ok COD-BO what setting and system spec get LESS than 100% GPU usage?

[ZPIGS!]

ok,

i got a 5850 and COD-BO.

naturally i set the screen res to 1920x1200 which is my panels native res..

sure, i thought, with my nice 5850 i can set everything to high, no problemo!

er, actually no, i can't..running afterburner shows a stubborn bumping up against 100%..

last night i downed it to 1680x1050...STILL the same lol!


sooo, my question is this:

who gets less than 100% gpu usage on COD - BO?

what settings are you using and what system spec do you have?


..cos i'm gonna have to significantly lower the setting on this game to do that!

 

[happy medium]

Well I'm running on all high settings at@ 1600x1200 with 4x aa and Fraps has me about 50 to 75 fps in an outdoors mission with a ton of things going on.

Thats with a overclocked 5750? This game is light on gpu hardware.

 

[vshin]

Why don't you just turn vsynch on? That should throttle down usage.

 

[toyota]

Well I'm running on all high settings at@ 1600x1200 with 4x aa and Fraps has me about 50 to 75 fps in an outdoors mission with a ton of things going on.

Thats with a overclocked 5750? This game is light on gpu hardware.

if anything that would tell me that it is not very light on the gpu and pretty unoptimized based on how unimpressive the game looks. you have an overclocked 5750 and running at just 1600x1200 and probably dont even average 60 fps in this mediocre looking console port.

EDIT: it looks pretty bad when the fastest gpu that you can buy can only average 71 fps in this console port at 1920x1080. http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...re-vs-radeon-5970-call-of-duty-black-ops.html

 

[ScorcherDarkly]

From what I've heard COD :BO is a lot more CPU bound than it is GPU bound.

 

[toyota]

From what I've heard COD:BO is a lot more CPU bound than it is GPU bound.

heard from who?

 

[Vdubchaos]

If you are averaging 50fps what does it matter if your GPU runs at 100%?

 

[notty22]

Arstechnica did a article where he calls it VERY cpu bound. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/revie...-ops-pc-review-fun-game-with-a-broken-leg.ars
Here Techspot came to the same conclusions.

The game likes Intel Cpu's and it likes Quad cores.
http://www.techspot.com/review/336-cod-black-ops-performance/page8.html

This cpu test/ was done with a 5970- from text, I believe.

Although it is a CPU bound game, Black Ops doesn't rely on a processor's L3 cache to perform at its best. The quad-core Athlon II processor X4 645 was just 6fps slower than the hexa-core Phenom II X6. Moreover, six cores are a waste in this game and the Phenom II X4 970 proved that added frequency is more valuable.
Something that’s immediately apparent when looking at the above graph is the fact that the Core i5 and i7 processors are far superior to anything else we tested. For example, when paired with the Radeon HD 5970, the Core i5 750 was a staggering 29% faster than the Phenom II X4 970, which we might add is clocked 32% more aggressively.
The Core i3 540 on the other hand crashed and burned, with just 42fps on average, making it surprisingly slower than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Clearly, Hyper-Threading technology was of little help here.

 

[happy medium]

you have an overclocked 5750 and running at just 1600x1200

Thats not too far off 1900x1080 resolution. What are you trying to say?
What I'm saying is a gtx 460/6850 should max this game easily at 1900x1080.

I see alot of people having issues with dual core cpu's vs quad cores in this game.

Edit: that chart above shows just what I was saying. A good quad core and a gtx 460/6870 should max this game easily.

 

[toyota]

wow my E8500 is quickly becoming a mediocre cpu.

 

[toyota]

Thats not too far off 1900x1080 resolution. What are you trying to say?
What I'm saying is a gtx 460/6850 should max this game easily at 1900x1080.

I see alot of people having issues with dual core cpu's vs quad cores in this game.

all I am saying that the game is pretty dull looking to be even that demanding.

 

[happy medium]

all I am saying that the game is pretty dull looking to be even that demanding.

I think it lacks colors, thats the problem. Very bland.

