Inconsistent pc performance. Pc underperforming. CoD: Warzone unplayable.

[Banksyv12]

Hello all. I am quite baffled by my PC's performance recently as it has been quite under performing. This problem has become more prevalent as I've downloaded CoD: Warzone a few days ago. The game runs terribly while my PC is still above minimum settings. All graphical settings are turned down to the absolute minimum, resolution been lowered but I still have very inconsistent FPS ranging from 10-35 FPS range, and most of the time, on the lower end. This makes the game quite unplayable. What is also odd is the fact that I do not have very visible performance issues in other games, and is actually the opposite - high FPS on decent settings on other games. Another strange thing is the fact that I can run CoD: Cold War perfectly with no issues being the newer game to Warzone. I've been troubleshooting and testing so many options for the last 2-3 days and have not find any viable solution. So, I would like to ask if there is anyone here who could help me out so that I can finally play Warzone after wanting to play it for a long time. I do not have the greatest PC specs out there and is quite in need of updating, but it does the job for a lot of games that I play.

Specs:

CPU - i3 8100

GPU - GTX 1060 6GB

RAM - 1x8GB 2666MHz

MoBo - Asus TUF H370-PRO Gaming

(https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/44891407)

Thanks so much!

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Banksyv12 said:

Hello all. I am quite baffled by my PC's performance recently as it has been quite under performing. This problem has become more prevalent as I've downloaded CoD: Warzone a few days ago. The game runs terribly while my PC is still above minimum settings. All graphical settings are turned down to the absolute minimum, resolution been lowered but I still have very inconsistent FPS ranging from 10-35 FPS range, and most of the time, on the lower end. This makes the game quite unplayable. What is also odd is the fact that I do not have very visible performance issues in other games, and is actually the opposite - high FPS on decent settings on other games. Another strange thing is the fact that I can run CoD: Cold War perfectly with no issues being the newer game to Warzone. I've been troubleshooting and testing so many options for the last 2-3 days and have not find any viable solution. So, I would like to ask if there is anyone here who could help me out so that I can finally play Warzone after wanting to play it for a long time. I do not have the greatest PC specs out there and is quite in need of updating, but it does the job for a lot of games that I play.

Specs:

CPU - i3 8100

GPU - GTX 1060 6GB

RAM - 1x8GB 2666MHz

MoBo - Asus TUF H370-PRO Gaming

(https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/44891407)

Thanks so much!

i3 8100 is 4/4. That processor layout has been having increased problems playing newer versions of games for some time irrelevant of how fast they are.  It’s also not especially fast by modern standards though.  Probably still works great for older versions of older stuff or non gaming stuff. For reference that chip has the same processor layout and similar speeds to a well overclocked core2quad 8400 (though the i3 would have better ipc) which was a quite a hot gamers chip when it came out… in 2009.

[Banksyv12]

Thank you for responding, much appreciated. I agree, my PC specs are not up to today's standards. Even though an i3 isn't very good, I am able to run games such as CoD: Cold War and other PC intensive games with well above 60 fps consistently which confuses me as Warzone is the only game I cannot run although these games are equally hardware intensive if not more. Is there any way to improve performance?

 

Thanks

[Bombastinator]

15 minutes ago, Banksyv12 said:

Thank you for responding, much appreciated. I agree, my PC specs are not up to today's standards. Even though an i3 isn't very good, I am able to run games such as CoD: Cold War and other PC intensive games with well above 60 fps consistently which confuses me as Warzone is the only game I cannot run although these games are equally hardware intensive if not more. Is there any way to improve performance?

 

Thanks

Newer or higher thread chip.  Keep in mind games get updated, and while some of the code is the same, some of it also isn’t. warzone is a good bit newer than earlier COD versions and has a rep for not running well on older hardware. I had “medal of honor” a ww2 real-time strategy game that came  with a brand new 8800gt with then spanking new directX10. It ran great on a 2/2 machine. The title is still made but I wouldn’t expect the new version to run on that hardware. 

Edited July 24, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Banksyv12]

Thanks for the reply again. Yes I understand completely that updates to games can increases requirements of it. I just find it odd that I can run a game like Cold War and other intensive games which also have updates at the same frequency as Warzone and have the same minimum requirements as it but run way, way differently. I am having issues. And is there any other way, besides from upgrading the specs, to minimise or completely get rid of the performance issues?

 

 

Thanks once again

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, Banksyv12 said:

Thanks for the reply again. Yes I understand completely that updates to games can increases requirements of it. I just find it odd that I can run a game like Cold War and other intensive games which also have updates at the same frequency as Warzone and have the same minimum requirements as it but run way, way differently. I am having issues. And is there any other way, besides from upgrading the specs, to minimise or completely get rid of the performance issues?

 

 

Thanks once again

How to change the game instead of the hardware? Probably rewrite it.  Runnning at lower and lower video complexity levels and lower and lower resolutions will change requirements for the GPU but not the cpu. At least not very much. You I think have a cpu problem not a gpu problem. 
 

gpu problems can often be fixed with lower resolution saw a post here that included a video of someone running various current games on a 6xxx series gpu (newer I think than that core2quad I mentioned) at reasonable frame rates by doing it at not 720p but 72. Some weird advantages were discovered.  Camo didn’t work very well for one.  Thing looked like a tile floor that moved. That wouldn’t help the cpu situation though.