 or 2. So if you're looking at your overall CPU usage, it's gonna show something around 50%.
If your GPU isn't being fully utilized, that just means that the graphics aren't intensive enough to make it sweat. Throw on some anti-aliasing and that'll change real quick though

Hi, thanks for reply.
You're right on heavy battle 40 vs 40 siege, it use high cpu usage on core 1 or 2. But for GPU i'ts still below 40% even on extreme setting... CPU Bottleneck maybe?

[Now I Know This Girl]

Originally posted by Charles XII:

Originally posted by ;3658515990050142712:

Hi, thanks for reply.. Yup Power Setting already max performance.
Using Afterburner, GPU Usage always below 50%, and CPU Usage individual thread usage sometimes around 50%-70% but overall usage still below 50% percent. Warhammer 2 have better performance on my PC, because use more CPU and GPU Usage.

How's your CPU and GPU Usage using afterburner?

I intend to upgrade my GPU, but after upgrading my CPU.

I have all my graphics set to extreme and normally get over 90% on GPU (GTX 1080Ti) (memory only 39%) and 100% on the CPU (i7-5840K) although both are OC'd by about 20-30%. If you're not even utilizing your current hardware 100% why bother upgrading? Get the most out of your current components (e.g. via OC) and then try setting the graphics as high as they'll go and then seen if it changes the utilization levels. Also remember the higher the graphic settings the less work the CPU is doing so it may not even need to be much over 50%.

I would recommend spending the money on a new GPU before a CPU especially as your video memory is quite small (3GB v. 6GB-11GB on mid-top range cards) which may cause bottlenecks. I also assume you have an SSD drive? A CPU's influence on gaming performance is much less than the GPU and the higher the resolution and graphic settings, the more important it is to have a powerful graphics unit. A powerful GPU can manage perfectly well with even an older generation CPU so I wouldn't prioritise upgrading it.

Thanks for reply...

Yup i tried extreme setting 40vs40 as i post above, it use high cpu usage on core 1 or 2. But for GPU it's still below 40%. Which one is bottleneck? CPU or GPU?
Or maybe Rome 2 just un optimized unlike Warhammer 2.
When i Change Anti Aliasing to 8, GPU Usage increase to 70%. But the fps still bad. Well maybe my computer is not good enough...

Well Witcher 3 is the only game that i tried that very optimized, it use all CPU and GPU and give good FPS on high setting,,,,,

[Charles XII]

What FPS are you getting? Should add that RTW II is generally well known for very poor hardware optimization so there maybe nothing wrong with your set up. As I said an older GPU is more likely to bottleneck a CPU than the other way round, but I doubt that's an issue in your case the two should work fine together. You can test it here though: https://thebottlenecker.com/calculator.

Have you ever run a benchmark with 3DMark?

[Now I Know This Girl]

On large battle 40x40 huge unit size, at first high around 60 fps, battle commence drop to 40. intense battle fps around 20 fps...
I've tried the bottleneck calculator, it said that "Your processor is too weak for this GPU. Core i5-4460 (Clock speed at 100%) with GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (Clock speed at 100%) x1 will produce 14.88% of bottleneck. Everything over 10% is considered as bottleneck. Well, maybe it's time to change CPU...

[Charles XII]

OK I apologise. I replayed a RTWII battle on full graphics with ultra-sized units and CPU utilization was around 20-35% the GPU 30-40%, 30-60fps so the game just isn't taxing my hardware so it's probably a classic case of the game's poor hardware optimization not your hardware performance. But you could try OC'ing the CPU to reduce the bottleneck. My bottleneck result was 3.8%.

[Now I Know This Girl]

Originally posted by Charles XII:

OK I apologise. I replayed a RTWII battle on full graphics with ultra-sized units and CPU utilization was around 20-35% the GPU 30-40%, 30-60fps so the game just isn't taxing my hardware so it's probably a classic case of the game's poor hardware optimization not your hardware performance. But you could try OC'ing the CPU to reduce the bottleneck. My bottleneck result was 3.8%.

So it's normal to have low GPU and CPU usage, unless very powerfull rig, gain high fps is hard.. Thank you...

[Hellsteeth30]

Yeah, Rome 2 isn't known for it's optimisation.

I believe it's more CPU heavy than GPU though. Barely recognises 2 cores never mind 4 or more. All those extra cores will be doing is background/windows stuff.

[DOGGYSTYLER 🗕 🗗 🗙]

Originally posted by Now I Know This Girl:

Just asking to fellow Rome 2 player, is it normal that CPU and GPU Utilization below 50%? Currently using mod DEI. My Spec Intel i5 4460 and GTX 1060 3 GB, 16 GB Ram. Windows 10. Thank You

it's the year 2022 and this game still uses one dumbass core to run itself, the game is optimized like crap and its not your pc's problem its the game

[DOGGYSTYLER 🗕 🗗 🗙]

Originally posted by Charles XII:

Have you checked your processor is set to use max. power 100% in power settings? Also select "Unlimited video memory" in Rome's graphic settings.

btw: probably doesn't make a huge difference for Rome, but 3GB GPU memory is quite small for most new games, you might want to upgrade to GTX 1060 6GB model or whatever's replacing it. CPU is usually less important for gaming unless you are playing on very low graphics settings.

well im using rtx 3070 and ryzen 5600x bruh did all that in the options and still game is optimized like ass, any other clever solutions (p.s the game still uses just one core of cpu, i have 6 lol)

[OmgDaNinja]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝ DOGGYSTYLER²⎠⎞:

Originally posted by Now I Know This Girl:

Just asking to fellow Rome 2 player, is it normal that CPU and GPU Utilization below 50%? Currently using mod DEI. My Spec Intel i5 4460 and GTX 1060 3 GB, 16 GB Ram. Windows 10. Thank You

it's the year 2022 and this game still uses one dumbass core to run itself, the game is optimized like crap and its not your pc's problem its the game

Tbh quite harsh to expect almost 10 year old game which official support was killed like 4 years ago magically update its engine just because its 2022.