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GPU Load / CPU bottleneck

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SDNYC09

Limp Gawd
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I been using MSi afterburner with its OSD in all my games now... Heres the prob, i thought it was cpu bottleneck but...how?

Black ops - I know this game isnt taxing but.. everything turned to high playing on a 24 inch Dell at 1920x1200 .. 90 frames.. I know 90 is more then enough and im not worried about the frames so much..just wonder why i only get at tops 30% gpu usage ...

Same goes with Homefront - 70-90 frames only 40-50 Gpu usage...

Even 3dmark11 doesn't max out the gpu's load only 40-50% usage so i dont care about my 3dmark score just wondering if i am getting 8200 score with only 40-50% gpu usage if 3dmark were to max out, shouldn't my score be higher?

but i ran a sandra gpu test and it maxed all gpu cores...odd


Check sig for hardware details....

5970+5870 Trifire - all 900 core 1200 mem

im running 10.12 drivers since they are the only stable drivers i have found to work well

Driver Packaging Version 8.801-101125a-109809C-ATI
Catalyst™ Version 10.12
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1105
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0001
Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0798
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.10362
Catalyst™ Control Center Version 2010.1125.2142.38865


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blops and homefront is mostly cpu, optimized more for console than pc. you are running a really old game engine and it only takes a little bit of your gpu power. play something like bfbc2 and crank it up if you want gpu usage.
 
I will load it up and take some screens...but why 3dmark11? that was the oddest thing... i knew cod and home where old engines
 
No idea about 3D mark. Might be some sort of xfire scaling issue. I have just run single card setups for 3 years and am not much help beyond the initial post. I am sure it is more a software issue than hardware though.
 
Dragon Age 2 - uses 80% max settings @ 112FPS

I took a screen but it doesnt show MSI burner in it
 
Ok so something very interesting just happened... I uninstalled the 10.2 drivers and loaded the 11.2 drivers just to see if that was the problem.. looks like it was... the higher score is the 11.2 drivers

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going to check out how Blops and homefront run now
 
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