Hi guys, I know there are probably a million other threads on this topic, but bottlenecking in my case seems particularly bad. I have a Pentium G3420 @ 3.2 GHz (bought about a week before the G3258 came out), and a Radeon HD 5870 clocked at 950 MHz. I watched Luke's GTA V benchmarks, and he got around 51 fps on a dual core cpu, whereas I am only getting around 30, with cpu capped at 90-100% and only 24 fps in the city. It is clearly a cpu bottleneck, as my gpu rarely exceeds 35%. I am running all settings at normal, with distance scaling, population, variety, etc. turned all the way down. I am running the game at 1600 by 900, and have tried running at lower resolutions but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. Thermal throttling is also out of the question since temps are fine and I have installed larger heatsinks on both the cpu and gpu. I have even been using a script to close the launcher after 60 seconds and set gtav.exe to high priority. There are no other background processes consuming excessive cpu. Does anybody have any suggestions to improve my frame rate, or worst case scenario, if I have to keep my game capped at 30 fps, are there any settings I could turn up to use some more of my excess gpu without affecting my cpu much? Thanks!
PC Specs:
Pentium G3258 Dual Core @ 3.2 GHz
Radeon HD 5870 @ 950 MHz
12 GB DDR3 1600 MHz
Samsung 840 EVO 120 GB SSD
250 GB WD HDD
Gigabyte Z97-HD3 Motherboard
Antec Three Hundred Case