The division is not using 99% of my gpu

[erickh555]

Hi, i just dont know what to do, im playing the division with a fx8350 and a 280x 8gb of ram but the game only takes 59%~70% of the gpu in outdoors i rlly dont know why. My friend have the same pc fx8350 and 280x but his game takes 99% of the gpu and runs just fine outdoors, (my card goes to 80%~95% indoors) sorry for my horrible english, hope you can help me!

 

[burgessanthony]

If you have identical game settings, its probably cpu bottleneck. Check cpu usage as well while the gpu drops. Do you have vsync or framerate cap?

 

[erickh555]

We have the same graphics settings and the same pc, it cant be bottleneck its the same pc, must be something of software i think v sync is off and no framerate cap

 

[burgessanthony]

What is your CPU freqyency and usage during the game? yhou could be overheating and throttling. same motherboards? no 2 pc's are the same.

 

[James Mason]

What is your CPU freqyency and usage during the game? yhou could be overheating and throttling. same motherboards? no 2 pc's are the same.

Yeah, if you can see your usages, what are your temps?

If you have the same temp but lower usage as your friend, you may be over heating.

Did you update your drivers?

 

[erickh555]

ok the cpu frequency is 4ghz-4,1ghz the usage during the game is 70-80% and temp is 68C always, the 280x is using only 59-75% in outdoors (indoors its like 85%) but it REALLY struggle outdoors and the temp of the 280x is 72C, the game runs just perfect indoors the cpu goes 92% and the gpu 95% and i can get 60fps but outdoors the game just say FUCK YOU and the cpu as i said goes to 70% and gpu to 59% i have the latest drivers crimson 16.2.1 win 7 64bits

 

[burgessanthony]

That points to drivers and/or bad optimisation then. Sadly I see this in a lot of new games, where resources just aren't fully used. Not sure if division is known for that worth having a look online at other users experience

 

[erickh555]

Then why my friend is getting that 99% of usage with the same card?

 

[burgessanthony]

Same ram? Same speed ram? Same ssd? Same motherboard?

 

[James Mason]

It's POSSIBLE your drivers are kinda "corrupted." Give the following a try, it won't hurt, but it may help:


If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download