What are the most CPU intensive settings?

[BimboGooch]

I have an i7, Idr what generation I got it nearly 2 years ago. Its a quad 3.6 ghz, but I have it set to 4.0ghz. I also have just a regular 1070 SC, with 16gb of ram. Obviously I have no issue with the GPU power. Just my cpu bottle necks pretty damn hard in this game.

Anyone know what the most CPU intensive settings are? I dont want to spend a long time figuring it out my self honestly. But I do want to play with my resalution scaling at 20% On 1080p. So its less blurry.
While maintaining 60+fps.

[HazardPrime]

For me it does'nt matter, I can put on low settings and never get stable 60fps. ♥♥♥♥ poor optimzation...

i7 4790K @4.7ghz GTX 1070

[Viper]

Shadows, Anti Aliasing, Ambient Occlusion. Volumetric Clouds. Probably in that order

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Viper:

Shadows, Anti Aliasing, Ambient Occlusion. Volumetric Clouds. Probably in that order

Ok, as I figured. I have anti aliasing at variable so sometimes its on max sometimes its not even on. SO i figure thats fine, I will turn down the clouds a bit. And shadows I have at medium. Idk if Id enjoy low, to much pixles XD. Ambient occlusion I have to paly with. The game looks so flat. But there is not real fps loss from off to Low.

Thank you thou, i never tested the clouds tbh. so this helps


HMMM actually shadows on low, honestly looks better in areas. Since the shadow is more blended than Medium. Medium shows more pixles. MFW

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by HazardPrime:

For me it does'nt matter, I can put on low settings and never get stable 60fps. ♥♥♥♥ poor optimzation...

i7 4790K @4.7ghz GTX 1070

We pretty much have the same PC. Yikes.
Try closing other task that are using your CPU. The card isnt the issue I know that for a fact. My game uses 96-99% depending on what task I have Open. So if yours isnt around that % usage for your game, close task.

[Mertt]

Personally with my setup, i7-8700k paired with a GTX 1070, I get an average of 71 fps in most places with it almost never dipping below 58 in towns. This is on 1080p with everything on ultra except for volumetric couds on medium. The rest of my setup is located on my profile if you feel like checking the rest.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Mertt:

Personally with my setup, i7-8700k paired with a GTX 1070, I get an average of 71 fps in most places with it almost never dipping below 58 in towns. This is on 1080p with everything on ultra except for volumetric couds on medium. The rest of my setup is located on my profile if you feel like checking the rest.

Yeah, with my settings currently, which are Medium high. at 1080p (adaptive AA), I get on average 66 fps from what my game says. I dont think ive noticed it drop below 55 fps when in towns. Damn, im jelly. I guess CPU makes a huge difference. Im going to have to See if I can bump up my CPU to 4.2 GHZ.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by Mertt:

Personally with my setup, i7-8700k paired with a GTX 1070, I get an average of 71 fps in most places with it almost never dipping below 58 in towns. This is on 1080p with everything on ultra except for volumetric couds on medium. The rest of my setup is located on my profile if you feel like checking the rest.

My cpu is 17 4790. So its a pretty old generation now YIKES.
But I tried to Overclock it to 4.2. It wont let me go past a 40 ratio. I'd figure it out, but im honestly to lazy too. Im sure its just some dumb setting I have on.

But I got it so it stas at a min 4.0, instead of fluxing from 3.6 -4.0. And did something to Optimize my CPU and Ram OC, and got a 13% increase of performance on both. But my game gained an extra 10-14 fps Depending. SO I was able to turn up my resalution scating to 120% at 1080p.

that 20% goes a long ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way.

[HazardPrime]

I don't know what it is with my PC setup but my CPU always hovers from 60-80% usage during gameplay, even the same with GPU usage... I even did a clean driver install and no improvement... I have AC Origins installed and that game maxes my CPU and most of my GPU with stable 60fps so I don't know what it can be other than poor optimization for my setup. The good thing is the game doesn't stutter for me so it's playable at least. Have Odyssey installed on an SSD.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by HazardPrime:

I don't know what it is with my PC setup but my CPU always hovers from 60-80% usage during gameplay, even the same with GPU usage... I even did a clean driver install and no improvement... I have AC Origins installed and that game maxes my CPU and most of my GPU with stable 60fps so I don't know what it can be other than poor optimization for my setup. The good thing is the game doesn't stutter for me so it's playable at least. Have Odyssey installed on an SSD.

Hmm, try settings the game to High priority for CPU usage. When ever you play the game.

I have an SSD, but Its only 220 gb. Less after having my OS on it. And I have GTA5 on it so thats like 120gb. Im pretty sure this game is on my normal HD, and it doesnt stutter at all. As long as its not using a ♥♥♥♥ ton of disk space your game wont stutter due to the HD.

Also, turn off vsync. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ should never have that ♥♥♥♥ on. If you arnt way beyong your monitor refresh rate, you shouldnt have screen tearing. Itll most likley make your game more stable. Every time I use Vsync on anygame, its not as stable.

also, how much memory or ram do you have? if you have 8gb, most games these days do require more to be more stable. Ever since I went to 16gb a year ago. Nearly anygame that have Stability issues got fixed, and I even gained frame rates.

[HazardPrime]

24GB of ram but it is DDR3, will finally be ugprading my CPU/Moteherboard/RAM soon so looking forward to that.

[meep_meep]

Originally posted by Viper:

Shadows, Anti Aliasing, Ambient Occlusion. Volumetric Clouds. Probably in that order

No, those are GPU intensive settings. The settings that will hit CPU most will be environmental detail and clutter. Basically anything that adds more physical objects to the screen and pushes out draw distance. A setting like anti aliasing, which only changes the render quality of an object that exists on the screen regardless of the AA level, is only GPU dependent.

[BimboGooch]

Originally posted by HazardPrime:

24GB of ram but it is DDR3, will finally be ugprading my CPU/Moteherboard/RAM soon so looking forward to that.

Is there a point to upping your ram? Unless moving to 32gb? Im pretty sure for gaming it really doesnt matter on the speed of your ram. idk what else you do thou.
Idk.

[Costas_Velgos]

Originally posted by Gizmo Brooch:

I hof ram. Obviously I .

try this,,
remove all overclock setting (CPU and GPU)
and set the 3D Nvidia paramateers setting to "LET APPLICATION DECIDE"

[=Axton=]

So Oddyssey is essentially a reskin of Origins with the same CPU bound optimizations?

[meep_meep]

Originally posted by Gizmo Brooch:

Is there a point to upping your ram? Unless moving to 32gb? Im pretty sure for gaming it really doesnt matter on the speed of your ram. idk what else you do thou.
Idk.

Nah, RAM speed matters quite a lot when you run into CPU-bound situations during gaming, especially in Ubisoft titles like this one. If you look at Computerbase.de's 2700X review they show that both 8700K and 2700X gain significantly in gaming when moving from DDR4-2933 to DDR4-3466 with tightened timings. The 2700X gains more because of Ryzen's design, but the 8700K still makes meaningful performance gains.

For a long time there was a persistent idea spreading around PC gaming forums that RAM speed didn't matter, but in reality RAM speeds all *seemed* the same because we didn't have GPUs that were fast enough to push the bottleneck away from the GPU and to other parts of the system. (This is the same reason people said that there was no difference between the 4-core i5 and 4-core i7.)