Massive GPU usage drops in War thunder.

[MikeMatei]

I've tried every option availble to me. The game is unplayable with these drops. Need some serious help.

[Nemo]

What are your computers specs? What is the actual problem you are having?

[MikeMatei]

Originally posted by Nemo:

What are your computers specs? What is the actual problem you are having?

GTX 970 OC ACX 2.0
FX 6300 Non OC
16 GBS RAM
1TB SSD
GPU Usage drops from 80% to around 30%
FPS drops from around 50 to 14, 7, or even 1 fps. (Happens in both ground battles and air)

[GDRRiley]

It is a CPU issue the fx chip struggles. I have an i5 6600k at 4.2 and I have no issues, I am running a 970 also

[MikeMatei]

Originally posted by GDRRiley:

It is a CPU issue the fx chip struggles. I have an i5 6600k at 4.2 and I have no issues, I am running a 970 also

This is the only game that drops this hard. I've seen people with intel chips and have this problem.

[TheShaolinMonk]

With your specs, I personally think your CPU is the definite bottleneck of your system.

[MikeMatei]

Originally posted by TheShaolinMonk:

With your specs, I personally think your CPU is the definite bottleneck of your system.

Hopefully itll stop stuttering once I upgrade. Such a shame because ive invested many hours into WT. Oh well.

[relliK]

Originally posted by Майо́р:

Hopefully itll stop stuttering once I upgrade. Such a shame because ive invested many hours into WT. Oh well.

this may depend on what cpu you want to upgrade to... see, i got a little intel i3-4130 (3,4ghz dual core) paired with a nvidia GTX660 and the game is running just fine (on Win7 though ^^).

there have been reports by some players that the game is only using one core on their system and since my cpu seems to have a slightly better singlecore performance than an amd FX 6300 this could be an explanation. however, when i open the taskmanager (or MSI Afterburner) i can see that 2 cores are being used while running the game (not evenly distributed but still....)

so even after upgrading to another, more powerful, (amd) cpu you may still experience this issue. (please note: you may - not saying you will ^^ just a fair warning)

there seems to be more to the problem than just the cpu perfomance itself.

(i dont really see a reason why a 3.5ghz hexacore cpu shouldn't be able to run the game without major issues while a 3.4ghz dualcore (yea yea - 4 cores if you count in the 2 fake hyperthreading cores ^^) can - ofc there are more factors than just the cpu to determine the performance but i guess you got the idea ;)

[MikeMatei]

Originally posted by relliK:

Originally posted by Майо́р:

Hopefully itll stop stuttering once I upgrade. Such a shame because ive invested many hours into WT. Oh well.

this may depend on what cpu you want to upgrade to... see, i got a little intel i3-4130 (3,4ghz dual core) paired with a nvidia GTX660 and the game is running just fine (on Win7 though ^^).

there have been reports by some players that the game is only using one core on their system and since my cpu seems to have a slightly better singlecore performance than an amd FX 6300 this could be an explanation. however, when i open the taskmanager (or MSI Afterburner) i can see that 2 cores are being used while running the game (not evenly distributed but still....)

so even after upgrading to another, more powerful, (amd) cpu you may still experience this issue. (please note: you may - not saying you will ^^ just a fair warning)

there seems to be more to the problem than just the cpu perfomance itself.

(i dont really see a reason why a 3.5ghz hexacore cpu shouldn't be able to run the game without major issues while a 3.4ghz dualcore (yea yea - 4 cores if you count in the 2 fake hyperthreading cores ^^) can - ofc there are more factors than just the cpu to determine the performance but i guess you got the idea ;)

Weird because I only had the stutter once or twice now. Its extremly random.
Thank you for your response!

[Rod Stewart]

I dont think its your cpu, its your gpu. It could be one of two things.
1. Your gpu is getting too hot and throttling its power down. Enable V-sync to lock it at 60 fps and see if that helps?
2.Your gpu is going into low power mode and again throttling down. In windows Control Panel "power options" select "high performance". Also in Nvidia control panel "power management mode" select "prefer maximum performance". Hope this helps. Cheers.

[Arc]

Couple patches ago i've noticed that War Thunder uses mainly first CPU core exclusively and not any other (afaik it used to use at least 2 cores).

And since AMD FX CPU series is complete trash with low IPC performance even compared to older AMD CPU series it is safe to say that if you have any FPS drops, it is caused by that.