CPU Bottleneck

[Residualshade]

While playing my game will stutter. im watching my CPU usage and im at 90-95% constantly. so obviously my cpu is bottlenecking. are their any setting i can adjust to help alleviate this problem? If not is their any possible CPUs i could upgarde for my motherboard? from personal research it appears i already have the best processor my board can handle.

Motherboard: Gigabyte K8N SLI PRO

-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Number of Processors Logical Core Count 1 Physical Core Count 1
BIOS Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Language English (Regional Setting: English)
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DirectX Version DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Graphic Device(s) ATI Radeon HD 4650
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+Maker ATI Technologies Inc.
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[Zenaku]

I have a 3core and it at 50-85% same with my GF 4-core ffxiv only use 2core tho at least that what people say.

Could be your video card.

[Loth]

While playing my game will stutter. im watching my CPU usage and im at 90-95% constantly. so obviously my cpu is bottlenecking. are their any setting i can adjust to help alleviate this problem? If not is their any possible CPUs i could upgarde for my motherboard? from personal research it appears i already have the best processor my board can handle.

Motherboard: Gigabyte K8N SLI PRO

-=-=-=-=-=-=- System Information -=-=-=-=-=-=-

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Number of Processors Logical Core Count 1 Physical Core Count 1

According to Gigabyte is seems the best CPU your motherboard K8N Pro-SLI can use would be a dual core AMD Athlon 64 FX60, which would be a marked improvement on the one you currently have.
Now, if this would be cost effective or even possible to find, is something all together different.

As to what you can adjust to get better performance, well, first off, the minimum requirements is for a 2 GHz dual core processor, so you are well below that currently!
There really is not anything you can do to circumvent that, but disable shadows, dust effect, extended drawing and physics ingame and hope for the best.

[Coldfire]

Maybe it's time for a new board'n'stuff xD
AM3 Mainboard+4GB RAM+fast dual core cpu is only ~150 real life gil.

[Residualshade]

As to what you can adjust to get better performance, well, first off, the minimum requirements is for a 2 GHz dual core processor, so you are well below that currently!
There really is not anything you can do to circumvent that, but disable shadows, dust effect, extended drawing and physics ingame and hope for the best.

missed the fact that it was a dual core in reqs. ill check out that processor you mentioned. i know 939 socket processors have been discontinued so should be fun to locate one.

Maybe it's time for a new board'n'stuff xD
AM3 Mainboard+4GB RAM+fast dual core cpu is only ~150 real life gil.

I've had this rig for 6 years now. been meaning to replace it for a while now. hard to do atm though, in my last semester of college.

in grand scheme of things i only paid $15 bucks for the game so no great loss if i can play it.

[Zenaku]

missed the fact that it was a dual core in reqs. ill check out that processor you mentioned. i know 939 socket processors have been discontinued so should be fun to locate one.



I've had this rig for 6 years now. been meaning to replace it for a while now. hard to do atm though, in my last semester of college.

in grand scheme of things i only paid $15 bucks for the game so no great loss if i can play it.

there a few in amazon you should go and look

[PrettyPrincess]

I have a 3core and it at 50-85% same with my GF 4-core ffxiv only use 2core tho at least that what people say.

Could be your video card.

According to the task manager XIV is using all 4 of my cores

[Zenaku]

According to the task manager XIV is using all 4 of my cores

Ya that what i don't understand even if you have six core it be using all 6 also which is weird i thought ffxiv can only use 2 of your cores.

[PrettyPrincess]

...why would it only utilize 2 cores?

[Coldfire]

According to the task manager XIV is using all 4 of my cores

Your taskmanager is lying. Had a desktop gadget saying it uses six cores (lmao). You need a special tool to determine how many threads a program has and how much CPU-usage each thread has.

How many cores a program can use is determined by how optimized the code is for parallel processing. You basically have to extract code that can be run in parallel and fit it into a worker thread while the main thread does something else. Thanks to directX this works pretty easily for two cores as one core runs the game mechanics and the other runs the graphics stuff. This can easily be achieved using dxut or xna. If you want to use more cores you will have to split up the game mechanics(Physics, AI, Content pipeline, etc. ).