Normal CPU usage for Battle Field 4?

[SAV1OUR]

just noticed this while i was playing is this normal? also im currently using 8gb ram 

[Dmon]

Looks pretty normal to me..

[SAV1OUR]

Looks pretty normal to me..

just seems a bit high thats all 

[AlwaysFSX]

just seems a bit high thats all 

You are running a cpu intensive game..

[AMICLG]

just seems a bit high thats all 

It's like this on everybody's pc since day one, it's a pretty demanding game.

[SAV1OUR]

You are running a cpu intensive game..

i told it was gpu well my bad 

[Imabigmac]

yea that cpu usage is normal, lol ghosts uses more power. 

[MegaDave91]

Nope, that's very normal. Mine is the same.

 

Also, Metro 2014 is awesome.

[MegaDave91]

i told it was gpu well my bad

64 player games are especially taxing on the CPU.

[Vrbas]

just noticed this while i was playing is this normal? also im currently using 8gb ram

Yeah like everyone has been saying that's normal. My 8320 runs around 50-60% Usage on all 8 cores.

[MadManMarsBar]

i only get up to about 50%

[Demonking]

same as my I5 4670K same ram usage too 

[LogicalDrm]

Wel, ram usage is normal. I think cpu is close to normal since I get around 50% with i7.

[Faa]

The cpu load doesn't matter, who cares.. Aslong as your gpu can sit at 99% with no vsync screw the cpu load.

[StormEye]

BF4 uses ALL of the 12 threads of my i7 4960X, and they all run around 30%'ish during gameplay.

 

High CPU usage on 4 thread seems quite normal.

[totjup5]

That's pretty normal, bf4 uses Cpu power very aggressively.

[Faa]

BF4 uses ALL of the 12 threads of my i7 4960X, and they all run around 30%'ish during gameplay.

 

High CPU usage on 4 thread seems quite normal.

All games including 10 years old games can use 30 cores or more.

[SebastianThorn]

Yeah, It's normal. I have the same usage.

[MegaDave91]

Dat ass

[StormEye]

All games including 10 years old games can use 30 cores or more.

LOL!!!

[Faa]

LOL!!!

One more guy who doesnt know how threads & processes work

Here is an old game using all my 12 threads here http://i.imgur.com/E4ufVjl.jpg

[StormEye]

All at 30%? No.

[Faa]

All at 30%? No.

Doesnt matter. http://i.imgur.com/N4TqmHh.jpg That game has 32 threads where as 2 are major and one thats alot smaller and all the others are so minor thats why you see low usages on the other cores. Dont confuse hardware threads (eg i7 gives 4 more threads) with software threads. If you have one thread you can only execute it on 1 core at a time, 2 threads 2 cores, 3 threads 3 cores and so on..

Saying that upcoming titles are going to use 8 cores is wrong, just rather use the verb takes advantage of. As I said this game here only requires per core performance because it only has 2 major threads. 

[StormEye]

Doesnt matter. http://i.imgur.com/N4TqmHh.jpg That game has 32 threads where as 2 are major and one thats alot smaller and all the others are so minor thats why you see low usages on the other cores. Dont confuse hardware threads (eg i7 gives 4 more threads) with software threads. If you have one thread you can only execute it on 1 core at a time, 2 threads 2 cores, 3 threads 3 cores and so on..

Saying that upcoming titles are going to use 8 cores is wrong, just rather use the verb takes advantage of. As I said this game here only requires per core performance because it only has 2 major threads. 

Ok, I fair enough on WoW.

 

But we are talking about BF4 in this topic, which does in fact use all available cores pretty much equally.

 

I have CoreTemp on most of the time on my PC, and it actually is observed that it uses around 30%'ish on all cores, which no other game has done so far, which indicates that lower core/thread (whatever you want to call it) is available, then something has to suck it up.

[Faa]

Ok, I fair enough on WoW.

 

But we are talking about BF4 in this topic, which does in fact use all available cores pretty much equally.

 

I have CoreTemp on most of the time on my PC, and it actually is observed that it uses around 30%'ish on all cores, which no other game has done so far, which indicates that lower core/thread (whatever you want to call it) is available, then something has to suck it up.

Honestly you're not interested in how many cores are being used, I explained this. You're just interested in how many cores it can take advantage of. Let me give you an example, 64 operation locker my cpu load jumps from 33 to 50% when everyone is filling the room with explosives and the gpu loads are dropping from both 99% to 50% so we noticed here the cpu is starting to bottleneck -> So I decided to tab out, assign to have the BF4 process to only use 6 cores (affinity) and it gave no performance hit at all, same frames. Doesnt take any advantage of more than 6 cores. If I want more frames there I just need to get better per core performance which can be done by overclocking the cpu.