GPU 50%?

[Komplett]

I have a budget gaming PC with an AMD Athlon x4 860K at 3.7GHz and an ASUS R7 260X OC 2GB and 8GB 1600Mhz RAM.

When I play f.ex. BF3 I only average 45fps on 1600x900 and Medium settings and I often drop down to the 30's, and according to MSI Afterburner my CPU is at an 95% load on average, but the GPU seems to average at only 50% Load.

Reading and watching benchmarks I thought I would get much more performance than i got, and 50% on the GPU isnt very good, I wouldnt mind hitting the 60fps mark and I think I should be able to do that on those settings with this card..

Any ideas what it might be or how I can fix it??

 

- Origin in game has been disabled

- Windows 8.1 Pro parks 2 of my cores.

[Ganz]

Battlefield is a CPU intensive game.  Look at your Afterburner... 95% load on CPU with 35-50% load on GPU means your CPU is causing the bottleneck not the GPU.

[lx_srs]

I have a budget gaming PC with an AMD Athlon x4 860K at 3.7GHz and an ASUS R7 260X OC 2GB and 8GB 1600Mhz RAM.

When I play f.ex. BF3 I only average 45fps on 1600x900 and Medium settings and I often drop down to the 30's, and according to MSI Afterburner my CPU is at an 95% load on average, but the GPU seems to average at only 50% Load.

Reading and watching benchmarks I thought I would get much more performance than i got, and 50% on the GPU isnt very good, I wouldnt mind hitting the 60fps mark and I think I should be able to do that on those settings with this card..

Any ideas what it might be or how I can fix it??

 

- Origin in game has been disabled

- Windows 8.1 Pro parks 2 of my cores.

BF3 is more CPU intensive and tends to favour the green side.  Sorry, but there really isn't much you can do.

[cesrai]

Use MSI afterburner and see your CPU/GPU usage and tell us, you can also use rival tuner server to display it in game.

nvm above ^^^^

It shoudln't be like that try to reinstall drivers or roll back or install beta drivers.

[CalculuS]

Your CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

[Sakkura]

BF3 is more CPU intensive and tends to favour the green side.  Sorry, but there really isn't much you can do.

 

If anything, BF3 slightly favors AMD over Nvidia. However, it's CPU-heavy in multiplayer, so AMD CPUs can be a serious bottleneck.

[cesrai]

Battlefield is a CPU intensive game.  Look at your Afterburner... 95% load on CPU with 35-50% load on GPU means your CPU is causing the bottleneck not the GPU.

BF3 is more CPU intensive and tends to favour the green side.  Sorry, but there really isn't much you can do.

 

Your CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

If anything, BF3 slightly favors AMD over Nvidia. However, it's CPU-heavy in multiplayer, so AMD CPUs can be a serious bottleneck.

I don't think it's bottlenecking the GPU, if the 750K doesn't bottleneck a Titna Black it shouldn't bottleneck a 260X

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,3849-5.html

[Sakkura]

 

I don't think it's bottlenecking the GPU, if the 750K doesn't bottleneck a Titna Black it shouldn't bottleneck a 260X

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pentium-g3258-overclocking-performance,3849-5.html

 

That is singleplayer, multiplayer is completely different.

[cesrai]

That is singleplayer, multiplayer is completely different.

Just wait a few hours and I will come back to this.

[Lord_Karango17]

Overclock the cpu would be my only guess, to reduce any problems associated with a cpu heavy game

[Lord_Karango17]

Just wait a few hours and I will come back to this.

Considering the amount of players than can be in multiplayer, as oppose to singleplayer, it does make sense.

 

Multiplayer is also hugely variable, so a benchmark that ran on a not very demanding map and not many people could give wildly different numbers to what the average joe gets in his game with the same specs.

[Komplett]

Here are two videos from BF3 and GTA5, one might not be done processing but still.. Here you can see pretty much everything about the loads etc. BF3 is played at Medium 1600x900 and GTA5 at 1600x900 pretty much everything at Normal, turned everything down a notch from the recommended settings when I got when I first started the game. FPS is slightly lower now due to the recording with MSI Afterburner. Clock speed of GPU is 1075MHz according to MSI but the store where I bought it from says it's 1188MHz.

14.12 Drivers on the GPU.