 

[MrK6]

ok,

i got a 5850 and COD-BO.

naturally i set the screen res to 1920x1200 which is my panels native res..

sure, i thought, with my nice 5850 i can set everything to high, no problemo!

er, actually no, i can't..running afterburner shows a stubborn bumping up against 100%..

last night i downed it to 1680x1050...STILL the same lol!


sooo, my question is this:

who gets less than 100% gpu usage on COD - BO?

what settings are you using and what system spec do you have?


..cos i'm gonna have to significantly lower the setting on this game to do that!

GPU's are programmed to run at 100% all the time by putting out as many FPS as possible. Anything less is due to some inefficiency. If you want to run less than 100% turn on Vsync as others mentioned.

 

[happy medium]

TWIMTBP showing how its done again? A gtx285 = a 5850? ,a gtx 460 beating a 5870?

 

[Vdubchaos]

wow my E8500 is quickly becoming a mediocre cpu.

Not really, game developer companies just BLOW.

Let's face it, this game has poor graphics YET its s system hog?

Sad, really sad.

 

[raasco]

Not really, game developer companies just BLOW.

Let's face it, this game has poor graphics YET its s system hog?

Sad, really sad.

Agreed. Just another console port without any beta testing being done to optimize it for the PC.

I have owned this game since its launch and single player has worked fine the entire time. Multiplayer, on the other had, was virtually unplayable until the first patch was released. I am currently getting 60-70 fps @ 1920x1080 with "sync every frame" off.

Specs:
Phenom II 965 with 8 GB DDR3
HD 4890

 

[Jdawg84]

Wow look at the FPS difference between a 970 clocked at 3.5Ghz vs an I7 at 2.66Ghz

 

[digitaldurandal]

Why wouldn't it utilize 100% of your gpu. Without vsync your gpu is going to be pumping out as many frames as it possibly can at all times. I am really not sure why you consider this a problem.

You should be basing your gpu performance based on minimum and median/mean fps.

If you dont want your gpu working so hard changing the resolution will not fix it, instead you will just create more frames with the rendering power you conserved. The only way to get less than 100% is going to be to set vsync.

It is not like a cpu where hitting 100% means you are going to have issues.

 

[james1701]

I only get about 35% usage on a 980X. With that and two 5870's my gpu usage is about 44% on each gpu, and my total fps fairly locked at 91fps. Thats with my OC lowered to 3.7ghz turbo'd.

 

[Jdawg84]

I only get about 35% usage on a 980X. With that and two 5870's my gpu usage is about 44% on each gpu, and my total fps fairly locked at 91fps. Thats with my OC lowered to 3.7ghz turbo'd.

James,

Is the 980X worth the money? Been thinking about upgrading to it.

 

[james1701]

To me it is, but most of the time, its a matter of personal opinion. I do some video encoding, and some games are taking advantage of 6 cores now. I have a few people in my clan with 1090T chips, and they are just as happy. After testing overclock after overclock, I have found with most modern games, I would probably, take a 1090T and pack in the most high end video cards I can with the biggest monitor I can buy.

 

[nOOky]

wow my E8500 is quickly becoming a mediocre cpu.

Bump up the overclock some. Or pop in a quad core chip in that mobo. I have no problems playing this game with the computer listed below, sometimes I'll see lower 50's for fps, but I just turn the fps counter off and enjoy the game.

 

[toyota]

Bump up the overclock some. Or pop in a quad core chip in that mobo. I have no problems playing this game with the computer listed below, sometimes I'll see lower 50's for fps, but I just turn the fps counter off and enjoy the game.

its at 3.8 and that's as high as I want to push it. really with a gtx260 there are only 4 or 5 of games that it helps having my cpu above stock anyway. the way things are looking I may be getting a new cpu and gpu around the same time.

 

[ZPIGS!]

this is my Q9400 CLEARLY being understressed by this game!

(this was taken during the 1920x1200 testing)

have to say here, the rather well threaded way this game uses all four cores EQUALLY. impressed!

 

[Yuriman]

As I understand it, even with vsync on, your GPU still runs at 100% all the time. It just drops the extra frames it renders before sending them to the monitor.