Low GPU usage

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SolitarioSoldat

FNG / Fresh Meat
Oct 28, 2010
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maybe the game doesn't use that much graphics, but more processing power? i'm just shooting in the dark here lol

Not really CPU is at 40% and my 6870 is at 56%,I have disabled the 2nd 6870 since it totally kills the gaming experience.

We can see that game is demanding in graphics and processing power because if it cannot take a full advantage of the CPU and the GPU then we will experience lag.

Questions for devs:

any reason why we can get the same results in game on map as in the main menu?
I mean in the main menu I see 90% CPU usage on my AMD x6 + 100% GPU usage...Why we can get this sort of usage when we are actually in game on a server?
 
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Apparition

FNG / Fresh Meat
Aug 31, 2011
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I get the same as other Q9550 + GTX 470 users.

Average %65 GPU usage - %60 CPU usage across 4 threads.
GPU memory also maxed around 640MB on October.
Our 1 gig memory cards can take a bigger pounding.

Barracks is the worst of the maps. Usage is low %30 at map start. Averages %50 once mid game.

Could it be map issues?
 

bigtuna690

FNG / Fresh Meat
Sep 2, 2011
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Glad to know I am not the only one with this problem. On barracks my CPU uses around 80% on two cores and around 30% on the other two which seems ok...but my GPU never goes above 38% usage....and then it drops down to 27-30% usage in more graphics intensive areas...
 
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Germane

FNG / Fresh Meat
Sep 5, 2011
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Still the same problem with the new update. In station, fps drop to 16 fps, even if i
 

Cubed

FNG / Fresh Meat
Sep 9, 2011
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Also getting terrible performance and low usage! Struggling to break 30fps a lot of the time.

usage.jpg

Taken after a game on Spartanovka (sp?). Surely the game should be using more of a GPU than this?

Any chance on a more recent dev response as this seems like a serious issue for many people.
 

useless

FNG / Fresh Meat
May 20, 2009
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After the recently released patch my usage went from ~25% to this:
gpu.png


Looks good, doesn't it? The problem is the +75% gave me about zero more FPS.

High settings/1080p: ~20FPS
Lowest settings/1080p: ~30/35FPS
 

Filo90

FNG / Fresh Meat
Mar 4, 2011
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with the latest patch it seems my vga could get to 96% but not always, better but i would like it to 99% like other games do ;)