CPU and GPU not 100% used

I have a quite good computer (see my signature), but i don't understand why my CPU or my GPU is not 100% used. I know the cpu can bottleneck the graphic card, but so, why my CPU is not 100% used ?

 

That is the total CPU usage across all cores, one core might be heavily loaded on the game and another core might be low loaded.

Go to the performance tab, go to the CPU and rightclick the graph and "Change graph to" and to "show logical processors" if you see one with high CPU usage then it is CPU limited.

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It is not possible to achieve 100% usage of a multithreaded cpu in real world usage like a game, only benchmarks/stress testers do that. And currently beam is not fully optimized, as well as it only uses more threads when more cars/other beam objects are spawned in. Gpu will be less than 100% if it is bottlenecked by single thread performance of the cpu, particularly in this case beam is using that same thread for many other things like physics, graphics, sound, etc. These things are not multithreaded like the physics part of the engine.

 

From what I remember about computers now is that if you have a Multi-Core processor the load gets spread out across all cores to "lessen" the impact of a single program on a computer so it doesnt slow down as much

 

Unfortunately that is not how it works, nor how windows is programmed to function. It is entirely up to the program itself how multithreaded it is. Otherwise we would not still be worried about raw single threaded ipc of our cpus, we would all be using cpus with 50+ weak cores.

To make something multithreaded is a heck of a lot of work, even for simple programs. Timing is everything with the execution of instructions, cannot just 'spread the load' without serious failure/errors/memory issues/etc.

 

Okay thanks for all answer, i see now
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3.50Ghz but run at 4.4Ghz you overclocked it 0.9Ghz ?

 

I had to have a guess at it....

 

Maybe someday when we actually get NEW technology and operating systems instead of more of the same, only more ghz and cores or releasing operating systems like they are call of duty...

 

It'll reach 100% usage when you spawn about 32 cars.

Why would you expect it to be 100% used with a small amount of cars?

The physics runs at 2000fps, it doesn't just add more physics frames if there's free cpu power.

 

Unfortunately, that's not what happens. If you have one intensive operation that uses one core, yes the OS will probably move other processes away from the core and allow that process a whole core to itself. But this isn't as good as it being multithreaded. A game can do this by having many processes happening at the same time.

Eg. Physics on one core
Gfx on another