low fps, 99% cpu usage on 3.44GHz quad core??

the game runs at a very low fps(+-20). on the startscreen its even worse (+-10) im running a GTX 970, a quad core clocked at 3.44GHz and 8Gb of ram. on my cpu controlpanel it says my cpu is running at 99% on the startmenu of the game and on a map its around 80%. when im on my windows screen when the game isn't running my cpu usage is +-12%. is it a hardware isue or might it be the software?
other games like crysis3 (runs at 60fps on medium settingss)and WOT(100 fps on high setting) have no isues. please help.

 

If you have many cars game gets slow, unlike in other games, in this cars require lot of computing, because of crash physics simulation etc.

4-6 cars maximum, more than that and it might start to slow down.

Also on some maps there is so much stuff that shadow computing gets CPU heavy, turn shadows off, setting them partial might do something, but haven't really done much to me.

 

even 1 car makes it slow and gpu never goes above 50%usage, 2cars make the game unplayable

 

what specific cpu model

 

At least, tell us what model, it's an AMD?, Or an Intel?

 

intel core 2 extreme standart at 2.9GHz overclocked to 3.44GHZ

 

Let me ask this question... Is the usage 99% on all 4 cores or just one core? Something doesn't quite add up here and it sounds like something else is running when it's not supposed to be.

 

all 4 are running at 99% and in task manager its only beamng thats using like 85%of it
the other 15% is windiws and nvidia etc.
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this is a regular thing for me 1fps and nothing is above 50% whit is going on
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here is an ingame one, nothing is exremely high but stil a bad framerate.

 

Try turning off reflections... Shouldn't help, but it might in your case.

 

if you pause the physics by pressing j, does the framerate go up, or stay the same

 

So it is not 99% CPU load, but you are getting only 32% GPU load, from some reason your system is not able to feed GPU enough fast.

If you turn Reflections and shadow off, do you get higher GPU load? If yes, then CPU is not fast enough to feed GPU, or some kind of memory bandwidth issue?

You don't have FPS limiter on or vsync on and some really weird low frequency (Hz) for display refresh rate?

 

when i turn shadows and reflections off gpu load gets lower, cpu +-75-80% and a 60Hz screen
and if I pause the game the fps raises about 5 frames (gridmap 35->40)

 

It looks like those pictures are from the new map beamng drive added in, correct? I am able to play on any map with at least 2 cars but the second I spawn into that map it kills my cpu, worth noting I have the settings maxed out for everything. Does it lag on the grid map with 1 or 2 cars? You might have 4 cores but so do I at 4.0ghz that thermal throttles to 3.6 and like I said I can't play on that map. Is your cpu thermal throttling?

 

What version of nvidia driver you have? I would guess trying older driver if you have latest, because clearly you are not getting GPU to work as hard as it should work. You have quite high CPU usage, but that should not be too high yet.

Because you gain only 5fps by pausing physics, I doubt CPU has issue, clearly from some reason your GPU is not working hard enough.

As you GPU is older, new drivers can actually make performance worse, older drivers might work better in some cases, so that is one thing worth to test.

What I'm not sure about is that if Core 2 memory bandwidth would become an issue, I have forgotten so much information that it is scary.

I like HwInfo64 quite a bit https://www.hwinfo.com/download.php it can show some data not many other software is revealing, like PCIE bus bandwidth etc. Also it is easy to log data to CSV file and often that data reveals something important:


It also shows and logs if there is any kind of throttling going on even for a small moment, one of the greatest free tools I know of.

 

my pc is watercooled so it barely gets above 60C but it normally would says my bios and gridmap 1 car does 30-35 fps setting barely matter
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and my cpu is not even a year old and some games in cutsenes for example crysis3 runs at 60fps highest setting (fps limmiter)
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ok now i am going to cry, just started fckn minecraft and boom 38fps 60% cpu 28%gpu im going to cry and instal older drivers maybe?

 

I kinda agree with this however the gpu doesn't do that much in beamng drive, even on big maps. The game doesn't use anything like physx so the gpu just process the simple stuff while the cpu is stuck doing everything else. I brought up my concerns about this to beamng drive already, they stopped replying after a few days. They did say I was right, the game doesn't use the gpu to process anything like physics on the newer nvidia cards..Anyway my gpu even when overclocked for no reason at the highest voltage never goes above 50c in beamng drive...I get higher temps in Google Chrome... Did you build your pc or did you buy it?

 

When did all this start happening? With your specs I can't imagine it running this slow before. Something must be screwed up software wise to make it do that... How about your power settings? Did those get messed up somehow?

 

I am assuming he bought his pc, this would lead to some power settings being locked and messing with his cpu. Personally I use AMD cpus, they overclock better and though slower generally don't seem to have issues with power settings. If he built his pc he needs an upgrade, modern hardware doesn't have any locks on power consumption. His specs are not that great, though they should be able to run the game the map east coast usa is a no no at the moment, it has issues with optimization.

 

maybe a bad harddrive? i am running all games on a different hard drive than my windows one​

 

What are the specs on the hard drive you use to run beamng drive? As far as I can tell the only thing the hard drive does it help render the map, if this is the issue you would just be driving and crashing into invisible things. Did you buy or build your pc?