I have a GTX 780 with a budget. I need a good card that can run PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds at 50 FPS average.

[UnrealButter]

Hello! I have been playing PUBG for a while now and I'm interested in a better GPU that can run PUBG at decent frame rates. Right now I run the game at 1680x1050 at an average of 35-40 frames in cities.

I'm fairly new to GPUs and other hardware inside of computer so please go easy on me!

System specs to my knowledge:

NVIDIA GTX 780
16 GB RAM
i7 core 4820k


If it matters I am also on Windows 7 home...

I'm looking forward to your responses and/or answers! Thanks!

 

[jankerson]

What budget do you have and what resolution do you want to play?

I would say min of a GTX 1060 6GB for a GPU.

 

[jaslion]

Hello! I have been playing PUBG for a while now and I'm interested in a better GPU that can run PUBG at decent frame rates. Right now I run the game at 1680x1050 at an average of 35-40 frames in cities.

I'm fairly new to GPUs and other hardware inside of computer so please go easy on me!

System specs to my knowledge:

NVIDIA GTX 780
16 GB RAM
i7 core 4820k


If it matters I am also on Windows 7 home...

I'm looking forward to your responses and/or answers! Thanks!

A 780 can run pubg at 50fps average no problem. It's just that pubg is not well optimized at all.

 

[sizzling]

Even at 1080p a 780 can run PUBG over 60fps easily so should have no problem at your lower resolution. My guess is you have a CPU core hitting 100% giving you a CPU limitation/bottleneck but you should monitor CPU core usage to prove or disprove this.

 

[UnrealButter]

Even at 1080p a 780 can run PUBG over 60fps easily so should have no problem at your lower resolution. My guess is you have a CPU core hitting 100% giving you a CPU limitation/bottleneck but you should monitor CPU core usage to prove or disprove this.

Well, if you think the CPU is the problem could you suggest some good CPUs for a budget around $250-$300?

 

[sizzling]

We'll let's prove its the cpu first, its just a theory at the moment. Are ant cpu cores sitting near 100% while playing this game?

 

[UnrealButter]

We'll let's prove its the cpu first, its just a theory at the moment. Are ant cpu cores sitting near 100% while playing this game?

To be quite honest, I have no idea what an ant core even is or how to check it. If it gives you a perspective on CPU usage, in Task Manager the CPU usage spikes from 1%-20%. Sorry for my lack of knowledge. I'm sure it's a bit frustrating.

 

[RobCrezz]

Have you tried just putting all the graphics settings on Low? That tends to be how most people play it.

 

[sizzling]

We'll let's prove its the cpu first, its just a theory at the moment. Are ant cpu cores sitting near 100% while playing this game?

To be quite honest, I have no idea what an ant core even is or how to check it. If it gives you a perspective on CPU usage, in Task Manager the CPU usage spikes from 1%-20%. Sorry for my lack of knowledge. I'm sure it's a bit frustrating.

We all had to start leaning at one time and we are all still learning, I like to help where I can so don't worry about asking. Your 4820k CPU is made up of 4 cores, each core is a processor. However your CPU has something called Hyperthreading which allows each core to work on 2 streams of work/data. So you have 4 cores which are fed data by 8 threads. Most games are poor a balancing the work required across multiple threads and when they do spread the work the work is usually not spread equally. Therefore if any one thread is running near maximum usage it can limit performance as the game isn't designed to use the spare CPU resources of the other threads. So a game designed to use 1 thread could make that thread run at 100% while the other 7 are doing very little else, in that scenario your total CPU usage would be approximately 13% but the CPU is the limiting factor for that game.

Now a program I like to use is MSIAfterburner, it can record lots of information while you game which you can review later. This information includes each CPU core/thread. It would be good to use this while gaming and review to see if any cores/threads are staying near 100%.

It may turn out its not your CPU, its just a theory at this point.

 

[UnrealButter]

Have you tried just putting all the graphics settings on Low? That tends to be how most people play it.

Why of course! Playing on very high in that game is very nasty to me haha.

 

[UnrealButter]

We'll let's prove its the cpu first, its just a theory at the moment. Are ant cpu cores sitting near 100% while playing this game?

To be quite honest, I have no idea what an ant core even is or how to check it. If it gives you a perspective on CPU usage, in Task Manager the CPU usage spikes from 1%-20%. Sorry for my lack of knowledge. I'm sure it's a bit frustrating.

