Interesting GPU/CPU Usage

[Fall_Pink?]

Originally Posted by Stefem

Windows recognize both physical and logical cores as independent unit, in fact prior to Win 7 the OS thread scheduler not even cared if a core was physical or logical.
The Windows task manager shows the average of all CPU cores usage including logical cores but also can show (depend on configuration) a graph for each core, whether it is physical or logical.

The HT cores are just parked with CoD whereas the real, physical cores are active with CoD, but cpu power is not the issue with this game.

An i7 or fast i5 is more than enough. Heck, even when I underclock my cpu to 2.8 Ghz it still runs pretty good.

It's just the buggy 3d mode (full, pseudo..) and gpu clock speed that worries me. Sometimes the game starts and my vid card stays at 157 Mhz no matter what. I shut it down and change to pseudo, and all of a sudden the vid card is now at 850 Mhz. Next time, nothing has changed in between, it's back at 400 Mhz and sometimes even back to 157 Mhz.

This is really weird game behavior which is a bit unexpected.

Rgs,
FP

[Stefem]

Originally Posted by Fall_Pink?

The HT cores are just parked with CoD whereas the real, physical cores are active with CoD, but cpu power is not the issue with this game.

An i7 or fast i5 is more than enough. Heck, even when I underclock my cpu to 2.8 Ghz it still runs pretty good.

It's just the buggy 3d mode (full, pseudo..) and gpu clock speed that worries me. Sometimes the game starts and my vid card stays at 157 Mhz no matter what. I shut it down and change to pseudo, and all of a sudden the vid card is now at 850 Mhz. Next time, nothing has changed in between, it's back at 400 Mhz and sometimes even back to 157 Mhz.

This is really weird game behavior which is a bit unexpected.

Rgs,
FP

Yep, but this is a driver bug, you can't blame devs for this

[Fall_Pink?]

Originally Posted by Stefem

Yep, but this is a driver bug, you can't blame devs for this

It is? AMD is aware of this bug and 1C raised it to AMD or is it because the game does not really enter 3d mode?

Rgs,
FP

[Stefem]

Originally Posted by Fall_Pink?

It is? AMD is aware of this bug and 1C raised it to AMD or is it because the game does not really enter 3d mode?

Rgs,
FP

What do you mean by "the game does not really enter 3d mode"?

Is the driver that has to set the graphics card in "3d mode" when an heavy task is detected, NVIDIA's cards does not have this problem.

[Fall_Pink?]

Well, I mean real full screen. Not a stretched window or something else.

[Stefem]

Originally Posted by Fall_Pink?

Well, I mean real full screen. Not a stretched window or something else.

It doesn't matter if it's full-screen, windowed or pseudo, this is not the way drivers recognize a workload that require a "full performance" state, there are many graphics app that can run windowed, including most of the flight simulators

[Fall_Pink?]

Originally Posted by Stefem

It doesn't matter if it's full-screen, windowed or pseudo, this is not the way drivers recognize a workload that require a "full performance" state, there are many graphics app that can run windowed, including most of the flight simulators

Nevermind, I completely removed 11.8 and installed Ati 11.9 and now the clocks go to maximum speed. For me, 11.9 seemed to have fixed it.

Rgs,
FP

[335th_GRAthos]

Originally Posted by Fall_Pink?

Sometimes the game starts and my vid card stays at 157 Mhz no matter what. I shut it down and change to pseudo, and all of a sudden the vid card is now at 850 Mhz.

Let me see, have you removed the small Ubisoft video just before the loading of CoD?
If not, do so and it will probably solve your issues.

~S~

[Fall_Pink?]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Let me see, have you removed the small Ubisoft video just before the loading of CoD?
If not, do so and it will probably solve your issues.

~S~

Yes, also tried to remove the welcome wmv, but it does not make a difference. Are there any other work arounds to raise the 3d clock?

Rgs,
FP

[ATAG_Septic]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Let me see, have you removed the small Ubisoft video just before the loading of CoD?
If not, do so and it will probably solve your issues.

~S~

Deleting the Ubisoft video works for me too, although the slow-down in game isn't as obvious with the new Beta patch. I have MSI Afterburner running all the time on a G19 screen and consequently noticed that it's not only the Ubisoft video that causes the problem. I sometimes see GPU 1 memory speed locked at 900MHz (I've not yet isolated which other software causes this but I believe I've seen posts here identifying the cause, it's usually got 1200MHz to use). I need to reset PC to unlock the memory frequency.

It's an XFX-5970-BE and this Beta patch runs lovely on it.