Low CPU/GPU usage, also low FPS

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Hello guys, my configs are:

B450 Steel Legend
Ryzen 7 3700X
RTX 3070 8GB OC Vision
32GB RAM DDR4 (GEil EVO X II 3000hz)
SSD NVME 4TB UPGAMER PRO5000 (READ/WRITE: 5000/4200MB)
Power: Corsair CX750 Bronze 80 Plus

What i noticed by MSI Afterburn panel:

Load Screen:
Usage of GPU: 70% (60°C normal)
Usage of CPU: 22% (60°C normal)
FPS: 144 (as a configured the game to stop on this)
VRAM: 7000mhz (even tought i configured BIOS to use XMP, i don't know if this is correct, but ran all stuff to check its integrity and looks normal)

In game:
Usage of CPU: 19% (60°C normal)
Usage of GPU: 35-40% (44°C, i don't if this is low and why it is low if it is)
FPS: 40-50 (this does not make sense for me, as GPU and CPU should raize its usage to give me better fps)
VRAM: 5000mhz (still over the specification of the RAM)

I literally don't know what else can I do here, tryied al otimization stuff that I saw on internet, nothing seems to resolve the issue, I don't know, some stuff that I did:

1. Looking for bottlenecks (PC seems to be compatible)
2. Looking for BIOS Update (Updated to last version P10.31)
3. Looking for XMP config (enabled based on ram specification)
4. Formating the PC (alerady formated and up to date)
5. Looking for all driver update and stuff (already done)

Ps.: I've used the NVIDIA optimization stuff, it works for some time, but as soon as the day turns into night (game time) the performance drops again.
Ps.: Using MSI Afterburn to try analyzing stuff makes the game to crash into a easy anti cheat 47 code.

Could someone give me a light on what can be wrong? (besides the game)

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For some reason ,for me, running the game with the "shadow quality" setting on low & medium is halving the game CPU usage so reduce my framerate (bellow 60fps most of the time), high & epic setting almost double the cpu usage running the game on a i7 9700k and a 3070ti the cpu is my real bottleneck .Having 8 cores cpu usage close to the 100%

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Hello guys, so, after some more validations, I've found out that the VRAM is not 7000mhz, but the video graphics, so this is correct, I was looking for the wrong information.

What "solved" the problem was:

1. Unconnecting hardware components, principally the RAM, and found out that the RAM was running on different voltage as expected, about 0.37V lower them expected, so updated the BIOS to run on correct voltage.

2. Actually discovered that the RAMs, even tough they are from the same factory and same model, where from different frequency, 2 of 3000mhz (old version 2019) and 2 of 3200mhz (new version 2022). So what i did was first to put running on 3200mhz, which caused the pc to crash multiple times and also to turn off and on for some times until i changed RAM places (lower frequency before high frequency, i don't know if this has something to do, but resolved the issue), also caused the game to break by anticheat47 (?). After i put it to the 3000mhz, the PC now works fine, no crashs anymore, also, I could get a better usage o RAM inside the game, that was using about 15MB and now is using 25MB or higher (what it is supposed too).

3. Also the NVIDIA optimization seems to work on the game (just for this one as far as I know), so, using the optimization that is provided inside the NVIDIA App gives me better performance (set to higher quality, not performance).

The usage from CPU/GPU are currently on 60-70%/60-70% which is far better than before, still have stuff to do, but needs more research.

Using graphics on high or above actually helps a lot on performance, the higher the needs seem to push the hardware farther, this is counterintuitive but helps a lot. Besides shadows (that are kinda buggy), having higher shading, quality, details, etc... these config setten on high/epic really makes the difference for better.

Now the game goes up to 144FPS (defined by me because the screen is this hz) on DGs and not much populated places, on a medium of 80-130FPS on field bosses or open DGs, with lowers on 50-70FPS depending on character count and distance configuration on cities or night shifting.

Something i forgot to mention, when the night changes place with day (I don't know if it is because of christimas lights or whatever) the performance drops for period, I can't tell exatly what happens, but the performance drops for lowest on this shift.

Still have stuff to study and research, but thats a solution for now.

I don't think the PC is bottlenecking for most of us, just some config that are contraintuitive that works instead of putting everything on low you should actually put stuff on high. Also, developers need to make the game more performatic, most of the problems we are facing seems to be badly stuff developed. I was almost buying a beter hardware because of this, now I'll wait some more time as Brazil is on a bad economic situation.

Also, using losless Scaling turns the game from 140 to 280 FPS on best case and from 50 to 100 FPS on worst case, i think thats a W.