Hello,
So I'm more or less new to the PC Gaming thing. I've never been a huge gamer (PC, console, or otherwise) but recently been keen to dive in a little more. Assassins Creed on the PS3 or Skyrim, SWTOR, and occasisoally WOW on the PC have seen me through the last decade or so but I want to expand my horizons. I have a reasonably powerful (if outdated...) workstation which has never had a problem running Skyrim, SWTOR, or WOW, but over the weekend I attempted to run both Minecraft and GTA IV (OK, I'm a bit behind the times but these are new to me haha) and in both cases I was hitting 100% CPU almost immediately which is then giving very jumpy performance to a more or less unplayable extent. I've tried reducing graphics settings, particularly in GTA IV anything that specifically mentions an impact on the CPU(s), but I'm still not really getting anywhere... I'm really just wondering if this seems right, are these games really so CPU intensive? Or is there maybe a problem somewhere with either my hardware of software config? I've put my specs below:
I know it's not the newest setup, and paricularly the Opterons aren't exactly optimised for gaming (or very fast) but I was surprised by how bad the performance was. Is it possible that the games aren't able to utilise both CPUs? Or is the setup really just too outdated to keep up ?
Thanks in advance! I've done a lot of custom builds over the years (never for myself because you know, budget...) but always for video editing, or sound production environments. I don't have much experience in the realm of gaming rigs so any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
So I'm more or less new to the PC Gaming thing. I've never been a huge gamer (PC, console, or otherwise) but recently been keen to dive in a little more. Assassins Creed on the PS3 or Skyrim, SWTOR, and occasisoally WOW on the PC have seen me through the last decade or so but I want to expand my horizons. I have a reasonably powerful (if outdated...) workstation which has never had a problem running Skyrim, SWTOR, or WOW, but over the weekend I attempted to run both Minecraft and GTA IV (OK, I'm a bit behind the times but these are new to me haha) and in both cases I was hitting 100% CPU almost immediately which is then giving very jumpy performance to a more or less unplayable extent. I've tried reducing graphics settings, particularly in GTA IV anything that specifically mentions an impact on the CPU(s), but I'm still not really getting anywhere... I'm really just wondering if this seems right, are these games really so CPU intensive? Or is there maybe a problem somewhere with either my hardware of software config? I've put my specs below:
- 2x Quad Core AMD Opteron 2360 @ 2.6GHz
- 16GB DDR2 ECC RAM (8x 2GB Sticks)
- NVIDIA Quadro FX4800
- (CPU's using a proprietry AIO Liquid Cooler for the case)
- Running Windows 10 Pro (x64) on a 1TB HDD with 600GB Free (using another 3 HDD's for music, pictures, etc)
I know it's not the newest setup, and paricularly the Opterons aren't exactly optimised for gaming (or very fast) but I was surprised by how bad the performance was. Is it possible that the games aren't able to utilise both CPUs? Or is the setup really just too outdated to keep up ?
Thanks in advance! I've done a lot of custom builds over the years (never for myself because you know, budget...) but always for video editing, or sound production environments. I don't have much experience in the realm of gaming rigs so any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt