CPU Core&Thread usage in AMS2

Hello everyone

I have been working hard during Black Friday at controlling myself not to upgrade my 5800X3D and move to AM5 platform.
I have been running this CPU for about 18months and since the beginning of the year its coupled with a 4080S so high level HW obviously but you know the "bug of upgrade itching"....


running W11 latest version and HAGS is OFF

anyway, what I did is running several testing sessions with the v1.6 game version, using HWINFO64 to record core&thread usage
In orange are the 8 cores and 8 threads usage. In green the Max CPU/thread usage and in Red the total CPU usage

DESKTOP 4K Graphics Maxed out

1.TESTDAY DAYTIME 1 car



2. RACE 8AM CLEAR SKY 21 cars


3. RACE 4AM CLEAR SKY 21 cars



4. RACE 4AM THUNDERSTORM 21 cars




so conclusion time

1. no CPU bottleneck as today
2. max 4core/4threads are being used by AMS2
3. usage relatively balanced across these 4core/4threads
4. fps and frametimes amazingly smooth
5. GPU usage was between 80 and 90%

some other thoughts

I did run a RACE with 47cars instead of 21 in my tests. the Max thread usage seen was just below 70% and Total CPU usage max 25%

I do game a lot in VR but cant use HWINFO64 OSD to show results,I use FPSVR instead and again no bottleneck that I could tell

voila, this might not surprise the geeks here who would have run similar testing but I thought I would share.
Happy to of course have a discussion about it so any comments appreciated

 

Use ParkControl to unpark your unused cores and spread the load across all 16.

 

I heard about this before
I think it comes from the same dev than process lasso right?

but what would be the benefit for my user case?

I don’t do streaming don’t run any google chrome tabs while playing
Only additional processes running in the background are SIMHUB and HEINFO64 when I want to see cpu and GPU usage but it’s rare

I can see in your sig that you have very similar hardware to mine so how do you run the Game?

thanks in advance

 

It is from the same dev as process lasso. I've used it for over 6 months with no issues. I also use flight simulators like DCS, which are more CPU dependent, so for my needs it works well. AMS2 isn't a CPU hog, so might not see much, if any, benefit from it. Just something to consider, you can always revert back with a click of the mouse if you find any issue. I don't see a negative to having all my cores available.