BF4 Cpu and Gpu usage

[Viking Kong]

So I'm playing Bf4 and feel like I should be getting more frames. I have a 8350 at 4.6ghz and GTX 970 at about 1489mhz.

While playing I see that the Gpu usage had not gone above 82% and my cpu not above 74% and I'm getting dips as low as 33 I saw on Sunken Dragon. WTF

I'm playing at 1080p with textures and filters on ultra, no AA (Win 7)

Is my 8350 really this bad? I'd think It'd be completely capable at at least 4.6

 

Inb4 get Intel i5,

I know I want to go 1150...

[Vendetta]

Go into nvidia control panel and under 3d settings, under the global tab look for power saving and select prefer maximum performance under the drop down.

[Priller]

BF4 has had issues since the update during the summer.

[Faa]

The max CPU usage for 8350's in BF4 is around 72-73% and the fact that you're hitting it and having low GPU usages means your CPU is bottlenecking

[Faceman]

Your CPU is bottlenecking!

 

How many of these have we had in the past few days?

 

The FX processors are mid-range, they are not meant to be paired with high end GPUs.

[Bakersoft]

Hey c'mon!! I have an 8350 using an R9 280X and My frames never dip below 50. You can't blame bottlenecking right away if you don't know all the parameters or variables. I know Intel is faster clock for clock, but an AMD FX 8350 is nothing to sneeze at.

 

Your issue could lie in several factors. It could even be your hard drive, or PSU.

[Faceman]

Hey c'mon!! I have an 8350 using an R9 280X and My frames never dip below 50. You can't blame bottlenecking right away if you don't know all the parameters or variables. I know Intel is faster clock for clock, but an AMD FX 8350 is nothing to sneeze at.

 

Your issue could lie in several factors. It could even be your hard drive, or PSU.

Its your CPU.

[Sintezza]

Hey c'mon!! I have an 8350 using an R9 280X and My frames never dip below 50. You can't blame bottlenecking right away if you don't know all the parameters or variables. I know Intel is faster clock for clock, but an AMD FX 8350 is nothing to sneeze at.

 

Your issue could lie in several factors. It could even be your hard drive, or PSU.

 

Dont say this, its forbidden to say these kind of things on this Communnity.

Now you fire´d up the intel fanboy cannons again lol.

They are going to dig cherry picked benchmarks again right now.

I just see it happening allready, without it even been happened lol.

 

BF4 runs totaly fine on my FX8350. but hey dont tell anyone.

BF4 scales totaly fine over all threads, But i do know for a fact that there are some issues with the game it self.

 

That BF4 multiplayer will run slightly better on the minimums with an i5 sure.

But dont expect skyrocking better numbers.

[GhostRider85]

try with windows 8.1, BF4 works better on w8 than win7, I checked that myself.

[Sintezza]

try with windows 8.1, BF4 works better on w8 than win7, I checked that myself.

 

yeah or maybe unpark the cores in windows 7 lol.

[Viking Kong]

Go into nvidia control panel and under 3d settings, under the global tab look for power saving and select prefer maximum performance under the drop down.

That helped. Not sure why, but hooray

[Viking Kong]

try with windows 8.1, BF4 works better on w8 than win7, I checked that myself.

I know it performs better on 8.1 but I do not have that...

[Legitsu]

O look a another guy with a bottle-necking FXchip

ever wonder why AMD Needed to make mantle work .. because there cpus are slow ... 

[WaitForMeImOnDialUp]

dont listen to these amd haters, i have the 8350 and a 280x and all ultra settings with hbao and 4xmsaa i get 80-120 fps on 64 player maps.

 

i use MANTLE...if you are not i suggest you do the same.

 

when using mantle my cpu usage is no more than 60% and avg around 40-50. while my gpu will be 95-100

 

 

********EDIT********

 

actually im a retard, you cant use mantle because you dont have an amd card, and dx11 doesnt get as good performance in bf4 as dx11.2 does...

[WaitForMeImOnDialUp]

if you're cpu isnt at 100% then its not bottlenecking. period.

[Vendetta]

The max CPU usage for 8350's in BF4 is around 72-73% and the fact that you're hitting it and having low GPU usages means your CPU is bottlenecking

Your CPU is bottlenecking!

 

How many of these have we had in the past few days?

 

The FX processors are mid-range, they are not meant to be paired with high end GPUs.

O look a another guy with a bottle-necking FXchip

ever wonder why AMD Needed to make mantle work .. because there cpus are slow ... 

 

"Posted Today, 02:25 PM

Vendetta, on 25 Dec 2014 - 04:03 AM, said:

Go into nvidia control panel and under 3d settings, under the global tab look for power saving and select prefer maximum performance under the drop down.

That helped. Not sure why, but hooray"

 

 

^Direct quote of OP quoting me. So on a scale of 1 - shitty thermal paste between silicon an IHS, how salty are you? And my system is clearly Intel and Nvidia. I wouldn't trade my i5 for a 8350 even if you paid me to do it but the 8350 is a badass cpu. Problem here isn't with the cpu, it is with Nvidia having the most stupid fucking drivers on the planet and locking their damn cards down.

[Faa]

They are going to dig cherry picked benchmarks again right now.

But OP is reporting a CPU bottleneck, no need to cherrypick benchmarks and you don't need to dig at all because they all show Intel doing better. BF4 doesn't take advantage of 8 cores at all and wait;

Seeing 6 threads inside BF4 process meaning it can't take advantage of 8 cores. So lets do the maths; 100/8 = 12.5 * 6 = 75% and he's hitting it while having low GPU usages -> CPU bottleneck. 

[WaitForMeImOnDialUp]

this is on 8350 280x ultra everything 64 player conquest while i surf the web and play youtube videos at the same time. so for all the amd haters....shut up. and while all this i still wasnt over 65% cpu usage