Same here: 5800X3D + 7900 XTX + 32 GB DDR4-3733, 1440p - GPU usage only reaches 98-100% in Menu oder Pause screens. As soon as I enter a stage, the framerate drops by almost 50% and GPU usage goes down massively. When I hit pause, fps and GPU usage go up immediately, only to go down again when continuing the game.
Tried everything I could: reinstalling the game, playing around with SAM (ResizeableBAR), CPU core affinity, different game settings, AMD driver settings as well as numerous engine.ini tweaks... Nothing worked so far. This is really annoying and needs to be fixed asap!
For me, Patch 1.3 also didn't really help that much as far as stuttering goes. Still getting massive stutters when crashing into something (which of course never happens 😉)
Nearly the same for me as well. Running on a 5800X3D with an RX 7900XT, 32GB, 1440p the gpu usage is most of the time between 60-70% and just sometimes goes up. CPU usage is around 30% Tried different settings switching between FSR quality and native also trying different controllers (TM T300 + CSL-Elite V1 and PS4 controller). Makes no real difference.
It also seems that it´s getting worse at the end of a stage.Tested with 12th stage of Monaco several times and there at the end framerate drops dramatically and dips below 50fps (ultra preset with mirrors on low), while GPU and CPU usage stays at a flat 50% and 30%. So lots of performance available but totaly unused.
It was this way before and after Patch 1.3 with maybe some slight fps improvements after patch (around +5fps).
Pretty much same for me as well. RTX 4090, 7800X3D. 11520x2160 Dlss quality, AA low, Pretty much all other settings on ultra except screen reflections and post processing.
Cpu 19%
Gpu 70%
Vram 57%
Fps 85-90
@Jasonatic0815 wrote:Nearly the same for me as well. Running on a 5800X3D with an RX 7900XT, 32GB, 1440p the gpu usage is most of the time between 60-70% and just sometimes goes up. CPU usage is around 30% Tried different settings switching between FSR quality and native also trying different controllers (TM T300 + CSL-Elite V1 and PS4 controller). Makes no real difference.
It also seems that it´s getting worse at the end of a stage.Tested with 12th stage of Monaco several times and there at the end framerate drops dramatically and dips below 50fps (ultra preset with mirrors on low), while GPU and CPU usage stays at a flat 50% and 30%. So lots of performance available but totaly unused.
It was this way before and after Patch 1.3 with maybe some slight fps improvements after patch (around +5fps).
In my opinion there is definitely a game issue where at some point in a stage the GPU utilisation drops to a fixed percentage. For some it seems to be 50% for some 60%, for me it's always 80%.
See below my testing, you're not wrong, it's later in the stage that utilisation drops. Not sure why, or what triggers it, but at least in my case I can have it reliable repeat and at exactly the same spot.
@Aldo_Zampatti wrote:For what is worth, I spent a few hours playing around with settings and I found out that If I keep everything at ultra or high settings but put CAR REFLECTIONS to Ultra Low, Mirrors to the lowest quality (also Ultra Low I think) and CROWDS to Low or lower, framerate and GPU utilization go way higher and I gain a TON on smoothness (I play at 144hz).
My setup is very similar to lots of people here (as I stated on a previous post), 5800x3D + 7900xtx.
I think some settings might be "broken" as I don't see a single core on my CPU getting to 100% (which might normally be the case for cpu-bound scenarios, which this looks like is not)
Putting these on low did help achieve close to 100% GPU utilisation for me, but couldn't prevent the game from dropping the GPU to a fixed percentage at some point in any stage.
Below you can see I recorded performance stats while driving a short stage in Sweden.
My rig is completely custom watercooled, so thermal throttling is NOT a factor.
5800X + 7900XTX (with 550W bios, core set to 3350Mhz, ram 2750Mhz
The first screenshot shows the run as I played it. You can see towards the end that GPU util drops to 80% and stays locked there.
This was from the hood (bonnet) view.
EDIT: Direct link to image because this forum sucks - Click here to view full size.
The second screenshot shows a replay of the same run, looped three times.
This was from cockpit view with wheel showing as this was the most taxing for framerate.
This is a game bug for sure, as you can clearly see the GPU drop to 80% at exactly the spot in the stage, but then as soon as the reply loops back to the start the GPU util limit is immediately resolved and returns to 97-98%.
Codemasters - fix your damn game.
