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).
@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.
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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.
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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.
@JesseDeya wrote:I have recorded a video to show this which I'm uploading now.
As promised. Watch in 4K,
