- Jul 8, 2013
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Hello.
I have an i5-2500k(not overclocked) and have been often getting low framerate in many games due to a CPU bottleneck. In every one of these games the apparent bottleneck according to Process Explorer is the CPU. Games that never lagged on my old dual core Pentium processors would go to full CPU usage on my i5-2500k (depending on how many cores each game used) and they'd drop below 60 fps.
But I was never really bothered by it until I decided to play Age of Empires 2, and noticed the framerate constantly reaching 50fps, sometimes lower. Of course I thought it was some game bug, but no, I checked CPU usage and it turns out it was using slightly above 26% of the CPU, and since it is a game made for 1 core, then 25% of a 4-core CPU means it is running at max CPU usage.
I tried to check the internet for Age of Empires 2 CPU related problems, but apparently the internet still didn't exist when this game came out, so no help there.
Anyone got any ideas about what's going on?
Specs:
i5-2500k
AMD 7970
8 Gigs RAM
I have an i5-2500k(not overclocked) and have been often getting low framerate in many games due to a CPU bottleneck. In every one of these games the apparent bottleneck according to Process Explorer is the CPU. Games that never lagged on my old dual core Pentium processors would go to full CPU usage on my i5-2500k (depending on how many cores each game used) and they'd drop below 60 fps.
But I was never really bothered by it until I decided to play Age of Empires 2, and noticed the framerate constantly reaching 50fps, sometimes lower. Of course I thought it was some game bug, but no, I checked CPU usage and it turns out it was using slightly above 26% of the CPU, and since it is a game made for 1 core, then 25% of a 4-core CPU means it is running at max CPU usage.
I tried to check the internet for Age of Empires 2 CPU related problems, but apparently the internet still didn't exist when this game came out, so no help there.
Anyone got any ideas about what's going on?
Specs:
i5-2500k
AMD 7970
8 Gigs RAM
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