EDIT: Direct link to image because this forum sucks - Click here to view full size.
it looks as if the game is designed for consoles only and it requires a certain performance to perform in a certain way with certian fps
on the pc it looks as if there is a programmed performance cap that doesnt allow gpu cards to perfom at 99-100 gpu usage
so if i have a 4090 i would potentially have 300 fps, but the game says i dont need the extra fps and throttles the cards to 50-80 % of performance which is related to the original performace of the card (ex 4090 throttles to 50% 4070 throttles to 70% or something like that)
also upscallers dont work at all
@TakisKintis wrote:it looks as if the game is designed for consoles only and it requires a certain performance to perform in a certain way with certian fps
on the pc it looks as if there is a programmed performance cap that doesnt allow gpu cards to perfom at 99-100 gpu usage
so if i have a 4090 i would potentially have 300 fps, but the game says i dont need the extra fps and throttles the cards to 50-80 % of performance which is related to the original performace of the card (ex 4090 throttles to 50% 4070 throttles to 70% or something like that)
also upscallers dont work at all
No, that's not the case. There is not performance cap (FPS), but there IS something capping how much GPU is used. It's not capping GPU utilisation to meet a framerate target, it's capping it a fixed percentage utilisation (like 60% or 80%) regardless of the FPS that subsequently generates.
The PC version is quite capable of utilising 100% of GPU performance (assuming CPU isn't bottlenecking). The problem is that there are certain code issues that seem to trigger the game to only use 80% or lower.
I can get the game to use 100% GPU, and my framerate scales accordingly (150+ FPS at 4K), but at a certain point - for seemingly no reason - the game drops my GPU utilisation to 80%.
I have recorded a video to show this which I'm uploading now.
@Jasonatic0815 wrote:Nearly the same for me as well. Running on a 5800X3D with an RX 7900XT, 32GB, 1440p the gpu usage is most of the time between 60-70% and just sometimes goes up. CPU usage is around 30% Tried different settings switching between FSR quality and native also trying different controllers (TM T300 + CSL-Elite V1 and PS4 controller). Makes no real difference.
It also seems that it´s getting worse at the end of a stage.Tested with 12th stage of Monaco several times and there at the end framerate drops dramatically and dips below 50fps (ultra preset with mirrors on low), while GPU and CPU usage stays at a flat 50% and 30%. So lots of performance available but totaly unused.
It was this way before and after Patch 1.3 with maybe some slight fps improvements after patch (around +5fps).
This is "take two" posting this. This first time it "disappeared" magically 5 minutes after posting. Not saying a mod deleted it, probably just a Christmas miracle. 🤔
EDIT: And it's magically back again. Now I have two posts saying the same thing... but will leave them both up.
@Jasonatic0815 You're right, the GPU performance (utilisation) drops at the end of a stage. It seems to affect different people in different ways, some drop to 50%, some 60%, for me it's always 80%
What I've found (see below), is that this is consistently at the same spot on a stage, and is highly repeatable. There is some kind of game bug making this happen.
@Aldo_Zampatti wrote:For what is worth, I spent a few hours playing around with settings and I found out that If I keep everything at ultra or high settings but put CAR REFLECTIONS to Ultra Low, Mirrors to the lowest quality (also Ultra Low I think) and CROWDS to Low or lower, framerate and GPU utilization go way higher and I gain a TON on smoothness (I play at 144hz).
My setup is very similar to lots of people here (as I stated on a previous post), 5800x3D + 7900xtx.
I think some settings might be "broken" as I don't see a single core on my CPU getting to 100% (which might normally be the case for cpu-bound scenarios, which this looks like is not)
Using these settings (mixed with Ultra @ 4K HDR with no upscaling) helped me achieve 97-100% GPU utilisation, but stilll couldn't prevent the game forcing the GPU to drop to 80% at some point during the stage.
I captured performance across a short (7km) stage in Sweden, where you can see the actual run (first screenshot), and then a looping 3x replay of the run (second screenshot). In each case the GPU drops to 80% utilisation at the same point. The replay is the most telling, as you can see as soon as the replay loops back to the start the artificial 80% limitation is removed and GPU utilisation returns to 97-100%.
5800X + 7900XTX
I run a custom water cooled rig where thermal throttling is not an issue.
This does not appear to be a hardware issue:
This is unlikely to be a Windows issue:
Sweden 7km - Game Play Run (hood view) - click for full size image.
Sweden 7km - 3x Looping Replay (cockpit view) - click for full size image.
It's great that you did all these graphs, but you failed at one thing. You only look at overall CPU utilization. If you look at per-thread load, you'll see that it IS CPU bottleneck as when the framerate drops, one thread is 100% loaded and slows down everything else.
I don't understand how people can do such extensive thing yet fail to take into account such basics.
UE render thread is fully loaded and that causes slowdowns. This happen in certain places (triggered by loading next map tile).
@Lawstorant wrote:It's great that you did all these graphs, but you failed at one thing. You only look at overall CPU utilization. If you look at per-thread load, you'll see that it IS CPU bottleneck as when the framerate drops, one thread is 100% loaded and slows down everything else.
I don't understand how people can do such extensive thing yet fail to take into account such basics.
UE render thread is fully loaded and that causes slowdowns. This happen in certain places (triggered by loading next map tile).
I didn't fail to do anything, drop the attitude. K thx.
Clearly you failed to look at the results which show max thread load.
Here is the same graph as above but showing CPU Max Thread Load (the red line), for those of you with an inability to interpret results.
Notice how the most loaded thread:
I cannot stress this enough, this is NOT a CPU issue. This is a game bug.
