Getting 100 percent usage on my cpus?

[NeMeSiS]

Just wondering with my computer if thats what should be happening or not.

Its the game, and its not a really a problem of the game itself, just something inherent to multithreaded games. Dont worry about it.

[-=Grunt=-]

Hmm strange.. I have a Q6600 at stock and it never goes above 80% usage on all CPUs.

I use RivaTuner 2.24 to be able to see CPU temperatures on all cores and see their usage along with GPU core temperature and fan speed in-game using an overlay. I don't know if it works on AMD graphics cards.

[ajk]

Getting your CPU at 100% is probably not the goal and not even desired and I fully understand the reasons/logic why not. But I for example am getting 40-55% CPU usage (never seen above 60%) on average and game performance is CPU limited at the same time so I wouldn't dare to say there's nothing to fix

[ScareCroweb]

your focusing on the wrong end of things, the fact that your cpu is only utilizing 70 80 % is actually good, and the lower it is the better... to get better frames you need to look at what kind of GPU you have (video card)


Post your specs and hardware also post your settings in game

[Atkins]

What are you talking about? In A2 to get better frames ( i take that means better fps) cpu is the main contributing factor. And the low cpu usage is not good when fps is low.

Myke earlier explained quite well what is the cause of this... it got me thinking...

Have you guys with quads tried running a dedicated server with 2 cores and playing with the remaining 2 cores? Would that be any more efficient?

[[FRL]Myke]

Well the thing that's not working is I'm not getting enough frames to play arma on max settings much of the time. Just wondering with my computer if thats what should be happening or not. I have an alienware area 51 alx with the cpu and graphics cards mentioned earlier.. I'm gonna check out those programs when I get the time. Everyone else in game is saying theyre getting 60 frames.. i should be getting better than they are.

I don't understand why it has always be maxed out. This is pure nonsense. With your rig, i'm sure you should be able to play with high to very high settings, probably reducing viewdistance to somehwat lower than 10000 will already give you a good boost.
FYI, the following settings rely on the CPU: Viewdistance, terraindetail & objectdetail. If playing with the viewdistance slider gives direct reactions on the FPS, then it is clear, your CPU does limit.

[Grillob3]

Do you have 2 5970 in crossfire? Is ur arma 1.59?

[Dysentery]

Do you have 2 5970 in crossfire? Is ur arma 1.59?

Yes.

I don't understand why it has always be maxed out. This is pure nonsense. With your rig, i'm sure you should be able to play with high to very high settings, probably reducing viewdistance to somehwat lower than 10000 will already give you a good boost.
FYI, the following settings rely on the CPU: Viewdistance, terraindetail & objectdetail. If playing with the viewdistance slider gives direct reactions on the FPS, then it is clear, your CPU does limit.

What do you mean why it has to be maxed out.. because I want the highest graphics settings in my game to make it better. I am getting fps where it is unplayable at times and I shouldn't be thats the problem. Other people on ts say they are getting 60 frames.. i should be getting more than them.

[Defunkt]

What do you mean why it has to be maxed out.. because I want the highest graphics settings in my game to make it better.

So you've got your view distance right across at 10000? There probably isn't a machine available today that can handle that smoothly but there will be in a year or two so it was well worth adding to a title with the longevity of ArmA, it's called future-proofing. For now you'll have to dial it down.

[1in1class]

@Dysentery

What is your FPS when you Benchmark in OA? So we can see what kind of FPS we are talking about here. That 60 FPS that your talking about is not an stay at number, it jump's around as you play the game. Do an Benchmark in OA and tell us what you got, then we can take it from there. Iv gots an GTX 570 and an E8400 OC at 3.8Ghz and im getting nice FPS, when Benching in OA it's about in the 40s.