GPU not utilized

[the457457]

HI, I have bought a new pc and sometimes i notice in elden ring nightreign the gpu is not fully utilized it stayes at 50 60% you can make the argument that the game is locked at 60 fps but sometimes the games sttuters hard or gets under 60 fps and the gpu is not pushing to make it 60 fps the games plays around 56 or 55 fps but the gpu is not bothered by the slightest, so if anybody has an answer so please help a brother out and the game randomly crashes the cpu is not the bottleneck the cpu is at 60 70% I am running the game at 1080p at max settings

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, the457457 said:

HI, I have bought a new pc and sometimes i notice in elden ring nightreign the gpu is not fully utilized it stayes at 50 60% you can make the argument that the game is locked at 60 fps but sometimes the games sttuters hard or gets under 60 fps and the gpu is not pushing to make it 60 fps the games plays around 56 or 55 fps but the gpu is not bothered by the slightest, so if anybody has an answer so please help a brother out and the game randomly crashes the cpu is not the bottleneck the cpu is at 60 70% I am running the game at 1080p at max settings

What is your system specifications? Be as specific as possible.

Just because a CPU isn't at 100% doesn't mean its not a bottleneck.  

[Kilrah]

Just now, the457457 said:

the cpu is not the bottleneck the cpu is at 60 70%

What CPU?

It usually is the bottleneck in these cases, the fact it's only at 60-70% is caused by the game not being able to use all cores, but those it can use are maxed.

[OhYou_]

"max" settings is more often than not the cause for most of these issues. Playing on max is basically like telling the game to use advanced and modern features that expect only the latest hardware for the time, which is 2025 in this game.
if you use older hardware or lower tier stuff then well, you might run into issues like this on max because the game is trying to use advanced features that your hardware doesn't have, so your hardware has to emulate it in the background which will 100% cause hidden bottlenecks.

[Blue4130]

6 hours ago, the457457 said:

HI, I have bought a new pc and sometimes i notice in elden ring nightreign the gpu is not fully utilized it stayes at 50 60% you can make the argument that the game is locked at 60 fps but sometimes the games sttuters hard or gets under 60 fps and the gpu is not pushing to make it 60 fps the games plays around 56 or 55 fps but the gpu is not bothered by the slightest, so if anybody has an answer so please help a brother out and the game randomly crashes the cpu is not the bottleneck the cpu is at 60 70% I am running the game at 1080p at max settings

If the CPU has 2 cores and one is fully utilized and the other is idle, it will show as 50%. You are likely running into this situation on some cores being maxed out. When in task manager, set it to show logical processors. It will show you what each core/thread is doing. 

[the457457]

On 6/4/2025 at 8:50 AM, the457457 said:

HI, I have bought a new pc and sometimes i notice in elden ring nightreign the gpu is not fully utilized it stayes at 50 60% you can make the argument that the game is locked at 60 fps but sometimes the games sttuters hard or gets under 60 fps and the gpu is not pushing to make it 60 fps the games plays around 56 or 55 fps but the gpu is not bothered by the slightest, so if anybody has an answer so please help a brother out and the game randomly crashes the cpu is not the bottleneck the cpu is at 60 70% I am running the game at 1080p at max settings

Sorry but i have a rtx 4060 an i5 4900 16 gb of ram and running the game on an hdd