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BF2042 processor frequency in game
Hello everybody, i have question about processor usage, screenshot in attachement showing my processor intel i5 11400 works on 3.689 GHz in game, while in lobby and in other games showing maximum sp...
- @30K3 @30K3 Every CPU will clock lower when all its cores are used, than when a few are being used. This is how CPUs work, both AMD and Intel. This is due to heat. Things get much hotter at higher frequencies, having 1 core (or only a few) at a high frequency is less heat than having them all at it. You can get a better cooler to clock higher, but with a cheaper CPU I don't see that as worth it. Also Intel might not let you clock higher anyways, depending on mobo and CPU.
2042 is one of the very few games that will use all your cores, so the CPU will clock lower. If a game (or any program) is made to utilize all your cores, then the performance reduction from the lower clocks will always be massively outweighed by the parallelism from using more cores, assuming the devs didn't decide to just waste their own time, which most likely they didn't.
The title screen is not putting as much strain on your CPU, so the CPU can clock higher as it doesn't need to work as much.
This also has nothing to do with the GPU. 2042 is a CPU bound game. The vast majority of graphics settings in games in general, including 2042, have very little to no CPU effect, example exceptions being raytracing-related settings or settings regarding number of NPCs visible. This can also depend a lot on game.
