CPU / Graphics Thoughts

[Neodc]

Hi Guys

I've been playing this for some time now, i'm pretty useless at it but it at least burns the hours away

When i get parks over 5000 people i get the lag that everyone is talking about, but in my setup, i dont believe i'm CPU limited.

I play on a Dell Ultrawide 34 and a second 27inch 4k screen. Obviously 1 screen at a time. When i notice the game is starting to struggle i can look at my cpu, which is a 5930k, heavily overclocked and all of its cores are sat around 40%...

On the other hand, my graphics card is running at 90-100%, when i apply an overclock profile to my graphics card, i get another 10+ frames, (the card is a 980).

I'm wondering if the issue is graphics card memory? When i overclock its memory speed, by say 15%, i get a smoother game. I'm at the point now, where my park is a size that it cannot play it too well. I have to have it smooth or it annoys me.

I'm aware of bottlenecking, but with everyone on here yapping about CPU limits, surely i'd see an additional load on my CPU before my graphics struggle? Other specs are 16gb ram. I'm wondering if i get a graphics card with more than 4gb of ram, i think thats the issue?

Any thoughts?

Dave

 

[chrizzowiper]

When you lower your Display resolution do you gain FPS ? ( GPU speed bottleneck)
When you lower your Texture size do you gain FPS ? (GPU RAM Limit) (My PC use a bit more then 4GB, about 4,5-5 GB GPU Memory)
Do you have MSI After Burner to display your stats ingame? (CPU %, Mem usage etc.)

 

[DistortAMG]

If your GPU is running at 90% to 100% then in your case, it looks like you are for now being held back by your GPU.

If your running the game in 4K too, you are for sure asking alot from that card on large parks.

You wouldnt need to see more load on your CPU either before graphics start to stuggle, that's not how it works. I could max out my GPU now while the CPU is utilization is in the single digits.

Graphics memory could be an issue, especially if your running the game in 4K on Ultra, on fairly decently sized parks you would be getting close to that 4GB Vram limit. But I would say the physical speed of the card is what is slowing things down mostly though. Especially as you are running it in 4K I assume. You are asking alot from the card. The 980 doesnt quite have the power needed to handle most newer games in 4k as well as people would like.

I would recommend getting a card with more than 4GB of VRAM yes, as it will be handy going forward. But getting a faster card also with give you a performance boost. (going on the figures you have stated).

The 1070 is about 20% faster than a 980TI but even that is not a decent 4K card. The 1080 however is, its about 80% faster than the 980. Sky high performance, but also a price tag to match.

 

[Neodc]

Thanks for your help guys, what you've said makes a lot of sense. My mate has just recieved his 1080ti and he says its awesome, so i've going to wait for an ASUS Strix 1080ti and i'll pop that in to see how it performs. I'll update this thread when the card comes out. That'll have 11GB of VRAM, hopefully meaning i can make very large parks

Dave