CPU usage 17% and low FPS

[Daniel Stanciu]

I`m having a FX 6200 @ 3.8ghz / ATI Radeon 6870 1gb ddr5 256 bit / 4 gb of ram at 1333 / SSD HDD . Im playing an 14 yrs old 2D online game where i usually get 64 fps because that`s the limit.. My problem is that when 10 players come and start using spells next to me my FPS drops around 30.I`ve overclocked at 4.1ghz for few mins my CPU and i get like 3 FPS extra. It`s hard for me to belive than i cant play at top fps an 14yrs old 2D game. Any suggestions ? Could any1 tell me where the problem is ? Windows is fresh .
"http://i59.tinypic.com/dnhxyg.jpg" As u can see im having 34 FPS and only 1 CPU works properly. That fire that u can see in the image when it`s gone my FPS get back to 50-55. What`s the solution ?

 

[Karsten75]

Old games do not know how to multi-task. So everything is on one core. You need something where the single core processing power is much higher. AMD is notorious for having 6 or 8 weak cores where Intel has fewer but stronger cores. Older games also offloaded less processing to the GPU, since in those days they didn't have the fast capable GPUs of today.

 

[Beezy]

Old games do not know how to multi-task. So everything is on one core. You need something where the single core processing power is much higher. AMD is notorious for having 6 or 8 weak cores where Intel has fewer but stronger cores. Older games also offloaded less processing to the GPU, since in those days they didn't have the fast capable GPUs of today.

this sums it up, any game before 2008 really prefers Intel,so that goes quadroople for a 14 year old game lol. Only in the past years have games seen multi core optimization.

 

[Daniel Stanciu]

Ok, but most of the times i can see rest of cores working but not in full stress, anyway around 40-50% . i was wondering if there is any software that can help me get the CPU usage higher and also the FPS.

 

[CTurbo]

Remember if one core is at 100%, but the other 5 are idle, that's roughly 17% usage. The FX6200 has a pretty terrible single core performance. Sounds like you are need of an upgrade.

 

[synphul]

Another factor may be the servers. If it's an older game (not overly popular) they may have offloaded it to a slower server? Only since it was mentioned that the more players come online the slower it gets, it sounds as though the game server is having a hard time keeping up with heavier player load.

 

[Daniel Stanciu]

Server its fine it can handle lot more ppl than it has , cause other players are alot faster.Thing is i just bought this CPU for this game and now i cant use it just cause the cpu has multiple cores? sounds stupid.This game used to run alot faster while ACPI on , but now i cant find a way to activate it on my mobo Gigabyte GA-770T-D3L, could be a solution...

 

[Beezy]

Server its fine it can handle lot more ppl than it has , cause other players are alot faster.Thing is i just bought this CPU for this game and now i cant use it just cause the cpu has multiple cores? sounds stupid.This game used to run alot faster while ACPI on , but now i cant find a way to activate it on my mobo Gigabyte GA-770T-D3L, could be a solution...

The game was written and developed around one core, probably before dual core CPUs were even mainstream or even existed at all lol. All newish games and OS's manage themselves nicely across multiple cores.

 

[CTurbo]

Server its fine it can handle lot more ppl than it has , cause other players are alot faster.Thing is i just bought this CPU for this game and now i cant use it just cause the cpu has multiple cores? sounds stupid.This game used to run alot faster while ACPI on , but now i cant find a way to activate it on my mobo Gigabyte GA-770T-D3L, could be a solution...

It's not that it's not working because it has multiple cores, it's not working because the game you want to play only uses 1 core, and your cpu have VERY weak cores. So having multiple cores is useless to you.

I recommend this upgrade.

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CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($63.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($36.99 @ Newegg)
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It would dominate every old game, and not bad bad in new ones. You could overclock that Pentium to over 4.0ghz.

 

[Daniel Stanciu]

While i am using windows 7 my max fps's are 54 , on win xp its 64 , so deffo the game was made for XP.Is there any solution to make the cpu priority or make the cores works like a single 1 with same or half of power? cause 17% on cpu usage means 35-40 fps atm i just cant make them all work together .

 

[Daniel Stanciu]

Server its fine it can handle lot more ppl than it has , cause other players are alot faster.Thing is i just bought this CPU for this game and now i cant use it just cause the cpu has multiple cores? sounds stupid.This game used to run alot faster while ACPI on , but now i cant find a way to activate it on my mobo Gigabyte GA-770T-D3L, could be a solution...

It's not that it's not working because it has multiple cores, it's not working because the game you want to play only uses 1 core, and your cpu have VERY weak cores. So having multiple cores is useless to you.

I recommend this upgrade

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8cjRgs
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8cjRgs/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($63.99 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($36.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $100.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-11-24 13:28 EST-0500

It would dominate every old game, and not bad bad in new ones. You could overclock that Pentium to over 4.0ghz.

A guy that plays the same game and has 16 gb ram windows 7 and a cpu i5 4570 and a GTX 780, has 64 fps constant everywhere and his ping to server is around 60 ( mine is 40). how can u explain that ?

 

[Josh138]

While i am using windows 7 my max fps's are 54 , on win xp its 64 , so deffo the game was made for XP.Is there any solution to make the cpu priority or make the cores works like a single 1 with same or half of power? cause 17% on cpu usage means 35-40 fps atm i just cant make them all work together .

The reason that XP performs better in this situation is in order for Win7 to run XP programs it loads an XP virtual environment to interpret the commands from the byte code. Running any game in the environment that it was coded for will always lead to better performance.

 

[synphul]

Don't feel bad about newer hardware and game compatibility. I own farcry (the original) and love the game. Used to play it on xp all the time. Got around to reloading it onto my system after moving to win7 with a new(er) video card and can't hardly play it. It wouldn't even install, even under xp compatibility mode. I downloaded a 64bit patch for it and it sorta works, but not well. In short, I could play it on my win xp with a radeon hd 4850 but can't on win7 with a radeon 7850. Even with a special patch it stutters a lot and won't save my load points etc. Sucks, but sometimes systems and tech outgrow old games. People often laugh at how fast oregon trail would play on a high end pc today but reality is it might not play at all just because of software/hardware conflicts.