Why is my gpu not running at 100% in some parts of the game?

[HUNTEE]

I've been playing on the island and in some parts of the map I'm not getting 100% of my gpu usage this ends up giving me low frame rates that should not be happening. Usually my gpu runs at 100% and gives me 90-140 fps on medium graphics depending on where I'm located on the map. But in some parts of the map like over where green obelisk is I get 40-90 fps on the same settings but my gpu only runs at 40%-80% usage. Is there any fix for this?

[dagger]

If GPU is not hitting high usage rates then there is a bottleneck elsewhere such as CPU, memory, or your storage drive limiting assets being loaded in fast enough such as on a HDD instead of SSD or NVME drive.

[HUNTEE]

Originally posted by dagger:

If GPU is not hitting high usage rates then there is a bottleneck elsewhere such as CPU, memory, or your storage drive limiting assets being loaded in fast enough such as on a HDD instead of SSD or NVME drive.

the should not be any bottle necking in my system because I have a AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor 4.20 GHz and a 7900 XT and 32 GB of ddr4 ram and my game is installed on a ssd with plenty of space on it

[Askew]

Originally posted by HUNTEE:

Originally posted by dagger:

If GPU is not hitting high usage rates then there is a bottleneck elsewhere such as CPU, memory, or your storage drive limiting assets being loaded in fast enough such as on a HDD instead of SSD or NVME drive.

the should not be any bottle necking in my system because I have a AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor 4.20 GHz and a 7900 XT and 32 GB of ddr4 ram and my game is installed on a ssd with plenty of space on it

This CPU is both low end AND old, your GPU is very good but the CPU is weak. The specs of the RAM matter too, the clock speed and CAS latency.

[Sash]

According to some bottleneck calculation websites, the 5600x would bottleneck a 7900 xt by 10-20% depending on the resolution. At 1440p, the bottleneck will be much less obviously but it's still there.

Lately tho, my 13700k is constantly sitting at almost 20-30% compared to 15-20% before the ark's major update, and my cpu, even tho not the best one out there, is still quite a beefy strong cpu. I play at 1440p, dlss performance, low settings (general shadows medium), capped 45 fps, and my gpu is a 3060 ti.

So from what i've been experiencing lately, the major update must have brought some extra workload for the hardware, it seems. To back up this, my cpu power consumption has gone up significantly by at least 50%, if not more. So this makes me think that mid-range cpus may start struggling even more especially with the UE5.5 engine coming soon to the game.

I don't have any information about the engine upgrade but chances it demands more powerful hardware is not slim or maybe it's just a polished version of UE5 in general with less stuttering issues. We shall see!