CPU cores usage is crazy

[K.o.K]

man it's weird

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWW9ZHGPe6E

[Tasso]

yea ik

[Clown Fiesta]

OW is like this too, super CPU intensive

[K.o.K]

Originally posted by Clown Fiesta:

OW is like this too, super CPU intensive

OW ?

[本夹明SPenguin]

Originally posted by Clown Fiesta:

OW is like this too, super CPU intensive

OW ?

[Gungrave]

Originally posted by Spaghetti_Penguin:

Originally posted by Clown Fiesta:

OW is like this too, super CPU intensive

OW ?

...you know ow as in the phrase to express something painful

[Clown Fiesta]

overwatch - that game isn't very GPU intensive but it is super CPU intensive

I heard of some games being designed this way, but I never really get the logic behind it

[Viper]

It seems like a lot of people think if your CPU ever hits 100% somethng is wrong with a game. Its not a bad thing. It just means the CPU is doing a lot of work which it i designed to do. It just means its reached the limit of work it can do. Its not hard to make a CPU reach 100% duty cycle.Maybe the game code can be changed to run more effeciently...maybe it can't. Maybe its optimized the best it can be. Maybe they are just attempting to do things that present CPUs can not do yet. There are algorythms in science and math that would bring any CPU almost to a halt.

Did you know that one line of code can be 1000 different instructions in machine code. The fact that a CPU can do about 4 billion 1 step things in a second still is still very limiting. Every frames of a game the CPU has to process everything on the screen. Every single frame. Thats 60 times in 1 second. Not only that but it is loading all kinds of data into memory 1 bit every step. That 4 billions things gets used up quicker than you think. Even with 4 of those cores or even 8. Game technology has reached the limit of present existing CPUs. And this game might just be a step beyond.

[Clown Fiesta]

Originally posted by Viper:

It seems like a lot of people think if your CPU ever hits 100% somethng is wrong with a game. Its not a bad thing. It just means the CPU is doing a lot of work which it i designed to do. It just means its reached the limit of work it can do. Its not hard to make a CPU reach 100% duty cycle.Maybe the game code can be changed to run more effeciently...maybe it can't. Maybe its optimized the best it can be. Maybe they are just attempting to do things that present CPUs can not do yet. There are algorythms in science and math that would bring any CPU almost to a halt.

Did you know that one line of code can be 1000 different instructions in machine code. The fact that a CPU can do about 4 billion 1 step things in a second still is still very limiting. Every frames of a game the CPU has to process everything on the screen. Every single frame. Thats 60 times in 1 second. Not only that but it is loading all kinds of data into memory 1 bit every step. That 4 billions things gets used up quicker than you think. Even with 4 of those cores or even 8. Game technology has reached the limit of present existing CPUs. And this game might just be a step beyond.

But isn't that the point of dedicated GPUs? they are there so CPU can offload graphic specific work and the CPU can focus on other, none-graphic related task?

[Viper]

Originally posted by Clown Fiesta:

Originally posted by Viper:

It seems like a lot of people think if your CPU ever hits 100% somethng is wrong with a game. Its not a bad thing. It just means the CPU is doing a lot of work which it i designed to do. It just means its reached the limit of work it can do. Its not hard to make a CPU reach 100% duty cycle.Maybe the game code can be changed to run more effeciently...maybe it can't. Maybe its optimized the best it can be. Maybe they are just attempting to do things that present CPUs can not do yet. There are algorythms in science and math that would bring any CPU almost to a halt.

Did you know that one line of code can be 1000 different instructions in machine code. The fact that a CPU can do about 4 billion 1 step things in a second still is still very limiting. Every frames of a game the CPU has to process everything on the screen. Every single frame. Thats 60 times in 1 second. Not only that but it is loading all kinds of data into memory 1 bit every step. That 4 billions things gets used up quicker than you think. Even with 4 of those cores or even 8. Game technology has reached the limit of present existing CPUs. And this game might just be a step beyond.

But isn't that the point of dedicated GPUs? they are there so CPU can offload graphic specific work and the CPU can focus on other, none-graphic related task?

Not a thing I indicated was about graphics.. The CPU still has to do all its work before the next frame can be displayed in a game. The GPU will just wait till the CPU is done.

[Viper]

The entire game is not about graphics. Theres AI ..theres movement. Theres colliders and physics..etc etc. The CPU still has a lot of work to do. It has to process every single object on the screen and whether anything has crossed its collider for example.

[Altair]

100% cpu in most games is indicate of bad console port like this one :)

[Acch3r0n (Blue)]

Yeah its an ubisoft title, most recent Ubi games have really been stressing the CPUs a huge amount. Wildlands, Watchdogs 2 etc all hit the CPU insanely.

I have a 6 core/12 thread CPU (i7 5930k) and while playing AC origins it hits about 70-80% with peaks of 90% CPU useage lol, more than any other game (ubisoft titles excluded)

Its kind of understandable tho, if you look at how much is actually happening in the game world, you just need to go into Eagle view to see how many NPC's are actually active at one time its insane.