High cpu usage after 1.3.2?

Hi, I'm pretty new to the game and I have one question.

Yesterday was playing alone, in Mugello, with the 98T and suddenly I went out of the track, as I'm going thruogh the grass and tarmac half and half I noticed a lag, and fps drop.

That really caught my attention as I had played before in this same track with the same car and 23 IA cars and it was perfect smooth. So I alt+tab and check the resources on msi afterburner, the cpu usage was quite high, something like 80-90%.

Anyway, the CPU still had some room so I doubt it is the problem.

Anyone experimented something like this?

Could be the resolution? Making the processor to work harder? I'm using DSR at 2560x1440 because the AA is quite bad...

My machine is a 4690k@4.0 16gb ram and GTX 970 G1 and running the game from an SSd...

Thanks a lot for any input.

 

It's the smoke / dust. My framerate always takes a nose-dive when there is a lot of it onscreen.

 

I know, but that never happens even with full grid, so that is why i was asking...

 

Also got the same issue with dust from the kitty litter. This makes AC unplayable in a league format when someone goes off track everyone elses FPS drops very low...

 

why not just disable the smoke then?

 

My problem is not like that, it happened one time, and the cpu usage went too high, thats why i was asking if it was normal in this new version or if it was something else...

That could be a possibility for him...

 

Sorry double post...

 

So I wont know when someone locks up his brakes?
Ive set it to low, and while the fps still drops its isnt as extreme as on the higher settings.

Oh my bad. I havent actually checked what happens with the cpu/gfx load when some dust appears, but if its a seperate issue then ignore me ^^
That said, my system and settings are similar to yours. i7, gtx970, but only 6gb ram. I also run 4x supersampling, and still keeping my fps around 80-120 most of the time. Smoke on high drops it to 15-20 though. Medium smoke 25-45 and smoke on low dips it down to 50-70 give or take a few frames.

 

You use it in "4k" resolution? Wich settings are you using? I tried that and it wasnt playable at all...

 

Well I dont have everything put on ultra, that wont end well^^

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Resolution: 1920x1080@144hz
Fullscreen rendering ticked
vsync: OFF
framelimit 155 (but it wont reach that anyway)
4x Anisotropic Filtering
4x Anti-aliasing Samples
World detail: Very High (1 tick under maximum)
Shadow Resolution: High (1 tick under ultra)

Smoke Resolution: Low
Show smoke in mirrors ticked
Enable post processing effects:
Preset Default
Overall effect quality: High (1 tick under ultra)
Glare quality: High (1 tick under ultra)
Depth of Field quality: High (1 tick under ultra)
Color saturation: 100%
Motion blur: OFF
Crepescular rays ticked
Heat Shimmering effects ticked
Fast approximate anti-aliasing OFF

Mirror resolution: High
High quality mirror reflections: OFF
Reflection quality: Medium
Reflection rendering frequency: Static

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Those are my current settings, but nothing is set in stone. The game looks great, mostly because of the 4x supersampling.
Upping more things by putting them on ultra will likely show very minuscule differences or no differences at all, while taking a large FPS hit.
My intentions are to obviously make the game look as good as it possibly can, but with the framerate staying around 90 and more importantly I dont want it to dip down much, if at all.

I am curious if the dust/smoke killing the framerate is more of an isolated problem or if more people have problems with it, maybe its an issue with supersampling but im no expert...

Well, I hope its useful info anyway

 

Hi kevje,

Not Ultra, mix bag of options and so on.
(low smoke)

Don't have a problem with Down sampling, with my GPU card.

but I do have a Vram ceiling :-

• 2048X1152X32 @ 60hz Down sampled to my native res of 1360X768X32 @60hz.
• 2 gig vram used
• 60 to 170fps depending on scene in hand.

Wish I could go higher, but alas me GPU Ent good enough

if I enforce the X8 AA, I would go over my Vram Limit, and that would tank my system.
Roll on next year, upgrade time......

Anyhoo

• Q: High cpu usage after 1.3.2?
• A: not on the 5820K@4.2 (4.4 if needed) X79 platform
• CPU ticking along nicely and on the 64bit version the gpu is nicely pegged @ 99%

 

Try downloading SweetFX, it's as good as super sampling without the FPS hit. It's included with the Natural Graphics mod, which you should have as well.

 

Could you please elaborate a little more on this?
Thanks.

 

Hi there, there s a GFX mod called Natural Graphics mod which in my opinion greatly improves the the colours, set it in the AC menu to Nat Int. . Alongside this you can download the SweetFX mod which again, greatly improves the overall sharpness. I normally change the Lumasharpen setting within SweetFX to around point 85. Go to RaceDepartment, click on AC downloads, then miscellaneous and look for the Natural Graphics mod. Follow the instructions carefully, you won't regret it, once installed it looks fabulous. You may have to reboot your PC to get it up and running. My FPS rarely goes below 80 to 90 even with up to twenty four cars running. The majority of settings are on Ultra and I run a 970 card with an I7. When I have time tomorrow I will paste my settings within the Nvidia control panel which I copied from someone else, seems to work very well.

 

Thanks a lot Hoolio, I will give it a try!

 

If SweetFX has been installed correctly you will see a message in the top left hand corner of the load screen saying "Crosfire has loaded successfully".