Lag but CPU and GPU are at 50% usage

[SamAishi]

Hello,

This is kind of an odd one, when i go in a really busy world, I can get as low as 15fps but the funny thing is that my CPU and GPU usage are constantly at 40-60% usage with 50C temp.

Any ideas what could be the issue? is it possible that the game can get ''overloaded'' when there actually too much stuff going on at once?

CPU i9-9900K
GPU gtx-1080
RAM 32gb 3600

[SamAishi]

I probably shouldn't have said lag, sorry that's my bad. The ingame fps counter does says 15fps.
Although when i said really busy worlds, i mean it. Im talking about 20-30 players with poorly optimised avatars lots of animations going on all at once and all of that in a pretty ressource intensive world.
That aside, i would still asume that the cpu and gpu would work a bit harder to compensate no?

[SamAishi]

Okay so my ping is always at 90ish, whether i have 90 fps or 15 mhmmm

[SamAishi]

Update: I found the issue!
Long story short, windows 10 task manager is not a reliable way to monitor your GPU performance.
I bought 3Dmark, because summer sales, so i could check if something was wrong with my pc and supprisingly enough, everything was perfertly running. Although, while the benchmark was running, task manager was showing the GPU at 0-3% the whole time! in the meantime, i installed GPU-Z, did the test again, and it said its was running at 95-100% during the test.
I then went back to VrChat using GPU-Z and voila, GPU really is at 100% at times. nothing was wrong after all. Its impressive how much performance vrchat need sometimes!
I guess im just gonna have to get a 2080 or 2080ti now... god...

[Tito]

upgrading from a 1080 to a 2080 just to cross your fingers and hope that it will bypass this games poorly optimized community avatars? Thats not smart man. It doesnt matter if you have a nasa computer, you cant do anything to stop your PC from overloading if you play in a 30 slot lobby full of unoptimized avatars. Just use the safety stuff. Disable particle effects so on and so forth for most tier players other than lets say people in your friends list. But the last thing you wanna do is upgrade your pc just to bypass 1 game's fps problems