Does Helldivers 2 use all the cores in Ryzen 7?

[Nando234]

I'm thinking of changing my Ryzen 5 4600G, which is working fine with helldivers 2, to either a Ryzen 5 or 7 from the 7000 or 8000 series, X type instead of the G type with integrated graphics.

I was reading that not all games nowadays use all the cores. I Won't be doing overclocking nor making videos or anything special while playing.

[Cucken Turducken]

Almost no games use all cores, cept maybe CP2077 using alot more after their CPU usage change and I cant think of another one off the top of my head, for straight gaming yo uwould want X3D chip with dedicated graphics or could wait for the brand new IGPUS to come out.

[Vi'ir Jul K'hane]

Multiple cores are for multitasking; the OS decides what processing goes where. I.e. Helldivers maybe stretched across 2-3 cores depending on the resource balancing being done. The OS will never use all cores for Helldivers; you can monitor this in your Performance tab of Task Manager.

Note: ATI was historically known for integrating 'video cards' and 'graphic accelerators;' and historically tanking there company in the process. Later AMD acquired them and is now doing the same thing. Enjoy the ride with their tech.

[Jonny Sparta]

5800x3d /3070 user here. I've got a support ticket open with AH about cpu usage.

TLDR: I think there's a bug with cpu usage right now.

I think the issue is a patch or 2 old but I dont know.

I get frequent and prolonged periods of low gpu usage (and fps) that appears consistent with cpu bottlenecking. When this happens I can switch between native 1440p and ultra performance upscaling with ZERO increase to fps. Indicating that I am often cpu bound in missions.

With regular cpu settings h2 puts a heavy load on 4 cores that run around between 75-98% usage. With SMT disabled the high load spreads to 8 cores but frequently STILL reaches 98% usage.

[Nando234]

Great, thanks guys. I will stick to Ryzen 5 since it's cheaper.
Thanks for the help and see you guys in the front lines.

[EchoARC9]

Originally posted by Vi'ir Jul K'hane:

Multiple cores are for multitasking; the OS decides what processing goes where. I.e. Helldivers maybe stretched across 2-3 cores depending on the resource balancing being done. The OS will never use all cores for Helldivers; you can monitor this in your Performance tab of Task Manager.

Note: ATI was historically known for integrating 'video cards' and 'graphic accelerators;' and historically tanking there company in the process. Later AMD acquired them and is now doing the same thing. Enjoy the ride with their tech.

My CPU shows 100% load on all threads when running Helldivers 2. No other game is like that.

[Jonny Sparta]

Originally posted by EchoARC9:

Originally posted by Vi'ir Jul K'hane:

Multiple cores are for multitasking; the OS decides what processing goes where. I.e. Helldivers maybe stretched across 2-3 cores depending on the resource balancing being done. The OS will never use all cores for Helldivers; you can monitor this in your Performance tab of Task Manager.

Note: ATI was historically known for integrating 'video cards' and 'graphic accelerators;' and historically tanking there company in the process. Later AMD acquired them and is now doing the same thing. Enjoy the ride with their tech.

My CPU shows 100% load on all threads when running Helldivers 2. No other game is like that.

yea there are plenty of games that use all cores. Though if Helldivers is.. I would guess your cpu is quite underpowered for this. Since hd only shows huge usage on like 4 of my cores.

Lossless Scaling's new adaptive frame generation mode is perfect for cpu bound gaming. I now enjoy a stable 165 fps thanks to that crazy 5$ program.