CPU hitting graphical settings

[PersonalC0ffee]

Which settings in the graphics menu are cpu hitters? I'm trying to get the cpu down from 90% and put more load on the GPU.

PC gamepass btw.

[JordyyFPS]

Generally objects/view distance are heavily cpu bound, rest is GPU, I'm surprised your having CPU issues considering though.

NPCs dont even move in this game.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Originally posted by JordyyFPS:

Generally objects/view distance are heavily cpu bound, rest is GPU, I'm surprised your having CPU issues considering though.

NPCs dont even move in this game.

My cpu is an i7-7700k

So turn view distance down and crank everything else up? What about ray tracing and upscaling?

[Rex Vortex]

My cpu isn't that great either. Turning off Ray Tracing gave a massive FPS boost for me. You will need to restart game for changes to work.

I also originally didn't want to use DLSS. But once I hit the first town area after the tutorial island, my fps tanked again. Turning on DLSS and setting it even to Quality I saw a massive fps boost. I even went ahead and set all my settings to epic since the DLSS seems to work well with this game. I thought it would be blury but I can almost tell 0 difference with it on or off in terms of fidelity.

So for me the big hitters for getting massive fps boost was ray tracing off and using DLSS (Quality)

Meant to add thay my CPU went down to the 70 to 80 percent range after doing this but I have a 9700 so it might not go as low for you. You may still want to keep the object and view distance lower in this case.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Anyway to get DLAA instead?

[Rex Vortex]

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

Anyway to get DLAA instead?

Can't recall and not in front of computer at the moment (on phone). There were a few options in there to choose.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Originally posted by Rex Vortex:

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

Anyway to get DLAA instead?

Can't recall and not in front of computer at the moment (on phone). There were a few options in there to choose.

TAA, FSR, DLSS

[Shædow]

Can anyone explain why my CPU usage is only 30% in this game and same with my GPU?

I7 12700k
RTX 3080TI

Just seems odd since everyone else is saying they have really high CPU usage.

I'm at around 80fps 1440p with raytracing and dlss on balanced, but I feel like if it were actually using my stuff I'd have better frame rate.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Originally posted by Shædow:

Can anyone explain why my CPU usage is only 30% in this game and same with my GPU?

I7 12700k
RTX 3080TI

Just seems odd since everyone else is saying they have really high CPU usage.

I'm at around 80fps 1440p with raytracing and dlss on balanced, but I feel like if it were actually using my stuff I'd have better frame rate.

Boy I wish I could have your problem.

You are getting that because it isn't fully utilizing your hardware at your settings. You have to go higher.

[Kokaiinikarhu]

I use gamepass also and faced the same issue, tried all the settings and nothing seemed to work and had 100% cpu usage and 0% gpu usage. Asked chatgpt for help and it really came in a clutch

I could not force windows from graphic settings to use GPU because for some reason i did not have administrative rights (Even though im the only user and own this pc) So i had to force it via the registry.

What i did:

1. Press Windows + R, type: regedit
   
   
2. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectX\UserGpuPreferences
   
   
3. Name it the full path to your game's .exe, example: C:\Games\Avowed\Avowed.exe
   
   
4. Right-click, modify and set the value data to: GPUPreference=2;
   
   
5. Press OK, Close Registry Editor, restart your PC, and then launch the game.

It should now work perfectly, i went from 0% gpu usage to 90% and got 30+ fps more.

[Draxuss]

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

Which settings in the graphics menu are cpu hitters? I'm trying to get the cpu down from 90% and put more load on the GPU.

PC gamepass btw.

What GPU do you have? Your CPU may be a bottle neck.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Originally posted by Draxuss:

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

Which settings in the graphics menu are cpu hitters? I'm trying to get the cpu down from 90% and put more load on the GPU.

PC gamepass btw.

What GPU do you have? Your CPU may be a bottle neck.

I already know my cpu is a bottleneck, that's why I asked which settings primarily hit the cpu so I can turn them down.

[Kokaiinikarhu]

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

Originally posted by Draxuss:

What GPU do you have? Your CPU may be a bottle neck.

I already know my cpu is a bottleneck, that's why I asked which settings primarily hit the cpu so I can turn them down.

do what i did if you havent forced GPU use already, if it uses majority cpu and it bottlenecks settings have little to no effect

[Draxuss]

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

Originally posted by Draxuss:

What GPU do you have? Your CPU may be a bottle neck.

I already know my cpu is a bottleneck, that's why I asked which settings primarily hit the cpu so I can turn them down.

Have you tried overclocking your CPU? Other then that settings won't help a whole lot.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Originally posted by Draxuss:

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

I already know my cpu is a bottleneck, that's why I asked which settings primarily hit the cpu so I can turn them down.

Have you tried overclocking your CPU? Other then that settings won't help a whole lot.

Haha, there's a reason this CPU's lastetd as long as it has.

[PersonalC0ffee]

Originally posted by Kokaiinikarhu:

Originally posted by PersonalC0ffee:

I already know my cpu is a bottleneck, that's why I asked which settings primarily hit the cpu so I can turn them down.

do what i did if you havent forced GPU use already, if it uses majority cpu and it bottlenecks settings have little to no effect

Well considering I dropped this for the much better Blue Prince, I'll have to get around to it some day, good tip though.

I definitely noticed this, moving settings around doesn't seem to really gain you fps which is strange.