We all had to start leaning at one time and we are all still learning, I like to help where I can so don't worry about asking. Your 4820k CPU is made up of 4 cores, each core is a processor. However your CPU has something called Hyperthreading which allows each core to work on 2 streams of work/data. So you have 4 cores which are fed data by 8 threads. Most games are poor a balancing the work required across multiple threads and when they do spread the work the work is usually not spread equally. Therefore if any one thread is running near maximum usage it can limit performance as the game isn't designed to use the spare CPU resources of the other threads. So a game designed to use 1 thread could make that thread run at 100% while the other 7 are doing very little else, in that scenario your total CPU usage would be approximately 13% but the CPU is the limiting factor for that game.

Now a program I like to use is MSIAfterburner, it can record lots of information while you game which you can review later. This information includes each CPU core/thread. It would be good to use this while gaming and review to see if any cores/threads are staying near 100%.

It may turn out its not your CPU, its just a theory at this point.

Thanks for the information! I have heard of MSI Afterburner, but I have never used it. I'm assuming I'd fire it up, play a couple of games running around in the cities and out of the cities, close it, and then review the data. I'll tell you as much as I can.

 

[sizzling]

We'll let's prove its the cpu first, its just a theory at the moment. Are ant cpu cores sitting near 100% while playing this game?

To be quite honest, I have no idea what an ant core even is or how to check it. If it gives you a perspective on CPU usage, in Task Manager the CPU usage spikes from 1%-20%. Sorry for my lack of knowledge. I'm sure it's a bit frustrating.

We all had to start leaning at one time and we are all still learning, I like to help where I can so don't worry about asking. Your 4820k CPU is made up of 4 cores, each core is a processor. However your CPU has something called Hyperthreading which allows each core to work on 2 streams of work/data. So you have 4 cores which are fed data by 8 threads. Most games are poor a balancing the work required across multiple threads and when they do spread the work the work is usually not spread equally. Therefore if any one thread is running near maximum usage it can limit performance as the game isn't designed to use the spare CPU resources of the other threads. So a game designed to use 1 thread could make that thread run at 100% while the other 7 are doing very little else, in that scenario your total CPU usage would be approximately 13% but the CPU is the limiting factor for that game.

Now a program I like to use is MSIAfterburner, it can record lots of information while you game which you can review later. This information includes each CPU core/thread. It would be good to use this while gaming and review to see if any cores/threads are staying near 100%.

It may turn out its not your CPU, its just a theory at this point.

Thanks for the information! I have heard of MSI Afterburner, but I have never used it. I'm assuming I'd fire it up, play a couple of games running around in the cities and out of the cities, close it, and then review the data. I'll tell you as much as I can.

Yes but your are best to select log to file as it allows you to record longer and review later.

 

[UnrealButter]

We'll let's prove its the cpu first, its just a theory at the moment. Are ant cpu cores sitting near 100% while playing this game?

To be quite honest, I have no idea what an ant core even is or how to check it. If it gives you a perspective on CPU usage, in Task Manager the CPU usage spikes from 1%-20%. Sorry for my lack of knowledge. I'm sure it's a bit frustrating.

We all had to start leaning at one time and we are all still learning, I like to help where I can so don't worry about asking. Your 4820k CPU is made up of 4 cores, each core is a processor. However your CPU has something called Hyperthreading which allows each core to work on 2 streams of work/data. So you have 4 cores which are fed data by 8 threads. Most games are poor a balancing the work required across multiple threads and when they do spread the work the work is usually not spread equally. Therefore if any one thread is running near maximum usage it can limit performance as the game isn't designed to use the spare CPU resources of the other threads. So a game designed to use 1 thread could make that thread run at 100% while the other 7 are doing very little else, in that scenario your total CPU usage would be approximately 13% but the CPU is the limiting factor for that game.

Now a program I like to use is MSIAfterburner, it can record lots of information while you game which you can review later. This information includes each CPU core/thread. It would be good to use this while gaming and review to see if any cores/threads are staying near 100%.

It may turn out its not your CPU, its just a theory at this point.

Thanks for the information! I have heard of MSI Afterburner, but I have never used it. I'm assuming I'd fire it up, play a couple of games running around in the cities and out of the cities, close it, and then review the data. I'll tell you as much as I can.

Yes but your are best to select log to file as it allows you to record longer and review later.

This seems to be a lot more complicated than I initially thought. Can you give me a rundown on how to get a "log file" and how to record data in general?