Low CPU usage always 40-60% everywhere.
Low GPU Usage in towns 50%
Subsequently low FPS in towns
FPS between 40 to 60 in towns
Open world 90 to 170
Hardware:
5800x
6900xt
32gb 3600mhz Cl19
B550 Vision D
980 pro SSD
360mm AIO
3x140mm fans
3x120mm fans
Fractal Meshify case
Troubleshooting done:
Fresh install Windows
Windows updates
DDU driver uninstall and reinstall
BIOS updated
High priority in task manager
High/ultimate/balance power plans
Steam overlay turned off
Windows game bar off.
Bunch of other stuff.
I feel like i should be getting far better performance considering the hardware and i feel like the utilization is the problem. Anyone have some insight?
It’s the game system, broski. Lumberyard/Azoth or whatever.
Trust me. I, and many others, have gone down this rabbit hole. Trying anything & everything and it just doesn’t matter. It’s the optimization of the game that makes our high end systems just…not use itself.
you will always show 50-60 cpu usage because the game does not utilize hyper threading or SMT the game only uses logical processors, so if you cpu has HT or SMT you will only see 50-60%. i was having all these issues and then I upgraded my 9700k (intel) to amd 5800x3d and my game runs really good now. There is definatly optimization issues with the game. I would recommend not having the game set to high priority and windows set to balanced rather than high performance with my old set up i found this was causing issues pegging the cpu to max and causing sever thermal throttling.
Another thing worth trying is disabling Hyper threading or SMT as AMD calls it in your bios.
I understand you concern with the game’s hardware utilization but it indeed does not go much higher than that. You can try tweaking several in-game and Windows settings but mainly I would suggest going with those mentioned by @BreadGarlicsauce.
So if i understand correctly, youre stating with my hardware 40-60fps is performing as it should be ?
Now heres where it’s going to get complicated with your response.
You’ve stated to follow the advice in this post and You’ve tasted that utilization shouldn’t go much higher.
So following the advice i disabled SMT and i get 55 to 80 fps in town, improvement. However, the cpu utilization now goes to 99%. Which should not be be happening according to your post.
So , with the contradictions… what am i to believe ?
Is disabling SMT right but now unveiling another problem? , because remember , utilization shouldnt go much higher than my originally stated 50 to 60%.
I’ve seen tons of posts similar to yours and mine. Shoot, just Google it and you’ll see posts like this.
Each time, the forum support team gives the basic link to the FPS/Stuttering problem ‘guide’ and then when you tell them you’ve already done all that (even when I say I’ve done it all in the original post…) they tell you to reach out to support via a ticket on the site.
Then support via the ticket on the site will then say they’ve ‘passed it up’ the chain and that you’ll hear back in 48-72 hours. Unfortunately, you’ll never actually hear from anyone again.
ok so when you have SMT on your cpu is say 8cores/16threads. when you have it off it is just 8 cores. you are seeing 50-60% when it its on because it is maxing out the single core usage and that is why when it is disabled you see 90-100 usage on the cpu.
If you are not seeing 100% GPU usage when you are out of town getting higher FPS them yes something is going on with eaither your drivers and PC. I was having these same issue until i upgraded my CPU and now the game is using my full GPU usage.
I wish i could help more but its hard to tell what could be going on with something i cant mess with.
