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daellat@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoCpu % usage is not a great stat. If on a 10 core CPU the main thread is maxed and the others are on 20% it would read 28% overall but you’re still CPU limited.
Even the 7800x3d is cpu limited in stalker 2 in any npc area
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Sorry, yeah, forgot the deets. 9700k, none of the cores were overworked, 60% seemed to be average usage across them.
And, yeah, checked in NPC-heavy areas, where the stuttering, lag, and frame times were the worst, and I didn’t have it set to “Ridiculous” - using a combination of High for textures and Med for effects (like shadows and lighting), running it at 1080p on the 3060 and 1440p on the 4080 Super (bumped it up to native, basically).
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still, even if any thread looks like it’s always at 60%, if a load appears and disappears very quickly and gets averaged out on the graph (as it could in an unoptimised or unusual situation) it could still be a factor. I think the only real way to know is to benchmark. You could try underclocking your CPU and see if the performance gets worse, if you really want to know.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Did several, the CPU is fine. Of course, it isn’t fine when a new game suffers from unpatched memory leaks and unoptimised respurce consumption, which has become the trend rather than the exception - looking at Cyberpunk 2077 for demonstrating to publishers that gamers will buy literally anything out of inertia.
WhiteBurrito@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I that’s part of it… The 9700K is like 7 years old at this point, and I’m all for holding off updates if it does what you want, but eventually you’ll have to if you want to actually take advantage of that 4080
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Well aware of that, but no game has ever had issues with it so far, so…
And I even run it without any OC, because it handles everything I throw at it juust fine.
daellat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think you’d be surprised at how much headroom a fast cpu will give you in some games on that resolution and with that gpu. I’ve got a similar performing one (7900xtx) and I swear by my 7800x3d. Every game (apart from stalker 2) just feels so responsive. But it’s no cheap upgrade thats for sure.