very low CPU and GPU usage = low FPS ...WTH?

[Z3R0B4NG]

OK so i just got my hands on New Vegas... fired it up... and as soon as i walked out the door i get frames below 25.... *ugh*

 

ok first my system:

 

Q6600 QuadCore @ 3,1GHz

4GB Ram

GTX 460 / 1G (downloaded latest drivers just yesterday)

screen: 1680x1050

Win7 x64

Vsync ON

 

the game did put itself to ULTRA after testing which GPU i had....

tried it = 25FPS

just set it to LOW and... lololol 25 FPS !

 

So i do the tutorial blah blah, and as soon as i walk out of the door i notice my framerate is @ 25 FPS.

I look at my Logitech G15 Display which displays Everest, showing my CPU and GPU usage are BOTH below 30% !!!

The GPU even drops from 780 to 400 MHz because the load is so low... o_O

usually it only runs with 400MHz when i'm watching movies... not in games.

 

Anyway the low FPS is not the result of the 400MHz,

the 400MHz are the result of the low usage and i am pretty sure the bottleneck is the CPU with only one Core utilized (less then 30% = one core running) it slows down the GPU.

 

 

So how the hell do i get this game to recognize that i have a Quad Core?

[jasonpressler]

i am having the same issue accept i have my q6600 oced to 3.2 and have 8 gigs and a gtx470. im thinking it is the invidia driver for the 400's. there is no reason what so ever i shouldnt be able to rock this game.

[Hazard2005]

I'm also quite surprised how low my FPS is compared to FO3 (+Texture mods) also been having random flashing white boxes with the textures...

[iTimmah]

I'm experiencing low FPS as well. Just randomly too, it's the strangest thing.

[nosisab]

before anything else disable the VSYNC, both, in the game if possible and in the GPU control panel.

 

The reason is it will reduce the FPS if can't reach enough to to the synchronization (commonly to the half the native refresh rate of the monitor).

[Krazy3]

I also have an OC'd Q6600 @ 3.4ghz with a 470 and 8gb RAM... and I'm also getting the same FPS problems as well as the artifacting.

 

I'm tempted to say it may have to do with the overclocking. If someone could confirm otherwise, that'd be helpful.

[speakerFTD]

thank god im not the only one with this problem

[Hazard2005]

before anything else disable the VSYNC, both, in the game if possible and in the GPU control panel.

 

The reason is it will reduce the FPS if can't reach enough to to the synchronization (commonly to the half the native refresh rate of the monitor).

 

Disabling VSYNC does help but I'm still get random lag, especially when NPC's are around, hell even when I talk to one the FPS drops low. The game is still very much playable for me but just frustrating at times.

[Z3R0B4NG]

I have tried with Vsync On and Off and it makes no diffrence, just that i get a hell of a lot of tiering in addition to the low FPS.

 

I will try my old GTX 260 later today (good i didn't sell that one yet) and see if that makes ANY diffrence (the problem with the GTX 460 is that i can't switch back to older drivers because ...there are none for it.)

 

btw. this is not the only game lately where i experience very low GPU usage, F1 2010 had the same issue (but i got that one to roughly 45 - 60FPS, after some tweaking) i wasn't that happy with Mafia 2 either.

either my CPU is limiting the system or the nvidia drivers just suck lately. In that case i will throw it into ebay and get myself an ATI card (even though i hate ATI).

 

 

...but Fallout is righteout unplayable like this.

Well... i do have an Xbox 360 but i realy realy want it for PC because of Mods and so on.

[securitywyrm]

HOW TO FIX YOUR FRAMERATE

 

Open console, enter (without "s) "toggleemotions"

 

Seriously, that's it. My framerate tripled instantly when I put that in.