Game throttles my CPU since the last two patches

[LadySky89]

Hello,

ever since the last two patches, I'm struggling to play. Not only missions take a much longer time to load, but it seems there is now a bottleneck somewhere... my cpu used to cap at 70% usage while playing with very fast and very short 98% peaks after several hours of gameplay. Now this is no longer the case... even when my pc is fresh, and nothing is in background, it only takes one mission to make everything slow and unstable... and after two missions, my cpu is literally stuck at 95%+, dropping my framerate almost permanently with stuttering that prevents me from rotating my camera and aiming at mobs.

I already tried to lower details, but to be honest GPU doesn't even get to use its full potential due to the cpu constantly throttling.. it stays around 50%, and 75% vram usage. RAM usage is also capped at 50-60%, so I can't understand what exactly is taking so much CPU. Right now the game is in multiplayer with a friend, and I have the esc menu open and the cpu is still 85%... the machine is not overheating, it doesn't get to... it throttles before the temperature can get above 70°C.

My config: intel i7 1165G7 - 16gb ram - Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 - Windows 10 up to date

The machine is 3 years old and this is the only game I have issues on.

[ShugoTheRipper]

Try cleaning out the dust bunnies from your hardware.

And check your CPUs average clocks when this is happening.

[LadySky89]

it's clean enough, it's a laptop and I keep it clean... also as I said, the temperature is not reaching any alarming values at any times. The paradox here is that when I play other games that perform better, I have higher temperature and they still perform fine. I'll try to check the current clocks when it happens.

I feel like some kind of environments and situations stress it much more than others... so far the worst have been escorts (I simply can't stay any close to the dozer) and very detailed/lighted up biomes. But it's very much random... I completed a sandblasted mission right now and the cpu was fine despite the sandstorms...

I've seen it as low as 18-25% during some phases of gameplay, sometimes for more than half mission, which is also a bit strange if you ask me..

[Chibbity]

DRG is a CPU heavy game due to AI pathfinding/particles.

[ShugoTheRipper]

Originally posted by LadySky89:

it's clean enough, it's a laptop and I keep it clean... also as I said, the temperature is not reaching any alarming values at any times. The paradox here is that when I play other games that perform better, I have higher temperature and they still perform fine. I'll try to check the current clocks when it happens.

I feel like some kind of environments and situations stress it much more than others... so far the worst have been escorts (I simply can't stay any close to the dozer) and very detailed/lighted up biomes. But it's very much random... I completed a sandblasted mission right now and the cpu was fine despite the sandstorms...

I've seen it as low as 18-25% during some phases of gameplay, sometimes for more than half mission, which is also a bit strange if you ask me..

Then your CPU is too weak. That is it. Game requires a lot of CPU grunt.

And before you slap back with the CPU is good. No it is not obviously. It is a thermal and power limited mobile processor. There are 0 issues on many desktop computers with on paper "weaker" cpus than yours.

Try a particle reduction mod, or swapping DX versions; if I recall DX11 handles some of the new effects differently.

[LadySky89]

I'll try the solutions you suggested... I still don't understand why it was all fine before the last 2 patches tho.... also it's weird that the cpu bumps from 20% usage to 98% just moving of one meter sometimes, sometimes in specific parts of the map...

[Ser Pounce]

Originally posted by LadySky89:

I'll try the solutions you suggested... I still don't understand why it was all fine before the last 2 patches tho.... also it's weird that the cpu bumps from 20% usage to 98% just moving of one meter sometimes, sometimes in specific parts of the map...

Because your compurt and the game are both in an always changing state.

Hardware can suffer from dust building up or from heat going up. A game is always in constant need of optimisation when it gets changed in any way.
Your software can also start getting bloated by all kind of stuff that will slow it down.

There's about a million thing who can impact a computer's performance. Good luck with the troubleshooting.