[SOLVED] CPU and GPU almost never more than 50% utilized

Sep 22, 2020
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My pc specs are: RX 560 2gb, Athlon x4 950 and 8gb DDR4 ram
I should be able to play Path Of Exile on 1600x900 resolution without lag or alteast i thought so, problem is game is always on 40-50 fps and thats kinda okay but when many enemys encounter me game just freeze for few seconds, the thing is cpu and gpu are always around 40% utilized both when my fps is above 60 and when its 3, game is installed on HDD, would installing it on SSD maybe fix things?
 
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Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.

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Those specs are recommended for this game;

Rule i go by, is treat recommended as minimum and improve on that if want to enjoy a particular game.

Time to upgrade 🙂

An ssd + another 8gb ram would probably help but that's spending more money on an old platform that could go towards a new system.
 
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Sep 22, 2020
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Those specs are recommended for this game;

Rule i go by, is treat recommended as minimum and improve on that if want to enjoy a particular game.

Time to upgrade 🙂

An ssd + another 8gb ram would probably help but that's spending more money on an old platform that could go towards a new system.
My pc meet recommended system req, and i run game on lowest settings, i asked if u know why isnt my cpu and gpu working on 100% when im not getting 60 fps
 
Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.
leading you to think your bottleneck was elsewhere.
 
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