CPU and RAM bottleneck in battlefield

[dario.buonga1]

My PC specs are a GTX 970, i5 4460, 8 gb ddr3 dual channel. I have seen people on youtube with the same exact config run battlefiled 1 in ultra at 60 fps while I can't get above 50 with all low settings. what could be the problem? I've seen in the task manager that my RAM and CPU usage hit the 100% while the card stays below 40%.

 

[RememberThe5th]

And you answered yourself, but I could max out with i3-4170 and 1050ti and 8gb on 30fps ultra singleplayer...
Also check for vram usage, should be shown in settings.

 

[kerberos_20]

ram usage in bf1 is 8.5GB+
i have solid 80fps on oltra

 

[sizzling]

There are a lot of fakers on YouTube. There is also a big difference between single and multiplayer, also between small and large maps. Multiplayer and/or large maps bring quad cpu’s to their knees. This is well documented.

My 4670k OC’d to 4.3Ghz cannot hold 60fps in BF1 so your much weaker 4460 doesn’t stand a chance. Also BF1 does benefit from 16gb Ge RAM, 8gb will put the cpu load up as the system will be constantly caching to and from the HDD/SSD.

 

[kerberos_20]

game itself scales to 6 cores

 

[dario.buonga1]

And you answered yourself, but I could max out with i3-4170 and 1050ti and 8gb on 30fps ultra singleplayer...
Also check for vram usage, should be shown in settings.

So you are saying that my PC is slower than it should?
I wanna do a clean install of windows because I think it might solve the problem: the UI is also very slow and laggy even after the PC has been booted up and my disk usage is always 100%.

 

[kerberos_20]

high disk usage means not enough ram = too much swap
try to close as much background apps/services as you can to free up your system ram
bf1 is greedy, but u can expect 8~10GB ram usage

 

[RememberThe5th]

The i3 was with 8gb of ram and i think the usage was 7. Something?
Dunno, dont have it downloaded.

 

[dario.buonga1]

high disk usage means not enough ram = too much swap
try to close as much background apps/services as you can to free up your system ram
bf1 is greedy, but u can expect 8~10GB ram usage

I have been using the razer cortex booster that closes my antivirus andsome other applications and managed to get some more frames but it's still bad, at this point I wanna fresh install windows again to solve the lag of the ui and then maybe it will improve the gaming side too.

 

[dario.buonga1]

I kinda solved doing a clean install, my ram is not getting used as much, my system is more speedy and I gain about 20 frames which is enough to play decently.

 

[norcalsc]

Bf1 definitely runs better with more ram, been there. That game is notorious for bringing quad cores to 100% it'll run but you max out and it causes micro stutter. The extra ram helps