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Pego

Nov 25, 2014 @ 12:16pm

CPU runs at max. 30% while running CSGO

So I have a notebook with Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.20 GHz and csgo is lagging horribly. It only goes about 1-4fps ingame.
Notebook is Dell Latitude D630 with 2GB ram, win7 profesional 32bit, GPU Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family

But today I found out that my CPU never goes higher than 30% load on both cores. What can I do with it? Its averaging at 24%.
I have even set up high performance profile at power management in control center but doesnt help. Also, resolution doesnt matter either, 640x480 or 1440x900 it runs the same.

Last edited by Pego; Nov 25, 2014 @ 9:59pm

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Pepe

Nov 25, 2014 @ 4:24pm

Your Laptop has no GPU! That is why the Game does not run.

Pego

Nov 25, 2014 @ 9:59pm

Sorry, forgot to mention, it has, its described as Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family . I have added it to the post.

KredL

Nov 25, 2014 @ 10:01pm

Oh god. No wonder it runs at 2 fps :P

Pego

Nov 25, 2014 @ 10:13pm

Yep I know its horrible, but its still somehow throttling the CPU- and this game relies on cpu. So what can I do with it?

Guy

Nov 25, 2014 @ 10:16pm

Check a few things:

First, check your drivers and make sure they are up to date. If you have a dedicated graphics card in your laptop make sure you are using the card for the game, some laptops (and desktops) like to default to the integrated card on the mobo.

If those are not the problems, could you please post your game settings and your system's full specs.

Guy

Nov 25, 2014 @ 10:19pm

I have checked your graphics "card" on the internet and it is an integrated card. This means you will not be able to play this game with a decent framerate unless you get a new computer with a dedicated card.

The issue isn't your CPU. Games (such as GO) are more dependant on the GPU than the CPU.

Smorph

Nov 25, 2014 @ 10:57pm

integrated is not a problem modern integrated chips should run this no problem smoothly but yours is just really old and bad to much for this game.

Pepe

Nov 26, 2014 @ 2:55am

You need a dedicated graphics card on your Laptop!
This Intel Chipset is good enough to play Tetris but not CS:GO.

oldirty`

Nov 26, 2014 @ 3:42am

Originally posted by Tiredinator:
I have checked your graphics "card" on the internet and it is an integrated card. This means you will not be able to play this game with a decent framerate unless you get a new computer with a dedicated card.

The issue isn't your CPU. Games (such as GO) are more dependant on the GPU than the CPU.

Its the otherway bro. CSGO is more CPU hungry than GPU.

obamafish

Nov 26, 2014 @ 5:04am

Originally posted by ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎:
Yep I know its horrible, but its still somehow throttling the CPU- and this game relies on cpu.

Not necessarily throttling. If the video card is the performance bottleneck on your computer (and it appears to me it is), then the CPU may simply be waiting for the GPU to render frames, since it's meaningless to do any further work. So the CPU not being fully loaded with a very slow GPU doesn't seem that strange to me. I don't think there's much you can do, other than running the game on some extra low settings.
But just to be sure, though, you may want to check that the laptop is plugged in and shows 100% CPU load on some other CPU-intensive tasks or benchmarks, such as file compression. Also, you may check that the CPU runs at its nominal frequency and not in some power-saving mode (I believe CPU-Z can show that information on Windows).

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Pego

Nov 26, 2014 @ 9:12am

Thats one of the most distinguished explanations I have gotten thus far. Makes sense in fact. Oh well, gotta wait till next year for new haswell notebooks.

Last edited by Pego; Nov 26, 2014 @ 9:13am

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