amd fx 9370

[Marc_4]

Hey all, Im currently using an amd fx 9370 and a gtx 1060 6gb and while playing battlefield 1 the FPS is absolutely tragic,we are taling 20-50fps with everything turned on low even having to run at 720p res (face palms), so I've had enough and now im trying to find the solution.

I've opened up the task manager to see if it was my GPU or CPU bottlenecking the game, and I found out that it must be my CPU as its running 80% and regularly capping at 100% usage while my GPU is 25-35%, I knew my CPU was an eight core but task manager is telling me its only a 4 core? So i googled it and alot of threads said go to msconfig and change the amount of cores on the boot tab, it said 1 when i first looked and I then changed it to 8, rebooted to no success.

I then thought to check in the bios to see if I could see any limit / performance cap on the CPU and I couldnt see anything apart from the HPC was disabled, so I enabled that, unfortunately no changes.

I'm at a loss and at the cap of my own knowledge on fixing the problem, I know this is abit of a ramble but really looking for some guidance =)

specs ;

- gtx 1060 6 gb
- 16gb ddr3
- amd fx 9370
- corsair 850 gold psu
- amd fx 990 r2 mobo
- corsair h100i cpu cooler

Thanks all

 

[geofelt]

Your processor is 8 threads in 4 physical modules. Think of it as 8 core.
FX cores are slow. 9370 has a single thread passmark rating of 1618.
Many games depend on the performance of the single master thread.
By comparison a $80 G4600 has a single thread passmark rating of 2056.

One problem you have might be throttling.
FX cores do not respond well to high heat.
A FX9370 is a very hot chip. Even a H100 cooler may not be able to cope.
What are your cpu temperatures under load?

Look in windows settings, power management.
Is the maximum processor performance set to the max?

If you decide to spend money on a fix, it is time to go current gen intel or ryzen.

 

[sizzling]

In BF1 are you running DX11 or DX12?

 

[sizzling]

DX11

DX12

 

[dontlistentome]

Those are hot CPUs so I'd check temps first. You can use something like MSI Afterburner to see onscreen displays of CPU and GPU temps and usage and clockspeeds while you run the game.

Alternatively you can run a CPU stress test like Prime95. You want to see that your CPU stays within acceptable temps and has its normal 4.4ghz clockspeed.