i7-4790K at 85% sitting on beach Low settings

[Morgan]

Trying to get back into ASA and have used a bunch of console commands to make it easier and high FPS. I have an RTX 4060 that is sitting at 14% usage while my CPU is struggling. Is there a setting somewhere that has it prioritizing CPU?

[Fluffy_Llama]

Lower resolution like 1080p will hit the CPU harder, higher resolution like 1440p will put more load on the GPU but to be honest a 4790k is kinda outdated at this point. I had one and while it was a great CPU in its day when i upgraded to a 12700k it was night and day difference.

[Fixxxer]

That CPU is 11 years old, it's going to struggle on something as poorly optimised as this, in a demanding engine.

[Mervin]

I had the same cpu but upgraded last year to 13700 and went from 3070 oc2 to 4070 ti super. The difference for both upgrades was huge. Mind I also have ddr5 ram and pcie5.0 motherboard with a Samsung 980 pro. I tried to hang on to my cpu but realised it was struggling, ended up replacing everything.

[Snub Barracuda]

I think Unreal 5 has features that demolish CPUs like Lumen, Nanite etc. It's known to be super demanding and Ark isn't well optimized at all.

[Mx (Max)]

Yes, ASA loaded cpu, You need upgrade

[Insane]

yeah that cpu is trash for almost any new game our just get an AMD X3D and your prob are solved obv a new mobo also.

[MachineryOfDeath]

That used to be a monster cpu, i had the 4660k oc'd to 3.8 easy, , but ur getting bottlenecked by the ram and the pcie2.0.... :(
amd 3000 and 5000 have quite decent prices if u want to upgrade with pcie 4.0 ull get more fps too.