#Why is the game not utilizing my cpu properly

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quaint saffron
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I had to crank up minimum power to 75% to make the game run 30fps+ smooth

I3 9100f and p620

wispy sedge
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Skill issue

fringe pollen
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I3?

ionic wigeon
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Well I think the answer is in your question

quaint saffron
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No not really, Windows had power management issues with the game engine, the dev told me. I just had to manually adjust the clock speed minimum power to make the game run smooth. It always drops down to 800mhz when I don't

rancid mortar
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Also, the playtest is naturally not the optimized version of the final product, so there's some funkiness regardless.

past oar
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Your CPU is fine, a 3.6-4.2GHz quad core from 2019 is more than enough for SP1 and 2. i3s aren't super powerful but they're still solid at gaming assuming its not 2025 AAA titles. Your GPU I cant speak on because those workstation GPUs can be a little wonky sometimes with gaming.

That said, Ryzen 9 5950x, 3600MHz 2x32GB RAM, 3070ti here. I also have issues with underutilization, but it was not fixable for me using a performance profile tweak and pinning CPU clocks. A friend tested and it seems this fix only helps Intel CPU owners.

Side note: from my experience, high single threaded performance seems to matter more in these games than multithreaded performance numbers

fringe pollen
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Yeah

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It is tough to parallelize physics in this kind of games

warped quiver
slate scroll
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Can confirm that SP2 (at least this play test) is GPU intensive as running a Ryzen 9 9955HX and NO graphics card (new one arrives tomorrow) is a dumpster fire even on low settings. Low settings on SP1 with the same setup and aircraft is totally acceptable in terms of frame rate.

quaint saffron
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Intel single threading stronk 💪🏻

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Low latency 💪🏻

Price at release 💀
Cache 💀
Power consumption and heat 💀

This is before 12th gen Intel
The 11th-8th gens were still 14nm++

rancid steppe
slate scroll
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Maybe it just needs a dedicated GPU. Or my integrated graphics is just meh.

ionic wigeon
past oar
past oar
# ionic wigeon I have a 5060 laptop and Core 5 210H and everything run smooth as butter there. ...
  1. Observed smoothness ≠ proper utilization of the hardware.
  2. You are on an Intel platform, so you aren't going to be part of the affected group anyway. It seems only AMD CPUs are affected.

60FPS looks smooth, but your machine could go higher. That and there are massive hitches where the entire game pauses due to CPU physics thread stalls. That's the issue we're talking about. I hold around 110FPS myself, multiplayer lobbies drop me to like 90FPS. But I wouldn't call that smooth as butter when there are entire 500ms-2000ms pauses ON THE LOW END. I've seen stalls last up to 15sec (15,000ms!!!)

The game's physics seems to be singlethreaded so you'll be limited by single thread performance always and will never see really high CPU use, but the performance we see shows that the one thread they are using of multiple is having issues maintaining the target refreshrate for the simulation.

ionic wigeon
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Intel does have better single thread though, so that is why this could be, as you say. Seems likely

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But dont forget OP has Intel and had issues too

past oar
# ionic wigeon But dont forget OP has Intel and had issues too

OP is also using a Quadro P620, a workstation GPU. That’s likely the bottleneck before that CPU is.

2GB VRAM, slow, and it’s using NVidia Studio drivers, not the Game Ready Drivers. Those aren’t gonna game well at all, they aren’t made to. That’s a CAD and number cruncher card, not 3D graphics at gaming performance targets

ionic wigeon
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But they have to make it optimized on both Intel and Ryzen since the gaming population is divided in two basically

past oar
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This is basically a crippled GTX1050, which was on par with the GTX950

I’m not sure if you recall how big the gap was between the GTX960 and GTX970 but we’re below THAT

slate scroll
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# slate scroll It's a Minisforum MS-A2 and yeah my RTX A2000 gave out for no reason so I'm gett...

I totally forgot those were a thing and now I'm looking into one for a livingroom emulation box lol

Curious, is the RTX 2000 Ada a preference due to the low profile or do you want one of those cards for workstation stuff too? I think there is a new RTX 5060 dual-slot low profile from Gigabyte that would blow that out of the water. in gaming the RTX2000 Ada is like a 4060-laptop from what I'm reading, plus improvements from 50-series is nice to have.

Note: If VRAM is a concern, the 5060 only has 8GB of GDDR7 through a 128bit bus, where the RTX2000 has 16GB of GDDR6 (but its ECC if thats important to you) through a 128bit bus.

slate scroll
past oar