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Anon turns on raytracing (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Cpu % usage is not a great stat. If on a 10 core CPU the main thread is maxed and the others are on 20% it would read 28% overall but you're still CPU limited.

Even the 7800x3d is cpu limited in stalker 2 in any npc area

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Sorry, yeah, forgot the deets. 9700k, none of the cores were overworked, 60% seemed to be average usage across them.

    And, yeah, checked in NPC-heavy areas, where the stuttering, lag, and frame times were the worst, and I didn't have it set to "Ridiculous" - using a combination of High for textures and Med for effects (like shadows and lighting), running it at 1080p on the 3060 and 1440p on the 4080 Super (bumped it up to native, basically). Exclusively on SSD, 32 Gigs of RAM.

    Edit: no upscaling because the input lag was horrid.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I that's part of it.. The 9700K is like 7 years old at this point, and I'm all for holding off updates if it does what you want, but eventually you'll have to if you want to actually take advantage of that 4080

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Well aware of that, but no game has ever had issues with it so far, so...

    And I even run it without any OC, because it handles everything I throw at it juust fine.

    Edit: plus, to be honest... if things keep going the way they're going, I can see a clear cut-off point for me around gaming... Very few new games I'd actually want to play, and I own every game I've ever enjoyed playing.

    Edit 2: as an example, I can run Cyberpunk 2077 with everything cranked up to 11 and my system's actually chillin'.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think you'd be surprised at how much headroom a fast cpu will give you in some games on that resolution and with that gpu. I've got a similar performing one (7900xtx) and I swear by my 7800x3d. Every game (apart from stalker 2) just feels so responsive. But it's no cheap upgrade thats for sure.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I don't doubt that! My point was that a 9th-gen i7 is beef enough to handle literally everything I've ever thrown at it, games or otherwise, yet some newer games with very few graphical enhancements (I'm talking not even ray-tracing) are so poorly optimised, that the hardware isn't to blame. UE5 in general, for instance, is a hot mess, not in terms of graphical fidelity, but in terms of software bulk and resource consumption. And it really doesn't look THAT much better when compared to UE4.

    I'd rather just stop buying half-baked software than be strong-armed into expensive and unnecessary upgrades to play a game which was clearly rushed to market and is oftentimes incomplete not just from a software perspective, but also from a narrative and feature perspective.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Still, even if any thread looks like it's always at 60%, if a load appears and disappears very quickly and gets averaged out on the graph (as it could in an unoptimised or unusual situation) it could still be a factor. I think the only real way to know is to benchmark. You could try underclocking your CPU and see if the performance gets worse, if you really want to know.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Did several, the CPU is fine. Of course, it isn't fine when a new game suffers from unpatched memory leaks and unoptimised respurce consumption, which has become the trend rather than the exception - looking at Cyberpunk 2077 for demonstrating to publishers that gamers will buy literally anything out of inertia.

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