Which in game settings?

[Walt]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering which settings in need to switch to get less CPU usage in The Witcher 3. My i5-7600K not overclocked uses 90% at most. With which settings can I reduce this?

Or is there some add thing with the witcher? Because when I switch to task manager the usage goes from 100 to 70

 

My other question is will overclocking the CPU will reduce this? If so how much?

Thanks!

[Billy_Mays]

What game

[Wrb]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

What game

 

3 minutes ago, Walt said:

 The Witcher 3.

I dont know if he edited it, but it says right in the 1st line.

[Billy_Mays]

4 minutes ago, Walt said:

Hi everyone,

I was wondering which settings in need to switch to get less CPU usage in The Witcher 3. My i5-7600K not overclocked uses 90% at most. With which settings can I reduce this? 

 

My other question is will overclocking the CPU will reduce this? If so how much?

Thanks!

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Just now, Wrb said:

 

 

Sometimes I dont read it all hte way through and I thought the game would be near the beginning or end

[Walt]

4 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Post processing 

 

With do you mean? 

EDIT:

IM DUMB. this is probably a setting

 

[Billy_Mays]

14 minutes ago, Walt said:

With do you mean? 

EDIT:

IM DUMB. this is probably a setting

 

Its a setting

[Techicolors]

reduce the number of background characters

 

and check out this mod http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/12/?

[Mira Yurizaki]

Other than trying to reduce the amount of things on screen at once, there's little else you can do. Because then you'd have to poke into the actual game mechanics and I'm not sure if you can disable the daily lives of people. :B

[typographie]

22 hours ago, Walt said:

I was wondering which settings in need to switch to get less CPU usage in The Witcher 3. My i5-7600K not overclocked uses 90% at most. With which settings can I reduce this?

90% CPU usage is not a problem by itself unless it correlates with low GPU usage and poor performance, which is unclear from your post. If you ignore the CPU usage percentage, are you still unhappy with how the game is actually running?

 

I doubt there's much you can adjust in the settings to significantly reduce CPU usage. Visual effects are typically part of the GPU's workload, and while occasionally the CPU may be involved there probably aren't many such effects in that game. In fact, turning GPU-reliant settings down may increase your framerate and cause your CPU to stay at a higher workload more often.