Stupid pc can't max out any game help..

Solution
generally speaking there are only a couple of things that can cause this issue.

cpu bottleneck - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your CPU usage is for each core (detach the graph and keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)

gpu power - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your GPU usage is (keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)

driver issues - do you have the most recent drivers

game optimization - are there any game updates available

If nothing is maxed out then there may be something that can be done but you have to find out what is going on...
[strike]What else is in the system and what resolution are you running at.[/strike] i5-3350P

You may have to adjust some settings.

Benchmarks on the internet may show high frames, but many times they are on very fast systems and do not take into consideration min frame rates.
 

I just want to add to this what when the video card is not maxed out at slowdowns it may be the cpu holding you back. That said, you may not see 100% cpu use because if the game only uses 2 cores Windows will see 50% use, while in fact you are maxing out what the game can do with said cpu.

Also it is important to know some games hit one part harder than the other or even bounce back and forth. Guild Wars 2 for instance can go from max gpu to max cpu depending on what is happening. Large battles hit the cpu so hard the video card has to wait for work. And this is with the cpu overclocked to 4.4 ghz. This effects MMO type games much more.
 

fkr

Splendid
generally speaking there are only a couple of things that can cause this issue.

cpu bottleneck - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your CPU usage is for each core (detach the graph and keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)

gpu power - in afterburner using the rivatuner statistics server you will be able to see what your GPU usage is (keep the graph open and fully stretched out to see a line graph of continuous usage)

driver issues - do you have the most recent drivers

game optimization - are there any game updates available

If nothing is maxed out then there may be something that can be done but you have to find out what is going on first. If even one of the cores is maxed out then you know it is the game not being optimized for quad cores and the only thing that can be done is an overclock to the CPU.
 
Solution

Denis Stoikovski

Honorable
Feb 2, 2014
2,200
0
11,960


Newest drivers cpu per core is like 60-80 in games like tw2 skyrim in watch dogs ac4 etc 100% game optimizations well only ac4 and watch dogs aren't well optimizated
 

Denis Stoikovski

Honorable
Feb 2, 2014
2,200
0
11,960


No i say that the gpu usage is 2gb,can i actually see the mb usage?
 

fkr

Splendid
you definitely can. I have a CF setup with 7950's

I run a 1440p monitor and some of these games cripple the 6 gigs of GDDR (only 3 really since it is shared).

In some games when I hit that GDDR limit my fps just stops eventho I am not using all of the GPU. If I lower some textures and generally play with settings the things get better. the msaa 8x and 16x are devastating on my setup.

There is that program from nvidia that allows nvidia to adjust your game settings for you. you may want to try that and see if helps. nvidia experience or something like that.

I also run into problems in games that are CPU intensive on a single core. most recently it has been rome total war 2 that is killing a single core (just spent the last 30 minutes cranking the CPU back up to 4.8).
 

fkr

Splendid


fxaa should not be that demanding. are you sure you are maxing out your GDDR while gaming. at your resolution you should not be having that issue.
 

Denis Stoikovski

Honorable
Feb 2, 2014
2,200
0
11,960

gddr? What is that?