Confused about the 100% CPU usage whining...

[kd]

Wouldn't you want your CPU to use most or all of its resources when running intensive games? AC Origins is a very CPU intensive game, what do you expect your CPU usage to be, 50%?

I see plenty of reviews about people crying about their 100% CPU usage, but there are also a lot of people playing the game at the moment, and the positive reviews outweigh the negative reviews by a LOT. So this can either mean:

1) Your PC isn't as good as you think it is anymore to run modern games.
2) You just feel the need to blame Ubisoft for their previous poor performing games (e.g. AC Unity)

What also sucks are the reviews with people saying "I will update my negative review when it gets fixed" but most of them never actually do it. And what's freaking hilarious is that I noticed that the hours-in-game of mostly every single negative review I've read are increasing. So... you're playing the game even though you claim it's unplayable? What?

[Detox]

Limit the FPS to 30 for now:

https://youtu.be/l6VaTD4QavA

[Bogan]

Rordon Gamsay původně napsal:

gamertaboo původně napsal:

No you don't want your CPU to ever be at 100% while in a game. In other programs that need a ton of CPU, like rendering videos or something it's perfectly fine.

In gaming however, your CPU and GPU work together to render the game. The CPU sends draw calls to the GPU to render scenes, and it does this many times a second.

When your CPU usage gets maxed out to 100% however, the GPU usage will then start to slow down and have to wait on the CPU. This is going to lead to lower framerates, stuttering.... bad stuff. Not a good experience.

This is the literal definition of a CPU bottleneck, and a game shouldn't be doing that for you. I mean the game is using some people's i7 7700k's at 100%, causing them to have bad framerates. The 7700k has been the best gaming CPU money can buy for the last year.

You might start to see why all the whining about 100% CPU usage is very very relevant. If you have an Intel core i5 or i7 from the last year or two paired with a balanced GPU you should be fine in games and not experience ANY significant CPU bottleneck.

(i.e. not an i5 6500 paired with a GTX 1080 ti, as that's very unbalanced. But an i5 6500 paired with a GTX 1060 would be just fine. As well as an R7 1700/1800 or i7 8700k with a GTX 1080 ti would also be balanced)

Okay I was ignorant on that part then I admit. But my point was maybe people's systems themselves aren't well optimized like you mentioned, might have unbalanced CPU & GPU combinations right?

Lol no as I have a 7700k and a gtx 1070 which is meant to run well together and I still get 100% usage. It's to do with VMProtect over the new version of Denuvo and before anyone says Ubisoft said it wasn't, remember they've lied to us in the past. Hell when an update broke Rainbow 6 Vegas 2's exe and it wouldn't run they used a cracked exe and the irony is without pirates that game would've never ran again as it was looking for a cd on a digital game.

[Detmer]

i5 is dead: (@ 5m53s)

https://youtu.be/RwF5XewHmU8?t=5m53s

YouTube Link

[dejosensi]

all games that i have played never reached 100% usage of cpu , ever... why do you think your option is right? do you think all that complain for nothing? they complain for obvious reason, 100% cpu usage not normal at all..

and now can i ask you question? answer with yes or no

do you think it is normal that cpu usage 90% at the main menu of the game? (i didn't even start the game)

for me that never happen in any game

tell me and maybe you will not be selfish anymore maybe it work for somebody but for sure there is people suffer from this

[gamertaboo]

orophertaralom původně napsal:

gamertaboo původně napsal:

If it's not on the screen, it's not being rendered. Lol?

Don't cry in this topic if this is your dumb answer.

Do me a favor and launch ANY other game. Ok get it going in fullscreen mode, max settings, as demanding on your specific hardware as possible, and then..... alt-tab.

Now don't you dare come back in here and tell me that your usages don't go down to idle.

Just tried it in AC Syndicate and yep, all clocks, temps and usages go to idle. Must still be rendering the game huh?

[Ted Snark]

There will always be these guys who roast people for making valid complaints. This game is not well optimized at all, there's a lot of evidence that something fishy is going on in this game. My rig is not even the most high end but it runs The Witcher 3 60 fps at pretty much max settings. But ACO fps is all over the place for me. Sometimes it runs smooth, then one moment later it's 40-60 fps.

[negru08]

My brother just built his new pc with the new 10 core cpus and it still eats almost all of his cpu. Stop with the bs people. Its either poor coding or the DRM is just built to use alot of CPU reguardless of actual cpu. Have 100000 cores , no problem . The DRM will use them all .

[ItsEmber]

Just thought i'd pop in to say that when your 1080 Ti is being bottlenecked by an i7 7700K at 5GHz, playing at 1440p, that is definitely an issue. Heck, as mentioned before, i'm seing like 50% CPU usage on the main menu alone, before the game has even started. Absurd.

I can play with at least 70fps in cities, but the fact that the game is *this* heavy on CPU is nuts, and completely unjusitifed.

[ShocksVR #AirLink]

Doesn't the Xbox One and Playstation make use of AMD 8 core processors? Maybe Origins is making use of as many cores/threads as possible. Thus, those with only 4 cores/threads are missing out.

[Medusa]

Dr. ShocksOculus -SEAHAWKS!!! původně napsal:

Doesn't the Xbox One and Playstation make use of AMD 8 core processors? Maybe Origins is making use of as many cores/threads as possible. Thus, those with only 4 cores/threads are missing out.

they are octacores, but they are not the most efficient CPU's.
Also, i don't think Devs have actually found a good working method to make use of 8 cores in the most efficient way, when it comes to gaming.
Games are not really suited to run in as many threads as possible.
But certainly there will be found a way to make it possible...

[Roquen]

orophertaralom původně napsal:

gamertaboo původně napsal:

I see. "I'm losing the argument so I better switch to personal attacks."

Gotcha.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell, im trying to make you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ think yourself, you ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
THAT SYNDICATE DOES NOT KEEP RENDERING ITSELF IN THE BACKGROUND DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY MEAN THIS GAME OR ANY OTHER GAME ALSO DOES THAT.

No game running in exclusive full screen mode renders when alt tabbed. It's a function of Windows. The execution threads are paused. Games WILL render in borderless window mode though.

[atroxpaulsen]

100% and consuming all resources and no chance of even watching video on my secondary while playing. That was until I set my Assassin's Creed process to only use 3 cores. My fourth core is now for my second monitor apps, video, browsing etc. and lets me properly multitask, at least. But AC still runs @ 100% on core 0,1 and 2. No noticable performance change from 4 to 3 cores either.