bf3 - cpu irrelevant

[WingZero30]

thats my perf graph. and it should be flat apparently. heh.

Under heavy firefights/action you would expect CPU to show spikes anyway as it is calculating bullet projectiles/velocity etc. Not sure what is happening with your gpu. Are you running 2 graphics cards?

These graphs afaik show rendering in milliseconds.

 

[hedgey]

no, 1 gpu.

 

[opethdisciple]

I can confirm that I am playing the game on ultra at 1920x1200 with only msaa turned off, everything else is on as max as it goes.

This game feels a little less demanding at current settings than BFBC2.

I suppose thats a good thing.

 

[hedgey]

so green below yellow is cpu limited. green should be consistently above yellow.

 

[ToejaM]

Apparently mine has a heart beat? I think tbh though the spikes were happening when explosions were going off.. at least that seemed to be the timing.. then it was all quiet and the spikes were still happening to I just assumed that there were explosions happening out of hearing range.

Screenshot taken after I killed someone to see if it'd changed much.. seemed to make my graphs heart beat race a little more.. before this though, past 30seconds I had no contact at all.

 

[Final8y]

This game is pushing my Hex core even more than BF2BC.

 

[Relentless81]

I'm surprised, going from a dual to quad core made a huge difference in BC2

 

[wannabedamned]

This game is pushing my Hex core even more than BF2BC.

What happens if you disable cores?

 

[Final8y]

What happens if you disable cores?

Never tried that, i think its more down to having Quadfire why its using so much.
Going to try out that Graph thing.

 

[wannabedamned]

Never tried that, i think its more down to having Quadfire why its using so much.
Going to try out that Graph thing.

You see this is where I make a mistake. I talk to people assuming they're on single cards. SLI/Xfire onwards are a completely different ball game aren't they You'd find yourself generally crippled if you disabled cores I think while running SLI\Xfire, Maybe not crippled but your minimum FPS would drop for certain. Yet if you removed cards, and had just 1 GPU...Disabling cores would be a negligible performance hit.

 

[Cairnsey]

I've just upgraded my e6300 @3hz conroe to a q6600 @3.4Ghz and I can confirm that it certainly does make a difference. The benchmark used was a single player mission of a guy walking into a jet. But in MP (all I play) I can say that my e6300/GTX275 combo netted me around 30fps on med (Caspian), now I can get around 40fps with my Q6600. Obviously it's not an exact comparison as there's different thing happening all the time but on the whole a definite improvement.