I recently bought and started playing Fallout: New Vegas, and saw that I constantly had 60 FPS with Vsync on (I monitor via ATI Tray Tools On Screen Display) with everything maxed.
So, I (through the .ini file) disabled Vsync to see what framerates my HD6870 and i7-860 2.8Ghz were truly capable of.
Most of the time, my framerates are now 70-90, occasionally dipping down to 60s as my below screenshot shows. Yet, no matter what the framerate is, neither my graphics card nor cpu is ever operating at 100%.
OSD says im at 64FPS with 35% CPU use and 52% GPU use.
If neither my gfx card or cpu is my bottleneck, what is holding me in the 60's range in the below shot? My RAM? (RAM info included below courtesy of CPUz).
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Thanks for the help, I'm rather confused as I believed that at any given moment, your FPS was defined by either your GPU or CPU operating at max.
P.S. in Battlefield 3 I see 99% GPU use, so I know my card is capable of full function.
So, I (through the .ini file) disabled Vsync to see what framerates my HD6870 and i7-860 2.8Ghz were truly capable of.
Most of the time, my framerates are now 70-90, occasionally dipping down to 60s as my below screenshot shows. Yet, no matter what the framerate is, neither my graphics card nor cpu is ever operating at 100%.

OSD says im at 64FPS with 35% CPU use and 52% GPU use.
If neither my gfx card or cpu is my bottleneck, what is holding me in the 60's range in the below shot? My RAM? (RAM info included below courtesy of CPUz).


Thanks for the help, I'm rather confused as I believed that at any given moment, your FPS was defined by either your GPU or CPU operating at max.
P.S. in Battlefield 3 I see 99% GPU use, so I know my card is capable of full function.