CS:GO Using only 30% CPU

gregorio.piscitelli · Jan 20, 2018

Hello there, I wanted some help with my new gaming laptop. I have an Asus Rog GL502VS with i7 7700hq and GTX 1070. This thing should be a beast, but the performance I get in CS GO is quite underwhelming... I play with all low settings and 4X MSAA Anti Aliasing with a resolution of 1280x960 in 4:3. So I play with pretty shitty graphics honestly and I get 250 FPS which Is low for my computer. The worst part is not the actual number, but the fact that the game literally lags. The fps are quite unstable.

By using MSI Afterburner I found out CS:GO is only using 30% (sometimes even less) of my CPU and even less of my GPU!!! How can I fix this?

sizzling · Jan 20, 2018

You can't. CSGO can use 4 threads but most of the work falls on 2 cores/threads. It cannot use all 8 threads of your cpu. It's a game that benefits from single core performance and being a laptop cpu its single core performance is behind desktops. If you look at each core/thread of your cpu I bet 1 or 2 are maxed out. Total cpu usage doesn't tell you anything.

n0ns3ns3 · Jan 20, 2018

If i remember correctly, the CS:GO utilizes about two cores of the CPU. You can easily test it with any CPU load monitoring tool that shows per thread utilization.
if you see 2-3 threads loaded to 100% and other doing nothing, you can launch the game with -threads # argument.
other than that, you can't do anything.

Karadjgne · Jan 20, 2018

Fps is all about the cpu, resolution the gpu. At such low resolution, with low detail settings, the gpu is having a very easy time, to the point where it's demanding 500fps or better. The cpu however is getting swamped, 2 cores are getting maxed out, but the game really isn't coded to use much more, so the cpu is seeing @100% usage in 2 threads. This'll mean fps gets backlogged like crazy, you only see 250fps.

Try bumping your graphics to ultra, but relax cpu bound settings like grass details and viewing distance. This'll increase work loads on the gpu, while simultaneously lowering demands on the cpu.

gregorio.piscitelli · Jan 20, 2018

@sizzling @n0ns3ns3 @Karadjgne

Ok, so I monitored all 8 threads with MSI Afterburner and it seems like all 8 are working when I play CS GO. But none of them goes above 65% of usage. Most of the time, they are around 45/50%

jaslion · Jan 20, 2018

gregorio.piscitelli :

This is just spreading the load around of the 4 threads cs can use. It still cannot use more.

gregorio.piscitelli · Jan 20, 2018

jaslion :

Oh well...thank you for the information then. This game is bad optimized

. I have to play 800x600 4:3 all low to play decently.

jaslion · Jan 20, 2018

gregorio.piscitelli :

Why? It's a 60hz panel so having more than 60 fps is something you won't see anyways. The game is not badly optimized it was released during a time when dual cores were still very common.

gregorio.piscitelli · Jan 20, 2018

jaslion :

gregorio.piscitelli :

Why? It's a 60hz panel so having more than 60 fps is something you won't see anyways. The game is not badly optimized it was released during a time when dual cores were still very common.

No I can assure you that you can lag even with 250 fps. It only depends on how stable they are. If they are very unstable like mine, that sometimes drop around 100 and go up and down all the time, you literally lag. No matter if it's more than 60 fps.

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