i5-3470 and GTX 1650 Super: Very low FPS and Stuttering in Call of Duty: Warzone

[LukeIsLoveLukeIsLife]

Hey, guys! I'm on a really tight budget, and so I had the choice to upgrade either the CPU or GPU, and I chose to upgrade my 1050 2GB to this Zotac GTX 1650 Super 4GB. It's been great! I've mostly been able to play games that I wasn't able to before with the 1050 (Mafia Definitive Edition, Vampyr, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Little Hope, and etc.). Now, my friends have been wanting me to play Warzone since it came out and I was so excited to try it out with them. The recommended specifications call for "i5-2500k" and "GTX 970."

 

When I tried it out, even when loading the game, it just jumps to 100% CPU usage right off the bat, while the GPU is just sub-20%. I'm okay with playing at medium settings or even lowest setting just as long as I can play it at 60fps, hopefully 75fps (my monitor is 75hz). But the game can't even run properly, it averages 50fps and dips as low as 30fps with the worst being random 3-4 second stutters. I've downloaded the most recent drivers for the card since I've only bought it last December 25, 2020. The game is also up-to-date with the season, so IDK what is happening. I really don't want to play at the highest settings, with 240fps, all I'm asking for is 75fps on low to med at 1080p. The CPU usage is consistently 100% throughout the entire game, whether it's in the main menu or in-game, and I'm baffled as to why it surpasses even that of the minimum listed CPU but can't handle that. 

 

Also, before I bought the card, I looked at benchmarks on Youtube, specifically this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXNt5rAP3Lk&t=131s

 

In this video, even in the most populated areas in the map he can get around 60-70fps on average with the i5-3470 and 1650 Super, so why can't I get the same? 

 

Full Specs:

i5-3470

Zotac GTX 1650 Super

12GB of 1333mhz RAM (8GB and 4GB stick)

1TB 7200rpm HDD

500W SilverStone Strider Essential

[Dr0y]

Micro stutters like that can come from different sources and be a sum of things ...

 

Your cpu being pinned at 100% all the time is certainly a problem.  You have a cpu bottleneck and running the game at lower graphic setting and resolution won't help much.  That is probably your main problem here. 

 

Did you ddu the old drivers before installing the new ones ?

 

I see that you have 2 different stick of ram ... is it running in dual channel ?  How are the timings ?

Do you have only a hdd for drive or do you have an ssd for the os ?  some games can run badly from an hdd and will do fine on an ssd, maybe that one is like that. 

[Aragorn-]

I tried shadow of the tombraider on an i5-2400 (with an RX470) and it was also basically unplayable. The frame rate was low but acceptable, however it was just horribly stuttery and not fluid at all. CPU just simply isnt fast enough.

 

Try lowering all the graphics settings right down and see if it will help, sometimes certain graphics settings can make a marked difference to CPU utilisation. But if its still hopeless with everything set to minimum then its simply that the game requires more CPU than you have. If it does improve you can try increasing each setting bit by bit to see which ones have the most effect. In some games for instance environment detail is really hard on the CPU, but turning that right down and leaving everything else can result in decent graphics but much less CPU load and thus smoother gameplay.

[Dr0y]

To reduce cpu load you have to lower the numbers of object drawn on the screen.  Less npc/grass/plant/cloud and such ... anything that remove stuff and is not related with lighting, shadows, texture and anti-aliasing cause those are gpu related. 

[LukeIsLoveLukeIsLife]

18 hours ago, Dr0y said:

Micro stutters like that can come from different sources and be a sum of things ...

 

Your cpu being pinned at 100% all the time is certainly a problem.  You have a cpu bottleneck and running the game at lower graphic setting and resolution won't help much.  That is probably your main problem here. 

 

Did you ddu the old drivers before installing the new ones ?

 

I see that you have 2 different stick of ram ... is it running in dual channel ?  How are the timings ?

Do you have only a hdd for drive or do you have an ssd for the os ?  some games can run badly from an hdd and will do fine on an ssd, maybe that one is like that. 

Yes it is bottlenecking but it at least reached and even surpassed the minimum required CPU, so I don't get why it can't let me play smoothly.

 

As for the microstutters, I literally don't gave anything else open it's just battlenet and Warzone, so idk how that's happening.

 

They are running dual channel, both on 1333mhz,  and idk about the timings. I only have an hdd.

 

I didn't bother with the drivers because the GPU usage is fine it's the CPU that's going 100% but not able to deliver 60 stable

[LukeIsLoveLukeIsLife]

14 hours ago, Aragorn- said:

I tried shadow of the tombraider on an i5-2400 (with an RX470) and it was also basically unplayable. The frame rate was low but acceptable, however it was just horribly stuttery and not fluid at all. CPU just simply isnt fast enough.

 

Try lowering all the graphics settings right down and see if it will help, sometimes certain graphics settings can make a marked difference to CPU utilisation. But if its still hopeless with everything set to minimum then its simply that the game requires more CPU than you have. If it does improve you can try increasing each setting bit by bit to see which ones have the most effect. In some games for instance environment detail is really hard on the CPU, but turning that right down and leaving everything else can result in decent graphics but much less CPU load and thus smoother gameplay.

I have everything on lowest or disabled, the GPU is only at 30%-40% which makes sense but the CPU is still 100% throughout the game with microstutters.

[LukeIsLoveLukeIsLife]

9 hours ago, Dr0y said:

To reduce cpu load you have to lower the numbers of object drawn on the screen.  Less npc/grass/plant/cloud and such ... anything that remove stuff and is not related with lighting, shadows, texture and anti-aliasing cause those are gpu related. 

I already have all graphical settings on lowest or disabled.

[Dr0y]

I suspect some the microstutter might come from the hdd.

 

I would suggest you bother with the driver.  DDU the old ones in safe mode and install the latest from nvidia.

[Nena Trinity]

This game is broken at the moment, reddit sez so! Also I heard it in some cases tanks the 10400f and Ryzen 3600...