Possible cpu bottleneck?/Solutions?

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

Hello, I have a core i3 6100 and a gtx 750ti. I recently went from 16:9 (1080p) To 5:4 (or 4:3 I dont know)  @ 1280x1024. I Keep forgetting to switch off the frame rate on geforce experience and I noticed it was doing the exact frame rate. About 60. So then I went to 800x600 and There was no improvement. I then Put the textures on very high and frame scaling. Still no frame drop. So then I had A look at Msi afterburner and the cpu was always about high 80's mid 90's on usage. The gpu would sit at around 75% so obviously there was a bottleneck. Is there a way to reduce the bottleneck, As I cant overclock it. Will this be a good time for razor game booster?

 

 

Thanks

[deWaardt]

game boosters rarely help, if ever at all.

Do you have vsync enabled? Vsync will lock the framerate at 60fps if you have a 60hz monitor.

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

1 minute ago, deWaardt said:

game boosters rarely help, if ever at all.

Do you have vsync enabled? Vsync will lock the framerate at 60fps if you have a 60hz monitor.

No. I hate vsync. I dont know why. I dont like my Hardware being limited. 

 

Also, Doesnt game booster close proccesses? I know they barely take up anything but when cortana and mother****ing calculator are sucking usage for nothing it seems like they would be useful.

[deWaardt]

1 minute ago, MrIceCremeLollipop said:

No. I hate vsync. I dont know why. I dont like my Hardware being limited. 

 

Also, Doesnt game booster close proccesses? I know they barely take up anything but when cortana and mother****ing calculator are sucking usage for nothing it seems like they would be useful.

No. Closing calculator to get another 0.1% of free CPU cycles on Thread 0 isn't gonna help at all.

These game boosters are basically what tailpipe whistles on cars do to imitate turbochargers. They just make a shiyty sound but don't increase horsepower.

I've never seen a gamebooster increase FPS. Maybe by like 1fps, which is not worth the effort.

 

If Cortana and calculator are using so much CPU horsepower, the problem lies somewhere else as these shouldn't be using that much CPU horsepower. I have them turned on as well and still reach ~50fps in GTA V, even though I have a crappy CPU.

 

What games are you trying to play?

 

The i3 6100 is a dualcore, so in heaviliy multithreaded games it could suffer a bit, although it's a great CPU and should run modern games fairly good.

[WereCat]

The lower you go with resolution the more your CPU becomes a bottleneck.

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

6 minutes ago, deWaardt said:

No. Closing calculator to get another 0.1% of free CPU cycles on Thread 0 isn't gonna help at all.

These game boosters are basically what tailpipe whistles on cars do to imitate turbochargers. They just make a shiyty sound but don't increase horsepower.

I've never seen a gamebooster increase FPS. Maybe by like 1fps, which is not worth the effort.

 

If Cortana and calculator are using so much CPU horsepower, the problem lies somewhere else as these shouldn't be using that much CPU horsepower. I have them turned on as well and still reach ~50fps in GTA V, even though I have a crappy CPU.

 

What games are you trying to play?

 

The i3 6100 is a dualcore, so in heaviliy multithreaded games it could suffer a bit, although it's a great CPU and should run modern games fairly good.

Well. I dont think it bottlenecks any outher game now that I think about it. Just GTA does it. It makes sense that it bn a little bit. I mean, It runs fine just I was kinda curious.

[MrIceCremeLollipop]

2 minutes ago, WereCat said:

The lower you go with resolution the more your CPU becomes a bottleneck.

Ah.

[Silver47]

The i3 6100 isn't exactly a powerful chip to begin with, but for a GTX 750ti even it will not be a bottleneck, especially not at that resolution. Heck, you could even run something in the performance range of a GTX 770 or R9 280X with an i3 6100 and only get slight bottlenecking. Be assured that a CPU bottleneck is not your problem here. You must have got your GPU performance running limited by some software. Maybe it is Vsync after all. Also what games did you run? Some games won't allow more than 60 fps for good reasons, e.g. Fallout 4.