Cpu intensive games

[jehannes]

Hello,

When im looking for a game to play, i first look at reviews, if it will run well on my gpu.

But i see alot of people talking about cpu-intensive games, arma 2 for example.

Can someone give me some insight of what sort of games are cpu intensive and why?

And if the 4670 is decent or good enough for the newest cpu intensive games.

My gpu however is sapphire nitro 390

Thanks in advance

[Aytex]

what gpu do you have?

arma 2 is pretty old/less optimized

compares to arma 3's graphics

[jehannes]

what gpu do you have?

arma 2 is pretty old/less optimized

compares to arma 3's graphics

Its edited, my gpu is 390 sapphire nitro

[minibois]

Arma's game engine is just set up to be much more CPU intensive and only uses 2 cores I think. It relies heavily on a small amount of high performance cores.

It is also not the prettiest games, so if you have a CPU and GPU that align in performance in a 'normal' game, it just seems like Arma (2 and 3. Also DayZ because same engine) is just very CPU intensive.

 

More games that are CPU intensive are (non-modded) Skyrim and Minecraft.

You can see a pattern here: All games that are not very impressive looking. They are just not  very GPU heavy, so it seems like they are very CPU heavy.

[CalculuS]

The reason Arma is so CPU intensive has to do with the combination of pretty bad coding and their immensively huge maps.

 

RPG games and open world games tend to be cpu intensive because of physics, AI, render distances...

[Aytex]

Arma's game engine is just set up to be much more CPU intensive and only uses 2 cores I think. It relies heavily on a small amount of high performance cores.

It is also not the prettiest games, so if you have a CPU and GPU that align in performance in a 'normal' game, it just seems like Arma (2 and 3. Also DayZ because same engine) is just very CPU intensive.

 

More games that are CPU intensive are (non-modded) Skyrim and Minecraft.

You can see a pattern here: All games that are not very impressive looking. They are just not  very GPU heavy, so it seems like they are very CPU heavy.

Your saying arma 3 is ugly?

[Aytex]

Its edited, my gpu is 390 sapphire nitro

You should be able to get 60 frames wherever and maybe 40-50 in cities

drop to around 30 fps in firefights which is pretty good

 

 

Got a guy with a i7 4790k and a 980 ti

gets 60 fps everywhere (including cities) and in firefights drops to 30

[minibois]

Your saying arma 3 is ugly?

*sighs*

I'm just saying it doesn't look super nice.

It's not Witcher 3 looking textures.

[Guest]

CPU intensive is kinda relative. Games like battlefield, assassins creed, phantom pain all rely on CPU more than many other games. A 4670 shouldn't have any problem with them though

[Aytex]

*sighs*

I'm just saying it doesn't look super nice.

It's not Witcher 3 looking textures.

Have you ever playd it at ultra settings? im pretty sure it has better graphics then gta 5 and witcher 3

[jehannes]

Arma's game engine is just set up to be much more CPU intensive and only uses 2 cores I think. It relies heavily on a small amount of high performance cores.

It is also not the prettiest games, so if you have a CPU and GPU that align in performance in a 'normal' game, it just seems like Arma (2 and 3. Also DayZ because same engine) is just very CPU intensive.

 

More games that are CPU intensive are (non-modded) Skyrim and Minecraft.

You can see a pattern here: All games that are not very impressive looking. They are just not  very GPU heavy, so it seems like they are very CPU heavy.

Thanks for the information, do you also know i if my particular 4670 (although its quad core) could run arma 3 maybe?

[Aytex]

Thanks for the information, do you also know i if my particular 4670 (although its quad core) could run arma 3 maybe?

Yes. it will

 

easialy

[jehannes]

You should be able to get 60 frames wherever and maybe 40-50 in cities

drop to around 30 fps in firefights which is pretty good

 

 

Got a guy with a i7 4790k and a 980 ti

gets 60 fps everywhere (including cities) and in firefights drops to 30

Nice thanks man,

I dont have the money for that dude's rig.

[minibois]

Thanks for the information, do you also know i if my particular 4670 (although its quad core) could run arma 3 maybe?

Yeah it will.

Intel's Core i5 CPU's have good single core performance, so it can run it. 

I have a friend who has a i5 3570K who can run it, he just says it just sometimes is not super stable. But he can run it

[Aytex]

Nice thanks man,

I dont have the money for that dude's rig.

Im saying a i5 should preform the same of a i7

and a 390 is more powerful than a 970, (another guy in clan got a i7 and 970 gets 60 easialy)

you shuold be able to get 60

[jehannes]

Thanks guys

You gave me some good advice, tips and insight.

Great community

[Aytex]

Thanks guys

You gave me some good advice, tips and insight.

Great community

[Analog]

GTA IV is notorious for being super CPU heavy because it is badly optimized. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

Arma III is insanely CPU bound. I wish someone would do a benchmark to see if fast RAM helps Arma III the way it does Ryse, where Digital Foundry found the difference between DDR4-2666 and DDR-2133 to be night and day (~50 fps) when combined with an i3-6100 by Digital Foundry. The Total War games are very CPU bound too, but those are some of the few games where not getting 60 fps probably wouldn't bother me. Assassins Creed Unity looks to be hell on CPUs, but the game isn't any good anyways,

 

And an i5-4670 is a great gaming CPU, the vast majority of even the harder to run games should run outstanding on it.

[SteveGrabowski0]

GTA IV is notorious for being super CPU heavy because it is badly optimized. 

 

That game is just a clusterfuck. The story, the control, and the characters are twice as bad as the garbage optimization.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Thanks for the information, do you also know i if my particular 4670 (although its quad core) could run arma 3 maybe?

 

Yeah Arma III will run, but It might run like crap though if you don't turn down draw distances. It's horribly optimized but it's such an impressive game graphically it's worth looking past that huge fault (not like GTA IV or AC Unity). Turn down draw distance to bring your CPU bottleneck down some and it's fucking beautiful.